IMPROVEMENTS IN BUTTONS OR FASTENINGS FOR GLOVES AND 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 FASTENINGS FOR GLOVES AND OTHER
ARTICLES." A communication from Ernst Loewenthal, of Hamburg, in the
German Empire.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Friedrich Hermann Felix
Engel at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 15th November
1880.
FRIEDRICH HERMANN FELIX ENGEL, Civil Engineer and Patent Agent, in the
City of Hamburg, Germany. "IMPROVEMENTS IN BUTTONS OR FASTENINGS FOR
A communication from Ernst Loewenthal, of
GLOVES AND OTHER ARTICLES."
Hamburgh, in the German Empire.
This Invention relates to improvements in buttons or fastenings for gloves and
other articles, the Invention consisting in the construction of parts and the means
of or for attaching same to gloves or articles. The fasteners aro especially useful
as a fastening for gloves, but it may also be applied to other articles made of
leather and such like material.
The locking of the fastening is executed by pushing a projecting pin of the one
part of the fastening into the enlarged part of the eye of the other part of the
fastening. By the elasticity of the leather the pin slides into the smaller slot of
the opening in which it is kept by its enlarged point or top. This lock is of a
similar construction to that used for stays and other articles. The Invention does
not therefore extend to the manner of locking the fastening but to the way and
construction of attaching the locking parts to gloves and other articles. Both parts
of the lock, positive part as well as the negative, are furnished with cylindrical
shaped projecting metal rings. The attachment of the parts of the fastening is
executed by passing these rings through the leather or material of the article, and
by then bending the projecting end outward.
The bending and attaching may be executed by means of a tongue, or by using
a press of a similar construction as those used for fastening eyelets. The leather
or material is kept between the projecting rim and the outer bent part of the rings.
The advantage gained by this improved fastening is that the corresponding parts
may be attached to the article in a safe, quick, and elegant manner, in conse-
quence of which the lock can now be used in cases wherein it was formerly not
applicable.
But the parts may be made in different ways, either by wholly casting tho
same or by combining the samo in a different manner out of sheet metal.

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 13th May 1881.
FRIEDRICH HERMANN FELIX ENGEL, Civil Engineer and Patent Agent, in the
City of Hamburg, Germany. "IMPROVEMENTS IN BUTTONS OR FASTENINGS FOR
GLOVES AND OTHER ARTICLES." A communication from Ernst Loewenthal, of
Hamburg, in the German Empire.
The fasteners are
This Invention relates to certain improvements in buttons or fastenings for
gloves and other articles, the Invention consisting in the construction of parts,
and the means of or for attaching same to gloves or articles.
especially useful as a fastening for gloves, but they may also be applied to other
articles made of loather and such like material.
Fig. 8 of the accompanying Drawing shows a glove in open state, and furnished
with this fastening. The locking of this fastening is executed by pushing the
projecting pin a of the one part of the fastening into the enlarged part of the eye
of the other part of the fastening. By the elasticity of the leather the pin slides
into the smaller slot of the opening in which it is held by its enlarged point or top.
This lock, it will be seen, is of a similar construction with that used for stays and
other articles. The Invention does therefore not extend per se to the manner of
locking the fastening but to the construction of the locking parts, and the way
of attaching the same to gloves and other articles. Both parts of the lock, the
positive part as well as the negative, are furnished with cylindrical shaped projecting
metal rings b and d (Figs. 1 to 4). The attachment of the parts of the fastening
is executed by passing these rings through the leather or material of the article, and
by then bending the projecting end outward in a manuer shown in Figs. 5 and 6.
The bending and attaching may be executed by means of a tongue, or by using a
press or stamp of similar construction to those used for fastening eyelets. The
leather or material is kept between the projecting rim of parts c or e, and the outer
bent part of the rings.
The advantage gained by this improved fastening is that the corresponding parts
may be attached to the article in a safe, quick, and elegant manner, in consequence
of which the lock can now be be used in cases wherein it was formerly
inapplicable.
Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4 show one construction and combination of the parts of the
But the parts
fastening, the same being pressed or stamped out of sheet metal.
may be made in different ways, either by wholly casting the same, as is explanatorily
shown by Fig. 7, or by combining the same in a different manner out of sheet
metal.
Having now described the nature and particulars of the said Invention, I
claim,―
The combination of ring b, or otherwise ring d, with the positive or otherwise
negative part of locks a, c, and e, for the purpose of attaching the locking parts to
gloves or other articles, as herein set forth and described in reference to and shown
in and by the accompanying Sheet of Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Friedrich Hermann Felix Engel, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Ninth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and eighty one.
F. H. F. ENGEL. (1,8.)