IMPROVEMENTS IN SHIELDS FOR PROTECTING, STRENGTHENING OR CONCEALING BUTTONS AND BUTTON HOLES, ALSO APPLICABLE FOR PURPOSES OF ORNAMENTATION Communi
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Phillips Thompson of the Agency for Foreign
Patent Solicitors 6 Lord Street Liverpool in the county of Lancaster and
of 323 High Holborn in the county of Middlesex Civil Engineer for an
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN SHIELDS FOR PROTECTING, STRENGTHENING
OR CONCEALING BUTTONS AND BUTTON HOLES, ALSO APPLICABLE FOR PURPOSES
OF ORNAMENTATION Communicated to him from abroad by Messieurs
Désiré Sauget and Nicholas Alphonse Aubertin and Madame Veuve Grangier
(née Angelina Marie Eugénié Messe) all of Paris in the republic of France
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Phillips T: om¡ son
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 20th September 1882.
WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON of the Agency for Foreign Patent Solicitors,
6 Lord Street Liverpool in the County of Lancaster and of 323 High Holborn in
IN
"IMPROVEMENTS
SHIELDS FOR
the county of Middlesex, Civil Engineer,.
PROTECTING, STRENGTHENING, OR CONCEALING BUTTONS AND BUTTON HOLES, ALSO
APPLICABLE FOR PURPOSES OF ORNAMENTATION," a communication to me from
abroad by Messieurs Désiré Sauget and Nicholas Alphonse Aubertin and Madanie
Veuve Grangier (née Angelina Marie Eugénie Messe) all of Paris in the republic of
France
This invention consists in applying to the button holes of shirts, singlets or
undervests, wristbands, and other garments, a small piece either ornamented or not
which may conceal or support the button hole at pleasure, and has for its object to
sustain and strengthen the button hole whether hiding it or leaving it visible; and
also to hold the button in order to prevent it escaping accidentally. This appliance
can be made either of paper or paper faced with linen or of cardboard, parchment,
linen, cloth, or any other appropriate fabric or material, but whether it be
ornamented or not by designs, embroidery or imitation embroidery, embossed or
otherwise, it will be coated with any suitable adhesive substance in order to fix it
.

page_text: instantaneously to the shirt or other garment, so that this button hole support may
seem to form an integral part of the garment to which it is applied. Thus by
means of these appliances which can receive very elegant forms either stamped,
goffered, embroidered, or simply smoothed, and which have the advantage of
costing very little, a shirt, under-vest, or other garment with frayed button holes
and almost past service, can be instantaneously transformed into a garment at
least wearable or even luxurious, whilst the buttons are at the same time fastened in
in such a way that they could scarcely be again lost. These little preservers when
they are applied to shirts, undervests, neck bands, and wristbands, have also the
advantage of preventing the buttons from breaking in half, an accident which
makes the shirt come open in an awkward way, so that it much more quickly gets
crumpled and soiled; besides preventing the shirt from coming undone there is
also this appreciable advantage that the breast of the flannel waistcoat will no
longer be exposed; there will be less wear and an economy in washing expenses
will result.
The ornamentation may be continuous or isolated and of any kind, formed either
by straight sinuous, or toothed bands, constituting a simple or compound appliance
which is stuck or otherwise fixed to the shirt or other garment so as to form or
resemble any embroidery or ornamentation as for example flowers, birds,
arabesques, etcetera, which are placed upon or on the side of the button or of the
true or false button hole, or even on the edge of the shirt, under-vest, or wristband
in order to hide or mask the wear of the edges or to serve for ornamentation.
The drawings annexed to this Specification represent specimens of the invention
which however may be varied indefinitely. In these Figs 1, 1 bis, 2, and 3 show
four specimens of the appliances. Figs. 4 and 5, show pieces of stuff, paper, card,
cardboard, parchment, etcetera, printed on, embroidered goffered stamped etcetera,
in advance, so that all that is required for a considerable number of appliances is
to cut them out by hand with a punch or otherwise from a piece of determinate
dimensions. Fig: 6 shows a shirt front in which the number of buttons has been
purposely increased. In this a, b, d, f, represent the ordinary button holes of the
shirt with invisible supports placed inside. c, e, g, represent the visible button hole
supports.
It will be understood that the operations of stamping, goffering, etcetera, may
be performed at the same time as the cutting out of the piece itself by the punch
which may be at the same time a stamp or matrix. The appliances hereinbefore
described may be embroidered or ornamented in any colour, according to the nature
and colour of the garment for which they are intended and may be of any
suitable size.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said William Phillips Thompson in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 17th March 1883.
WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON of the Agency for Foreign Patent Solicitors
6 Lord Street Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, and of 323 High Holborn
in the county of Middlesex Civil Engineer
"IMPROVEMENTS IN SHIELDS FOR
"
PROTECTING STRENGTHENING OR CONCEALING BUTTONS AND BUTTON HOLES, ALSO
a communication to me from
APPLICABLE FOR PURPOSES OF ORNAMENTATION
abroad by Messieurs Désiré Sauget and Nicholas Alphonse Aubertin and Madame
Veuve Grangier (née Angélina Marie Eugénie Messe) all of Paris in the republic of
France.
The following being a translation of the description forwarded to me in French
by my foreign correspondent
This invention consists in applying to the button holes of shirts, singlets, or
undervests, wristbands, and other garments, a small piece either ornamented or not,
which may conceal or support the button hole at pleasure, and has for its object to
sustain and strengthen the button hole whether hiding it or leaving it visible; and
also to hold the button in order to prevent it escaping accidentally. This appliance
can be made either of paper, or paper faced with linen, or of cardboard, parchment,
linen, cloth, or any other appropriate fabric or material, but whether it be
ornamented or not by designs, embroidery, or imitation embroidery, embossed or
otherwise, it will be coated with any suitable adhesive substance in order to fix it
instantaneously to the shirt or other garment, so that this button hole support may
Thus by
seem to form an integral part of the garment to which it is applied.
means of these appliances which can receive very elegant forms either stamped,
goffered, embroidered, or simply smoothed, and which have the advantage of
costing very little, a shirt, undervest, or other garment with frayed button holes
and almost past. service, can be instantaneously transformed into a garment at
least wearable or even luxurious, whilst the buttons are at the same time fastened
in in such a way that they could scarcely be again lost. These little preservers
when they are applied to shirts, undervests, neck-bands, and wristbands, have also
the advantage of preventing the buttons from breaking in half, an accident which
makes the shirt come open in an awkward way, so that it much more quickly gets
crumpled and soiled; besides preventing the shirt from coming undone there is
also this appreciable advantage that the breast of the flannel waistcoat will no
longer be exposed; there will be less wear and an economy in washing expenses
will result.
The ornamentation may be continuous or isolaled, and of any kind, formed either
by straight, sinuous, or toothed bands, constituting a simple or compound appliance
which is stuck or otherwise fixed to the shirt or other garment so as to form or
resemble any embroidery or ornamentation, as for example flowers, birds,
arabesques, et-cetera, which are placed upon or on the side of the button, or of the
true or false button-hole, or even on the edge of the shirt, under vest, or wristband,
in order to hide or mask the wear of the edges or to serve for ornamentation.
The drawings annexed to this Specification represent specimens of the invention
which however may be varied indefinitely. In these Figs 1, 1bis, 2, and 3 show four
specimens of the appliances. Figs 4 and 5 show pieces of stuff, paper, card, card-
board, parchment, et-cetera, printed on, embroidered, goffered, stamped, et-cetera, in
advance, so that all that is required for a considerable number of appliances is to
cut them out by hand with a punch or otherwise from a piece of determinate

page_text: dimensions. Fig 6 shows a shirt front in which the number of buttons has been
purposely increased-In this a b d f represent the ordinary button holes of the
shirt with invisible supports placed inside. c, e, g represent the visible button hole
supports.
It will be understood that the operations of stamping, goffering, etcetera, may be
performed at the same time as the cutting out of the piece itself by the punch,
which may be at the same time a stamp or matrix. The appliances herein before
described may be embroidered or ornamented in any colour, according to the
nature and colour of the garment for which they are intended and may be of any
suitable size.
Having now described the invention as communicated to me, I wish it to be
understood that what I claim is :-
The appliances substantially as described for concealing or supporting button-
holes and having for their object to sustain and strengthen the button hole, either
concealing it or leaving it visible, and to preserve the button. This appliance inade
of paper cloth or any other fabric, ornamented or not, of dimensions and colours
variable at pleasure, is affixed to the desired place by moistening its inner side
which is coated with adhesive material of any kind.
In witness whereof I the said William Phillips Thompson bave hereunto set
my hand and seal this sixteenth day of March in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and eighty three