Improvements in Buttons, and in Attaching Buttons to Garments and other Articles Without Sewing.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 16th May, 1895
Complete Specification Left, 1st Feb., 1896-Accepted, 7th Mar., 1896
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Buttons, and in Attaching Buttons to Garments
and other Articles Without Sewing.
I SIDNEY MIDDLETON TAYLOR of Holly Cottage, Wylde Green, Sutton
Coldfield in the County of Warwick Manager do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
My invention has reference to those kinds of buttons to be attached to garments
and other articles without sewing, which consist of a front disc or button proper
commonly called the top and a back part or stud composed of a disc and shank, the
button proper or top being secured to the outer end of the shank of the back part
or stud by screwing; and my said invention consists of the improvements herein-
after described in buttons of this class and in attaching them to the garment or
article without sewing.
By my improvements the attached tops or buttons proper are not rigidly
connected to their shanks but are capable of movement thereon somewhat similar
to that of buttons attached by thread or flexible shanks. My improved. buttons
also possess the further advantage that they can be readily attached to the garment
or article and when attached are not liable to disconnection. My improvements are
specially applicable to metal trouser buttons and I will describe them as applied to
such buttons, but they may also be applied to covered buttons.
In carrying my invention into effect I take an ordinary solid or single disc
trouser button or top and make at the centre of its base or cup, a circular hole
which is screwed with a concave screw thread. With this front or top of the button
I use a stud the rigid shank of which is of considerably less diameter than the
screwed hole in the button.proper or top, and I form on the outer end of the said
shank a screwed head or enlargement which may either be cylindrical through its
whole length or hemi-spherical at its termination, the base or shoulder of the said
head being at right angles to the shank and parallel with the disc of the stud. By
this construction of screwed head or screwed enlargement the liability to the
unscrewing of the front or top of the button is considerably reduced.
In place of making the body of the shauk of less diameter than the screwed hole
in the button proper or top, a groove or neck or a short depression adjacent to the
base of the screwed head may be employed.
In attaching the improved button to the garment or article without sewing
I proceed as follows;-A hole is pierced in the garment at the place where the
button is to be attached and the screwed head of the stud, passed from the inner
side of the material, is screwed through the said piercing, and the button proper or
top is then screwed on to the screwed protruding end of the shank in front of the
garment, until the screw of the button or top becomes disengaged from the screwed
head of the shank and passes on to the reduced part of the shank or into the groove
or neck or short depression adjacent to the screwed head of the shank. The buttou
proper or top is thus connected to the garment the flat base of the screwed head in
combination with the reduced shank or neck of the shank, reducing the liability to
the unscrewing of the button or top from the stud.. The button or top thus attached
to the garment is loose on the reduced shank or neck of the shank and possesses the
same freedom of movement as if it were attached to the garment by thread or a
flexible shank.

page_text: In order to facilitate the screwing of the screwed head of the stud through the
material of the garment or article, the said screwed head may be provided with a
gimlet point. In this case no piercing of the garment is necessary as the gimlet
point enables the screwed head to be screwed through the material.
When I combine a gimlet point with the screwed head of the stud, it is necessary
that the said gimlet point should be protected by the button proper or top. For this
purpose I make the button proper or top, hollow or of two metal shells joined
together at their edges, the screwed head of the shank and its gimlet point, after
the button proper or top has been passed on to the reduced shank or neck of the
shank, being within the interior of the hollow button proper or top, thus concealing
the screw and protecting its gimlet point.
In some cases the shank may be attached to the button and its screwed end take
into a concave screw in the back or disc.
Dated this Sixteenth day of May 1895.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE
SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Buttons, and in Attaching Buttons to Garments
and other Articles Without Sewing.
I, SIDNEY MIDDLETON TAYLOR, of Holly Cottage, Wylde Green, Sutton
Coldfield, in the County of Warwick, Manager, do hereby declare the nature of
my invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My invention has reference to those kinds of buttons to be attached to garments
and other articles without sewing which consist of a front disc or button proper,
commonly called the top and a back part or stud composed of a disc and shank, the
button proper or top being secured to the outer end of the shank of the back part
or stud by screwing; and my said invention consists of the improvements herein-
after described in buttons of this class and in attaching them to the garment or
article without sewing.
By my improvements the attached tops or buttons proper are not rigidly
connected to their shanks but are capable of movement thereon somewhat similar
to that of buttons attached by thread or flexible shanks. My improved buttons also
possess the further advantage that they can be readily attached to the garment or
article and when attached are not liable to disconnection. My improvements are
specially applicable to metal trouser buttons and I will describe them as applied to
such buttons but they may also be applied to covered buttons.
In carrying my invention into effect I take an ordinary solid or single disc
trouser button or top and make at the centre of its base or cup a circular hole which
is screwed with a concave screw thread. With this front or top of the button I use.
a stud the rigid shank of which is of considerably less diameter than the
screwed hole in the button proper or top and I form on the outer end of the
said shank a screwed head or enlargement which may either be cylindrical
through its whole length or hemispherical at its termination, the base or shoulder
of the said head being at right angles to the shank and parallel with the disc of the
stud. By this construction of screwed head or screwed enlargement, the liability
to the unscrewing of the front or top of the button is considerably reduced.
In place of making the body of the shank of less diameter thau the screwed hole
in the button proper or top, a groove or neck or a short depression adjacent to the
base of the screwed head may be employed.
In attaching the improved button to the garment or article without sewing
I proceed as follows;-
A hole may be pierced in the garment at the place where the button is to be

page_text: attached and the screwed head of the stud, passed from the inner side of the
material, is screwed through the material, and the button proper or top is then
screwed on to the screwed protruding end of the shank in front of the garment,
until the screw of the button or top becomes disengaged from the screwed head of
the shank and passes on to the reduced part of the shank or into the groove or neck
or short depression adjacent to the screwed head of the shank. The button proper
or top is thus connected to the garment, the flat base of the screwed head in
combination with the reduced shank or neck of the shank, reducing the liability to
the unscrewing of the button or top from the stud. The button or top thus
attached to the garment is loose on the reduced shank or neck of the shank and
possesses the same freedom of movement as if it were attached to the garment by
thread or a flexible shank.
In order to facilitate the screwing of the screwed head of the stud through the
material of the garment or article, the said screwed head may be provided with a
gimlet point. In this case no piercing of the garment is necessary as the gimlet
point enables the screwed head to be screwed through the material. When I
combine a gimlet point with the screwed head of the stud, it is necessary that the
said gimlet point should be protected by the button proper or top. For this
purpose I make the button proper or top, hollow or of two metal shells joined
together at their edges, the screwed head of the shank and its gimlet point, after
the button proper or top has been passed on to the reduced shank, or neck of the
shank, being within the interior of the hollow button proper or top, thus concealing
the screw and protecting the gimlet point. A packing of textile fabric may also
be employed in the hollow button for the screwed head of the shank to pass into
for preventing the wearing of the thread of the screwed head.
In some cases the shank may be attached to the button and its screwed end take
into a concave screw in the back or disc.
In order that my invention may be the better understood I have represented in
the accompanying drawing my improved buttons drawn to a large scale.
Figure 1 represents in section, a solid or single sbell or disc trouser button and
its connecting back or stud constructed and attached according to my invention.
Figure 2 represents the said button in section and plan and Figure 3 represents
the connecting stud or back detached.
Figure 4 represents a modified connecting stud to be used with the button
Figure 2, or with the hollow button hereinafter described.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures of the
drawing.
a is the solid single disc metallic trouser button having a cup 6 in the base of
which is a screwed hole or screw box c; d, d², d³ is the connecting stud or back of
the button, & being the disc or head of the stud, its shank and d³ the screwed
head of the said shank. The screwed head ds of the shank has a gimlet point the
body part of the said head having a size proper to screw into the screwed hole c in
the back of the top or button proper a. It will be seen that the shank d of the
stud is of considerably less diameter than the screwed hole c'in the top or 'button
proper a and that the base or shoulder of the screwed head is at right angles to the
shank and parallel with the disc d of the stud.
In the modified stud Figure 4, a groove or neck d' adjoins the screwed head'da
in place of making the whole of the shank of the same diameter as before
described.
To attach the button to the trousers or garment e the screwed head d³ of the
stud d is placed against the inner side of the.material e and rotated, and by means
of its gimlet point the screwed head is screwed through the said material until
it protrudes from the front of the garment as illustrated in Figure 1. The
button proper or top Figure 2 is next screwed by its screwed hole c onto the
protruding screwed head d³ of the stud until the screw of the button becomes
disengaged from the said screwed head and passes onto the reduced shank d³
or into the neck of the shank Figure 4 and under the square shoulder..of

page_text: the screwed head. When the button or top has been screwed home, the gimlet
point of the screwed head lies in and is protected by the cup b. The button proper
or top is in this way connected to the garment without sewing. As the button or
top is loose on the reduced shank d³, or neck d' of the shank, it possesses the same
freedom of movement as a thread or flexible shanked attached button.
The screwed head of the shank may have a mushroom shape instead of having a
gimlet point. In this case a hole is made in the garment for the screwed head to
pass through.
"
Figure represents a hollow metal trouser button or top with its connecting
back part or stud constructed and attached to the trousers or garment according
to my invention; Figure 6 represents the button proper or top in side elevation and
plan and Figure 7 represents in section the button proper or top together with a
portion of the garment and the connecting stud before the parts are connected
together is the hollow button or top made of two metal shells joined together at
their edges, the back of the hollow button f being provided with the screwed hole c
for the gimlet pointed screwed head d³ of the stud to engage with and pass through.
Between the two shells of the button proper or top fis a centrally perforated metal
disc g constituting a diaphragm or division by which the hollow button is divided
into two parts. One of the said divisions is filled with textile or other flexible
material or fabric marked h. Through this packing of flexible material the gimlet
pointed screwed head d³ of the stud is passed for the purpose of reducing the liability
of the screw thread of the head becoming worn by frictional contact with the back
part of the hollow button. In order to permit the shank of the stud to pass
through the textile packing h in the button the shank of the stud used with this
button is made longer than that of the stud used with the single shell button.
In attaching the hollow button f Figures 6 and 7 to the trousers or garmente the
screwed head of the stud or back part is screwed by its gimiet point through the
material of the garment e from the inner to the outer side thereof and on
the projecting screwed head of the stud at the front of the garment, the hollow
button is screwed. After the screwed hole c at the back of the button has passed
over the gimlet pointed screwed head d³ of the stud, the said gimlet pointed screwed
head commences to penetrate and screw itself through the textile packing fabric or
material in the button and when the screwed head has completely passed through
the said packing as illustrated in Figure 5, the button is attached to the garment.
The gimlet point of the screwed head is protected by the hollow button and the
packing so isolates the screwed head from the back of the button as to prevent its
thread being worn by frictional contact with the back of the button as well as
increases the safety of the fastened button.
Buttons attached in this way possess the flexibility or freedom of movement
common to buttons attached by thread or flexible shanks.
:
My improvements may be applied to covered buttons as well as to metal trouser
buttons and other like metal buttons.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and in what manner. the same is to be performed I declare that I claim
as my invention of "Improvements in buttons and in attaching buttons to garments
and other articles without sewing":-
First. The combination with the button proper or top having a screwed hole or
screw box at its middle, of a back part or stud the shank of which has at its
'outer end a screwed head of the kinds described and illustrated, for passing or
screwing through the material of the garment or article and for taking into and
passing through the screwed hole in the button proper or top, the shank of the
stud baving a less diameter or having a neck or groove under the screwed head
of less diameter, than the screwed hole in the button proper or top so that after
the screwed hole of the button proper or top has become disengaged from the
"screwed head, in the act of attaching the button, the said button-passes on to
the reduced shank, or neck of the shank, and the attached button possesses.

page_text: practically the same freedom of movement as a thread or flexible shanked attachel
button substantially as herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawing.
Secondly. The use with attaching studs or backs of the kind claimed in the prior
claim, of a hollow button or top screwed at back and having in its interior a packing
of textile fabric or other like material through which the gimlet pointed screwed
head of the stud screws in the act of attaching the button proper or top for the
purpose and substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accom-
panying drawing.
Dated the Twenty-eighth day of January 1896.
SIDNEY MIDDLETON TAYLOR.