An Improved Stud for Wearing Apparel.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 11th Nov., 1889-Accepted, 14th Dec., 1889
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Stud for Wearing Apparel.
I, WILLIAM MASON, of Clifton, near Hamilton, in the Colony of Victoria, Farmer,
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:-
This invention of an improved stud for wearing apparel is intended to be used mainly
for the purpose of connecting together the two ends of wrist bands although it may be
used for any purpose to which studs for wearing apparel are applicable. Its object is
to enable such articles to be more readily fastened and unfastened, and it relates to
the construction of the disc at the end of the shank which engages with the wrist
band or other article of wearing apparel to which it may applied. These discs I make
in the form of a spiral blade and I prefer to bend the inner and outer ends of said
blade inwardly and outwardly respectively, so that they will enter the button or stud-
hole more readily. Said blade may consist of one or more coils but I think one and
a half or two are quite sufficient for the purpose; and in order that they may be
more flexible, 1 make the inner end free from the shank for about half a coil. This
spiral blade is formed with, or attached to, the stem of the shank in any approved
manner.
Referring to my drawings, which illustrate my improved studs about twice their
ordinary size,-
Figure 1 is a perspective view of a stud in which tho disc is made of a spiral
blade A, formed of one coil and a half,-A and A² being the ends of said sprial blade
which are turned slightly inwards and outwards respectively so as to more readily
engage with the button or stud hole to which it is to be applied.
Figure 2 shows horizontal section of said stud on the line a-, looking downwards.
Fig. 3 is a perspective view of another stud made according to my invention but in
which the disc is made of two coils but which is in other respects identical with that
shewn in Figures 1 and 2.
Figure 4 is a horizontal section on the line y-y, Figure 3, also looking downwards.
The spiral blade A should be so made that its coils meet or very nearly meet except
at their ends and it should be made of sufficiently thin and flexible metal to admit of
its ends engaging and disengaging freely with the wrist band or other article of
appparel to which my improved stud may be applied.
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
Studs for wearing apparel in which the disc at the end of the shank is made in the
form of a spiral blade the inner and outer ends of which are preferably bent inwards
and outwards respectively in order to enable them to enter the button or stud hole
more readily, substantially as herein described and explained and as illustrated in my
drawings.
Dated this Second day of October One thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine
TWITT ALISON
WILLIAM MASON.
Haseltine, Lake & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.