IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY FOR MANUFACTURING MOTHER-OF-PEARL, IVORY, BONE, OR OTHER HARD BUTTONS
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Eugène Cyprien Marie, Mother-of-Pearl Button
Manufacturer, of No. 82, Boulevard Sébastopol, Paris, in the
Empire of France, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MACHINERY
FOR MANUFACTURING MOTHER-OF-PEARL, IVORY, BONE, OR OTHER HARD
BUTTONS."
Scaled the 1st July 1870, and dated the 4th January 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Eugène Cyprien Marie
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 4th January 1870.
I, EUGÈNE CYPRIEN MARIE, Mother-of-Pearl Button Manufacturer,
of No. 82, Boulevard Sébastopol, Paris, in the Empire of France, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for " IMPROVEMENTS
IN MACHINERY FOR MANUFACTURING MOTHER-OF-PEARL, IVORY, BONE, OR OTHER
HARD BUTTONS," to be as follows :-
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The object of the present Invention is to facilitate the manufacture
of buttons of mother-of-pearl or other hard substance, the machine for
the purpose not requiring the employment of skilled workmen, as
novice will in a few hours learn its use.

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The apparatus consists of a frame in which a square shaft is mounted,
moved by a lever handle arranged for this purpose on an horizontal
plane, the handle merely serving to give the necessary backward and
forward motion to the shaft, which is mounted on two uprights of the
frame by aid of two movable cushions admitting of removing the shaft
when desired and also of adjusting and giving it the requisite play. The
cushions are surmounted by a cap in which a screw is placed acting
on the cushion. On the right side of the uprights of the frame is a
support serving to fix the lever, which is attached to the shaft by means
of a pin fixed and established at right angles with and traversing
the lever. A regulator is attached to the lever in order to impart a
regular motion to the shaft, so that all the buttons are made precisely
similar in form. The other end of the shaft bears a socket in which the
porte-chisel is placed; this latter is solidly connected by means of a
screw arranged in the socket, and the chisel itself is fixed by aid of
another screw. The chisel giving the form to the buttons is at one
end edged, and is at the upper part and at the extremity of the shape
desired to cut the buttons, so that for every variation of form a fresh
tool is required, which is readily and casily mounted.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Eugène Cyprien Maric in the Great Scal Patent
Office on the 2nd. July 1870.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EUGÈNE
CYPRIEN MARIE, Mother-of-Pearl Button Manufacturer, of No. 82,
Boulevard Sebastopol, Paris, in the Empire of France, send greeting.
...
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of January, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-third
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Eugène Cyprien Maric, Her special licence that
I, the said Eugène Cyprien Marie, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Eugène Cyprien Marie, 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

page_text: vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS. IN
MACHINERY FOR MANUFACTURING MOTHER-OF-PEARL,. IVORY, BONE, OR OTHER
HARD BUTTONS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Eugène Cyprien Maric, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
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.
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NOW KNOW YE, that I; the said Eugène Cyprien Marie, 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 and accompanying-Drawings, that is
to say:-
The object of the present Invention is to turn hard buttons at one
single operation, thus effecting a great saving of time and labour, as the
old or land method of manufacture was tedious and necessitated the
employment of skilled workmen, whereas a novice with a few instructions.
can soon understand and work my apparatus, with the advantage that
the manufacture is rapid and the buttons are cut of exact form and
dimensions without the least variation, as the cutting tool employed is
of the form of button desired.
The apparatus consists of a frame A on which a square shaft B is
mounted, moved by a lever and handle M arranged for this purpose on
an horizontal plane, the handle serving to give the necessary backward
and forward motion to the shaft. B, which is mounted on the two
uprights of the frame by aid of two movable cushions C, admitting of
removing the shaft when desired. and also of adjusting and giving
it the requisite play. The cushions C are surmounted by a cap D, in
which a screw E is placed, acting on the cushions, see Figure 1, which
is the full size of the apparatus. On the right side of the uprights of
the frame is a support F serving to fix the lever, which is attached
to the end of the shaft by means of a small pin H fixed and established
at right angles with and traversing the lover. A regulator K is attached
to the lever in order to impart a regular and invariable motion to the
shaft so that all the buttons are made precisely similar in form. The
other end of the shaft L bears a socket in which the porte-chisel (or

page_text: cutter P is placed; this latter is solidly connected by means of a
screw I arranged in the socket, and the cutter or chisel itself R is fixed
by aid of another screw J, see Figure 2, which is half the size of the
apparatus. The end a of the cutting tool R. is edged and bears at
the upper part and at the end a¹ a form which it is intended the buttons
shall receive; this is changed and replaced by another each time the
shape of the button is to be altered. The cutter when necessary is
readily sharpened without deranging the apparatus. The same letters.
of reference indicate like parts shown in the two Figures.
The features of novelty, therefore, and for which I desire to secure
Letters Patent consist of cutting hard buttons by means of cutting
tools of the form of button desired, the tools being actuated by means
of a square shaft (to one end of which they are attached) and to which a
backward and forward motion is imparted by a lever handle, the shaft
being supported on two movable cushions (borne by the uprights of the
frame) and its precision of action being directed by a regulator.
In witness whereof, I, the said Eugène Cyprien Marie, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of
June, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
seventy.
E. HÉBRÉ.
EUGÈNE CYPRIEN MARIE. (L.S.)