IN BUTTON FASTENERS."
Year: 1880

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Edmund Wright at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 24th August 1880.
EDMUND WRIGHT, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick.
IN BUTTON FASTENERS."
"IMPROVEMENTS
My Invention relates to an improved button fastener, and it consists in the
employment of an eyeletted loop which is passed through the shank of the button
and retained by a pin or cross bar, the latter being held in position by a plate or
washer.
The Invention also consists in the employment of a plate or washer constructed
as hereafter described, and a cross pin in combination with a link or shank, or with
the eyeletted loop aforesaid.
The Invention will be more readily understood by reference to the accompanying
Drawings, in which
Figure 1 represents front and side elevations of the loop which is eyeletted at
both its ends A, A.
Figure 2 represents a flat link H eyeletted at both its ends, and
Figure 3 represents a shank with flat eyeletted end at B. This shank may be
rivetted or attached in any other manner to an ordinary button, or when the latter
is of metal, may be made from the button itself.
Figure 4 is an elevation and section of the pin or cross bar, preferably made of
steel.
Figure 5 is an under view of the plate or washer K, which has an opening at C
to receive the ends of the loop, link, or shank, and a longitudinal recess D (which is
formed by forcing inward the metal, Figures 5, 9, 10), made to grip the sides of the
cross bar or pin E.
Figures 6 and 7 represent an ordinary shanked button, through the shank of
which the eyeletted loop F has been passed, and its sides pressed together at G.
(If the link H, Figure 2, be used the button shanks must be first passed through
the larger eyelet before the manufacture of the buttons is completed.)
Figure 8 is a plan view of the washer, and

page_text: Figures 9, 10, are sectional views showing the method of attachment in which
the ends of loop F are first passed through the material I, the washer K. being next
placed sufficiently far over them to enable the operator to insert the pin E in the
eyelet hole of the loop, link, or shank, Figures 1-6, the loop subsequently being
pulled into position, drawing with it the pin or cross bar E, which latter becomes
firmly wedged in the recess D, thus preventing any danger of its loss in ordinary
wear, and requiring considerable pressure in the reverse direction to remove it.
Having now particularly described the nature of the said Invention, and the
manner of performing the same, I declare that what I claim as new, and desire to
secure by Letters Patent is,—
First. As a button fastener, the combination with a washer or plate and cross
bar or pin of the eyeletted loop F, substantially as herein described.
Second. In combination with the eyeletted loop or with a link or shank and
cross pin, the plate or washer K having a recess D made to receive and retain said
pin, substantially as herein shown and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Edmund Wright, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty fourth day of August, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty.
TUDTATT
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RIGHT