A New or Improved Device for use when Buttoning or Fastening Corsets, Boots, and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 13th May, 1898
Complete Specification Left, 13th Feb., 1899-Accepted, 18th Mar., 1899
PROVISIONAL
SPECIFICATION,
A New or Improved Device for use when Buttoning or Fastening
Corsets, Boots, and the like.
I, MARGARET JANE HOPKINS, Bute Cottage, Miskin Village, Pontyclun, Gla-
morgan, Spinster, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention consists of a new or improved device for buttoning corsets,
boots, and the like, the object being to provide a device by means of which but-
tons or fastenings, and button holes or openings of corsets boots and the like,
may be readily brought into position for engaging with each other without the
necessity of employing ordinary button hooks. For purposes of illustration I will
now describe my invention as applied to a corset or boot.
I provide a plate or support having a slot or opening at, one end. This plate
or support carries a rod or bar, one end of which is adapted to engage with or
grip the button hole or opening, the other end being movably attached to a
thumb piece or lever pivotally carried upon the plate or support.
A projection is provided upon the plate or support between the gripping end
of the rod or bar and the pivoted thumb piece or lever, which is of such a height
that when the end of the bar or rod, which is adapted to engage with or grip
the button hole or opening, has performed its function, it is raised or moved so
as to be released from the button hole or opening after the button or fastener
has been passed through the button hole or opening. The operation is as follows.
The slotted end of the plate or support receives the button or fastener and the
end of the bar or rod which is adapted to engage with the button hole or opening
is caused to engage therewith. By operating the pivoted thumb piece, the button
hole or opening will be brought into position for the engagement of the button
or fastener, and owing to the movement of the bar or rod, and the action of the
projection aforesaid, the end of the bar or rod will be removed or released from
the button hole or opening.
A New or Improved Device for use when Buttoning or Fastening
Corsets, Boots, and the like.
I, MARGARET JANE HOPKINS, Bute Cottage, Miskin Village, Pontyclun, Gla-
what
morgan, Spinster, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement; -
This invention consists of a new or improved device for buttoning corsets,
boots, and the like, the object being to provide a device by means of which but-

page_text: tons or fastenings and button holes or openings of corsets, boots and the like may
be readily brought into position for engaging with each other without the neces-
sity of employing ordinary button hooks. For purposes of illustration I will
now describe describe my invention as applied to a corset or boot.
I provide a plate or support having a slot or opening at one end. This plate
or support carries a rod or bar, one end of which is adapted to engage with or
grip the button hole or opening, the other end being movably attached to a
thumb piece or lever pivotally carried upon the plate or support.
A projection is provided upon the plate or support between the gripping end
of the rod or bar and the pivoted thumb piece or lever which is of such a height,
that when the end of the bar or rod which is adapted to engage with or grip the
button hole or opening has performed its function, it is raised or moved, 80 18
to be released from the button hole or opening, after the button or fastener has
been passed through the button hole or opening. The operation is as follows.
The slotted end of the plate or support receives the button or fastener and the
end of the bar or rod which is adapted to engage with the button hole or open-
ing is caused to engage therewith. By operating the pivoted thumb piece the
button hole or opening will be brought into position for the engagement of the
button or fastener, and owing to the movement of the bar or rod and the action
of the projection aforesaid, the end of the bar or rod will be removed or released
from the button hole or opening.
Referring to the annexed drawings,
Figure 1. is a plan view of my invention.
Figure 2 side elevation of same.
a is the plate which is provided with the opening b. The rod c is pivotally
attached to the thumb pieced, which is in turn pivoted to the plate a at e. The
hooked end of the rod c is adapted to engage with the button hole or opening.
is a projection secured to the plate a; by placing the slotted end of the plate a
around the button or fastening, and then causing the hooked end f of the rod c,
to engage with the button hole, this may be brought over the button or fastening
which may then be passed through the said opening. By depressing the thumb
piece d against the plate a, the hooked end f, owing to the action of the projec-
tion 9 will be released from the button hole.
Although for purposes of illustration I have described an arrangement for
carrying out the object of my invention, it will be seen that there are various
modifications in the shape and arrangement of the various parts which may be
made without departing from the essence or substance of my invention.
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
1. The device for use when buttoning or fastening corsets boots and the like
substantially as described and illustrated herein and for the purpose set forth.
2. A new or improved device for use when buttoning or fastening corsets,
boots and the like; consisting of a plate or support having a slot or opening at
one end; a rod or bar, one end of which is adapted to hook into the opening or 4
button hole in the garment or the like, the other end being pivotally attached
to a thumb piece or lever which is in turn pivotally attached to the plate or
support a projection or ridge carried by said plate or support and arranged for
the purpose of causing the engaging end of the rod or bar to be withdrawn from
the opening or button hole when required.
Dated this 13th day of Februar 1900.
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