IMPROVE. MENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR ATTACHING BUTTONS, STUDS, BROOCHES, OR OTHER ORNAMENTS AND FASTENINGS TO ARTICLES OF DRESS, AND FOR OTHER USES
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Davey, of 82, Hatton Garden, in the County
of Middlesex, Manufacturing Jeweller, for the Invention of "IMPROVE.
MENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR ATTACHING BUTTONS, STUDS, BROOCHES, OR OTHER
ORNAMENTS AND FASTENINGS TO ARTICLES OF DRESS, AND FOR OTHER USES."
Scaled the 6th November 1860, and dated the 19th May 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Davey at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 19th May
1660.
1, SAMUEL DAVEY, of 32, Hatton Garden, in the County of Middlesex,
Manufacturing Jeweller, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR ATTACHING BUTTONS, STUDS, BROOCHES, OR
OTHER ORNAMENTS AND FASTENINGS TO ARTICLES OF DRESS AND FOR OTHER USES,"
to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the construction of fasten-
ings for attaching buttons, studs, brooches, or other ornaments and fastenings
to articles of dress, for the purpose of securing the same to or for connecting
parts of dress together, which improvements are also applicable for other
uses, such as fastenings for articles of furniture, curtains, or hangings, con-
necting parts of harness or other articles together, or for attaching ornaments
thereto. For this purpose, in carrying out my Invention, I affix to the backs
of buttons, studs, brooches, or other ornaments or dress fastenings, two projec-

page_text: tions in the form of hooks, placed side by side, the points of the books being
placed in opposite or nearly opposite directions, so that by passing one of the
hooks through one part of an article of dress, and the other hook through
another part, the parts will be securely held together, and the button, stud,
brooch, or other ornament will not be liable to become detached therefrom by
accident. And when it is desired merely to connect parts of dress or other
articles together according to my Invention, I employ a fastening formed by
two hook-shaped instruments or ends, with the points of the hooks placed in
opposite or nearly opposite directions, and the ends of the hooks may either
be pointed to pierce the fabric, or of a blunt form, to pass through eyelet holes
formed on the parts to be connected together.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Samuel Davey in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 19th
November 18t.0.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
DAVEY, of 32, Hatton Garden, in the County of Middlesex, Manufacturing
Jeweller, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Nineteenth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-third year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Samuel Davey, Her special licencethat I,the said Samuel Davey, myexecutors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Samuel Davey, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and
no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel
Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS
FOR ATTACHING BUTTONS, STUDS, BROOCHES, OR OTHER ORNAMENTS AND FASTENINGS
TO ARTICLES OF DRESS. AND FOR OTHER USES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Samuel Davey, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and scals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same
to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Samuel Davey, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement, thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the construction of fasten-
ings for attaching buttons, studs, brooches, or other ornaments and fastenings
to articles of dress, for the purpose of securing the same to or for connecting
parts of dress together, which improvements are also applicable for other uses,
such as fastenings for articles of furniture, curtains, or hangings, connecting
parts of harness or other articles together, or for attaching ornaments thereto.
For this purpose, in carrying out my Invention, I affix to the backs of buttons,
studs, brooches,or other ornaments or dress fastenings, two projections in the
form of hooks, placed side by side, the points of the hooks being placed in
opposite or nearly opposite directions, so that by passing one of the hooks
through one part of an article of dress, and the other hook through another
part, the parts will be securely held together, and the button, stud, brooch, or
other ornament will not be liable to become detached therefrom by accident.
And whenitis desired merely to connect parts of dress or other articles of dress
together, according to my Invention, I employ a fastening formed by two
hook-shaped instruments or ends, with the points of the hooks placed in oppo-
site or nearly opposite directions, and the ends of the hooks may either be
pointed to pierce the fabric, or of a blunt form, to pass through syclet holes
formed on the parts to be connected together.
And in order that my Invention may be most fully understood and readily
Figure 1 shows a side view, and Figure 2 an under side view, of a button
or stud, having my improved fastening applied thereto, and suitable for con-
necting or fastening two parts of a dress or garment together, such as wrist-
bands, neck ties, or other parts requiring to be connected together. And my In-
vention is applicable either asa simple fastening for this purpose orfor attaching
studs,brooches, bracelets, or other ornaments to articles of dress, by which such
ornaments are more securely retained than by the fastenings generally used for
this purpose. In liko manner my Inventiou may be applied as a fastening for
connecting together articles of furniture,such as the parts of curtains or other
hangings, for connecting parts of harness or other articles, or for securely and
readily attaching ornaments to such articles. a, a, are the hooks placed in

page_text: opposite directions, the points or ends of which are turned slightly outwards,
so that they may more readily enter the eyelet holes of the parts of the dress
or other article to be connected, or to which it is to be attached.
The forms or the buttons, studs, brooches, or other ornaments to which
my Invention is applicable may be greatly varied in design, or they may be of
very simple character, as shown at Figure 3, the points of the hooks being
formed either blunt to pass through eyelot holes, or sharp pointed to pass
readily through the material of the parts which are to be connected together,
or to which such fastening is to be attached.
Figure 4 shows the back or inside view of two parts of a sleeve, wristband,
or other article of dress connected together by a fastening of this description.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
applying the same in practice, I would have it understood that I do not confine
myself to the exact details herein described, so long as the peculiar character
of my Invention be retained, which consists in applying two hook-shaped
instruments placed side by side in opposite directions to each other as a fasten-
ing for attaching buttons, studs, brooches, or other ornaments and fastenings
to articles of dress, and for other uses, as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Davey, have hereunto set my
hand and seal this Nineteenth day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty.
Witness,
G. H. BIRKBECK.
34, Southampton Buildings.
SAMUEL DAVEY. (L.S.)