improvements in Buttonholes and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Feb., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 21st May., 1897-Accepted, 18th Dec., 1897
I, BERNARD DIXON BASS of 25, Dartmouth Park Road, Highgate Road, London, in
the County of Middlesex, Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
This invention relates to an improved buttonhole and the like, and it consists in
making the hole of two or more slits-of adequate length-arranged in any suitable
manner with respect. to one another provided that they meet or cross at one point
only.
Dated this 19th day of February 1897.
improvements in Buttonholes and the like.'
I, BERNARD DIXON BASS of 25 Dartmouth Park Road, Highgate Road, London, in
the county of Middlesex, Clerk, 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 relates to improved button or similar holes particularly. holes for
sleeve links, studs and the like, and it consists in making the hole of two or more
slits of adequate length-arranged in any suitable manner with respect to one
another provided that they meet or cross at one point only, so that the material by
which the hole is bounded will yield to enable the button or stud to be readily passed
into or out of it.
The accompanying drawings shown in plan various forms of the improved button
hole.
In Figure 1 the button hole consists of one slit A and another shorter slit B
meeting the former at right angles at the point A¹ the centre point of the button
hole.
In Fig. 2 there are two slits of the same general arrangement as the slits A B,
in Fig. 1 the sharp angles of the material at the meeting point. A¹ being rounded of
as at B¹ B
Fig. 3 is a modification of the button-hole shown in Fig. 2 the shorter slit B being
curtailed and widened.
Figs. 4 and 5 show button holes consisting of two slits A B of different lengths
meeting at their ends at right angles. In Fig. 5 the material is rounded off as at B¹
at the meeting of the slits.

page_text: The hole in Fig. 6 is formed by two slits A B of the same length, cutting each
other symmetrically at right angles, the sharp corners B¹ being rounded off.
Other modifications of form may be adopted according to this invention but those
which are herein before specifically described will sufficiently serve as examples to
indicate the manner in which the desired object can be attained.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
1. Button or stud hole formed by two or more meeting or intersecting slits.
2. Button or stud hole formed by two or more slits inclined. to each other and all
meeting or intersecting at one point.
3. In a button or stud hole of the kind described rounding off the sharp angles of
material at the meeting points of the slits, substantially as described and illustrated
in the accompanying drawings.
4. The improved button or stud hole substantially as described and illustrated in
any of the figures of the accompanying drawings.