IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BUTTONS AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Dec., 1886.
Complete Left, 17th Sept., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 21st Oct., 1887.
I ALFRED BULLOWS of Long Street Walsall in the County of Stafford Malleable
Iron Founder, do hereby declare the nature of my said invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BUTTONS AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES to be as
follows:-
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My invention relates to the manufacture of buttons and other similar articles
having a metal shank or loop for attachment, and consists in producing them in the
following manner.
I make casting patterns of any desirable shape for the body of the button or like
article and of any suitable number to fill up the bottom half of an ordinary sand
casting mould. In the centre or other part of each pattern, I form a hole or recess, or
holes or recesses, into which I place the ends of the shank or loop-I then place the
top half the mould frame on the bottom half, and fill up with sand which encompasses
the necks or loops of the shanks projecting from the patterns-The top half of the
mould frame is then removed, and the necks or loops of the shanks, being imbedded
in the sand the shanks are withdrawn from the patterns of the buttons or like articles
in the bottom half of the mould, which patterns are then removed from the sand.
The top half of the mould frame with the shanks in the sand, being placed again on
the bottom half, molten iron or other metal is run or poured into the mould in the
usual way of casting the metal running into the recesses formed by the patterns and
around the projecting part of the shanks, firmly securing them and producing the
buttons or other like articles and shanks in a very expeditious and economical
manner. The buttons or like articles after removal from the sand may be shook in a
barrel, japanned and ornamented in any suitable manner.
Dated the 6th day of December 1886.
G. F. REDFERN,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in the Manufacture of Buttons and similar Articles.
I, ALFRED BULLOWS, of Long Street, Walsall, in the county of Stafford, Malleable
Iron Founder, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what inanner
the same is to be performed-to-be-particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:-
My invention relates to the manufacture of buttons and other similar articles
having a metal shank or loop for attachment and consists in producing them in the
following manner.
I make a number of casting patterns of the shape which it is desired to give to the
body of the button or like article and place the same at convenient distances apart in
the bottom half of an ordinary sand casting mould. In the centre or other part of
each pattern I form a holo or recess, or holes or recesses into which I place the ends
of the shanks or loops of the buttons to be formed. I then place the top half of the
mould frame on the hottom half and fill up with sand which surrounds the necks or
loops of the shanks projecting from the patterns. The top half of the mould frame is
then removed and the necks or loops of the shanks being imbedded in the sand, the
shanks are withdrawn from the patterns of the buttons or like articles in the bottom
half of the mould and the palierns are then removed from the sand. The top half of
the mould frame with the shanks in the sand is then again placed on the bottom half
and molten iron or other suitablo metal is run or poured into the mould in the usual
way when casting; the metal runs into the recesses formed by the patterns, and
around the projecting parts of the shanks thereby firmly securing them to the bodies
and producing buttons or other like articles in a very expeditious and economical
manner. The buttons or like articles after removal from the sand may be shaken in
a barrel, japanned and ornamented in any suitable manner.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is :-
The method of manufacturing buttons and other similar articles substantially as
herein set forth.