IMPROVED APPLIANCES FOR ATTACHING BUTTONS TO TEXTILE FABRICS AND OTHER MATERIALS
Year: 1884

page_text: I WILLIAM ROBERT MOWBRAY, Russell Road Port Elizabeth Cape of Good-Hope
Bailway Employee do hereby declare the nature of my invention for IMPROVED
APPLIANCES FOR ATTACHING BUTTONS TO TEXTILE FABRICS AND OTHER MATERIALS,
to be as follows:-
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This invention relates to certain means and appliances for attaching any kind of
buttons to textile fabrics and other materials without sewing and in such a manner
as to be readily attached and detached.
According to my invention I form a small Bar or Toggle of metal, wood, ivory,
horn, tone or other materials a little less in length than the diameter of the
button, with a blunt point at each end, flat or slightly concave at one side and
round or flat on the reverse side, and pierced with holos near the centre from the
round to the flat side, a groove running from one holo to the other. I next form a
neck by means of a loop or endless band of thread silk, cotton, leather or other
materials which I attach to the bar or toggle by first elongating the loop or
endless band and then passing the two bights or ends through the holes in the
bar or toggle from the round to the flat side and threading one of the projecting
bights or ends through the other and drawing it tight-See drawing No. 1.-—
I also take for the same purpose in some cases a single piece of thread silk; cotton
or other material of suitable thickness and strength about five inches long, double
it in half and thread the bight or doubled end through one hole and the two
loose ends through the other hole and pass the two loose ends through the pro-
jecting bight and draw tight-See drawing No 2-or I form a neck of metal
similar to drawing No 3 but liable to be modified in form to suit the different
descriptions of Buttons.
The loop neck is attached to the button by threading the loose end or bight up
through one hole in the button and down through the opposite hole and passing
the bar or toggle through the projecting bight Seo drawing No 4.
The neck composed of the single piece has the two loose ends threaded through
the holes in the button and tied firmly together either at the upper or under side
of the button with a single knot on the double ends See drawing No 5-To attach
the button and fastener to any article of clothing, or material, a hole is made
through the article and the bar or toggle passed through and turned.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
I, WILLIAM ROBERT MOWBRAY, Russell Road, Port Elizabeth, Cape of Good
Hope, Railway Employee, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for AN
IMPROVED METHOD AND APPLIANCES FOR ATTACHING BUTTONS TO TEXTILE FABRICS
AND OTHER MATERIALS WITHOUT SEWING, SO AS TO BE ATTACHED AND DETACHED
AT WILL and in what inanner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention consists mainly of a small toggle, or bar, made of metal, wood,
ivory, horn, bone, or other material, a little less in length than the diameter of the
button. It is flat or slightly concave on one side and round on the reverse side,
slightly pointed at each end and pierced with two holes near the centre from the
round side to the flat side, a recess being cut from one to the other. The neck,
by which the toggle, or bar is attached to the button, can be an endless loop or a
single piece of linen, thread, cotton, silk, leather, or gut, (see drawings No 1 and
No 2) the single piece being doubled in half, and the bight or doubled end, passed
through the holes of the toggle or bar and the two loose ends passed through the
bight at the flat side of the toggle and drawn tight, leaving the two loose ends long
enough to thread through the holes in any ordinary button and tio (see drawings
No 2 and No 3). I next form a neck by means of a loop or endless band of
thread, silk, leather, cotton, or other material which I attach to the bar or toggle
by passing the two opposite bights of the loop through the holes from the round to
the flat side and then threading one of the projecting bights through the other and
drawing it tight (see drawing No 1.) or I take a single piece of thread, silk, cotton,
or other material of suitable thickness and strength, about five (5) inches long,
double it in half, and thread the bight or double end through one hole and the
two loose ends through the other and thread the two loose ends through the pro-
jecting bight and draw tight (see drawing No 2) or I form a metal neck as in
drawing No 3-The loop neck is fastened to the button by threading the bight up
through one hole and down through the opposite one and passing the toggle
through the projecting bight (see drawing No 4.) The single piece neck has both
ends threaded through holes of button and tied together, either at top or under-
neath, with a single knot on the double enda (see drawings No 3 or No 5.)
When the fasteners are attached to the buttons, the buttons are fastened to any
article or material, by simply piercing it with any small pointed instrument, and
passing the bar, or toggle through the hole so made, the bar being readily pressed
through the cloth or other material by inserting the point of the bar into one of
the holes of the button, and using the button as a thimble to press it through, the
bar being passed through and turned across the hole, the button is securely
attached and cannot be removed without turning the bar and forcing it back
end wise.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
1et The use of a bar, or toggle as hereinafter described, in connection with a
neck to be hereinafter described, which may be readily attached to any kind of

page_text: Button, as a means of more expeditiously and conveniently fixing to and.detaching
the same from garments, textile fabrics, and other material.
2nd I claim that the bar or toggle may be of any convenient size, by preference
a little shorter in length than the diameter of the button for which it is used, and
wide and thick enough to give strength for the particular use for which it is
intended.
3rd That the bar or toggle may be made of brass, copper, iron, silver, gold, or
any other metal, or their alloys, ivory, bone, wood, composition, vulcanite, or any
other suitable material.
4th The forin of the toggle, or bar may be that of a bar with a blunt point at
each end, and be either cylindrical, halfround or flat at each side, or slightly
rounded on one side and flat or concave at the other side, with one, two, or more
boles pierced through the centre and a groove running from one hole to the other,
or without holes, and in their place a groove running round the centre.
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5th The form of the neck may be an endless band, loop, or grummett—a single
piece of silk, thread, cotton, or other inaterial doubled, or passed through the toggle
and button a number of times where great strength is required; or by a single
link of chain, depressed or pressed together in the middle, or of two or more links
of chain to obtain the required length of neck.
Dated this third day of November 1884.
GEO. T. DOWLING,
Agent for W. R. Mowbray,