Improvements in Button-fasteners.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 27th May, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 25th Feb., 1896-Accepted, 28th Mar., 1896
Improvements in Button-fasteners.
I, EDWIN JAMES BRITTAIN of 25 Snow Hill, Birmingham in the County of
Warwick, Tool Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be.as
follows:-
My invention relates to a new or improved method of, and means for fastening
upon leather, and other stout material, any and every kind of button having a loop
or ring-shaped shank, and has for its object to provide facilities for quickly and
easily fixing such buttons in position without the aid of stitching, and as easily and
quickly removed therefrom when required.
My invention consists of a wire, made of any suitable metal or material, and so
bent or otherwise formed as to be easily passed through the eye or loop of the
shauk of the button, after this has been passed through the substance of the boot,
or other article upon which the button is to be fixed, and when so passed, the ends
of the said wire are so formed as to enter the substance of the material and engage
therewith, the tenacity of which improves if force in the form of a pull be imparted
to the head of the button.
It is my intention that my said invention shall be commercially known as "The
Gripp Button Fastener."
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GEO. THOS. HYDE,
1 Broad Street Buildings, Liverpool Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.
Improvements in DOM
I, EDWIN JAMES BRITTAIN of 25 Snow Hill, Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick Tool Maker 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 :-
My invention relates to a new or improved method of, and means for fastening
upon leather, cloth and other stout material, any and every kind of button having a
fixed or pivotted loop, eye, or ring shaped shank, and has for its object to provide
facilities for quickly and easily fixing such buttons in position without the aid of
stitching, and as easily and quickly removing them therefrom when required, and
my said invention will be found particularly adapted for use in connection with the
uniforms of policemen, soldiers firemen and the like, and the clothing of other
persons, especially such as are washable, or capable of being otherwise cleaned, to
effect which it is desirable that the buttons thereon shall be removed for such
purposes.
In order that my invention and the manner of employing the same may be fully
understood, I have hereunto appended a sheet of drawings of which
Fig. 1 is a general view of an ordinary button having a fixed loop, eye or ring

page_text: Fig. 2 is a side view top view and perspective view respectively of the locking
wire, substantially as I prefer to form this and by which I effect the fixation of a
button such as Fig. 1.
Figs. 3, 4, and 5 are views illustrating different stages during the said fixation as
hereinafter explained.
For the purposes of my invention I provide a wire Fig. 2 made of any suitable
metal, which I bend or curve so as to form a loop a with the two ends b bent at
right angles or thereabouts to the said loop both in the same plane, but in opposite
directions from the loop a the said ends being preferably flattened, and thereby
gradually extended in width, from a towards their extremities, their points or
extreme ends cc' being then turned up parallel or thereabouts with the said loop a.
To fix such buttons, a hole would be first made in the boot, coat or other garment,
or in the leather, cloth or other fabric or fabrics d, wherever a button such
asf Fig. 1 is to be fixed, and through the said hole the shanke off would be passed
so as to slightly extend at the opposite or inner side of d, when the end of the
wire would be first passed through e in the manner shewn at Fig. 3, until the loop a
abuts against e, when by giving one halt turn to the wire in a right handed direction,
the loop a would easily engage with e, with its upturned sharp ends c c pointing
towards the fabric d, as at Fig. 4. If now the ends 6 and 61, and the fabric d be
nipped together by a pair of pincers or the like or where this may not be convenient
if pressure from any source be imparted to in the direction of d, the points c c¹
would enter the fabric as at Fig 5, and so hold the wire and button f'in position,
and it is obvious that the greater the pull upon f the greater would be the hold
afforded by the wire, thus providing that the uses of the button would tend to
enhance the tenacity of its fixation rather than otherwise.
I wish it understood that this method of and means for fixing button in position
applies equally to any and every kind of button having a fixed or pivotted shank in
the form of an eye ring or loop such as e, and it is my intention that my said
invention shall be commercially known as the "The Gripp Button-fastener."
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 :-
1st. The herein described method of fixing and securing any and every kind of
button, having a shank in the form of a loop, eye or ring, by the means of a
suitably bent wire, engaging with the said shank, and the fabric or material upon
which the said button is fixed substantially as herein described and shewn.
2nd. In the fixation of buttons, the combination with a button such as f, having a
shank such as e, of a wire bent or curved to form a loop such as a and ends such
as with turned up points such as cc', substantially as herein described and
shewn.
Dated this 25th day of February 1896.
GEO. THOS. HYDE,
1 Broad Street Buildings, Liverpool Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for Applicant.