Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Oct., 1887
Complete Left, 24th Dec., 1887
Complete Accepted, 27th Jan:, 1888
I, WILLIAM WILSON HORN, of the firm of Horn & Son, Patent Agents, of
151 Strand, in the County of Middlesex, (a communication to me from abroad
by Calvin Voorbis, and Abraham Shenfield, both of the City and County of New
York, United States of America) do hereby declare the nature of this invention to
be as follows:-
This my invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in button-loops
for suspender ends; and which invention I now proceed to describe.
Loops for suspender ends have heretofore been made for buttons, in which a wire
frame is employed having an opening in it sufficient for the button to pass through,
the wire forming a loop that comes up in front of the button. This device, however,
is not well adapted to suspender ends, because it is liable to unhook from the button,
and the wire presses against the threads by which the button is attached; hence they
are liable to be worn through, and the button become detached from the pantaloons.
My present invention is made for the two-fold object of bearing against the edges
of the button and of grasping the button with a spring pressure, so that the button
will not be liable to escape accidentally from the wire loop and there will not be any
contact of the wire with the threads hy which the button is attached.
My button loop is made of one piece of wire, which is bent so as to form two
pendant loops upon which the lower edge of the button rests when in place, and which
piece of wire is again bent upwardly in such a manner as to form a bearing for the
face of the button, and which bearing presses against the said face of the button, thus
holding the same in place by friction.
The said piece of wire is also bent so as to form two hooks, which being nearer
together than the diameter of the button, spring apart when the button is inserted
between them and press tightly against the side edges of the button.
The button-hole loop thus formed may be attached to the suspender end with any
suitable clasp which may he applied to the main loop of the said button-hole loop in
any convenient way.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION
An Improved Button-loop for Suspender Ends.
I, WILLIAM WILSON HORN of the Firm of Horn & Son of 151 Strand Middlesex
Patent Agents, (communicate to me from abroad by Calvin Voorhis and Abraham
Shenfield both of the City and County of New York United States of America
Gentlemen) 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. :-
My invention relates to certain new and useful Improvements in Button-Loops for
Suspender Ends, of which the following is a specification.
Loops have heretofore been made for buttons, in which a wire frame is employed
having an opening in it sufficient for the button to pass through, the wire forming a
loop that comes up in front of the button. This device, however, is not well adapted
to suspender-ends, because it is liable to unhook from the button, and the wire presses.
against the threads by which the button is attached; hence they are liable to injury.
My present invention is made for the two-fold object of bearing against the edges
of the button and of grasping the button with a spring-pressure, so that the button
will not be liable to escape accidentally from the wire loop and there will not be any
contact of the wire with the threads by which the button is attached.
In the drawings, Fig. 1 is an elevation, and Fig. 2 is a side view, of our improyed
button-loop. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 4 is a side view, and Fig. 5 an
elevation, of our button loop in a slightly modified form.
My button-loop is made of one piece of wire having two pendent loops at 2, 2, for
the reception of the button, which is above them, as indicated by dotted lines at 3.
Thereby such bution rests at its lower edges upon the wire itself, and there is little or
no strain of the wire against or upon the threads or other devices for fastening the
button to the garment, and the ends of the wire loop are spread outwardly and turned
around horizontally toward each other, forming nearly horizontal hooks 4 that are
closer together than the diameter of the button; hence as this button-loop is drawn
over the button the hooks 4 will be sprung apart to allow the button to pass through,
and as they spring back they will close sufficiently to prevent the button slipping
out accidentally, and to aid in holding the button in its proper position the wire of the
loop is bent backwardly, as seen in Fig. 2, so that the space between the parts 5 and 6
of the wire is slightly less than the average thickness of the suspender-buttons, so that
these parts 5 and 6 will apply a slight friction to the front and back surfaces, of the.
button, to hold the same and prevent the button slipping out accidentally.
It is usually preferable to attach the suspending device to the middle part, 7, of the
wire forming the spring button-loop, and this suspending device may be a sheet-metal
clip, connecting the loop to a chain or to a flexible suspender-end of, any desired
character. Such a clip is shown at 8, with a hooking end that can be passed around
the wire at 7 and closed in to receive and hold the same.
It is to be understood that, if desired, the ends of the wire may be bent, as eyes 10,
in place of the cross portion 7, and that such eyes 10 may receive the cross-piece 11

page_text: of a ladder-chain forming a suspender-end. In this case it will be necessary to bend
the middle portion of the wire downwardly between the hook portions 4, so that the
centre part of the wire will possess the proper spring to allow the hooks 4 to open for
the reception of the button or when being separated from such buttons. This
modification of my wire spring button clip is shown in Figs. 4 and 5.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :-
1. The button-loop of wire having the loops 2, to receive the edges of the button,
and the hook-shaped portions 4, that are nearer together than the diameter of the
button and spring apart for the passage of such button, substantially as set forth.
2. The button-loop of wire having the loop portions 2, to receive the edge of the
button, and the portions 5 of the wire loops being curved toward the portions 6, so as
to apply friction to the front and back of the button for holding the same, substantially
as set forth.
3. The combination, in a wire button loop, of the loop portions 2, against which
the edges of the button rests, the hook portions 4, that are sprung apart by the
passage of the button, and the portions 5 and 6, that apply friction to the front and
back of the button, substantially as specified.
Dated this 24th day of December 1887.
HORN & SON,
Agents on behalf of Applicant.