Improvements in or relating to Buttons.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Apr., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 6th Dec., 1892-Accepted, 7th Jan., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Buttons.
I, MARY FANNY GODFREY, of 1 Clifton Villas, Hampton Hill, in the County
of Middlesex, Spinster, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in or relating to buttons.
In carrying this invention into practical effect I provide two discs of metal or
other suitable material and connect them at their centres by a short cylinder of
lesser diameter. One of the said discs may be provided with loops or eyes upon its
periphery by means of which the device may be secured to the fabric or other
material which is to be fastened by the said device. The face of the said disc
which lies next the material may be roughened in order to afford a better grip
or hold.
In some cases I attach the device to the fabric by means of a separate disc which
is placed at the back of the fabric and riveted, bolted, or otherwise secured to one
of the discs of the device through the material. In this arrangement the central
cylindrical portion of the device may be tubular in order to receive a stud projecting
from the face of the disc placed behind the fabric the face of which disc may be
rougbened as and for the purpose herein before described.
As an additional means of securing the device, the stud projecting from the
aforesaid disc may extend right through the device and be riveted over the front
of the same.
It is obvious that screws, or other fastenings may be employed
instead of the riveted head herein before described. The central cylindrical portion
of the device may be plain or hollowed in form.
In connection with this button a loop or eye is employed and is attached to one
part of the garment or other article to be fastened while the hereinbefore described
device is attached to the other part. This loop preferably consists of a rod or bar
bent in the form of a five-sided figure such as would be formed by the addition of a
triangle to one of the sides of a square. The side lying between the two right
angles of this loop is secured to the fabric by any suitable means, the loop is then
passed over the button device described and the parts drawn apart so that the apex
of the triangular part of the loop lies round the central cylindrical part of the
button device.
In a modified arrangement the triangular part may be formed of two parts which
are normally held apart by springs so that they lie around the central cylindrical
part of the button device at or near its end. When a loop of this form is employed
prefer to thicken the edges of the discs of the button device on their inner sides.
It will
This may be done by attaching a ring of semi-circular section to the discs.
be seen that in drawing the loop towards the centre of the button device, the divided
portion of the triangular part of the loop will be brought together. This however
will separate by the action of the spring when it reaches the interior of the button
device and will there bear against the ends of the central cylindrical portion as
bereinbefore described.
It is obvious that the loop in this arrangement will not readily leave the
button device by reason of the expansion of the two parts of the same under the
action of the springs.
Dated this 7th day év
CASTLE SMITH,
"Invention Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Buttons.
I. MARY FANNY GODFREY, of 1 Clifton Villas, Hampton Hill, in the County
of Middlesex, Spinster, 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 improvements in or relating to buttons.
In carrying this invention into practical effect I provide two discs of metal or
other suitable material and connect them at their centres by a short cylinder of
lesser diameter. One of the said discs may be provided with loops or eyes upon its
periphery by means of which the device may be secured to the fabric or other
material which is to be fastened by the said device. The face of the said disc
which lies next the material may be roughened in order to afford a better grip
or hold.
In some cases I attach the device to the fabric by means of a separate disc which
is placed at the back of the fabric and riveted, bolted, or otherwise secured to one
of the discs of the device through the material. In this arrangement the central
cylindrical portion of the device may be tubular in order to receive a stud projecting
from the face of the disc placed behind the fabric the face of which disc may be
roughened as and for the purpose herein before described.
As an additional means of securing the device, the stud projecting from the
aforesaid disc may extend right through the device and be riveted over the front
of the same. It is obvious that screws, or other fastenings may be employed
instead of the riveted head hereinbefore described. The central cylindrical portion
of the device may be plain or hollowed in form.
In connection with this button, a loop or eye is employed and is attached to one
part of the garment or other article to be fastened while the hereinbefore described
device is attached to the other part. This loop preferably consists of a rod or bar
bent in the form of a five-sided figure such as would be formed by the addition of a
triangle to one of the sides of a square. The side lying between the two right
angles of this loop is secured to the fabric by any suitable means, the loop is then
passed over the button device described and the parts drawn apart so that the apex
of the triangular part of the loop lies round the central cylindrical part of the
button device.
In a modified arrangement the triangular part may be formed of two parts which
are normally held apart by springs so that they lie around the central cylindrical
part of the button device at or near its end. When a loop of this form is employed
1 prefer to thicken the edges of the discs of the button device on their inner sides.
This may be done by attaching a ring of semi-circular section to the discs.
And in order that my invention may be more fully understood and carried into
practice I will now proceed to describe the same with reference to the accompanying
sheet of drawings illustrative of the manner in which this invention may be carried
into practice.
As shewn in Figures 1, 2, 3, and 4, the device consists of two parts. One of these
is shewn at Figures 2 and 3, and consists of two discs of metal or other suitable
material a, b, connected by a tubular cylindrical part c, the disc b being provided
with a number of loops or eyes at its edge by means of which it may be secured
to the cloth or other material d. These loops may be attached to the material by
stitching if preferred, but in the arrangement shewn, studs projecting from the
disc e (forming the second part of the device) placed at the back of the material d,
pass through the material and the eyes of the disc b and are riveted over at their
extremities to secure the whole of the parts together as shewn at Figure 3. In
some cases the back plate e may be dispensed with the device being secured to the
fabric OL other material by stitching only. To afford a better hold on the fabric d

page_text: the faces of the discs b and e are roughened as shewn at Figure 1. In order to
render the device more firm and steady the plate e carries a cylindrical projection
which is made to pass through the material and lie within the central cylindrical
passage in the tubular portion c as shewn in Figure 3. The outer end of the
projection g may be riveted over, or screwed to receive a nut, or it may be other-
wise formed to secure the parts together. Figure shews another means by which
the back plate e may be secured to the disc in this case a number of T-headed
projections are formed on the periphery of the discs e and b sewn together through
the material as shewn at Figure 6. As shewn at Figure 11 the discs a and b are
made in one piece with the tubular portion, the projection g on the plate being
shaped to receive a screw, by which the whole is secured together to the fabric d.
In this case the loops at the edge of the disc are intended to be secured to the
fabric by means of stitching, or by studs through eyes as at Figure 2.
e
When it is intended that the hereinbefore described button device is to be
secured to a strap or band, as in the case of gentlemen's braces, harness, &c., I
form an eye of any suitable form upon one of the discs of the device. This form
of my invention is shewn at Figure 7 of the drawings, in which one of the said
discs is extended on one side and slotted to form the said eye. In connection with
the hereinbefore mentioned button a loop or eye is employed and is attached to one
part of the garment or other article to be fastened while the hereinbefore described
device is attached to the other. This loop preferably consists of a rod or bar bent
into the form of a five-sided figure as is shewn at Figure 8 of the drawings. This
loop is passed over the head or disc a and made to rest upon the central cylindrical
portion c as is shewn at Figures 6 and 7.
With the arrangement shewn at Figure 11, the loop employed would be made
of cord or other similar material, the distance between the discs a and b being
sufficiently great for the purpose.
In order to retain this loop in position I sometimes form it of a spring steel,
brass, or other elastic material of the form shewn at Figure 9 in end elevation.
An inspection of this figure will shew that the material of which the loop is
formed is split longitudinally for a portion of its length and the split portions
separated from one another so that they may normally bear against the inside of
the discs a and b, as shewn at Figure 7. For use with this form of loop I some-
times hollow out the inner side of the disc a as shewn at Figure 7 so that a thicker
ridge may be left at its edge to retain the loop in position. It will be seen that in
drawing a loop towards the centre button device the divided portion of the loop
will be brought together, this however will separate, by its spring-like action
when it reaches the interior of the button device and will there bear against the
ends of the cylindrical portion as herein before described. It is obvious that the
loop in this arrangement will not readily leave the button device by reason of
the expansion of the two parts of the same. For use with the form of the device
shewn at Figure 3 I sometimes attach springs k, Figure 8 to the inside of the loop
to grip between them the central portion c of the button.
All the above described makes of the button device are intended for use
mutatis mutandis with a plain metal loop or one with either sort of spring attached
to it as at Figures 8 and 9, or a loop of cord, or other similar material.
Unless a
spring loop is used as shown at Figure 9, or a loop of material requiring a wide
opening, the discs of any make of button would be as close as possible together.
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:
(1) A button consisting of two discs connected by a central cylindrical portion,
to be attached to the fabric or other material by one of the said discs by stitching
or otherwise, substantially as and for the purpose herein before set forth and
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
(2) The method of securing buttons constructed as described in the preceding

page_text: claim by means of a disc placed at the back of the material and having a stud or
studs projecting from its face which may be riveted over or otherwise secured to
the button, substantially as and for the purpose herein before set forth and described
and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
(3) The formation of the edge of one of the discs of a button constructed as
herein before described with a ridge on the inner side for the purpose of retaining
the split spring loop used therewith in position, substantially as and for the purpose
hereinbefore set forth and described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 6th day of December 1892.
CASTLE SMITH,
Invention" Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C.,
Agent for the Applicant.