IMPROVEMENTS IN BUTTONS
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Weintraud and Richard James Secundus
Joyce, of No. 18, Aldermanbury, in the City of London, Manu-
facturers, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN BUTTONS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick Weintraud
and Richard James Secundus Joyce at the Office of the Com-
missioners of Patents, with their Petition, on the 7th July
1875.
We, FREDERICK WEINTRAUD and RICHARD JAMES SECUNDUS JOYCE,
of No. 18, Aldermanbury, in the City of London, Manufacturers, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
BUTTONS," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to improvements in what are known as faced or
cloth fronted buttons, and also to other solid fronted buttons, the object
being to enable them to be secured to garments in a more casy manner,
and without risk of the "puff" being pulled out of the button body

page_text: from excessive strains, as is the case with buttons having cloth or linen
puffs at the back.
Our Invention consists of a combination of a cloth faced or a solid
front disc with a metallic back disc, the latter having a raised or bulgey
central part, in which holes are formed, and through which the needle
and thread can pass sideways for the sewing-on operation.
Buttons made according to our Invention are less liable to be torn
away from a garment, they lie flatter to the garment than ordinary
"shanked buttons," they are also stronger and more durable than the
faced buttons generally used for coats, and other outside garments, for
which our improved buttons are chiefly intended.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Frederick Weintraud and Richard James Secundus
Joyce in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 7th January
1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, FREDERICK
WEINTRAUD and RICHARD JAMES SECUNDUS JOYCE, of No. 18, Alder-
manbury, in the City of London, Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-fivo, in the thirty-
ninth year of Пer reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto us, the said Frederick Weintraud and Richard James
Secundus Joyce, Her special licence, that we, the said Frederick Weint-
raud and Richard James Secundus Joyce, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as we, the said Frederick Weintraud and
Richard James Secundus Joyce, our executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time
and at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BUTTONS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that we, the said Frederick Weintraud and Richard James

page_text: Secundus Joyce, or one of us, our executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under our, or one of our, or their or one of their
hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature
of the said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be per-
formed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Offico
within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Frederick Weintraud and Richard
James Sccundus Joyce, do hereby declare the nature of our said In-
vention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be parti-
cularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement
thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention relates to improvements in what are known as faced
or cloth fronted buttons, and also to other solid fronted buttons, viz.,
silk, cloth, metal, glass, and all kinds of fancy buttons, the object being to
enable them by means of a new and peculiarly shaped shank to be secured
to garments in a more easy manner, and without risk of the shank being
pulled out of the button body from excessive strains, as is the case with
buttons having cloth or linen puffs or metal shanks at the back, and to
enable the button to lio flatter to the garment.
Our Invention consists of a combination of a cloth faced or solid front
disc with a metallic back disc, the latter having affixed to it a raised
or bulgy central part, in which holes are formed, and through which
the needle and thread can pass sideways for the sewing-on operation.
Figures 1 and 2 represent a side view and interior view respectively of
our improved button; Figure 3 is a separate view of the new shank
piece before and after the legs are turned up, and the tips pressed down,
to make a shank, as in Figure 2, to hold it in position. The cup or
bulge of this acts as a metallic central piece or shank for the attachment
to a garment.
Our new shank can be applied, very usefully to glass or composition
buttons without any covering.
Buttons made according to our Invention are less liable to be torn
away from a garment, they lie flatter to the garment than ordinary
"shanked" buttons, they are also stronger and more durable than
buttons generally used for outside clothing.
,

page_text: Having now described the nature of our said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, we declare that we claim, making
cloth faced or solid fronted buttons, viz., silk, cloth, metal, glass, and all
kinds of fancy buttons with affixable, raised, or bulgey central back
piece, with holes through the side portion of such raised or bulgy
part as described and shown in the Drawings, and for the purposes set
forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick Weintraud, for myself
and on behalf of the said Richard James Secundus Joyce, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Seventh day of January, 1
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.