Improvements in Collar-studs and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: .Date of Application; 11th Apr., 1895-Accepted, 11th May, 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Collar-studs and the like.
I RICHARD GATZSCHE, of Hartha near Waldheim i/S in the Empire of
Germany, Smith, 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 :-
This invention consists in improvements in studs for buttoning the collar on to
the shirt or for buttoning cuffs and sleeves and the improved studs are of such a
shape that they can be inserted in or passed through small button holes of shirts
with great facility, no matter how much the latter may be starched without
unnecessarily enlarging or otherwise damaging said holes; moreover such studs
when inserted cannot become disconnected without the intervention of the wearer
but may without any difficulty be unlocked and removed from the buttonhole while
equally well preserving the shape of the hole.
In the annexed drawings
Fige. 1 to 4 represent different shapes of such studs each being shown in front
and side view.
Fig. 5 represents a collar showing the method of applying the stud and
Fig. 6 illustrates the stud in its final locking position.
The stud, which may be made of any suitable material, consists of a head c and
the stem b which latter connects the head c with the plate a.
The head c is of a
heart, arrow or spade like form, that is, it may be provided with flat, sharp or
rounded point. The surfaces are of a preferably curved shape; all the edges
however, even the lower, are bevelled to a wedge like form.
The stem has a right angled or oval cross section and in relation to the
head c, its broader and longer sides or its longer axis respectively are at right
angles to the planes of the head c, whereas its smaller sides smoothly combine with
the said planes.
Fig. 4 shows a kidney like head, which otherwise has the same characteristics
as above described.
In order to insert the stud, it is passed through the button hole in a position as
shown in Fig. 5, that is to say, so that the plane of the head coincides with the
longitudinal direction of the hole; whereby the stem 6 passes through the hole
with its broader side planes at right angles to the longitudinal direction of the
button hole. The stud is then turned through a right angle so that the broader
sides of the stem lie in the longitudinal direction of the button hole.
The unbuttoning and removing of the stud can be effected with equal facility.
As the lower edges of the head, which lie against the buttonhole, have a wedge
like shape, the stud after being turned through 90 degrees, that is, after being
brought into the same position as during its insertion, may be removed just as
easily in as much as the wedge like edges enlarge the button hole sufficiently to
allow the stem b to pass..
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
A collar or similar stud having a heart, arrow, spade or kidney shaped flat
head c and a stem which latter connects the head c with the bottom plate a and

page_text: the cross section of which stem has its broader sides or longer axis at right angles
to the plane of extension of the head c.
Dated this 11th day of April 1895.
HERBERT HADDAN & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C.,
Agents to the Applicant.