IMPROVEMENTS IN STUDS AND BUTTONS AND THEIR FASTENINGS
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Thomas Thompson, of Berwick Street,
St. James', in the County of Middlesex, Foreman Tailor, for the
Invention of IMPROVEMENTS IN STUDS AND BUTTONS AND THEIR
FASTENINGS."
Sealed the 6th August 1867, and dated the 11th February 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Thomas Thompson
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
11th February 1867.
I, ROBERT THOMAS THOMPSON, of Berwick Street, St. James', in the
County of Middlesex, Foreman Tailor, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN STUDS AND BUTTONS AND THEIR FASTENINGS," to
be as follows:
My improvements in buttons and their fastenings refer more especially to
brace buttons, but may be used for other purposes. I make this button of
a disc of any suitable size and dished or flat, preferring however the flat form,
which may be stamped or otherwise ornamented; from the back part and in
the centre of this disc projects a neck piece of a length according to the
thickness of material to be applied thereon, while in the front is a raised
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page_text: dome or projection coinciding with the position of the neck at back. A small
hole is bored from the back in the centre of the neck piece through the button
and into the dome or projection in front, but not quite through. The hole
has a screw thread tapped in it in this hole I fit a screwed pin which I term
a needle, preferring it to be of steel and sharp pointed; this needle is furnished
with a disc head of say about two-thirds the diameter of the button. To
secure this button to a garment it is simply necessary to insert the sharp
pointed steel screw or needle through the material thereof and screw on the
button from the front; the garment will be held between the end of the neck
or shank and the disc head of the screw, the point of which may also come
against the inside of the dome projection, that is to say, the bottom of the
screwed hole. Thus the button will be fixed tightly to the garment with the
necessary freedom provided by the length of the neck or shank for buttoning
anything thereon. The screw being of great length, as permitted by the
projecting dome in front of the botton, it will sustain great wear, and even
although becoming loose is not liable to release the button from the garment
or other article to which it may be applied. These buttons may be stamped
up or cast and turned or otherwise completed, and may be of any suitable metal,
but I prefer to use German silver or even silver, as although more expensive
these buttons can be readily removed and applied from one garment or article
to another.
The same construction and arrangement of parts I apply to studs and their
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Robert Thomas Thompson in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 10th August 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, 1, ROBERT
THOMAS THOMPSON, of Berwick Street, St. James', in the County of Middlesex,
Foreman Tailor, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of ller
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant, unto me, the
said Robert Thomas Thompson, Her special licence that I, the said Robert
Thomas Thompson, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as 1, the said Robert Thomas Thompson, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and

page_text: upon the
at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN STUDS AND BUTTONS AND THEIR FASTENINGS,"
condition (amongst others) that 1, the said Robert Thomas Thompson,
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 inanner the same
was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal
Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Robert Thomas Thompson, 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, reference being had to the Sheet of Drawings hereunto
annexed, and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say):-
My improvements in buttons and their fastenings refer more especially to
brace buttons, but they may be used for other purposes. I make the button
of a disc of any suitable size, and dished or flat, preferring however the flat
form, which may be stamped or otherwise ornamented. From the back part.
and in the centre of this disc projects a neck piece of a length according to
the thickness of material to be applied thereon, while in the front is a raised
dome or projection coinciding with the position of the neck at back. A small
hole is bored from the back in the centre of the neck piece through the button
and into the dome or projection in front, but not quite through. The hole
has a screw thread tapped in it, into which hole I fit a screwed pin termed a
needle, preferring it to be of steel and sharp pointed. This needle is furnished
with a disc head of say about two-thirds the diameter of the button. T'o
secure the button to a garment it is simply necessary to insert the sharp
pointed steel needle through the material thereof, and screw on the button
from the front; the garment will thus be held between the end of the neck
or shank and the disc head of the screw, the point of which may also come
against the inside of the dome projection, that is to say, the bottom of the
screwed hole. Thus the button will be fixed tightly to the garment with the
necessary freedom provided by the length of the neck or shank for buttoning
anything thereon. The screw being of great length, as permitted by the
projecting dome in front of the button, it will sustain great wear, and even
although becoming loose is not liable to release the button from the garment
or other article to which it may be applied; and further, this screw being

page_text: small and of steel with a sharp point is easily thrust through a garment or
other article to which it is to be applied.
These buttons may be stamped up or cast and turned or otherwise completed,
and may be of any suitable metal, but I prefer to use German silver or even
silver, as although more expensive these buttons can be readily removed and
applied from one garment or article to another.
The same construction and arrangement of parts I apply to studs and their
fastenings.
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
In order to show the Invention more clearly all the Figures are drawn on
an enlarged scale.
Figure represents a front view of an ordinary brace button; Figure 2 a
plan of the same; Figure 3 is a back view of said button; Figure 4 is a plan
of the same; Figure 5 is a view of the screwed needle with its disc head.
The latter I prefer to make convex on the side from which the needle projects,
as it allows the button when attached to turn round in the cloth without
becoming unscrewed. For the same purpose the needle is not screw-threaded
within a short distance from the disc. Figure 6 is a central vertical section
of the same button showing its attachment to the cloth; Figures 7 and 8
show a modification of the form of the dome; Figures 9 and 10 represent
a front view and plan of a shirt stud made according to my Invention.
In all these Figures the same letters of reference indicate like parts.
a is the disc or head of the button, from the back of which projects the
neck b. c is the dome or projection on the front of the disc; it coincides
with the neck piece bat the back and receives the point of the screwed
needle e. d is the disc head of said needle. To secure the button to a
garment the screwed needle e is inserted through the cloth and the button
screwed on the front, as seen in Figure 6. The cloth will be held between
the end of the neck b and the disc d; the needle point of the screw e will also
come against the inside of the dome c.
Figures 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16 show the application of my Invention
to Florentine" or covered buttons suitable for a coat or waistcoat. In this
case the dome is dispensed with. the face a of the button being perfectly flat.
The head of this button is made in two pieces, as seen in section Figure 16,
and the screwed hole is bored entirely through the neck b and inner disc f
so that when the button is attached the needle point will come in contact
with the outer plate or disc a, as seen in Figure 16. The head of this button
is covered with cloth and stamped together in the usual way.

page_text: These buttons, besides being applicable to trowsers, shirts, coats, and
waistcoats, may also be applied to gloves and other articles.
Having described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of performing
the same, I declare that what I claim as the Invention to be protected by the
herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the improved construction of
buttons and studs herein-before described and represented in the Drawings
annexed secured to a garment or other article by a screwed and sharp pointed
pin or needle, as and for the purposes herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Robert Thomas Thompson, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Ninth day of August, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
R. T. THOMPSON. (L.s.)