Improvements in Dress Fastenings.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Apr., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 13th May, 1891-Accepted, 27th June, 1891
Improvements in Dress Fastenings.
I, MATTHEW PICKEN of Geech Street, Summer Lane in the City of Birming-
ham, Machinist do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in means for connecting together articles
of wearing apparel or dress, or for connecting articles to dress, such for example as
the connecting of articles together in the same manner as when hooks and eyes are
employed, the connecting of one article together in lieu of buttons or the connecting
of buttons and other articles to garments by my improved fastening.
The said fastener consists essentially of a double headed, or double expanded
headed stem, which are passed through the hutton holes of the articles to be secured
together.
In carrying out my invention in connection with a fastener for dress, in lieu of an
ordinary hook and eye, I take a length of wire or strip metal, and bend the same
into the figure resembling the shape of a dumb-bell, with flattened ends. The
fastener thus formed consists of a shank with cross bars or T heads at both ends.
In use, the Tends are passed respectively through button holes, and then turned
round at right angles to the directions of them, hence the connecting together by a
double hended connection.
The button holes, preferably lie in the same direction, so that the T or cross
cuds, cross the button holes, when turned as aforesaid.
In carrying out my invention as a solitaire, for connecting together cuffs, collars
and the like, the same may be cut out from sheet metal, and the heads or cross
ends, instead of being open about their middles, may be closed and ornamented in
any desired manner.
The said fastening is applicable for securing collars to shirt fronts and the like.
In carrying out my invention, in connection with a means for connecting buttons
to garments, I thread the said buttons upon the stem, and then by a bulging
process, spread outwardly the metal of the said end into a cross bar or T end,
while the other end is forined with a larger Tor cross bar end, open loopwise about
its middle.
In making the said fastener from wire, or strip metal, I take a suitable length,
and by means of tools, I shape and double the same first into one cross end with the
sides running parallel or curvel to each other, with the ends then directed parallel,
so as to form a neck, and from thence shaped outwards into a second cross-hended
or open end, and with the sides running parallel, or nearly so, to each other.
The application of my invention to other fasteners differs in no essential respect
from its application, as hereinbefore described.
Dated this 13th day of Auril 1891

page_text: Improvements in Dress Fastenings.
I, MATTHEW PICKEN of Geech Street Summer Lane in the City of Birmingham,
Machinist, do hereby declare the 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 means for connecting together articles
of wearing apparel or dress, or for connecting articles to dress, such for example,
as the connecting of articles together, in the same manner as when hooks and eyes
are employed the connecting of one article together in lieu of buttons, and the
connecting of buttons and other articles to garments, by my improved fastening.
The said fastener, consists essentially of a double headed or double expanded
ended stem, which is passed through the button holes of the articles to be secured
together.
In carrying out my invention in connection with a fastener for dress, in lieu of an
ordinary hook and eye, I take a length of wire or strip metal, and bend the same
into a figure resembling the shape of a dumb-bell, with flattened ends. The
fastener thus formed, consists of a shank, with cross bars or T heads, at both ends.
In use, the Tends are passed respectively through button holes, and then turned
round at right angles to the directions of them, hence the connecting together of an
article or articles, by a double headed connection.
The button holes preferably lie in the same direction, so that the Tor cross ends,
cross the button holes, when turned as aforesaid.
The said fastening, is applicable for securing collars to shirt fronts, and the like.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing, represents in front elevation, a double
headed or a double ended fastener, constructed and arranged according to my
invention.
Figure 2 represents a transverse section, upon the dotted lines crossing the stem
of the same, showing the half round wire, from which the fastener is made.
Figure 3 represents an end elevation of one end of the said fastener.
Figure 4 represents the fastener in use, for the connecting together of an article
of wearing apparel.
Figure 5 is a longitudinal vertical section, upon the dotted lines A B Figure 4,
showing how the stem of the fastener, passes through the button-holes, which are
directed at right angles to the heads.
Figure 6 shows the said fastener in use as a solitaire, for the securing of a
dress cuff.
Figure 7 is a front elevation, side elevation, and section, of a length of half
round wire, from which my new or improved fastener, is, or may be made.
The same letters of reference, indicate corresponding parts in the several figures
of the drawing.
a is the stem of the fastener, and are cross heads at its ends, hence a double-
ended, or a double-headed fastener as described.
In Figures 4, 5 and 6, a, b are the fasteners, and c are button holes of garments
or articles d.
In making the said fastener, I take a length of half round wire Figure 7, and by
means of suitable tools and pressure, I shape or fashion the same into the fastener
Figure 1.
Instead of half-round wire, 1 may use strip metal, or wire of any section desired,
but I prefer to employ half-round wire, as the same gives the stem a cylindrical
figure in cross section, and the end semi-cylindrical.
The said fastener, may be made in metal, pearl, bone, ivory, and other like
substances.

page_text: The application of my invention to other fasteners, differs in no essential respect
from its application to dress and cuff fasteners, as hereinbefore described.
The joints of the metal may if necessary be soldered or closed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of any said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
First A dress or like fastener, consisting of a stem or middle part, with T ends
or cross heads at both ends, substantially as described and set forth.
Secondly Making dress or like fasteners, of the kind as in the preceding claim,
from a single length of half-round or other wire, as described and set forth.
Dated
1001
MATTHEW PICKEN.
By Henry Skerrett,
6, Livery Street, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.