AN IMPROVED BUTTON FASTENER to be as follows
Year: 1885

page_text: I, GEORGE PAYNE, of 749 Commercial Road, Limehouse, in the county of
Middlesex, Boot and Shoe Manufacturer do hereby declare the naturo of the
said invention for "AN IMPROVED BUTTON FASTENER to be as follows:-
"
This invention relates to the construction of a novel, simple and cheap fastener
for attaching buttons having shanks to boots and other articles whereby buttons
can be attached quickly and securely, the improved fastener also allowing of the
buttons being easily and quickly detached if required without injury to the
fastener.
The improved fastener is made of wire preferably steel and is formed into a ring
for bearing against the underside of the material to which the button is to be
attached; one end of the wire is turned inwards and then upwards so as to form a
hook at about the centre of the ring.
To attach a button by means of this improved fastener a hole is made in the
material and the hook passed through the same; the shank of the button is then
pressed onto the hook and the button will be securely fastened as the said hook
acts as a spring and the space between the hook and the ring is filled up or nearly
so by the material of the boot or otherwise.
G. F. REDFERN,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agent for the Applicant.
An Improved Button Fastener.
I GEORGE PAYNE, of 749 Commercial Road, Limehouse, in the county of
5 Middlesex, Boot and Shoe 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 relates to the construction of a novel, simple, and cheap fastener
for attaching buttons having shanks to boots and other articles whereby buttons
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page_text: can be attached quickly and securely, the improved fastener also allowing of the
buttons being easily and quickly detached if required without injury to the
fastener.
The improved fastener is made of wire, preferably steel, and is formed into a
ring for bearing against the underside of the material to which the button is to be
attached; one end of the wire is turned inwards and then upwards so as to form a
hook at about the centre of the ring.
In order to enable my invention to be fully understood I will proceed to describe
the same by reference to the accompanying drawing in which figure 1, is a plan
and figures 2 and 3 are elevations of a button fastener constructed according to my
invention; figure 4, is a sectional elevation shewing a button attached to a piece of
material by means of the improved fastener; figure 5 is a plan of figure 4, and
figure 6 is a view shewing a button being passed onto the fastener. Similar letters
in all the figures represent similar parts.
a, represents the ring part of the button fastener which ring bears against the
underside of the material b, to which the button is to be attached.
e, is the hook part of the fastener formed by turning one end of the metal wire
from which the fastener is made inwards and then upwards and over as clearly
shewn in figures 1 and 2 respectively; the hook e, is situated near the centre of
the ring a, the opening c¹, of the hook being of less width than the thickness of the
shank c, of the button so as to form a kind of spring.
To attach a button by means of this improved fastener a hole is made in the
material b, and the hook e, of the fastener, figures 1, 2, and 3, is passed through
the same; the shank c, of a button d, is then pressed onto the hook e, as shewn in
figure 6, and the button & will be securely fastened as shewn in figures 4 and 5, as
the book e will act as a spring as herein before described and the space between the
hook and the ring will be filled up, or nearly so, by the material b of the boot or
otherwise.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
The manufacture and use of the improved button fastener hereinbefore described
and represented in the accompanying drawing.