Improvements in Studs, Buttons, and other Fastenings to be used on the Garment without Stitching.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Sept., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 23rd June, 1891-Accepted, 25th July, 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Studs, Buttons, and other Fastenings to be used on
the Garment without Stitching.
I, HUGH LEVI JONES of Chapel House, Pentredwr, Llangollen in the County
of Denbigh, Quarryman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention has for its object a stud or button that can be quickly removed
from the garment and as quickly re-adjusted. It can be composed in two parts in
which case it is a button, or solidly in one part as a stud.
The button consists of the head with an ordinary eye for a shank. Through
this eye a wire plate or bar passes and is bent up at a sharp angle immediately
after passing the eye on each side and again bent out horizontally. When this is
used for a button the shank is passed through the clothing, the bar is then threaded
on to the shank. The button then has a gentle pull given to it and that part of the
bar which is bent inward round the shank of the button passes into the hole, the
button is now in position. When used as a stud the bar can be fixed solidly to
the shank of the stud one end being short the other long or be made to swivel on it.
To fix it the long end is passed through the button hole, the shank pushed up to the
end of the button hole and the short end passed through; the stud is then turned
round when it will be impossible to withdraw the stud from the button hole
without re-turning it round. It is not absolutely necessary to have the bar fixed
rigidly to the stud, it can be linked to the stud if desired similarly to the plan
already described for the button only instead of having a simple Ụ bend in the bar
I prefer to form an eye on the bar fitting into the eye on the button by causing
the two sides of the Ŭ to approach and touch each other.
The apparatus can also be used as a sleeve link as it can have two projecting eye-
shanks one at each end and two bars one of which can be fixed to the link if
required, the other, so that it can be removed from it and applied to it like the wire
of the button or if the second shank be capable of swivelling in the link, the bar can
be permanently fixed to it and be adjusted as described in the case of the stud.
Dated this 22nd day of September 1890.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Patent Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Studs, Buttons, and other Fastenings to be used on
the Garment without Stitching.
I, HUGH LEVI JONES, of Chapel House, Pentredwr, Llangollen in the County
of Denbigh, Quarryman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
This invention has for its object a stud or button that can be quickly removed
from the garment and as quickly re-adjusted. It can be composed in two parts in
which case it is a button, or solidly in one part as a stud.
The invention is best described by aid of the accompanying drawings, in
which

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Figures 4 and 5 a cross section and plan of the stud.
Referring first to Figure 1, A, is the head with an eye B for a shank. Through
this eye a wire plate or bar C passes and is bent up at a sharp angle immediately
after passing the eye on each side, and bent out horizontally at the ends.
this device is used for a button the shank (Figure 1) of the head A is passed through
the clothing, the bar C is then threaded on to the shank. The button then has a
gentle pull given to it, and that part of the bar C which is passed through the shank
of the button passes into the hole in the material D and the button is now in
position. The bar C may, if desired, be secured to the material D, or it may be
left unsecured thereto.
Figures 2 and 3 shew a slight modification. The eye in this case is formed in
the head, and the U bend in the bar C is longer than in the previous example to
make up for there being no shank.
When the invention is used as a stud (Figures 4 and 5) the bar C is fixed solidly
to the shank of the stud, one end being short, the other long, or it may be made to
swivel on it. To fix it the long end is passed through the button hole the shank
pushed up to the end of the button hole and the short end passed through; the
stud is then turned round when it will be impossible to withdraw the stud from
the button hole without re-turning it round. It is not absolutely necessary to have
the bar fixed rigidly to the stud, as it can be linked thereto if desired similarly to
the plan already described for the button, only, instead of having a simple U bend
in the bar, I prefer to form an eye on the bar fitting into the eye on the button by
causing the two sides of the U to approach and touch each other.
The apparatus can also be used as a sleeve link as it can have two projecting
eye-shanks one at each end and two bars one of which can be fixed to the link if
required; the other, so that it can be removed from it and applied to it like the
wire of the button, or if the second shank be capable of swivelling in the link, the
bar can be permanently fixed to it and be adjusted as described in the case of
the stud.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The herein described improvements in studs, buttons or other like fastenings,
whereby they can be quickly removed from a garment and as quickly re-adjusted,
substantially as set forth.
Paved us 22nd day or June 1891.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, and London, Patent Agents.