IMPROVEMENTS IN SCREW BUTTONS FOR ARTICLES OF APPAREL
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edwin Ambrose Brydges of the firm of Brydges and Co.
Engineers and Patent Solicitors of 73 Königgrätzer Str. in the City of Berlin
and German Empire, and of 6 St. Leonard's Terrace, Upton in the county of
Middlesex, for an invention of " IMPROVEMENTS IN SCREW BUTTONS FOR
ARTICLES OF APPAREL "-A communication by Benno Fischer Mechanician, of
the city of Stuttgart in the Kingdom of Wurtemberg
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edwin Ambrose Brydges
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 31st March 1882.
EDWIN AMBROSE BRYDGES of the firm of Brydges & Co. Engineers and Patent
Solicitors of 73 Königgrätzer Str in the City of Berlin and German Empire
and of 6 St Leonards Terrace Upton in the County of Middlesex. IMPROVEMENTS
IN SCREW-BUTTONS FOR ARTICLES OF APPAREL. [A communication by Benno
Fischer Mechaniciau, of the city of Stuttgart in the Kingdom of Wurtemberg.]
My invention relates to improvements in screw buttons for articles of apparel,
which said buttons are intended to supply a want long felt. by all classes of
society.
By employing my said invention any person is able to securely attach buttons
to wearing apparel and similar articles at any time without further accessories and
without damaging the said articles of apparel.
The button proper acts as a nut and is so attached to a suitable screw that the
said button cannot leave the screw.
The opposite end of the screw is attached to a spring clamp of sheet metal. By
operating the button on the said screw, the spring clamp can be compressed and
firmly attached to the article of apparel or released from the same.
The said screw clamp can be at any moment attached to a desired article of
apparel with great rapidity, and in order to prevent the aforesaid clamp from losing
its hold of the said article of apparel or other object the said screw clamp is provided
with a suitable number of teeth on its inner surfaces.
A modification of my said screw button can be employed when it is desired to
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page_text: fix the button further from the edge of the garment than is permitted by the clamp
aforesaid. In this modification the clamp is dispensed with, and the button is so
made that it can be detached from the screw.
This said screw is provided with a broad flat head and is inserted through the
garment at the place where the button is required.
A small washer is placed upon the screw on the outer side of the garment and
then the button proper is firmly screwed on; the cloth being between the bead of
the screw and the washer; or the screw and button can be in one piece and screwed
into the nut on the inside of the garment, and in order to prevent the button or
nut from leaving the screw, the said screw can be provided with small springs at
each side, which may or may not be of one piece with the screw itself.
When the
button or nut. is screwed on these said springs are turned or spring down into
suitable recesses in the button or nut and thus the button is with ease and rapidity
fixed on to the garment so that it is thoroughly moveable.
The locking of the screw can also be attained or increased by threading an
india rubber disc or washer on the screw either on the inside or outside of the
garment.
When desired, the button can be detached from one article and fixed on to
another.
There is no limit as to size and application of these improved buttons, the
smaller sizes can be used for gloves and similar articles and the larger sizes for
overcoats and such garments.
The form and size of the buttons as well as the material of which the separate
parts are made can be chosen to suit the various requirements without departing
from the tenor of my Invention.

page_text: button to the screw and
Figure 12 and 13 shew the screw to the botton on an enlarged scale
The button proper a acts as a nut and is so attached to a suitable screw b that
the said button cannot leave the screw.
The opposite end of the screw is attached to a spring clamp c of sheet metal.
By operating the button a on the said screw b the spring clamp c can be
compressed and firmly attached to the article of apparel or released from the same.
The said screw clamp c can be at any moment attached to a desired article of
apparel with great rapidity and in order to prevent the aforesaid clamp c from
loosing its hold of the said article of apparel or other object the said screw clamp c
is provided with a suitable number of teeth on its inner surfaces.
A modification of my said screw button can be employed when it is desired to fix
the button further from the edge of the garment than is permitted by the clamp
aforesaid. In this modification (Figure 4 and 5) the clamp is dispensed with and
the button is so made that it can be detached from the screw.
.
This said screw is provided with a broad flat head d and is inserted through the
garment at the place where the button is required.
A small washer e is placed upon the screw on the outer side of the garment and
then the button proper is firmly screwed on, the cloth being between the head of the
screw and the washer; or the screw and button can be in one piece and screwed
into the nut on the inside of the garment (Figure 7).
In order to prevent the button or nut a from leaving the screw b the said screw b
can be provided with small springs at each side (Figures 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13)
which may or may not be of one piece with the screw itself. When the button or
nut is screwed on these said springs are turned or spring down into suitable
recesses in the button or nut a and thus the button is with ease and rapidity fixed
on to the garment so that it is thoroughly immoveable.
The locking of the screw can also be attained or increased by threading an
india rubber disc or washer on the screw either on the inside or outside of the
garment.
When desired the button can be detached from one article and fixed on to
another.

page_text: There is no limit as to size and application of these improved buttons the smaller
sizes can be used for gloves and similar articles and the larger sizes for overcoats
and such garments.
The form and size of the buttons as well as the material of which the separate
parts are made can be chosen to suit the various requirements.
Having now described my said Invention I desire it to be understood that the
details of the same can be modified without departing from the tenor of my
Invention; but what I claim and desire to have secured by Letters Patent is :-
:-
1. Buttons for wearing apparel consisting of the nut a, spring b, and clamp c
substantially as described in the foregoing specification and shewn in Figures 1, 2
and 3 of the accompanying drawing.
2. Buttons for wearing apparel consisting of the nut a, screw b, with loose
washer e substantially as described in the foregoing specification and shewn in
Figures 4, 5, and 6 of the accompanying drawings.
3. The method of tightening the nut or button for wearing apparel on to the
screw by means of the india, rubber disc x or by means of the springs or flaps
situated at the side of the screw b substantially as described in the foregoing
specification and shown in the accompanying drawing.
In witness whereof I the said Edwin Ambrose Brydges have hereunto set
my hand and seal this 26th day of September in the year of our Lord
Oue thousand eight hundred and eighty two.
Witnesses
JOHN, O. TONKIN
ANTHONY STEFFEN,
EDWIN A. BRYDGES. (L.S.)