New or Improved Holder for Use in connection with Studs, Solitaires,. Buttons, and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application; 29th June, 1896-Accepted; 22nd Aug., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Holder for Use in connection with Studs, Solitaires,.
Buttons, and the like.
1, PAUL ZUM KEHR, of 9 Chadwell Street, in the City and County of London,.
Watchmaker, 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:-
The device forming the subject of the present invention is intended for use in
connection with studs, solitaires, buttons, and the like, as a guard against possible.
loss, more particularly in cases where the holes in which said studs or the like are
inserted are of such size as to permit the head or back of the same passing through
them too freely.
This device or holder I form of a plate or frame of steel, celluloid, or other
suitable material either flat or bent upon itself at its middle or at each end, or
otherwise shaped to suit the particular conditions under which it is to be employed.
At one or more points this plate is pierced with one, two, or more openings,
having a slot extending therefrom to the edge of said plate, through which the stem or
neck of a stud or button may be forced into one of the holes.
The opening, designed to receive the stent or neck of the stud or button, is of such
size that the head or back of the stud or button cannot pass therethrough, consequently
the plate must be detached before said stud or button can escape or be taken out.
In order that my invention may be more fully understood and carried into
practice I will now describe the same by the aid of the accompanying drawings,
in which are shown four different forms of holders, each of which embraces the
principal features of my invention, but differs in so far as concerns the particular shape
of the plate or frame.
As shown in Fig. 1 the holder is simply a flat plate a of metal, celluloid, or other
material pierced with two holes b, c, connected together by a slot d extending to
the end of the plate and through which the stem of a stud may be forced into
the hole b.
Figs. 2 and 3 illustrate a side and a front view respectively of a similar holder to
that above described, except that at one end it is provided with two hooks e, which
may be employed for retaining a tie in position, or arranged to extend round one of
the edges the stud or button is employed to connect.
Figs. 4, 5, and 6 illustrate the back, side, and front views respectively of a
holder formed of a plate bent upon itself at or near its middle. In this form the
hole or holes and slot are formed at one end of the plate or frame, so that when
in use, its opposite end will occupy a position immediately over the base or head of
the stud to which it is connected, as shown in Fig. 5.
In Figs. 7, 8, and 9, is shown the front, side and back view respectively of a holder
designed more particularly for use in connection with the back collar stud.
In this case the plate is bent upon itself at both ends, and one of the ends cut away
to permit of the stem of a stud being passed through the slot into one of the holes,
said slot and holes being in this case forined in the middle portion of the plate. In
use the stud and holder would occupy the position shown in Fig. 8, where f is the
tie, g the shirt collar, and h the collar.
In all cases the outer end of the slot is preferably widened as shown to facilitate
the entrance of the stem of a stud, whilst it preferably enters the opening for the
reception of the stem tangentially, so that the latter cannot easily escape. In cases

page_text: where the stem; neck, or shank of the stud, solitaire, button, or the like is flat
or of other unusual form, the perforation should fit or correspond with its shape.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, .I declare that what I
claim is :-
(1.) A holder for use in connection with studs, solitaires, buttons, or the like,
consisting, of..a plate or frame perforated and slotted to permit of the same being.
passed on to the stem of the stud,. solitaire, button, or the like, as and for the
purpose described.
(2.), A holder for use in connection with studs, solitaires, buttons, or the like con-
sisting of a plate or frame bent upon itself at or near its middle and so slotted and-
perforated as to permit of the same being passed on to the stem or neck of the stud,
solitaire, button, or the like, as and for the purpose described.
(3.) Á holder for use in connection with studs, solitaires, buttons, or the like, con-
sisting of a plate or frame bent upon itself at each end and so slotted and perforated
as to permit of the same being passed on to the stem or neck of the stud, solitaire,
button, or the like as and for the purpose described.
(4.) Holders for use in connection with studs, solitaires, buttons, and the like
substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 92nd dor of Tune 1806
CASTLE SMITH,
"Invention" Office, Mitre Court, Fleet Street, London, E.C., .
Agent for the Applicant..