IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR FASTENING BUTTONS WITH EYES TO BOOTS SHOES OR SUITABLE GARMENTS
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick James Drewry of Burton on Trent in the
County of Stafford Gentleman, the sole acting Executor of William Morgan-
Brown, deceased, Patent Agent of 38 Southampton Buildings London for an
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR FASTENING BUTTONS WITH
EYES TO BOOTS SHOES OR SUITABLE GARMENTS "
communicated to him from
abroad by Joseph Davis of Lynn Essex Massachusetts United States of
America.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Morgan-Brown at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 14th November 1882.
WILLIAM MORGAN-BROWN Patent Agent of 38 Southampton Buildings London
"IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR FASTENING BUTTONS WITH EYES TO BOOTS.
BHOES OR SUITABLE GARMENTS "
[communicated to him from abroad by Joseph
Davis of Lynn Essex Massachusetts United States of America.]
The object of this Invention is to secure upon shoes or garments by means of a
single pronged tack or fastener, usual buttons having shanks provided with eyes.
The point of the tack or fastener inserted through the material of the shoe or
garment from its inner side is then passed through the eye of the shank and the
point of the tack or fastening forced against an anvil or clinching surface close to
the button shank is clinched or curled about the button shank holding the button
securely in place the loop or eye formed in the tack or fastening by bending it
about the shank of the button being located above and close to the outside of the
material of the shoo or garment upon which the button is applied.
:
This Invention in apparatus for fastening a button in the manner described
includes a holder for the button, an anvil or clinching surface, so located with
relation to the button-holder as to enable the eye of the button shank to be held
properly in place close to the said anvil, and a holder for the head of the tack or
fastening, the said tack holder having a seat to receive and support the head of the
said tack or fastening, and a spring or equivalent to bear upon the under side of
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page_text: the said head and hold it upon the said seat, the single one pronged body and
point of the said tack or fastening being so held as to enable the tack or fastener
to be forced through the material by the holder, and the point of the tack or
fastener to be presented to the anvil surface at an angle such as to ensure the
uniform bending and clinching of the body of the tack about the eye of the button
shank.
The button having been put in place in its holder, the tack or fastening in its
holder, and the edge of the shoe or garment inserted between the point of the tack
or fastening and the shank of the button, the latter may be set or secured in place
by simply causing the two holding surfaces referred to, to be made to approach
each other and force the point of the tack or fastening against the anvil or clinching
surface which is located at the farther side of the eye of the button shank.
The anvil or clinching surface will preferably be formed as an integral part of
the metal portion which serves to hold the button, and the button will be kept in
its seat by means of a spring.
The apparatus is organized so as to be operated by hand, like a pair of pliers, but
the means employed to hold the tack and button and clinch the tack through or
about the eye of the button shank might be organized in a power machine, but in
such case mechanism would be employed to automatically present the tacks and
buttons to their holders:
-
The employment of the apparatus described greatly simplifies the process of
setting or attaching buttons, and the one prong tack or fastening, making but one
hole, does not mar and tear the material as for instance leather as much as the
usual three pronged hook.. -
This Invention consists in a holder having a seat for the button and having its
end notched and provided with a projection having a clinching surface or anvil, the
latter forming an integral part of the said holder.
Also in a holder provided with a seat for the button and a clinching surface and
the button holding spring, combined with a holder having a seat for the bead of
the tack or fastening, and with a connected spring or clamp to bear against the
underside of the head of the tack or fastening and hold it while being inserted
into and through the material, and being clinched on the clinching surface.
Also in a holder having at its front end a seat provided with the holder to gago
the position of the head of the tack or fastening, combined with a forked spring
to straddle the shank of the tack or fastening and bear against the underside of
its head.
The holders of the apparatus, pivoted together form jaws and have suitable
handles by which to operate them.
The upper holder or jaw has at its end a notch or seat for the button, it having
a shank with an eye all as usual.
The salient end of the upper holder or jaw curved or bent toward the tack
holder or other lower jaw is cut away to form spaces for the reception of the
wire shank of the button and to leave a clinching projection small enough to enter
the eye of the button shank.
This projection is provided with a clinching concavity into which the point of
the tack or fastening enters after being forced through the material of leather or
cloth, and forming part of a shoe or garment.
The button while being secured to the material is kept in the seat by a spring or
arm connected with one jaw.
The head of the tack or fastening, is placed in or on a seat formed near the end
of the holder or lower jaw and is held securely in such position by a spring or
clamp secured to the lower jaw by a screw the said clamp being made as a forked
spring.
The seat is preferably so inclined as to cause the shank of the tack or fastening
to be somewhat inclined backward and the seat always presses firmly against that
part of the head of the tack between its centre and the outer end of the lower jaw

page_text: so that the tack being driven through the material and clinched through the eye
of the button shank is always subjected to greatest pressure in the direction which
ensures the clinching of the end of the tack or fastening always in the same
direction, namely, along the surface of the clinching concavity and through the
eye of the button shank, clinching upon itself.
The holder or upper jaw having the clinching surface is made of steel hardened
after the formation of the said surface, thus avoiding the employment of a separate
anvil plate.
The rear wall of the seat serves as a gage for the position of the head of the
tack or fastening so that its point will always fall in proper lino with relation to
the clinching surface.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, and of an
{. Order of the Lord Chancellor, filed by the said Frederick James Drewry
Executor of William Morgan-Brown deceased in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 9th June 1883.
FREDERICK JAMES DREWRY of Burton on Trent in the County of Stafford
Gentleman, the sole acting Executor of William Morgan-Brown deceased, Patent
Agent of 38, Southampton Buildings, London. "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR
FASTENING BUTTONS WITH EYES TO BOOTS SHOES OR SUITABLE GARMENTS "
(A communication to the said William Morgan-Brown from abroad by Joseph
Davis of Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts United States of America.)
The object of this invention is to secure upon shoes or garments by means of a
single pronged tack or fastener, usual buttons having shanks provided with eyes.
The point of the tack or fastener inserted through the material of the shoe or
garment from its inner side is then passed through the eye of the shank and the
point of the tack or fastening forced against an anvil or clinching surface close to
the button shank is clinched or curled about the button shank holding the button
-securely in place the loop or eye formed in the tack or fastening by bending
it about the shank of the button being-located above and close to the outside.
-of-the-material-of-the-shoe-or-garment-upon-which the button is applied.
This invention in apparatus for fastening a button in the manner described
includes a bolder for the button, an anvil or clinching surface, so located with
relation to the button-holder as to enable the eye of the button shank to be held
properly in place close to the said anvil, and a holder for the head of the tack or
fastening, the said tack holder having a seat to receive and support the head of
the said tack or fastening, and a spring or equivalent to bear upon the under side
of tho said head and hold it upon the said seat, the single one pronged body and
point of the said tack or fastening being so held as to enable the tack or fastener
to be forced through the material by the holder, and the point of the tack or
fastener to be presented to the anvil surface at an angle such as to ensure the
uniform bending and clinching of the body of the tack about the eye of the
button shank.
The button having been put in place in its holder, the tack or fastening in its
holder, and the edge of the shoe or garment inserted between the point of the tack
or fastening, and the shank of the button, the latter may bo set or secured in place
by simply causing the two holding surfaces referred to, to be made to approach each
other and force the point of the tack or fastening against the anvil or clinching
surface which is located at the farther side of the eye of the button-shank as shown
in the drawings
The anvil or clinching surface will preferably be formed as an integral part of
the metal portion which serves to hold the button and the button will be kept in
its seat by means of a spring.
The apparatus is shown as organised so as to be operated by hand like a pair of
pliers, but the means employed to hold the tack and button and clinch the tack
through or about the eye of the button shank might be organised in a power
machine, but in such case mechanism would be employed to automatically present
the tacks and buttons to their holders
The employment of the apparatus described greatly simplifies the process of
setting or attaching buttons, and the one prong tack or fastening, making but one
hole, does not mar and tear the material as for instance leather as much as the
usual three pronged hook.

page_text: My invention consists in a holder having a seat for the button and having its
end notched and provided with a projection having a clinching surface or anvil,
the latter forming an integral part of the said holder all substantially as hereinafter
described.
Also in a holder provided with a seat for the button and a clinching surface and
the button holding spring, combined with a holder having a seat for the head of the
tack or fastening, and with a connected spring or clamp to bear against the under side
of the head of the tack or fastening and hold it as described, while being inserted
into and through the material and being clinched on the clinching surface
Also in a holder having at its front end a seat provided with the holder to gage
the position of the head of the tack or fastening combined with a forked spring to
straddle the shank of the tack or fastening and bear against the underside of its
head
Figure 1. represents in side elevation my improved apparatus for fastening or
setting buttons, and a button and tack or fastening in place.
Figure 2. an enlarged sectional detail of the jaws button and tack and fastening
Figure 3, a detail of the clinching surface of one of the jaws, and the button
holder, and its spring.
Figure 4. a top view of the spring to retain the tack or fastening upon its
holder and
Figure 5 a button confined by a tack or fastening.
The holders ab of the apparatus, pivoted together at c to form jaws, have
suitable handles a' b' by which to operate them.
The holder or jaw a has at its end a notch or seat d for the button B it having
a shank 4 with an eye all as usual.
The salient end of the holder or jaw a curved or bent as shown toward the
tack holder or jaw b is cut away as shown at a Figure 3 to form spaces for
the reception of the wire shank of the button B and to leave a clinching
projection 2. small enough to enter the eye of the button shank as shown in
Figure 2.
This projection 2. is provided with a clinching concavity 3 into which the
point of the tack or fastening fenters after being forced through the material m
shown in dotted lines it being of leather or cloth and forming part of a shoe or
garment
The button B while being secured to the material m is kept in the seat & by the
spring or arm 9 connected with a at g'
The head of the tack or fastening, is placed in or on a seat h formed near the
end of the holder or jaw b and is held securely in such position as shown in the
drawing, by a spring or clamp n secured to the member 6 by screw 5 the said clamp
being made as a forked spring as shown in Figure 4.
The seat his preferably so inclined as to cause the shank of the tack or fastening
to be somewhat inclined backward as shown in the drawing and the seat always
pressos firmly against that part of the head of the tack between its centre and the
outer end of the member b so that the tack being driven through the material and
clinched through the eye of the button shank is always subjected to greatest
pressure in the direction of the dotted line 8 Figure 2 which adds very materially
to the efficiency of the apparatus and ensures the clinching of the end of the tack
or fastening always in the same direction, namely along the surface 3 in the
direction of the arrow in Figure 2 and through the eye of the button shank
clinching upon itself as shown in Figure 5.
The holder a having the clinching surface is made of steel hardened after
the formation of the said surface, thus avoiding the employment of a separate
anvil plate.
The rear wall 10 of the seat h serves as a gage for the position of the head of the
tack or fastening so that its point will always fall in proper line with relation to
the clinching surface.
The parts 12 of the clamp bear with greatest force on the underside of the head

page_text: or the tack or fastening about, opposite the shank of the tack, or between the
shank centre and the outer end of the member b as shown in Figure 2.
The shape of the seat for the head of the tack or fastening, and its location with
relation to the clinching surface, and the direction of pressure on the head and
shank of the tack or fastening when being clinched, is such as to cause the shank
of the tack to bend somewhat nearly down to the head of the tack or fastening, so
that the strain of the button on the tack is substantially central and obviates the
tendency of the head to tip under strain on the button as would be the case
were the shank of the nail curled over only at its point or for a short distance
therefrom.
Having thus described the nature of the said invention as communicated to me
I would have it understood that what I claim is
1. In an apparatus for fastening buttons in place, the holder a having a seat for
the button and having its salient end notched as at a² and provided with a
projection 2 having a clinching surface, the latter forming an integral part of the
member substantially as described.
2. In an apparatus for fastening buttons in place the holder 6 provided with a
seat for the head of the tack or fastening combined with a connected spring or
clamp to rest upon the underside of the head of the tack or fastening and keep it
firmly in position on the said seat in all positions of the holders substantially as
described
3. The holder a provided with the seat for the button and the clinching
surface 2 and the button holder g combined with the holder b having the seat for
the head of the tack or fastening-and. with the connected spring or clamp to bear.
against the under side of the head of the tack and hold the tack as described while
-being-inserted-into-and-through-the-material-and-being-clinched-on-the-clinching—|
surface substantially as described.
4. The holder b having at its front end the seat provided with a wall 10. to gage
the position of the head of the tack or fastening, combined with a forked spring
to straddle the shank of the tack or fastening and bear against the underside of 3
its head substantially as described
In witness whereof I the said Frederick James Drewry have hereunto set my
hand and seal this First day of June in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and eighty three.