AN IMPROVEMENT IN BUTTONS AND STUDS FOR FASTENING GARMENTS
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Florian Dahis, of Brooklyn, in the State of New
York, United States of America, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT
IN BUTTONS AND STUDS FOR FASTENING GARMENTS."
Sealed the 6th February 1866, and dated the 8th December 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Florian Dahis at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
8th December 1865.
I, FLORIAN DAHIS, of Brooklyn, in the State of New York, United States
of America, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN-
IMPROVEMENT IN BUTTONS AND STUDS FOR FASTENING GARMENTS," to be as
follows:-
I make use of two parts for forming the stud or button; one part is the
back piece, which is like a disc with a pointed wire or pin projecting.
from it, the wire or pin having a groove around it, or one or more notches.
on its side; and the other part is the button or stud, which is made with a.
hole in it for the reception of the said wire or pin, and with a spring that
occupies a recess in the button in such a position as to enter the groove or,
notch in the said pointed wire or pin when the parts are placed together..!

page_text: In order to make use of this stud or button the perforating wire or pin is
pressed through the cloth or fabric of the garment, and then the button or
stud is placed upon the said wire or pin, the spring taking the notch or neck
of the said pin holds the parts firmly together. To separate the parts, the
button or disc and wire, or both, are turned around until the spring comes
upon one portion of the pin or wire near the notch or groove, which not
being notched raises the spring and presents no obstruction to the spring
sliding off the said pin by pulling the button and disc apart. The edges of
the disc may be turned up and formed with teeth to enter the cloth or fabric
so that it will not be necessary to hold the said disc while the button is being
turned for disconnecting the parts. The spring may be made in an elliptical
or other convenient shape for introduction into the button or stud, and the
button or stud may be of any ornamental character, and employed as an
ordinary button on garments or for shirt bosoms in place of buttons and
button holes or eyelets, as the stud perforates or forms its own hole in the
garment.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Florian Dahis in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
8th June 1866.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FLORIAN
DAHIS, of Brooklyn, in the State of New York, United States of America,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eighth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-ninth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Florian Dahis, Her special license that I, the spid Florian
Dahis, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Florian Dahis, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"AN IMPROVEMENT IN BUTTONS AND. STUDS FOR FASTENING GARMENTS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Florian Dahis, by an instrument
in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly describe and

page_text: scertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
as to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Sea!
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the
ate of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Florian Dahis, do hereby declare the
ature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per
ormed, to be particularly described. and ascertained in and by the following
tatement, reference being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed, and to
he letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say)
Fig. 1 is a vertical section of my improved stud; .
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2 is a section of the button end of the stud;
8 is a rear view of the same;
4 is a separate elevation of the perforating point and head;
5 is a view endwise of said point;
6 is a side view of the button end and spring;
7 is a section of a modification of the said stud;
8 is a view of the back of the stud (Fig. 7);
9 is a view end wise of the perforating.point; and
10 is a section of the perforating point in larger size..
Similar marks of reference denote the same parts..
The nature of my said Invention consists in the. combination of a perforating
ud with a spring catch that takes a notch in the side of the perforating point,
that the garment is retained between the stud and the head of the per-
rating point. This attachment is particularly adapted to the bosoms of shirts
place of the buttons and studs usually employed, but it may be used for
xing any other part of a garment where two parts are to be held together.
In the Drawing a is the head formed upon or attached to the perforating
oint 6, in the side of which point is a notch at c; d is a stud or button head
aving a hole in the center thereof at e; and f is a spring occupying a recess
one side of the stud d, which recess extends into the hole e, so that the
oring may take the notch c when the two parts of the stud are placed
gether. It will now be understood that any two portions of a garment can
e attached together by pressing the perforator 6 through them and then
lacing the button head d upon the end of 6, the spring f catching into the
otch c.
And when the two parts of the stud are to be separated for the
nfastening of the garment a partial rotation of the stud button & will bring
he spring upon one of the smooth sides of the perforator b, and thereby
lieve it from the notch c and allow the parts a and d to separate.
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page_text: b
In Fig. 8 I have shown the spring.f in a triangular form so as to get
greater length of spring, the ends thereof setting within the recessed sides of
the head d, said spring might, however, be in the elliptical shape shown by
dotted lines in Fig. 8. The head a may be formed with teeth around its edges,
as seen in Figs. 7 & 9, to enter the cloth or garment and prevent the same
turning around. The notch or neck made in the perforating point 6 may be
of a triangular shape, as seen in Fig. 10, so that the parts can only. be
separated when turned so that the spring comes upon the one angle c'.
Figs. 11 & 12 represent the spring fintroduced in a recess between two
plates forming the head d. The spring fis in the form of a fork, as seen in
Fig. 12, and takes into both sides of the neck in the perforator b. The hole
at g may be used for the insertion of a pointed instrument to pry the springs f
apart and disconnect them from the neck of the perforator b, so that the
perforator can be withdrawn from the head d.
What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is, a fastening for
garments composed of the parts a and d, held together by the spring f taking
a notch in the perforator b, as specified. I also claim the teeth around the
head a for the purposes set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Florian Dahis, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Third day of May, A.D. One thousand eight
hundred and sixty-six.
Witnesses,
CHAS. H. SMITH,
121, Nassau St.,
New York.
GEO. D. WALKER,
121, Nassau St.,
New York.
FLORIAN DAHIS. (L.S.)