Improvements in Studs, Solitaires, and Buttons.
Year: 1897

page_text: Improvements in Studs, Solitaires, and Buttons.
I, JOHN COOPER, Jeweller, of 66, Warston Lane, Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists of an improved fastenment suitable for use in fastening
together shirt-fronts and other wearing apparel of both sexes, also suitable for use
in large sizes as fastenments for shirt-cuffs and for other purposes.
In carrying out my invention I provide a bottom-plate carrying a stem or pillar,
over the stem I pass a spiral spring and over the stem I also pass a thin disc made
from metal or other suitable material the disc covering and taking a bearing on the
spring, the spring may be secured to the bottom-plate or to the spring-disc or to
both the bottom-plate and the spring-disc, or the spring may be simply threaded
over the stem or pillar.
I next provide the outer fastening-stud and hinge it to the upper end of stem in
a similar or equivalent manner to that in which a table-top is hinged to a table
pillar to move into a vertical unusable position.
In using my improved fastenment the top would be moved on its hinge joint into
a vertical position and passed through the back button-hole of the fabric to be
fastened and out through the front button-hole after which the outer fastening.
stud would be moved into an horizontal position and when in such fastened position
the action. of the spring between the back-plate and the spring-disc would press
the two thicknesses of fabric together and secure the stud over the shirt-front,
shirt-cuff, shirt-collar or over any other parts of any garment secured together by
means of my improved fastenment.
Instead of providing a fastening-stud as the only outer fastenment one essential
part of my invention consists in providing a separate movable extra ornament
consisting of a disc of any suitable design made from any suitable material, such
separate disc being provided with a central longitudinal slit through which to pass
the hinged top of fastenment so that the hinged head of improved fastenment after
passing through both layers, or through all the layers of the fabric to be fastened
could be also passed through the central slit in any plain or ornamental disc and
then moved into the horizontal position on such separate moveable outer disc.
By the use of the spring as hereinbefore described a close, tight, neat connection
can be made of the improved fastenment in a shirt-front or any part of any garment
worn by either sex, and by the utilization of the new and separate outer slotted
ornamental dises an entirely new system of fastenments is produced which can be
formed in an endless variety of patterns or configurations; a person provided with
one set of shirt fastenments could he also provided with different sets of separate
ornamental outer discs and so be enabled to present different coloured ornamental
shirt-studs to view to suit different coloured shirts or to suit different occasions
when the shirts were worn, either for business wear in the day time or for dinner or
evening wear, in a like manner ladies can by the use of my improved fastenments
secure a variety of changes in the exhibited parts of their wearing apparel fasten-

page_text: ments; my improved fastenments are suitable for use in place of the ordinary
button-holes and buttons that fasten the dresses of women and children.
Dated this 17th day of June 1897
ALFRED WILLIAM TURNER.
Cobden Buildings, Corporation Street, Birmingham,
Agent for the Applicant.
Improvements in iStuds, Solitaires; and Buttons.
I, JOHN COOPER, Jeweller, of 66, Warston Lane, Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, 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 consists of an improved stud or fastenment suitable for use in
fastening together shirt fronts and other wearing apparel of both sexes, also suitable
for use in large sizes as fastenments for shirt cuffs and for other purposes.
I will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying drawings the
manner in which my invention is constructed and used, similar letters refer to
similar parts throughout the several views.
Figure 1 represents an elevation shewing the spring-disc pressed down, collaps
ing the pyramídical spiral spring ready to turn the outer fastening-stud into a vertical
position suitable to enter button-holes of fabric.
Figure 2 represents an elevation of improved fastenment turned round within a
quarter circle from the position shewn at Figure 1 with the outer fastening-stud
passed through button-holes of fabric and closed over such fabric.
Figure 3 represents a plan of spring-disc shewing the slot provided to clip the
lower edge of outer oscillating fastening-stud.
Figure 4 represents a sectional elevation of improved fastenment shewing the
outer oscillating fastening-stud turned from the horizontal position and clipped
within the slot of spring-disc.
Figure 5 represents a sectional elevation of Figure 2 excepting the addition of the
movable ornamental extra disc.
Figure 6 represents a plan of the moveable ornamental extra disc.
In carrying out my invention I provide a bottom-plate a carrying a pillar b, the
bottom-plate may be of longitudinal, oval, round, or any other suitable horizontal
shape; over the pillar b I pass a spiral-spring c and it will be observed that such
spiral-spring is of a conical vertical section which permits the volutes of such spiral-
spring to collapse within each other so that the bottom-plate a and the spring-disc d
can be brought close together to facilitate the oscillating of the outer fastening-stud
into the vertical position; over the pillar I pass the spring-disc d which is made
from metal or from other suitable material, the spring c is situated between the
bottom-plate a and the top-plate or spring-disc d and such spring c may be secured)
to the bottom-plate a or to the upper-plate b, or to both of such plates, or the
spring c may be simply threaded over the stem or pillar b.
I next provide the outer oscillateing fastening-stud e and hinge it to the upper end
of pillar ỗ in a similar or equivalent manner to that in which a table top is hinged
to a table pillar; the spring-disc d as shewn in detail at Figure 3 is provided with
a slot f to receive the edge of oscillating fastening-stud e and to grip it during the
time the upper edge g is passed through the button-holes of fabric.
In using my improved fastenment the fastening-stud e would be moved on its
hinge-joint into a vertical or angular position as shewn at Figure 4 and passed
through the back button-hole of the fabric and thence outwards through the first
button-hole, after which such fastening-stud e would be moved into a horizontal

page_text: fastened position and when in such position the action of the spring e between the
back-plate a and the spring-disc d would press the two or more thicknesses of fabric
together as shewn at Figure 2, and secure the stud e over the shirt-front, shirt-cuff,
shirt-collar, or over any parts of any garment secured together by means of my
improved fastenment.
Instead of providing a fastening-stud e as the only outer fastenment, one essential
part of my invention consists in providing a separate moveable ornamental disc,
as shewn in plan at Figure 6, or of any other suitable design; such separate move-
able disc being in each case provided with a central longitudinal slit k through
which to pass the fastening-stud e, so that the stud e, after passing through both
layers or all the layers of the fabric to be fastened could be also passed through
the central slit in any ornamental disc and then moved into the horizontal position
on such separate moveable ornamental outer disc.
By the use of the conical spring as herein before described, a close tight and neat
connection can be made of studs in a shirt-front, or on any part of any garment
worn by either sex, and by the utilization of the new and separate, outer, slotted
ornamental dises, an entirely new system of fastenment is produced which can be
formed in an endless variety of pattern or configuration, a person being provided
with one set of shirt fastenments could be also provided with different sets of
separate ornamental outer discs and so be enabled to present different ornamental
shirt-studs to view to suit different coloured shirts or to suit different occasions when
the shirts were worn, either for business transactions in the day or for dinner
parties or evening parties, in a like manner the ladies can by the use of my improved
fastenments secure a variety of changes in the exhibited parts of their wearing-
apparel fastenments, my improved fastenments being suitable for use in place of
the ordinary button-holes and buttons that fasten the dresses of women and
children.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
1st. A stud, solitaire, or button fastenment, made by the combination of a bottom-
plate a with a pillar b a conical-spring c and a spring-disc d, in conjunction with
an hinged fastening-stud e taking on its lower edge into a slot f provided in the
spring-disc d to support the fastening-stud e in a vertical or angular position suit-
able to pass through the layers of fabric to be fastened, as illustrated and described
in relation to Figures 1 2 3 4 and 5.
2nd. In a stud solitaire or button fastenment, the utilization of a separate remove-
able disc of any desired configuration secured to the fastenment by passing the
fastening stud through the slot k of removable disc as illustrated and described
in relation to Figures 5 and 6.
100x
Dated this 18th day of September
Witness:
ALFRED WILLIAM TURNER,
Patent Agent,
67, Corporation Street, Birmingham.
JOHN COOPER.