IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BUTTONS AND OTHER FASTENINGS
Year: 1850

page_text: TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GUSTAVUS
PALMER HARDING, of Bartlett's Buildings, in the City of London, Artificial
Florist, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Twelfth day of June,
One thousand eight hundred and fifty, in the thirteenth year of Her reign, did,
for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Gus-
tavus Palmer Harding, my exors, adiñors, and assigns, Her especial licence,
full power, sole privilege and authority, that I, the said Gustavus Palmer
Harding, my exors, adññors, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Gustavus
Palmer Harding, my exors, adiñors, or assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term
of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BUTTONS AND
OTHER FASTENINGS;" in, which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso
that I, the said Gustavus Palmer Harding, shall cause a particular descrip-
tion of the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,
to be enrolled in Her said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said in part
recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference being thereunto
had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
Gustavus Palmer Harding, do hereby declare that the nature of my said

page_text: being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, and-to the figures and letters
marked thereon, that is to say :-
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING.
Figure 1 shews a back view and Figure 2 a section of a button having
a fastening made and combined therewith according to my Invention. The
form of the button and the manner of making it may be varied, the same not
of being my Invention. Figures 3 and 4 show similar views of another
button having a like fastening A, which consists of a coiled wire fixed to the
button at the back and in the centre thereof. In order to attach buttons with
such fastenings, small holes are to be made suitable for the passage of the
point of the coiled wire A; and the coiled wire is caused to enter the hole,
by turning the button round till the whole coil has passed through the hole,
when the button will be securely held, and will not come out in use, and only
when the button is turned back the reverse way to that which caused the
fastener to enter.
Figure 5 shows a back view and Figure 6 a section of a hook having a
fastener similar to that used for the button.
Eigures 7 and 8 show, two views of a brooch (the form and make of which
may be varied) having a fastening A fixed at the back, and which is to be
used in like manner to those of buttons. The holes used for receiving these
fastenings may be simply worked eyelet holes, or they may be bound round by
metal, as is well understood. Figures 9, 10, & 11 shew an under side, a
side view, and an end view of another fastening for buttons having metal
shanks. It consists of a wire A bent into the form shewn.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, I would have it understood that
I claim,-
First, the mode of constructing the fastenings in combination with buttons,
studs, brooches, and such like articles, described in respect to Figures 1, 2, 3,
4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, & 11.
And I also claim the mode of making fastenings for buttons with shanks
as described in respect to Figures 9 and 10.
In witness whereof, I, the said Gustavus Palmer Harding, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twelfth day of December, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty.
GUSTAVUS PALMER (L.S.) HARDING.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twelfth day of December,
in the year of our Lord 1850, the aforesaid Gustavus Palmer Harding came
before our said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the
Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified,
in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped
according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Twelfth day of December,
in the year of our Lord 1850, the aforesaid Gustavus Palmer Harding came
before our said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the
Specification aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified,
in form above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped
according to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Twelfth day of December, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty.