IMPROVEMENTS IN BUTTONS OR FASTENERS FOR BOOTS, SHOES, OR OTHER ARTICLES."
Year: 1880

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Friedrich Hermann Felix Engel, Civil Engineer and
Patent Agent, in the City of Hamburg, Germany, for an Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN BUTTONS OR FASTENERS FOR BOOTS, SHOES, OR OTHER
ARTICLES." A communication from Johannes Steffen and Hindork Winterboer,
of Elmshorn, in the German Empire.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Friedrich Hermann Felix
Engel at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 3rd April 1880.
FRIEDRICH HERMANN FELIX ENGEL, Civil Engineer and Patent Agent, in tho
City of Hamburg, Germany. "IMPROVEMENTS IN BUTTONS OR FASTENERS FOR
BOOTS, SHOES, OR OTHER ARTICLES." A communication from Johannes Steffen and
Hinderk Winterboer, of Elmshorn, in the German Empire.
This Invention relates to certain improvements in the construction of buttons or
fasteners for buttoning, fastening, or securing together temporarily during use
adjacent edges of the tops or uppers of boots or shoes, or of gaiters or other like
articles; the object being by hingeing the shank or backing of the button to.
allow of the parts so to be secured being brought more closely together, and to
facilitate the action of buttoning.
The button knob or stud proper is permanently secured by its shank neck to a
shank plate, or is formed of a piece therewith, and this said shank or shank plate,
instead of as usual being secured to the one edge of the article to be "fastened,"
is hinged to a plate, and this said latter plate is provided with perforations, whereby
it may be sewn, stitched, or otherwise fastened to the leather or material of the
article to which the fastening is to be applied.
For securing the two plates together when closed a pivoted catch or feather
acted upon by a spring is secured upon one side of the lower plate, and a catch is
provided upon the underside of the button or shank plate, so that when the two
plates are pressed together the pivoted catch or feather may be turned in upon and
lie along the edge of the plates engaging with the catch of the shank plate, and so
hold the parts together.
In use the lower plate is secured to one edge of the parts to be buttoned and the
hinged shank plate, and with it the button is ruised, and the button is passed
through the corresponding button-hole upon the other edge of the parts to be
buttoned, the shank plate is then turned back upon its hinge until it lies flat upon
the back plate, and the catchfeather is turned in to secure the fastening.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Friedrich Hermann Felix Engel in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 2nd October 1880.
FRIEDRICH HERMANN FELIX ENGEL, Civil Engineer and Patent Agent, in the
City of Hamburg, Germany. "IMPROVEMENTS IN BUTTONS OR FASTENERS FOR
BOOTS, SHOES, OR OTHER ARTICLES." A communication from Johannes Steffen and
Hinderk Winterboer, of Elmshorn, in the German Empire.
This Invention relates to certain improvements in the construction of buttons or
fasteners for buttoning, fastening, or securing together temporarily during usc
adjacent edges of the tops or uppers of boots or shoes, or of gaiters or other like
articles, the object being by hingeing the shank or backing of the button to allow
of the parts so to be secured being brought more closely together, and to facilitate
the action of buttoning.
The button knob or stud proper is permanently secured by its shank neck to a
shank plate, or is formed of a picco therewith, and this said shank or shank plate,
instead of as usual being secured to the one edge of the article to be "fastened," is
hinged to a plate, and this said latter plate is provided with perforations, whereby
it may be sewn, stitched, or otherwise fastened to the leather or material of the
article to which the fastening is so be applied.
For securing the two plates together when closed a pivoted catch or feather acted
upon by a spring is secured upon one side of the lower plate, and a catch is
provided upon the underside of the button or shank plate, so that when the two
plates are pressed together the pivoted catch or feather may be turned in upon and
lic along the edge of the plates engaging with the catch of the shank plate, and so
hold the parts together.
In use the lower plate is secured to one edge of the parts to be buttoned and the
hinged shauk plate, and with the button is raised, and the button is passed
through the corresponding button hole upon the other edge of the parts to be
buttoned, the shank plate is then turned back upon its hinge until it lies flat upon
the back plato, and the catch feather is turned in to secure the fastening.
The Invention is illustrated in the accompanying Sheet of Drawings, wherein
Figs. 1 and 2 represent side elevation and front view of the shank plate b with
knob c, whilst Figs. 3, 4, and 5 represent the perforated plate a, to which shank
plate bis hinged, as is illustrated by Figs. 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, and 14; s is the feather
pivoted on pin o, and is acted upon by spring r, which presses against the flattened
part of 8 when the fastening is in closed position, as shown in Fig. 7, or it presses
against the outer edge of a when the feather is opened, as is illustrated by Figs. 10
and 11.
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Fig. 6 shows a shoe furnished with these fasteners in closed position, H and H'
being the parts of the shoe which have to be buttoned; Fig. 9 shows the feather a
opened, and the shank plates 6 turned upward, in which position the shoe may be
put on or removed from the foot; Fig. 12 represents a shoe after being put on, the
feathers & are closed, and the upper leather H' may be pressed down on H, after
which catch d of shank plate b of each fastener enters into an opening of plate a,
and is kept in position by the spring action of feather 8.
Having now described the nature and particulars of the said Invention 1
claim,―
The improvements in buttons or fasteners for boots, shoes, or other articles, as

page_text: herein described, in reference to and shown by the respective Figures of the
accompanying Sheet of Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Friedrich Hermann Felix Engel, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty seventh day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty.
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