Ornamental Buttons or Studs and Tool for Fixing the Same.
Year: 1891

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Ornamental Buttons or Studs and Tool for Fixing the Same.
I, NEWNHAM BROWNE, of 73 Cheapside in the City of London, Fellow of the
Institute of Patent Agents, do hereby declare the nature of this invention which
has been communicated to ine from abroad by Teodor Remus of Dresden, in the
Empire of Germany, Metal Goods Manufacturer, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
Ornamental buttons or studs such as are frequently applied to leather goods,
upholstery and the like, usually have very short points for their attachment and
considerable skill is therefore required in driving the same into the article to which
they are to be attached.
Such skill notwithstanding it often happens that, owing to defective connection
between the ornamental head and the body, or point, the former parts from the
latter when the stud or nail is driven into place.
The object of the present invention is to allow such ornamental studs to be
readily put into place, without danger of the heads coming off and without calling
for particular skill.
Heads a are so produced by stamping, pressing or the like that, being connected
by slight narrow bridges a', they will appear like beads strung upon a thread, see
Figs. 1-3.
At the edge of each button are provided two or more nail like prongs or points b.
The heads may be of any desired contour and colour.
For inserting these buttons, studs or nails into an article the following tool shown
in Figs. 4 to 6 is used.
c is a stamp the lower surface of which corresponds to the outline of the buttons a,
to this stamp is, at an acute angle, fitted a handle d shaped in section as shown by
Fig. 6, so as to serve as a bearing and guide for a row of studs a inserted therein.
The surface of handle d is so far below the edge of the stamp e that a button
can slip through between them.
The manipulation of the tool is as follows:
A row of ornamental buttons inserted into handle d is so guided by a finger of
the hand grasping the tool, that the foremost button a passing out of handle d
arrives under the stamp e, see Fig. 4, is placed upon the part to be ornamented
thereby and is nailed fast by a blow upon the stamp. The sharp edge of the stamp
will in this operation sever the bridge a' thus detaching the button just fixed from
the row.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is:
1. Ornamental studs, buttons or the like consisting of shaped heads a, a, with
points or prongs b, bat their edges, and connected by bridges a', u', so
form a row.
as to
2. The tool for carrying and inserting or fixing such buttons studs or the like
having a stamp of an outline corresponding to the buttons and a handle or stem
provided on said tool, at an angle to stamp c, and serving to receive and guide a
row of buttons.
All for the purpose of more readily feeding and fixing such studs or buttons.
Dind the 15th tone of sil 1801
NEWNHAM BROWNE.