Improvements in Buttons, and in Means for Attaching them to Garments, Wearing Apparel, and other Articles.
Year: 1895

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Buttons, and in Means for Attaching them to
Garments, Wearing Apparel, and other Articles.
I, HENRY NICHOLS, of Fern Villa, Stourton, Rothwell, near Leeds in the
County of York, Market Gardener, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in buttons, and in means for attaching
them to garments and other wearing apparel, such as leggings, gaiters, boots and
shoes, gloves and to other articles, the parts or portions of which are fastened
together by buttons. Its object is to provide a simple arrangement of button that
may be easily, securely and readily fixed to a garment or other article.
According to this invention the button and its fastening device may be either
made in separate pieces or portions, or attached together. That is to say, when
attached together the fastening device may form a part of or be rigidly fixed to
the rim portion of the button; but when made separately the rim and the fastening
device may be in separate parts or pieces.
The rim in the latter case would be made or shaped like say an ordinary metal
button and perforated with say two, four or more holes through which is passed
the fastening device consisting of say a fastener having a head or cross piece from
which two, four or more prongs or pins project or other equivalent device.
The prongs pass through the holes, the head or cross piece remaining on the
face side thereof-and after passing through the rim, material, and through a
washer formed say of leather, metal, celluloid, xylonite, or any other convenient
material, is clenched on the inner side of the garment or other article.
When the fastening device is made to form a part of the button, the prongs or
pins would project from the inner side of the rim which then would form the head
of the fastening device.
Dated this Fourteenth day of January 1895.
HENRY NICHOLS,
By W. Fairburn-Hart,
Agent.
Improvements in Buttons, and in Means for Attaching them to
Garments, Wearing Apparel, and other Articles.
1, HENRY NICHOLS, of Fern Villa, Stourton, Rothwell, near Leeds, in the
County of York, Market Gardener, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention relates to improvements in buttons, and in means for attaching
them to garments and other wearing apparel, such as leggings, gaiters, boots and

page_text: shoes, gloves, and to other articles, the parts or portions of which are fastened
together by buttons. Its object is to provide a simple arrangement of button that
may be easily, securely, and readily fixed to a garment or other article.
According to this invention the button and its fastening device may be either
made in separate pieces or portions, or attached together. That is to say, when
attached together the fastening device may form a part of or be rigidly fixed to
the rim portion of the button; but when made separately the rim and the fastening
device may be in separate parts or pieces.
In the drawings I have shown several examples of how my invention may be
carried into practice.
Fig. 1 is a part sectional elevation of a button with the prong fastenings forming
part of the button.
Fig. 2 a plan looking at the top.
Fig. 3 a part sectional elevation of the button rim and its fastener in separate
pieces.
Fig. 4 a part sectional elevation of the button rim and fastener in separate
pieces and provided with an extra washer.
Fig. 5 a part sectional elevation of the button rim and fastener in separate
pieces, but arranged so that the rim will turn or clench the points of the fastener.
Figs. 6 and 7 are respectively a part sectional elevation and a plan of a rim with
a fastener soldered or rivetted thereto.
Fig. 8 an elevation of one form of fastening arrangement.
Fig. 9 an elevation of the invention applied to a button suitable for boots, shoes,
and gaiters.
Like parts in all the views are marked with similar letters of reference.
A is the rim or head hereafter termed the rim A. which is made of any suitable
material, say of metal, and shaped say like an ordinary metal button, but I do not
limit myself to this shape, as other shapes may be used.
The rim A may be solid or perforated with two, four, or more holes a, two holes
only are shown in the drawings, through which is passed the metal fastening device
consisting of say a fastener having a head 6 or crosspiece from which two, four
or more prongs or pins 6' (two prongs only are shown in the drawings) project, or
other equivalent device. The prongs or pins 61 may be somewhat wedge shaped or
conical in form as shown. The fastening device may either form part of the rim A
as at Fig. 1, or be rivetted, soldered, or otherwise fixed thereto as at Figs. 6 and 9,
or it may be formed separate from the rim A. as at Figs. 3, 4, and 5.
The prongs after passing through the material C and the holes a of the
rim A, the head or cross piece b remaining on the face (or under) side of the
material and also after passing, when required through a washer D'as at Figs. 1
and 4, formed say of leather, metal, celluloid, xylonite, or any other convenient
material, is clenched on the inner side of the garment or other article, as at Fig. 1,
or the prongs b¹ may be arranged to be clenched on to or within the rim A as at
Figs. 3, 4, and 5, in which case the head 6 with or without a washer D would be
arranged on the inside of the garment. At Fig. 5 the ends of the prongs 61 are
shown clenched or turned by the solid disc of and within the rim A.
When the fastening device is made to form a part of the button, the prongs or
pins would project from the inner side of the rim which then would form the head
of the fastening device.
The button shown at Fig. 9 is applicable for boots, shoes, gaiters and the like.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim, is :-
In buttons and the method for firmly fixing them to garments and other articles,
without sewing, by means of a fastener, consisting of a number of wedged shaped
or conical prongs forming part of the button rim or head A, or fixed to the rim A,
or to a separate head so that the points of the prongs after passing through the

page_text: garment may be clenched or turned over either on the inside of the garment or on
or within the rim or head A with or without the use of the washer D, all arranged
and combined in the manner and for the purposes herein before described and
illustrated.
Dated this Thirtieth day of October 1895