IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO BUTTONS AND THE FIXING OR ATTACHING SAME TO ARTICLES TO WHICH THEY ARE REQUIRED TO BE ATTACHED
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Tolputt Stoneham, of Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE
TO BUTTONS AND THE FIXING OR ATTACHING SAME TO ARTICLES TO WHICH THEY
ARE REQUIRED TO BE ATTACHED."
Sealod the 12th April 1876, and dated the 31st December 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Tolputt
Stoneham at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 31st December 1875.
I, JAMES TOLPUTT STONEHAM, of Manchester, in the County of
Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO BUTTONS AND THE FIXING OR ATTACHING SAME TO
ARTICLES TO WHICH THEY ARE REQUIRED TO BE ATTACHED," to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to enable covered and faced or plain
buttons to be attached to garments or articles without the aid of thread
or such like other means.
In carrying out my Invention I prefer to adopt mainly the following

page_text: the under side have a tube or cyclet. Tho part of the button forming
the shank is formed on the upper surface with wires diverging from a
centre. In fastening the button to the fabric an eyelet hole is made in
the fabric through which is placed the tube or cyclet on the button.
The shank is then inserted, the wires on same being placed within the
tube or cyclet on the under side of the button, and by applying pressure
to the shank and the button (as by a suitable press or by manual
pressure) the wires are forced out and embrace the button, thereby
securely holding the button to the cloth.
In some instances two tubes may be used and the wires inserted
between same and secured thereto, or the tubular arrangemonts made to
act as fastenors.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said James Tolputt Stoneham in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 30th June 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JAMES
TOLPUTT STONEHAM, of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Thirty-first day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in tho
thirty-ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said James Tolputt Stoneham,
Her special licence that I, the said James Tolputt Stoneham, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
James Tolputt Stoneham, 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 Islo
of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS APPLICABLE TO BUTTONS AND THE
FIXING OR ATTACHING SAME TO ARTICLES TO WHICH THEY ARE REQUIRED TO BE
ATTACHED," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said James
Tolputt Stoncham, my exccutors or administrators, by an instrument

page_text: in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the
same to be filed in the Great Scal Patent Office within six calendar
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said James Tolputt Stoneham, do hereby
declare, the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the
same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
The object of this Invention is to enable covered and faced or plain
buttons to be attached to wearing apparel, garments, or boots, or
other articles, without the aid of thread or such like means of attach-
ment.
In carrying out the object of my Invention I adopt substantially
the following arrangements :-I construct the button proper of any.
material, and on the under side have a tube or eyelet. That part of
the button forming the shank is separate, and is formed of wire or of
piece or pieces of metal diverging from a centre. In fastening the
button to the fabric a hole is made in the fabric through which is placed
the tube or eyelet of the button; the shank is then inserted, the wires
or other metals on same being placed within the tube or cyclet on the
under side of the button, and by applying pressure to the shank and
the button as by a suitable press or manual pressure, the wire or metals
are forced in and expand out and embrace the inner part of the tube,
eyelet, or recess of back of button, thereby securely holding the button
to the fabric.
Having now described the nature of my Invention and incidentally
intimated in what manner the same is to be performed or carried out in
practice, I will proceed aided by the accompanying Drawings to further
and particularly describe and ascertain in what manner the same is to be
performed or carried out in practice, that is to say :—
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.

page_text: button to the fabric. In some cases a tubo is inserted inside the tubo
of the button, and the shank is inserted between the tubes.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature and
object of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed or carried out in practice, I hereby declare that I claim the
Invention of "Improvements applicable to Buttons and the Fixing or
Attaching same to Articles to which they are required to be Attached,”
substantially as the same is herein-before set forth and described and
illustrated by the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said James Tolputt Stoneham, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-eighth day of June,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
six.
JAMES TOLPUTT STONEHAM. (L.S.)
15 Witness,
WALTER GOODBRAND,
Victoria Works,
Dutton St.,
Manchester.