IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENERS APPLICABLE TO ARTICLES OF WEARING APPAREL AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Norman Aronson of Old Broad Street, in the
City of London for an Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENERS APPLICABLE
TO ARTICLES OF WEARING APPAREL AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Norman Aronson at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 31st October 1882.
JOSEPH NORMAN ARONSON of Old Broad Street in the City of London
"IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENERS APPLICABLE TO ARTICLES OF WEARING APPAREL
AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES,"
"
My invention has for object to produce a simple strong and efficient fastener not
liable to derangement.
For this purpose I provide a suitable base or plate with a loop or eye or guide
or guides through which passes an arm or bar constructed with a curved or
bent end.
This arm or bar is arranged to be able to be slidden lengthwise a certain distance
through the loop or eye or guide in such a way that in one position which I call
the open position the main portion of the arm or bar will be in a suitable attitude
to pass through or have passed over it a button-hole or eyelet or equivalent formed
in or attached to one of the two parts of a glove or other article to be fastened, my
improved fastener being attached to the other part of such article. As the main
portion of the arm or bar is now moved back into the closed position the bent
or curved part will slide in the loop or eye, until the button hole or eyelet or
equivalent assumes a position on the said bent or curved part such that the
tendency to move apart of the two portions of the glove or other article held by
the fastener will have the effect of pressing the free end of the main portion of the
arm or bar towards the base or plate and of preventing unfastening.
In some cases I make the bent part of the arm or bar narrower or of smaller
cross section than the main portion; or instead of making the arm or bar to slide
through a loop or eye the bent part may be formed with a slot through which is
passed a pin or stud secured to the base or plate which modification will permit of
the hereinabove described sliding movement of the arm or bar.

page_text: In some cases a spring, stud, catch or equivalent device or devices may be used
to aid in retaining the arm or bar in position.
The arm or bar may if desired be pointed or sharpened so as to pass through
cloth or other material as a pin.
Besides this applicability to gloves boots and other articles of wearing apparel
my improved fasteners may also be used for hanging curtains, fastening purses and
for other purposes.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Joseph Norman Aronson in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
30th April 1883.
JOSEPH NORMAN ARONSON of Old Broad Street, in the City of London
IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENERS APPLICABLE TO ARTICLES OF WEARING APPAREL
AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
My invention has for object to produce a simple strong and efficient fastener
not liable to derangement.
For this purpose I provide a suitable base or plate with a loop or eye or guide
or guides through which passes an arm or bar constructed with a curved or
bent end.
This arm or bar is arranged to be able to be slidden lengthwise a certain distance
through the loop or eye or guide in such a way that in one position which I call
the open position the main portion of the arm or bar will be in a suitable position
to pass through or have passed over it a button hole or eyelet or equivalent formed
in or attached to one of the two parts of a glove or other article to be fastened, my
improved fastener being attached to the other part of such article. As the main
portion of the arm or bar is now moved back into the closed position the bent or
curved part will slide in the loop or eye, until the button hole or eyelet or
equivalent assumes a position on the said bent or curved part such that the
tendency to move apart of the two portions of the glove or other articlo held by
the fastener will have the effect of pressing the free end of the main portion of the
arm or bar towards the base or plate and of preventing unfastening.
In some cases I make the bent part of the arm or bar narrower or of smaller
cross section than the main portion, or instead of making the arm or har to slide
through a loop or eye the bent part may be formed with a slot through which is
passed a pin or stud secured to the base or plate which modification will permit of
the hereinabove described sliding movement of the arm or bar.
In some cases a spring, stud, catch or equivalent device or devices may be used
to aid in retaining the arm or bar in position.
The arm or bar may if desired be pointed or sharpened so as to pass through
cloth or other material as a pin.

page_text: Besides their applicability to gloves, boots and other articles of wearing apparel,
my improved fasteners may also be used for hanging curtains, fastening purses and
for other purposes.
Figs. 1, 2 and 3 of the accompanying drawings illustrate an arrangement of
fastener according to my invention suitable for fastening gloves and similar
articles.
a is a base or plate provided with perforations a' to enable it to be attached to the
glove and to the usual retaining plate at the under sido of the fabric by sewing or
otherwise is a loop or eye formed of a bent piece of metal and attached to the
base or plate a by each end being passed through a slot in that base or plate and
being then turned at the extremity under the base or plate.
It will be evident that the loop or eye may be in one piece with the base or
plate which may be formed by stamping as well understood. c is an arm or bar
having a curved or bent end c¹. The mode of using the fastener is as follows:
The arm or bar c being in the open position (shewn in Fig. 2) has the button
hole or eyelet in the other part of the glove passed over it, the arm or bar is then
slidden through the loop or eyo b until it is in the position shewn in Fig. 1 when
the button hole or eyelet will have assumed such a position on the bent part c' that
the tendency of the two portions of the glove to move apart will have the effect of
pressing the free end c³ of the arm or bar towards the base or plate a and of thus
preventing unfastening. As will be seen in this particular arrangement the inner
end of the bent part c³ of the arm or bar is somewhat flattened to aid in retaining
the arm or bar in the closed position. The bent part of the arm or bar is (as shewn
more clearly in the plan Fig. 3) made slightly narrower than remaining portions
of the arm or bar; the shoulders c c thus formed limiting the amount of movement
of the arm or bar.
Figs. 4 and 5 shew in elevation and plan respectively a modified arrangement.
In this case for the loop or eye b of the foregoing arrangement there is substituted
a pin a stud d secured to the base or plate a and the bent part c¹ of the arm or
bar c is as shewn formed with a slot e which extends the same distance as the
narrower part in the previous arrangement. The operation is similar to that of the
arrangement described with reference to Figs. 1 to 3.
Figs. 6 and 7 illustrate a modified arrangement of fastening apparatus having a
part a² of the base or plate a bent upward to serve as a spring to aid in retaining
the arm or bar c in the closed position.
Figs. 8 and 9 are views of a similar arrangement except that the retaining plato
at the under side of the fabric has a bent up portion f which passes through the
fabric and through the base or plate a and which forms a spring to aid in keeping
the arm c in position. As will be evident various other devices may be employed
to effect the same purpose.
Figs. 10 and 11 shew in elevation and plan a fastener according to my invention
suitable for use as a means for supporting curtains and similar articles. The free
end of the arm c is pointed or sharpened to enable it to be readily passed through
the cloth or other material and the base plate is formed with a hook which can
pass over the ring or wire from which the curtain or other article is to be suspended.
The base or plate a may be provided with a projection fas shewn for the purpose
of protecting the point.
Figs. 12 and 13 shew an arrangement of fastener suitable for connecting chains,
portions of harness, tarpaulins or other comparatively heavy articles. The bar C
which is constructed of inaterial of semi circular cross section is made to slide in
the swivelling loop or stud b, which is formed of material having a cross section
similar to that of the bar C and is free to rotate about its own axis in the plate a
to which it is secured by the rivetted head f, the base plate a is provided with
a spring catch plate d and link or eye e as shewn in plans Figs. 13 and 14
respectively.
Having described the nature of my said invention and the manner of carrying it

page_text: into practical effect what I claim as secured to me under the Letters Patent first
hereinabove in part recited is :-
1. In a fastener such as bereinabove referred to the use in conjunction with a
plate or base of a curved arm or bar secured to the said plate or base but able to
be slidden so as to assume a position in which its one end may be passed through
or have passed over it a button hole, an eyelet or equivalent or a part of some
material to be secured, and also able to be slidden back into a position in which
tho pull of the button hole, eyelet or equivalent or of the material through which
the arm or bar has been passed, will tend to force the free end of the arm or bar
against or towards the plate or base substantially as described.
2. The improved fasteners with sliding curved arms or bars constructed arranged
and operating as hereinabove described with reference respectively to and shown in
Figs 1 to 3 in Figs. 4 and 5-in Figs. 6 and 7 in Figs. 8 and 9-in Figs. 10 and 11
and in Figs. 12 to 14 of the accompanying drawings.
In Witness whereof I the said Joseph Norman Aronson have hereunto set
my hand and seal this twenty eighth day of April in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and eighty three
JOSEPH NORMAN ARONSON (18)