An Improved Stud for Shirts, Cuffs, Collars, Gloves, and where a Stud can generally be Used.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Jan., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 16th May, 1895-Accepted, 13th July, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Stud for Shirts, Cuffs, Collars, Gloves, and where a
Stud can generally be Used.
CARL ALEXANDER 4 Aytoun Street Manchester Agent do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The button-part and stem is of the usual varied shape, size, material and style
as is comon to studs in general, but the top of the stem, instead of being formed
into the shape of a button is just a little fuller than in the centre and is pierced.
The hole, thus obtained, is according to size of the stud larger or smaller. Through
this hole I push a straight wire of any kind of metal, or a piece of wood or other
material, serving the same purpose. This wire works loosely in the hole. I then
take a ring of any kind of metal or material and fix it to both ends of the wire or
piece of wood or any other material, so that this wire, or piece of wood or any
other material, becomes part of the ring; & forms a bar right accross its centre.
By this arrangement, instead of the rigid head, the latter is substituted by a
ring, with a sliding and tilting motion, making buttoning a much easier task than
hitherto.
Dated this Seventeenth day of January 1895.
BIBUITICATION.
An Improved Stud for Shirts, Cuffs, Collars, Gloves, and where a
Stud can generally be Used.
I, CARL ALEXANDER, Agent, 4 Aytoun Street, Manchester, 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 relates to au improved stud or fastener for shirts, cuffs, collars,
gloves and the like and consists in the employment of a sliding or moveable head,
capable of becoming excentric to, or changing its position relative to, its shank or
connection, so as to admit of the same being more easily taken hold of consequent
upon it becoming for the time being, lop-sided, and when so held, the fastener is
easily passed through a button hole."
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Thus, according to one form of my invention, a fastener is made alike unto a
ring frame, diametrically crossed by a bar, loosely embraced by the loop or eye of
a shank made fast at its other end to a glove or the like by any suitable means.
The cross bar of this circular frame passes loosely through the loop, tbus
admitting of the frame itself being shifted crosswise or laterally upon the shank
as a guide and stop. Such fastener may consist of an open frame with shank, or
same may be covered in at the front and have an open and barred back.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents a transverse section of such a
stud for shirts, gloves and like articles of dress.
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a is a cross-shifting ring-frame, or open head, crossed in the direction of its
diameter by a bar a', made rigid with the frame, which said bar passes through an
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page_text: eye or loop 6, of a shank or connection b, having at its other end b¹, a rigid or
other disc or back h³.
Figure 2 represents a part of an open or unfastened glove fitted with fasteners
made according to a modified form of my invention..
Figure 2ª represents a glove fastened by the said fasteners.
Figure 3 represents a topside plan of a fastener separately.
Figure 4 is a cross section of the same upon the dotted lines x-x.
Figure 5 is an edge view of Figure 3.
In Figures 1 to 5, a is a cross-shifting ring frame or open head, crossed in the
direction of its diameter by a bar a', made rigid with the frame, which said bar
passes through an eye or loop 63, of a shank or connection b, secured at its inner
end b, to a glove c, having button holes made in the material of the other side of
the slit in the cuff.
Assuming that the glove is required to be fastened, take hold of the open frame
or head of the inner fastener and pull the same forward, when its bar slides
through the eye b², of the shank b, and comes against the inside parts of the frame
as stops.
When the head is so drawn excentric to the shank and turned back and slightly
tilted, a large thumb and finger hold is presented and the same can then be readily
passed through the button hole.
When fastened, the stretch of the glove takes the eye of the shank to about a
central position upon the bar relative to the ring frame and to unfasten the glove
then take hold of the near side edge of the said frame and draw it forward until
the same is stopped by the eye of the shank. A large thumb and finger hold is
then presented and the said frame, which is flexibly connected, is taken back
through the button hole, as represented by the inner fastener at Figure 2.
Figure 6 represents a modified form of fastener, with the cross bars of the frames
directed at right angles to the direction of the bars described in the preceding part
of my invention.
Figure 7 represents a covered or boxed fastener constructed according to a
further form of my improvements. The outer fastener is shown in back elevation,
so as to exhibit the means of connection and the bar at its back.
Figure 8 is a back elevation of the fastener separately, and Figure 9 is cross
section of the same upon the dotted line A.
Fasteners constructed and mounted according to my invention admit of shifting
or sliding upon their shank or connection and also of being pulled up and readily
taken hold of and gripped by the thumb and fingers and turned obliquely jointwise
upon its end and upon the shank or connection as a fulcrum.
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 :-
First. A fastener for gloves and like articles, consisting of a cross-shifting
head, frame or ring frame, crossed by a bar or equivalent taking through, and
sliding loosely within, an eye of, or the end of, a shank, substantially as and for the
purpose described and set forth.
Secondly. The improvements in fasteners for gloves and the like, substantially
as described and set forth.
A
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CARL ALEXANDER,
By Henry Skerrett,
24 Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.