An Improved Method of and Means for Fastening Buttons or Tufts into Cushions.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Sept., 1889
Complete Specification Left. 10th Oct.. 1889-Accepted, 15th Feb., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Method of and Means for Fastening Buttons or Tufts
into Cushions.
ALFRED HOPTON 126 Euston Road London Coach Ironmonger JAMES A. DEUTHER
Buffalo New York Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
A needle with a slot at the end provided with a short groove on one side & a long
groove on the other.
A metal fastener of wire bent to make an eye in the centre & one end of the wire
being turned up, the other turned down.
The fastener is threaded with string & the two ends of the string afterwards passed
through the slot or eye of the needle, the fastener is held by the string, firmly in the
groove of the needle, which is pushed into the cushion or lining upon withdrawing
the needle the hook of the fastener, is caught & held back & the string only drawn
through, to which the tuft or button is fastened.
Dated this 14th day of September 1889.
JAMES A. DEUTHER.
ALFRED HOPTON.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Method of and Means for Fastening Buttons or Tufts
into Cushions.
ALFRED HOPTON 126 Euston Road London Coach Ironmonger JAMES. A. DEUTHER
Manager East Buffalo Manufacturing Co. New York U.S.A. 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 :-
Our Invention applies to a needle for fastening tufts or buttons to cushions or seat
backs or "squabs" to wire fasteners which are used with the needle, enabling the
operator to attach a fastening to the back of a cushion or "squab" without cutting
away the trimming or unfixing any part of the work.
For this purpose we use a long needle having grooves on each side at the end near
In the centre of the shorter
the point, one groove being shorter than the other.
groove, a hole is cut, into which a wire fastener, having an eye in the centre, & one
end turned up, the other curved downwards, is fitted.
In using the Button needle & Fastener, the Fastener is threaded through the eye
with string, & the two ends of the string are passed through the hole in the needle ;
the string is then pulled through until the fastener is drawn into the short groove at
the point of the needle, the eye of the fastener resting in the groove with the "curved
down" end towards the point & the "curved up" end towards the handle.
The handle of the needle is then grasped & the ends of the string held by the
fingers with sufficient tension to keep the fastener in its place. The needle is then
pushed through the "squab " or cushion & upon drawing it back, the fastener is caught
by the "curved up" end & retained at the back of the cushion or squab; and in
pulling the needle back; the string is drawn with it & used to fasten on the tuft,
button or any other attachment required.
Fig. 1 represents the needle with the groove & hole for the Fastener.
Fig. 2 represents the Fastener with eye in centre & either end turned up or
down.
Figs. 3, 3 shew the Fastener threaded & fixed in the needle.
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page_text: Fig. 5 shews the Fastener being released by withdrawing the needle.
Fig. 6 represents the needle withdrawn the string being carried through & the
Fastener left behind.
Having now particularly described & ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tions & in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is ;
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Firstly. Our method of attaching tufts buttons &c. to seat backs, cushions, "squabs
or other similar articles, which are already fixed or fitted, without undoing any of
the fastenings, fittings or fixtures.
Secondly. A Button needle with grooves in the ends & a hole or slot the gh which
the threads or strings are passed to hold the Fastener.
Thirdly. A Fastener of wire used with a button or other needle in the n inner herein
described.
Dated this 7th day of October 1889
ALFRED HOPTON.
For JAMES A. DEUTHER.
Alfred Hopton.