AN IMPROVED HOLDER OR FASTENER FOR SHIRT STUDS, BROOCHES, AND OTHER PERSONAL ORNAMENTS
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Matthew Allies, Norfolk Road, Islington, N.,
in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED
HOLDER OR FASTENER FOR SHIRT STUDS, BROOCHES, AND OTHER PERSONAL
ORNAMENTS."
Sealed the 20th March 1866, and dated the 17th January 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Matthew Allies at the.
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
17th January 1866.
I, MATTHEW ALLIES, Norfolk Road, Islington, N., in the County of
Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN
IMPROVED HOLDER OR FASTENER FOR SHIRT STUDS, BROOCHES, AND OTHER PERSONAL
ORNAMENTS," to be as follows:-
It consists of an oblong flat or grooved shank and oblong flat holder or
fastener rounded or pointed at the ends. The shank may be from the
sixteenth to the tenth of an inch in length (or depth), varying to more or
less in either, according as the thickness of the material in which the holes
are made of may require. The width may be from the third, to a half of
the diameter of the stud. It may be hollow or solid and of any strength
required. The holder or fastener may be any width not exceeding the
diameter of the stud, but may be any length desired. One end. of the
shank is fixed to the centre of the stud underneath, the other end to
the width placed lengthwise in the centre and flush with the end of the

page_text: holder, the other end of the holder being free. The shank and holder
may be made as one, or in two parts and soldered together constituting the
holder, which can be adapted to existing studs, brooches, and other personal
ornaments; when used with brooches a shield is required, upon which
elastic is stretched to form the eyelet or hole; this shield prevents injury
to the dress and danger to wearer. To use this holder take hold of the
stud with the thumb, fore and middle fingers, the latter over the free end
of the holder, which insert in the hole; then with the left-hand forefinger
placed underneath lift up the edge of the hole over the end of the holder
under the thumb, pressing the latter down, then turn the stud one-quarter
round the free end of holder upwards; the flat or grooved sides of the
shank is then parallel to the sides of the hole, keeping it in its place.
For the better explanation of my Invention I have annexed a Drawing
of the same, with references thereon to this my Provisional Specification.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Matthew Allies in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 10th July 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, MATTHEW
ALLIES, of Baxter Road, Essex Road, Islington, in the County of Mid-
dlesex, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, in the twenty-ninth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said Matthew Allies, Her special licence that I, the said
Matthew Allies, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Matthew Allies, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention
for "AN IMPROVED HOLDER OR FASTENER FOR SHIRT STUDS, BROOCHES, AND OTHER
PERSONAL ORNAMENTS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Matthew Allies, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particu-
larly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what

page_text: manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in
the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and imme.
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Matthew Allies, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, that is to say :—
The objects of my said Invention were to admit of the holder or
fastener being put in or taken out of the button hole or holes with facility
combined with perfect security. These objects are attained, whither the
Invention be applied to studs, brooches, or other personal ornaments.
In carrying out and for the purposes of my Invention I make the
holder or fastener of any size required, and of any form, with a preference
for the whole oblong form, rounded or pointed at the ends. The neck or
shank I make the length and width required, flat or grooved, hollow or
solid, one end of which, by a way well known, I fix to the width placed
lengthwise in the centre and flush with the edge or one end of the holder.
The other end, by a way well known, I fix to the centre or any other part
underneath of the stud, brooch, or other personal ornament.
Having thus described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which it is to be performed, I would observe that what
I consider novel and original, and therefore claim as my Invention, is, the
form of the holders, except the circular form, and the position of the neck
or shank upon the holder in the manner herein-before substantially set forth
and described, and also fully illustrated by Drawings and references which
accompany this Specification.
In witness whereof, I, the said Matthew Allies, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Tenth day of July, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.
MATTHEW ALLIES. (L.S.)