CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BUTTONS, CHIEFLY LINEN AND OTHER FABRICS
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Empson and John Brant, both of Birmingham,
in the County of Warwick, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN
THE MANUFACTURE OF BUTTONS, CHIEFLY LINEN AND OTHER FABRICS."
Sealed the 12th March 1878, and dated the 15th September 1877.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Empson and John
Brant at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 15th September
1877.
WILLIAM EMPSON and JOHN BRANT, both of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick. " CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BUTTONS, CHIEFLY
LINEN AND OTHER FABRICS."
Our Invention consists of the improvements herein-after described in the con-
struction of buttons.
We will describe our Invention as applied to a linen button :-
1. We cut out or pierce a circular metallic blank having two holes for the attaching
or connecting to the articles of dress.
2. We pierce a circular linen blank of the required size.
3. We adopt a shell, formed and pierced with a circular flange in its interior,
approaching in size to the first-named blank.
4. We adopt the back with a bevelled edge corresponding in size to the interior
of the last named; this also has a central hole.
To manufacture, we take the first-described part, and lay in tools; secondly, the
linen blank is placed thereon; thirdly, the shell with flange is laid upon this;
fourthly, the back is placed in the interior of the first named, and finally is closed
in together with the ordinary closing tools.

page_text: By these improvements we construct a button more durable and presentable, and
the cotton or thread lying beneath the surface is prevented from cutting in the wear
as hitherto.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said William Empson and John Brant in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 15th March 1878.
WILLIAM EMPSON and JOHN BRANT, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick.
"CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BUTTONS, CHIEFLY LINEN
AND OTHER FABRICS."
Our Invention consists of the improvements herein-after described in the construc-
tion of buttons.
We will describe our Invention as applied to a linen button:-
First. We cut out or pierce a circular metallic blank having two holes for the
attaching or connecting to the articles of dress.
Second. We pierce a circular linen blank of the required size.
Third. We adopt a shell, formed and pierced with a circular flange in its interior,
approaching in size to the first-named blank.
Fourth. We adopt the back with a bevelled edge corresponding in size to the
interior of the last named; this also has a central hole.
To manufacture, we take the first-described part, and lay in tools; secondly, the
linen blank is placed thereon; thirdly, the shell with flange is laid upon this;
fourthly, the back is placed in the interior of the last named, and finally is closed in
together with the ordinary closing tools.
By these improvements we construct a button more durable and presentable, and
the cotton or thread lying beneath the surface is prevented from cutting in the wear
as hitherto.
And in order that this our said Invention may be fully understood we shall now
proceed more particularly to describe the same, and for that purpose shall refer to
the Figures on the explanatory Sheet of Drawings hereunto annexed and to the
letters marked thereon.
By reference to Fig. 1 we here illustrate the component parts of our improvements
in linen buttons, and will describe them in the process of manufacture in the order
in which they appear.
A is the metallic blank, having two apertures for the sewing or connecting to the
dress; this is laid in a recessed dio or bed with a corresponding recess for the linen
disc B; the shell C is then employed (this having an interior flange) by being
placed upon B, and finally D, the back, is laid upon the interior of C, and tools
specially prepared, designated closing-over tools are then employed in this last stage
of manufacture.
Fig. 2 shews this our Invention in its entirety, being the front view; Fig. 3, a
back view of the same.
Having thus described the nature and object of this our said Invention we would
observe in conclusion that we do not restrict ourselves entirely to the above descrip-

page_text: tion, as various modifications may be made without departing from the features of
our said Invention, but what we do claim and desire to be secured to us by the
herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the "Certain Improvements in the
Manufacture of Buttons, chiefly Linen and other Fabrics," substantially as herein-
before described and shewn on the accompanying Drawings, or any mere modification
thereof.
In witness whereof, we, the said William Empson and John Brant, have hereunto
set our hands and seals, this Fourteenth day of March, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.