An Improved Button Fastener.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Dec., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Sept., 1891-Accepted, 24th Oct., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Button Fastener.
We, WILLIAM BEVERLEY of 2 Victoria Buildings, Westfield, in the City and
County of Aberdeen, Scotland Gentleman, and MARY HANNAH EDWARDS of
30 Carrs Lane, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, England, Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention which relates to an improved button fastener cousists in the
employment of a small thin flexible metal strip or plate with preferably four
perforations or holes. The said plate is bent into a circle in its centre part leaving
the ends of plate projecting in the form of lips; in this shape the small holes or
perforations run parallel with each other and through these holes a bent wire or
Ushaped staple with sharpened points is passed or threaded.
The mode of attachment is as follows:
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Put the wire staple or pin through the two holes in the button, then pierce the
trouser band or other cloth with it. When the points of staple have penetrated
the cloth, guide the points of the staple through the two holes on each side of the
bent plate, then with the fingers pressing on the button open with the thumb nails
the lips of the bent plate and press the bent plate and the wire staple within it
quite flat.
Dated this 24th day of December 1890
JOHNSONS,
115, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Petitioners' Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Button Fastener.
We, WILLIAM BEVERLEY, of 2 Victoria Buildings, Westfield, in the City and
County of Aberdeen, North Britain, Gentleman, and MARY HANNAH EDWARDS,
of 30 Carrs Lane, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturer, 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 which relates to an improved button fastener, has for its object
to provide a fastener which can be readily and easily applied without any tool or
piercer, the said fastener being specially applicable for trouser brace buttons.
In carrying out our said invention we employ a thin flexible metal strip or
plate A, Figures 1 and 14 of the accompanying drawings which is provided with
holes a and is first stamped or otherwise bent to the shape with lips a' as shown in
Figures 2 and 24 after which it is nearly closed as shown in Figures 3 and 34; in
this shape the holes a run parallel with each other so as to permit of a bent wire
or Ushaped staple B, Figure 4, having sharp points, being passed through.
The mode of attachment, as will be seen from Figures 5, 54, 6 and 64, is as
follows:-
The staple B is put through two holes in the button C after which it is pierced
through the trouser band or other cloth D, with the button C on it. When the
points of the staple B have punctuated the cloth D, they are guided through the two
holes a, on each side of the plate A as in Figures 5 and 5*; then with the fingers
pressing on the button C, the lips a¹ of the plate A are opened out with the thumbs,
and the plate A with the staple B within it is pressed flat against the cloth D as
shown in Figures 6 and 64; the whole thus forming a button fastener which is

page_text: strong and easily attached, and which may be used in combination with a 2, 3 or
4 hole, self, metal, flexible or other kind of button or with a flexible, metal, or
other shanked button, in which caserthe staple B'would be passed through the
material of the flexible shank of a button or through the eye of the metal
shank of a button in lieu of through the holes of the button as illustrated in our
drawings.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim' is:
1st. The general arrangement and construction of fastener for trouser brace
buttons and other buttons, substantially as hereinbefore described and shown in the
accompanying drawings.
2nd: In button fasteners, the arrangement and construction of the metal plate A',
in combination with the staple B, all substantially in the manner as hereinbefore
described 'and' shown in the accompanying drawings.
JOHNSONS,
115; St. Vincent Street, Glasgow, Applicants' Agents: