IMPROVEMENTS IN COVERED OR PARTLY COVERED BUTTONS
Year: 1885

page_text: I GEORGE LITTLETON ASTON of the firm of John Aston & Company Button
Manufacturer Eagle Button Works, Summer Hill, Birmingham in the County of
Warwick, do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
COVERED OR PARTLY COVERED BUTTONS" and in what manner the same is to
be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
1.
This invention has for its object "Improvements in covered or partly Cover d
Buttons" which will be more durable and easier to manipulate when sewn upc
garments than those now in use besides effectively protecting the thread whic
fastens them during the process of mangling or ironing. There is also less strain
brought upon that part of the garment whereon the button is sewn besides being
much easier to the wearer. Flexibility is one of the great objects of this invention.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood and more easily carried
into practice I have appended hereunto a sheet of drawings upon which is illustrated
the several parts of a button constructed according to my invention which will
serve to explain the construction. Of course certain parts may be modified or the
material modified or changed somewhat without departing from the principle
hereinafter explained.
Figure 1 is a plan and Figure 2. is a cross section of the front sheet or metallic
shell before being covered.
Figure 3 is a plan and Figure 4 is a cross section of the back ring plate or disc.
Figure 5 is the cover for the face or front shown by Figures 1 and 2.
Figure 6 is the cover for the back plate or disc when the back is covered which
however is not always the case.
Figure 7. is a plan and Figure 8 is a cross section of the part by which the
button is secured to the garment and is shown with a tuft or shank formed
therefrom.
Figure 9. is the front shell Figure 1 and 2 united and eyeletted to the covering
shown by Figure 5.
Figure 10. is the back ring or disc either simply turned back around the edge of
the centre hole or eyeletted to the cover Figure 6 the views being practically the
same so far as the drawing is concerned in either cases.
Figure 11. is a cross section of a completed button with the parts all brought
together.
Figure 12. is a plan on the face of the button.
Figure 13. is a plan on the back of the button.
Figure 14. is an elevation or view of the edge of the button when completed.
The front part of the button consists of a shell or disc of mental having a hole a
at the centre and it is covered with linen or other suitable material which is also
provided with a hole to correspond with the metal disc. In some cases the edge
of the metal around the hole is turned upwards as shown at Figure 2 so as to
form an eyelet over the cloth as seen at Figure 9 but the reverse may be the case

page_text: i.e the cloth turned around the edge or bend of the metal finishing inside the body
of the button but in all cases the hole is formed through both the metal and the
covering.
The back of the button Figures 3 and 4 is formed either by a plain plate have
a hole b which may be either eyel-tted over a linen or other covering or the plate
may be left with the metal face exposed at the back. In this case also the edge of
the linen or other material may be turned inside instead of the eyelot outside.
The centre part is formed of strong linen or other strong suitable material which
is indented and depressed through the hole b of the under plate in making the
button either in the finishing operation or in a preliminary stage but by preference
at the finishing operation. This projection or tuft e Figure 8 is seen in the finished
button Figure 14 and also in the section Figure 11 where the various parts are
shown brought together in diagram from which when pressed produce the button
shown by Figure 12 13 and 14. The thread for securing the button to the
garment is passed through the tufte which thus forms a shank which is sufficiently
flexible to allow all the freedom necessary as well as due protection to the thread
and shank when passing through a mangle. It will of course be evident that the
middle part Figure 8 would form a good medium for securing the button without
any depression such as that shown by c because the hole in the back plate or
part Figure 3 and permits the middle portion to be drawn down. with ease as
there is not in my buttons any back medium at all through which the thread
passes and this is the case whether the shank c is formed or not. The tuft or
shank or centre part is thus formed and firmly secured by being placed between
the front shell and back plate before mentioned and is securly fastened at its
periphery by the edge of the front shell being closed over this binding the parts
most securely together into one complete whole as seen at Figures 12, 13 and 14.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
First. The improvements in buttons of a front shell covered with linen or other
similar material having a hole a either eyeletted outside or turned under and
covered completely by the linen and a back plate having a hole b without a
covering in combination with an intermediate part of strong material formed into
a tuft or shank c by which the button is secured to the garment substantially as
herein set forth and illustrated.
Second. The improvements in buttons of a front shell covered with linen or
other similar material having a hole a either eyeletted outside or turned under
and covered completely by the linen and a back plate either exposed or covered
with the hole b in combination with the middle division without a tuft or
projection c substantially as herein set forth.
Third. The improvements in buttons of a front shell covered with linen or other
similar material having a hole a either eyeletted outside or turned under and covered
completely by the linen and a back plate with the hole b also covered with linen
or other similar material which is either eyeletted outside or turned under inside
to completely cover the plate in combination with a centre of strong linen or other
material formed into a tuft, or shank c substantially as herein set forth.
GEORGE BARKER,
Agent for the Applicant,
77, Colmore Row, Birmingham.