Improvements in Buttons for Garments.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Buttons for Garments.
We, ROBERT ADSHEAD, 257, Waterloo Road, Cheetham, Manchester, in the County
of Lancaster, Wine and Beer Retailer, and GUSTAV LICHTENSTEIN, 15, Hewitt
Street, Cheetham, Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, Tailor, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our improvements have reference to metallic buttons in connection with
garments and have for their object the production of a button capable of being
more securely sewn or attached to the garment than heretofore.
For this purpose we employ by preference that class of button which is usually
stamped out of the metal plate in two halves or sections and afterwards joined
together by turning down the edges or periphery of the stampings.
Our invention is specially applicable to buttons designed with a cross bar serving
to hold the thread or binding material in the process of attachment.
Heretofore this class of button has been made so that the openings at each side
of the cross bar are free open spaces for admitting the needle and thread with the
result that the foundation of the stitches is thereby weakened owing to the inter-
section of the stitches working loose.
The object of our invention is to obviate this difficulty by strengthening the
foundation of the sewing.
For this purpose we insert between the two flanges or sections of the button a
disc or layer of linen canvas or other suitable textile material in such manner that
the openings of the button become filled in with the said canvas and thus form
a strong durable surface for the sewing the said layer or disc being kept in position
by the closing of the two sections together.
Our invention may be described as a metallic button in combination with a
textile substance for the better securing of the button in position and for the pre-
vention of the rubbing and cutting of the binding material.
1011 1 ST ... 1000
ROBERT ADSHEAD.
GUSTAV LICHTENSTEIN.
Improvements in Buttons for Garments,
We, ROBERT ADSITEAD, of 257, Waterloo Road, Cheetham, Wine and Beer
Retailer, and GUSTAV LICHTENSTEIN, of 15, Hewitt Street, Hightown, Tailor,
both of Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, do hereby declare the nature of

page_text: 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 improvements have reference to metallic buttons in connection with
garments and have for their object the production of a button capable of being
more securely sewn or attached to the garment than heretofore.
For this purpose we employ by preference that class of button which is usually
stamped out of the metal plate in two halves or sections and afterwards jointed.
together by turning down the edges or periphery of the stampings and our inven-
tion is especially applicable to buttons designed with a cross bar which separates
or divides the button into two parts, the said cross bar serving to hold the thread
or binding material used for the attachment of the button.
Heretofore this class of button has been made so that the openings at each side
of the cross bar are free open spaces for admitting the needle and thread with the
result that the foundation of the stitches is thereby weakened owing to the inter-
section of the stitches working loose.
The object of our invention is to obviate this difficulty by strengthening the
foundation of the sewing.
And in order that our invention may be more fully understood we have caused
to be appended hereunto one sheet of drawings showing one form in which our
improved button may be made and marked with letters of reference indicating
like parts in the various figures, Fig. 1 being an elevation, Fig. 2 a cross section,
and Fig. 3 a plan thereof.
In carrying out our invention and referring to the figures generally we insert
between the two flanges or sections a &b of the button, a disc or layer of linen,
canvas or other suitable textile material e in such manner that the openings d of
the button become filled in with the said disc or layer of textile material and thus
form a strong durable surface for the sewing, the said layer or disc being kept in
position by the closing of the two sections together.
Although having described and shown our improvements as applied to a metallic
button made in two halves or sections it is obvious that the same may also be used
in or applied to buttons made in one part, for instance as shown in Fig. 1.
Having now "particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
A metallic button furnished with a disc or layer of linen, canvas or other textile
material, adapted to fill in or cover the openings in the button, all substantially
as and for the purpose specified.
F. BOSSHARDT & Co.,
4, Corporation Street, Manchester, Agents to Applicants.