An India-rubber Button for all kinds of Linen and other Garments or Goods that are usually Passed through the Wringing or Mangling Machine.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Dec., 1889
Complete Specification Left. 4th July, 1890-Accepted, 16th Aug., 1890
:
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.”.
An India-rubber Button for all kinds of Linen and other Garments
or Goods that are usually Passed through the Wringing or
Mangling Machine.
I CHARLES JOSEPH WINTER Draughtsman of 26 Albert Street Regent's Park N.W.
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention is an india-rubber button to be sewn on all kinds of under linen and
other garments or goods that are usually mangled or passed through the wringing or
mangling machine, and its use and advantage is its ability to stand the pressure
exercised by the said machines without permently bending, cracking or breaking.
It is moulded of good quality india-rubber of the various sizes used, and covered with
a white preparation of rubber to render it clean looking and suitable to be put on linen
garments.
Dated this 3rd day of December 1889.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An India-rubber Button for all kinds of Linen and other Garments
or Goods that are usually Passed through the Wringing or
Mangling Machine.
I, CHARLES JOSEPH WINTER, of 26 Albert Street, Regent's Park, London,
Draughtsman, 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 is designed to obviate the trouble and annoyance caused by the
frequent breaking or displacement of buttons on garments and articles of clothing
which are usually washed, and subsequently wrung, ironed, calendered or mangled.
It consists in forming the button of some soft and more or less elastic substance
which will withstand the action of hot water soap and other materials employed in the
washtub, and sustain pressure without fracture.
For this purpose I employ india-rubber or some composition containing an admixture
of rubber with other suitable substances.
For linen garments and like purposes where a white or nearly white button is
preferred I use a nearly white or light grey composition such as is used by india-
rubber manufacturers for many other purposes. For colored articles I use a darker
composition.
Should it be found necessary to prevent the thread cutting the rubber, a small wire
or wire gauze may he embedded in the rubber so as to form a bar or bars in the
centre aperture, to which the thread could be fastened. Or a thin metal disk could be
used to form a face or back for the button, and this disk could contain perforations to
receive the thread. The composition would be securely cemented or otherwise attached
to the metal disk. In this way a button could be obtained which would flatten
under the pressure of the mangle or flat-iron and would yield without becoming
fractured.

page_text: 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 :-
An india-rubber button having sufficient softness or elasticity to withstand pressure
without fracture, and with or without a metal disk or wires to ensure its being securely 5
fastened to a garment, as herein explained and set forth.
Dated this 4th dow of Inl.. 1900
S. S. BROMHEAD,
97, Newgate Street, London, E.C., Patent Agent.