IMPROVE MENTS IN COLLAR STUDS OR BUTTONS, SHIRT STUDS, SLEEVE LINKS, AND OTHER LIKE ARTICLES
Year: 1869

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard John Green, of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVE
MENTS IN COLLAR STUDS OR BUTTONS, SHIRT STUDS, SLEEVE LINKS, AND OTHER
LIKE ARTICLES."
Scaled the 10th July 1869, and dated the 25th January 1869.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard John Green
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 25th January 1869.
I, RICHARD JOHN GREEN, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
“IMPROVEMENTS IN COLLAR STUDS OR BUTTONS, SHIRT STUDS, SLEEVE LINKS, AND
OTHER LIKE ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists, firstly, in appending to the front of the said
collar studs or buttons a tongue or depending piece, which when the
stud or button is in use lies in front of and holds down the scarf or
necktio and provents it from rising above the stud or button. The
said tongue or depending picce is made capable of being connected

page_text: to and detached from the stud or button at pleasure, the connection
being made by means of a spring snap on the tongue or depending picco
taking into and engaging with a recess or hole in the stud or button, or
by other fastening. The detachment of the tongue or depending piece
from the stud or button may either be effected by pressure at front or
back of the stud or button. Or the tongue or depending piece may be
fixed to the front part of the stud or button. In this case the stud
or button is made in two parts, a front part and a back part, the two
parts being joined together by a spring snap or other fastening.
My Invention consists further in making collar studs or buttons in
two parts when they are not provided with the tongue or depending
piece described.
The same method of construction in two parts I also apply to shirt
studs, sleeve links, and other articles which have to be fastened to a
button or other hole in articles of dress. By making such articles in
two parts and joining the front and back parts together by a stem passed
through the button or other hole the stud, link, or article is attached to
the dress without inconvenience and without the stretching of the hole
which occurs with studs, links, and similar articles of the ordinary
construction.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Richard John Green in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 23rd July 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, RICHARD
JOHN GREEN, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturor,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fifth day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the
thirty-second year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Richard John Green, Her
special licence, that I, the said Richard John Green, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Richard John
Green, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time, and at all times thereafter-

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during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
usc, öxercise, and vond, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Iroland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN COLLAR STUDS OR BUTTONS, SHIRT STUDS, SLEEVE LINKS, AND
OTHER, LIKE ARTICLES," upon the condition, (amongst others) that I, tho
said Richard John Green, my excoutors or administrators, by an instru-
ment in writing, under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the 'said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,' and
cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Offico within six
calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said lichard John Green, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the samo
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement, that is to say :-
My Invention consists, firstly, in appending to the front of the said collar
studs or buttons a tongue or depending piece, which when tho stud or
button is in usa lies in front of and holds down the scarf or necktie and
prevents it from rising above the stud or button. The said tonguo or
depending piece is made capable of being connected to and detached
from the stud or button at pleasure, the connection being made by
means of a spring snap on the tongue or depending piece taking into
and engaging with a recess or holo in the stud or button, or by other
fastening. The detachment of the tongue or depending piece from the
stud or button may either be effected by pressure, at front or back of
the stud or button. Or the tongue or doponding piece may be fixed to
the front part of the stud or button. In this case the stud or button
is made in two parts, a front part and a back part, the two parts being,
joined together by a spring snap or other fastening.
My Invention consists further in making collar studs or buttons in
two parts when they are not provided with the tongue or depending
picco described.
The same method of construction in two parts I also apply to shirt
studs, sleeve links, and other articles which have to be fastened to a
button or other hole in articles of dress. By making such articles in
two parts and joining tho front and back parts together by a stem passed
through the button or other holo the stud, link, or article is attached to

page_text: the dress without inconvenience and without the stretching of the hole
which occurs with studs, links, and similar articles of the ordinary
construction.
Having explained the nature of my Invention I will proceed to
describe, with reference to the accompanying Drawings, the manner in
which the same is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents in front elevation, Figure 2 in side elevation, and
Figure 3 in side elevation, partly in section, a collar stud or button
provided with a tongue or depending piece according to my Invention;
Figure 4 represents a front elevation of the tongue or depending piece
separately; and Figure 5 represents a front elevation and side elevations
taken at right angles to one another of the stud or button separately.
a is the tongue or depending piece, which may have any
desired orna-
mental figure, and 6, 6, is the collar stud or button. The tongue or
depending piece a is made capable of being connected to and detached
from the collar stud or button 6, 6, in the following manner :---The
stem & and the front part &³ of the stud or button are made hollow, and
in the face of the front part ba slot &* (see Figure 4) opening into the
said hollow stem and front part is made. On the top of the tongue or
depending piece a, a plate or frame c is jointed at o³, the said plate or
frame having a figure proper to fit in the hollow stem &. Within the
said plate or frame and made out of the same piece of metal is a spring
snap d provided at its free end with a thumb plate or handle d².
the back part 6 of the stud or buttom has been fastened to the collar and
the scarf or necktie has been arranged in its place the frame or plate c of
the tongue or depending piece a is passed through the slot o' into the
hollow shank or stem b'. When the said plate or frame c has been
pushed home in the stem the spring d snaps into the front part &' of the
stud and thereby connects the tongue or depending piece a with the stud
or button b, b', as illustrated in Figures 1, 2, and 3. As the spring & snaps
into the stud & its thumb plate or handlo a rises in the cross part & of
the slot b' in the said stud. When the tongue or depending piece a
has been fastened to the collar stud or button, as illustrated in
Figures 1, 2, and 8, it lies in front of and holds down the scarf or necktie
and prevents it from rising above the stud or button. When it is wished
to detach the tongue or depending piece a from the stud or button b, b³,
the thumbnail is pressed upon the projecting end or thumb plate ď³ of the
spring snap d. By this pressure the front end of the said spring snap is
d
After

page_text: depressed and liberated from behind the front plate of the stud b³, when
the frame or plate o can be withdrawn from the hollow stem &, and the
tongue or depending piece a detached from the stud or button, as repre-
sented in Figure 4.
Figure 6 represents in front elevation another collar stud or button
provided with a tongue or depending picce having a different ornamental
figure from that already described. Figure 7 represents in sido elevation,
and Figure 8 in front elevation the tongue or depending picce, Figure 0,
detached from the stud or bottom; and Figure 9 represents the stud or
button separately. The parts of Figures 6, 7, 8, and 9 are marked
with the same letters of reference as corresponding parts of Figures 1,
2, 3, 4, and 5.
In this form of my Invention the tongue or depending picco a is fixed
rigidly to the plate or frame c carrying the spring d, d³, instead of being
jointed thereto as in the first-described form of my Invention.
Although I have found in practice that a spring snap fastening of the
kind represented in the Drawing answers well for connecting the tongue
or depending piece with the collar stud or button, yet I do not limit
myself to the use of the said fastening as other kinds of fastening may
bo employed for that purposo.
Figure 10 represents in section a collar stud or button made in two
parts according to my Invention; Figure 11 represents in side elevation
and front elevation one part of the stud or button separately; and
Figure 12 represents in plan an end elevation of the other part of the
said stud or button separately. In this arrangement the part marked ƒ
is provided with a hollow stem f", the front of the 'said stem having
cars fand a cross slot f. The other part marked a consists of a disk.
provided with a frame or plate and spring snap g³, somewhat similar
to the plate and snap of the tongue or depending piece herein-before
described, the said frame and snap f, g, fitting in the hollow stem fi of
the part f. The free end of the spring snap passes through the disk
or part g, and is provided with a flat head by which it can be released
from the stem of the part f. When the stem f of the part f has been
passed through the button hole the frame or plate g' of the party is
inserted in the said stem f, and the spring of the said frame snapped
into,or made to engage behind the cars f, f³, in front of the stem, as
seen in Figure 10, the contracted free end of the snap entering the cross
slot f. To separate the two parts f, g, of the stud or button for the
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page_text: purpose of unfastening the collar it is only necessary to press down the
head g' of the snap g³, when the said snap is disengaged from behind the
ears, and the part g of the stud or button may be disconnected from
the part. When a tongue or depending pieco of the kind herein-before
described is combined with a collar stud or button in two parts
the said tongue or depending piece is attached by preference to the
part g.
Figure 13 represents in section another collar stud or button mado
in two parts according to my Invention; Figure 14 represents in back
clevation, side elevation, and section, one part of the stud or button
separately; and Figure 15 represents in section, sido elevation, and back
elevation, the other part of the said stud or button separately. The hollow
stem of the part of the stud or button has at its ends ears h³, h³, and
the other part of the stud or button is provided with a double-acting
spring snap. The said spring snap is bent around and fixed at tho
front of the shank, the free ends of the said snap being situated at
opposite sides of the part i. The said free ends are provided with
heads. By introducing the shank of the part i into the stem ³ of
the part the depressions in the spring snap engage with the edges
of the cars h, 4, of the stem and fasten the two parts and i of the
stud or button together. The two parts h, i, are disconnected by
pressing inwards the free ends or heads i, i*, of the spring snap ².
Figuro 16 represents in section another collar stud or button made in
two parts according to my Invention; Figure 17 represents elevations
taken at right angles to one another of one part of the stud or button
separately; and Figure 18 represents in side clevation, back elevation,
and front elevation, with the covering plate removed, the other part of
the said stud or button separately. In this arrangement the part k is
provided with a catch and guide rods m, m, and the part p with a hollow
stem and curved spring r. When the two parts k, p, of the stud or
button are to be fastened together, the catch and rods m, m, of the
part & are passed into the hollow stem q of the part p. On pushing home
the said parts l, m, the end or head of the catch passes through a hole
in the part p and pressing back the free end of the spring causes it
to snap into the said catch and fasten the two parts of the stud or button
together, as seen in Figure 16. By pressing inwards the knob or head s
at the side of the part p, the spring may be released from the catch /
and the two parts disconnected.

page_text: The method of construction of collar studs or buttons in two parts
herein-beforo described and illustrated may be applied to shirt studs,
sleeve links, and other articles which have to be fastened to a button or
other holo in articles of dress.
Inving now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I
do not limit myself to the precise details herein described and illustrated,
as the same may be varied without departing from the nature of my
Invention; but I claim as my Invention,-
Firstly. Appending to the front of collar studs or buttons a tongue or
depending piece for holding down the scarf or necktie and preventing
it from rising above the stud or button, substantially as hercin-before
described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
Also the application of the said tongue or depending picce to collar
studs or buttons made in two parts, as hercin-before described.
Secondly. Making collar studs or buttons, shirt studs, sleeve links,
and other like articles in two parts, the said parts being connected to and
disconnected from one another, substantially as herein-before described
and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard John Green, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-first day of July, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.
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Witness,
RICHARD SKERRETT,
Clerk to George Shaw,
Birmingham.
RICHARD JOHN GREEN. (L.S.)