Improvements in Glove and like Fastenings.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Apr., 1891
Complete Specification Left. 16th Dec., 1891-Accepted, 16th Jan., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Glove and like Fastenings.
We, CHARLES EDKINS and CHARLES LINGHAM EDKINS both of Friday
Bridge Works, in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows :-
This invention relates to improvements in glove and like fasteners, of that
type in which a he part snaps into a she part, and are thereby held or secured
together.
Our invention has for its object, to simplify the construction of, and to render
more simple and efficient when in use, the said fastening.
Ordinary fasteners of this class are liable to become deranged, consequent upon
the spring parts becoming damaged, accidentally or by wear. Thus, in some, the
tensile strain of the glove upon the fasteners, deranges the fittings in manner that
the he-part, springs out from the she part, hence an unfastening.
In our invention, the he-part of the fastening consists essentially of a headed
stem or neck, with a flanged base, whilst the she part of the fastening consists of
a hollow shell or body part, with a central hole about its middle, alike unto a
throat wherein a clasping spring is situated, so that on the he part being passed into
the she-part, the head of the former, snaps into, and is retained by a spring within
the latter.
In carrying out our invention, the he part consists of two parts viz.:-back and
front; the front part consists of a necked or headed stud, with a flange at its
base, and which said front part is raised from a cruciform or other shaped blank,
cut out from sheet metal. The back part of the said he part, consists of a like
stud as the front part, but with a longer neck, and with the head a little larger
than the inside diameter of the neck of the other part, so that in securing the said
ho part to a glove or the like, the material is first threaded over the neck of the
back part, and then secured between the flanges of both parts, by the passing and
enapping of the head of the said back part up the hollow, and into the head of
the front part.
The she part of the fastener is made up of four primary parts, viz. :—a spring
with flanged base, a carrying shell, a mouth shell, and a closing plate for securing
the said last named shell to the material, and as a means of affixing the carrying
shell to the mouth shell.
The spring consists of a series of tubularly directed branches, with a semi-open
bottom, and with the tops of the branches directed slightly inwards, so as to give
the inside body part, a chambered figure, wherein the head of the stud of the he
part, passes, and is there held. This spring, which is alike in shape to the cells of
a honey-comb, is made up from a star shaped blank, and secured to a circular base
plate, with the neck of the middle of it, closed to the inside of a spring, hence
their connection. The base of this spring is then saucered upwardly, and enclosed
with the boundary edges of a receiving shell.
The mouth shell, consists of an annulus, with a central piercing, and a shallow
neck at its back, whilst the closing plate consists of an outside-winged and centrally
pierced part.
In fitting up the component parts constituting the said she-fastening part, the
neck of the mouth plate is first passed backwardly through the material of a glove
or the like, and its protruding boundary edges closed over the inside boundary
edgings of the closing plate; the receiving plate with its spring is now secured to
the mouth plate or mouth part, and with the springs forming as it were, a throat in
the same, by pressing the first named part into the second named part, which

page_text: said parts are then permanently secured together by the winged portions of
the closing plate, expanding themselves into the undercut parts of the receiving
plate.
This said she-part, when put together as aforesaid, has a chambered spring
throat, which secures the head of the he part within it, when the said he part is 5
pressed home.
Deted thin oond d
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Glove and like Fastenings.
We, CHARLES EDKINS, and CHARLES LINGHAM EDKINS both of Friday
Bridge Works in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the 1
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 relates to improvements in glove, cravat, purse, bag, garter and
other like fastenings, and in the production and fitting together of the component
parts of the same, as hereinafter described.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings, represents a glove, fitted or provided
with a two part fastener, constructed and arranged according to our invention.
Figure 2 represents upon an enlarged scale, and partly in section, and partly in
elevation, the said fastener, with the head of the one part engaged within the
sunken or she-head of the other part, hence the fastening of the said two part
fastener.
This said view Figure 2, also shows how the head part is embraced, and there
held, by claws, hanging and directed from the inside top or crown of the primary
and outside closing shell.
Figure 3 represents the said parts of the fastener separately, and both in
section.
Figure 4 is a plan of the underside of the claw part of the fastener, while
Figure 5 is a topside plan of the head part of the fastener.
Figure 6 represents sections, elevations and a plan of the component parts of the
claw or socket part of the fastener, before the same are attachedly connected or
put together as hereinafter described.
Figure 7 represents sections of the component parts of the head part of the
fastener.
Figure 8 shows a blank, from which the spring claw fitted within the interior of
the socket part of the fastener is made.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in Figures 1 to 8.
A. is the socket part, and B is the head part. The latter consists of a headed
and necked stud a, a, with flange a³ at its base, and forms the outer shell or fore
part to the said head part. The back of the said fore part, is fitted with, and has
passing to within its interior, a necked back part b, with flange 63, and interposed
between the crown 6, of the part b, and the inside crown a', of the head a, is a
block or solid metal piece c.
.
The other or socket part of the fastener, consists of an outer shell d, and inner
and carrier shell e, from the inner and middle part of which latter, the claw spring
fastener part f, hangs, with the tips of the branches f of it, proceeding to near
the mouth entrance 9, of the socket 9, of the said part A, and which socket
consists of a necked disc, with the fore part of the said neck turned over a shell
attachment h.

page_text: To connect the part A, to the part B, or the part B to the part A, pass one over
the other, or one into the other, as represented in Figure 2, when the branches f³,
of the claw spring f, first open out, and then after the passage of the head a, past
them, they then return to their normal positions, by the elasticity of the metal,
and embrace or clip the head, hence the fastening.
The one part from the other part is removed, or the parts disconnected from
each other, by applying force either to the one or the other, when the branches of
the claw spring yield in obedience to the pull exerted, and open out and allow the
parts to be separated.
In fitting or fixing up the component parts Figure 6, constituting the part A,
pass the neck e³, of a crown shell e, through the middle piercing f, of the claw
spring, then turn the extreme edges e³, of the said neck e', outwardly, which
affixes the said two sections together.
This done, place the said sections e and f, into the inside crown of the outside
shell d, then attach the connecting shell, to the mouth shell g, by passing the
neck or throat g, through a piercing h³, and then turning outwardly the boundary
edging g of the neck g³, over the metal surrounding the piercing and with
the material i, of a glove gripped between the said closed together parts h, g.
Now place the combined shells or sections h, into the
open mouth d', of the
shell, when by closing or gathering in the flanged edge d³, of the shell d, over the
flanged edge ³, of the part h, the whole of the component parts are united or
connected together, as set forth in Figures 2, 3 and 4.
The uniting of the component parts of the part B is performed, by placing the
block c, within the inside crown of the shell a, and after the material , to which
the part has been attached, has been passed around the inner shell 7, up to the
flange b, the shell a, is placed upon the shell b, or the shell b, within the shell a,
when by upsetting or bulging outwards the crown of the said shell whilst the
shell b, is confined within it, the same is formed into a head of larger diameter than
the neck, and with the crown of the inner shell expanded also, and with the inter-
posed block shaped to the figure of the space enclosed between the inside crown of
the one, and the outside crown of the other, as represented.
a
Figure 9 represents the claw spring or A part of the fastener, applied to a
cravat, for securing the same to a stud of a shirt or garment.
Figure 10 is the said stud, whilst
Figure 11 is an enlarged view with the head or fastening end shown in section.
Figure 12 is a stud with a solid end, instead of one made in accordance with the
part b, as previously described.
When in use, the stem j, of a stud k, is passed through the button hole of a
shirt or other garment, with the end or head part B, presented outwards, and upon
which, the fastening A, is secured by pressing the same upon it.
Figure 13 represents our new or improved fastener applied to a purse.
The application of our invention to the fastening of bags, pocket books, satchels
and other articles of a like manufacture, differs in no essential respect from its
application to the articles or goods as herein described.
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
claim is :-
First: A fastener or a two part fastener, consisting of a part A, and a part B,
the part A, having within it, a metallic or claw spring, adapted to embrace and
engage upon the head or expanded end of another part, on the said primary parts
being placed one over the other, or one within the other, substantially as described
and set forth.
Secondly -In a two part fastener, the combination with a headed or necked
shank primary part, of a socket or sunken part, having fitted within its throat, a
claw spring, whose branches are circumferentially disposed, and directed towards

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the mouth of the same, substantially as and for the purposes, described and set
Thirdly-In two part fasteners, the construction and arrangement of the
element or component parts of the said fastenings, as herein described and set
forth.
Fourthly: In a socket or she fastening part, substantially consisting of com-
ponent parts, constructed, arranged and fitted together, as described and set forth
and marked A.
Fifthly-Making or building up of the head or B part of the fastener by
shells, fitting one within the other, or one upon the other, and with an interposed
solid metal block c, placed between them, hence the production of the said head
or B part by press tools, substantially as described and set forth in Figures 1
to 7, also the modification described and set forth in Figures 10 and 11, in which a
solid block is placed within the interior crown of a single shell.
Dated this 14th day of December 1891.
CHARLES EDKINS,
and
CHARLES LINGHAM EDKINS.
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicants.