Improvements in Linen Buttons and other Sewn Through Covered Buttons.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Nov., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 13th Aug., 1894-Accepted, 15th Sept. 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Linen Buttons and other Sewn Through Covered
Buttons.
I JOHN RICHARD GREEN of "Woodlea," Beech Lanes, Birmingham in the
County of Warwick, Button Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described in linen buttons
and other sewn through covered buttons, the object of my said improvements being
to give great rigidity to the metallic body or frame of the button and thereby
prevent the buckling or bending to which linen and other sewn through covered
buttons of the ordinary construction are liable.
My improvements are applicable to sewn through buttons covered front and
back and either with or without eyelet holes as hereinafter described.
I will first describe my improvements as applied to a sewn through covered
button without eyelet holes.
Instead of making the metallic body or frame of the button of a trough shaped
metal ring, I make the metallic body or frame of a ring like shell composed of two
concentric parts joined or eyeletted together at their inner edges; that is to say,
take an outer shell having a flanged outer edge and pierced with a central hole, the
said hole also having a flange; and I take a smaller shell, consisting of a trough-
ring, the inner edge of which is preferably corrugated so as to increase its rigidity.
The said inner trough corrugated ring or shell having been placed within the outer
flanged shell, the inner flanged edge of the said outer shell is eyeletted upon or
joined to the inner edge of the inner ring or shell so as to connect the two shells
concentrically together, leaving a circular trough or concentric space between the
outer edge of the inner ring or shell and the flanged edge of the outer shell. There
is thus made a compound metallic trough shaped body or frame possessing great
rigidity, which body or frame is covered at front and back with linen or other discs
to complete the button, the edges of the said covering discs being gathered in the
trough of the body or frame and secured thereto by the ordinary closing operation.
The inner ring or shell of the compound trough shaped body or frame may have its
outer edge extended downwards upon the back face of the outer shell. The sides
of the trough of the compound shell are thereby made parallel and resemble the
trough of the ordinary or single trough ring.
In making the metallic body or fraine of a two or more hole sewn through covered
button according to my invention I use the following combination of parts. I take
an inner ring or shell of either of the kinds described to form the back of the body
of the button; and I take an outer shell, having a flanged edge, to form the front
of the button, the said outer shell having eyelet holes at its middle, and I fit a flat
ring between the two shells, the inner edges of the said back shell and flat ring
being eyeletted together. The closing operation by which the linen or other
covering discs are secured to the metallic body or frame of the button, effects the
connection of the front shell with the combined back shell and flat ring.
Or the metallic body or frame of a sewn through covered button, either with or
without eyelet holes may be made of three parts as hereinafter described so as to
dispense with the central eyeletting of the back shell and middle ring before
referred to.
In making this modified body or frame I use a front shell flanged at
its outer edge and pierced at its middle with a large hole or having eyelet holes at
its middle, and a back ring having a flange at bottom the said flanged back ring

page_text: forming with the outer flange of the front shell, the trough in which the edges of
the covering discs are gathered. Between the front shell and back ring described,
I use a broad flat ring with a deep corrugation near its inner edge. The three
parts described of the metal body or frame are connected together at their outer
edges by the closing of the flange of the front shell upon the bottom flange of the
back ring during the covering operation by which the button is completed.
Dated this 24th day of November 1893.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Linen Buttons and other Sewn Through Covered
Buttons.
1 JOHN RICHARD GREEN of "Woodlea," Beech Lanes, Birmingham in the
County of Warwick, Button Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of my
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My invention consists of the improvements hereinafter described and illustrated
in the accompanying drawing in linen buttons and other sewn through covered
buttons, the object of my said improvements being to give great rigidity to the
metallic body or frame of the button and thereby prevent the buckling or bending
to which linen and other sewn through covered buttons of the ordinary construction
are liable.
My improvements are applicable to sewn through buttons covered front and
back or covered at the front and open at the back, and either with or without
eyelet holes as hereinafter described.
I will first describe my improvements as applied to a sewn through covered
button without eyelet holes.
Instead of making the metallic body or frame of the button of a trough shaped
metal ring, or of the other ordinary kinds of frames, I make the metallic body or
frame of a ring like shell composed of two concentric parts joined or eyeletted together
at their inner edges; that is to say, I take an outer shell having a flanged outer
edge and pierced with a central hole, the said hole having a flange and I take a
smaller shell consisting of a trough ring the inner edge of which is preferably
corrugated so as to increase its rigidity. The said inner trough corrugated ring or
shell having been placed within the outer flanged shell, the inner flanged edge of
the said outer shell is eyeletted upon or joined to the inner edge of the inner ring or
shell so as to connect the two shells concentrically together leaving a circular
trough or circular space between the outer edge of the inner ring or shell and the
flanged edge of the outer shell into which trough the edges of the covering discs
are gathered as usual. Figure 1 represents in plan and vertical section drawn to a
large scale the metallic body or frame of a sewn through covered button without
eyelet holes made according to this part of my invention and Figure 2 represents
in plan and section the outer shell and Figure 3 represents in plan and section the
inner and smaller shell before they are joined or eyeletted together; a, b is the
outer shell, a being the flange on its outer edge and 6 the flanged central hole of
the shell; c is the inner shell, consisting of a trough ring the inner edge of which
is corrugated at c² so as to increase its rigidity; or in place of corrugating the edge
of the inner shell, the shell itself may be corrugated. The inner shell c, having
been placed within the outer flanged shell a, b the flanged hole 6 of the said shell is
expanded or eyeletted upon the inner edge of the inner shell c, c' as represented in
the section of Figure 1 so as to connect the two shells concentrically together
leaving a circular trough or space between the outer flange a of the outer shell and
the outer edge of the inner ring or shell e as represented. There is thus made a

page_text: compound metallic trough shaped body or frame possessing great rigidity, the said
body or frame being covered at front and back, or front only, with linen or other
discs to complete the button, the edges of the said covering discs being gathered in
the trough of the body and secured together by the ordinary closing operation
and tools.
b
Instead of making the flange upon the outer shell a as represented the flange
may be made upon the inner shell c and eyeletted upon the face of the outer shell ;.
or a separate eyelet may be used to join the two shells together.
In making the metallic body or frame of a two or more hole sewn through
covered button according to my invention I use the following combination of parts.
I take an inner ring or shell of the kind described to form the back of the body of
the button and I take an outer shell, having a flanged edge, to form the front of the
button, the said outer shell having eyelet holes at its middle and I fit a flat ring
I between the two shells, the inner edges of the said back shell and flat ring being
eyeletted together or connected by a separate eyelet.. The closing operation by
which the linen or other covering discs are secured to the metallic body or frame
of the button effects the connection of the front shell with the combined back shell.
and flat ring.
Figure 4 represents in plan and section the metallic body or frame of a two hole
sewn through covered button made according to this part of my invention; a is the
outer shell having an outer flanged edge and provided at its middle with
eyelets d, d c is the inner or buck ring or shell nearly of the kind represented in
Figures 1 and 2. Between the two shells a and c is a flat ring e resting on. the
inner face of the outer shell a. By means of an eyeletting process the inner edges
of the back shell c and flat ring e are secured together that is, the inner edge of the
flat ring e
closed upon the inner edge of the back ring c as best seen in the
section of Figure 4. Or a separate eyelet may be used to connect the inner edges
of the rings cand e together. The front shell a is connected to the combined back
shell c and ringe by the closing operation by which the linen or other covering
discs are secured to the metallic body or frame. As the closing operation and
tools are of the ordinary kind I do not consider it necessary to describe the same.
Figure 5 represents in plan and section a metallic body or frame of a two hole
sewn through covered button of the kind last described, excepting that the outer
edge of the inner ring or shell c is extended downwards upon the back face of the
outer shell a. The sides of the trough of the body or frame are thereby made
parallel and resemble the trough of the ordinary or single trough ring.
Or the metallic body or frame of a sewn through covered button, either with or
without eyelet holes may be made of three parts as hereinafter described so as to
dispense with the central eyeletting of the back shell and middle ring before
referred to. In making this modified body or frame, I use a front shell flanged at
its outer edge and pierced at its middle with a large hole, or having eyelet holes at
its middle, and a back ring having a flange at bottom, the said flanged back ring
forming with the outer flange of the front shell the trough in which the edges of
the covering discs are gathered. Between the front shell and back ring described
I use a broad flat ring with a deep corrugation near its inner edge. The three
parts described of the metal body or frame are connected together at their outer
edges by the closing of the flange of the front shell upon the bottom flange of the
back ring during the covering operation by which the button is completed. A
metallic body or frame of a sewn through covered button having two eyelet holes
niade according to the last described arrangement is represented in plan and section
in Figure 6, where a is the flanged front shell having eyelet holes d, d at its
middle; c is the back ring having a flange at bottom, the said flanged back ring
forming with the outer frame of the front shell a the trough in which the edges of
the covering discs were gathered as before described; is the broad flat ring,
having a deep corrugation, situated between the front shell a and back ring c. No
central eyeletting of the three parts of this frame or body is required, but the said
parts are connected together at their outer edges by the closing of the flange of

page_text: the front shell a upon the bottom flange of the back ring c during the covering
operation by which the button is completed.
Although I have represented the metallic bodies or frames in the arrangements
represented in Figures 4, 5 and 6 as provided with eyelet holes yet the front
shells may be without eyelet holes and in place thereof be provided with a
middle piercing or large hole as represented with respect to the first described
arrangement Figures 1 and 2.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and in what mauner the same is to be performed I declare that I claim as my
invention of "Improvements in linen buttons and other sewn through covered
buttons" ;-
First. Making the metallic frames or bodies of the said buttons of a flanged
outer shell and a flanged inner ring or shell, the inner flanges of the said two parts
being joined or eyeletted together, thereby forming a compound metallic trough
shaped body or frame possessing great rigidity substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated in Figures 1, 2 and 3 of the accompanying drawing.
Secondly. Making the metallic frames or bodies of the said buttons of a front
shell having a flanged outer edge and a flanged back ring or shell and a flat ring
situated between the said front and back shells and flat ring, the said front and
back shells and flat ring being of the kinds and connected together substantially
as herein before described and illustrated in Figures 4 and 5 of the accompanying
drawing.
Thirdly. The modified construction and arrangement of the front and back shells
and intermediate ring substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in
Figure 6 of the accompanying drawing.
Dated the Ninth day of August 1894.
JOHN RICHARD GREEN.