Improved Means for Attaching Buttons to Finger Plates, Applicable to other like Purposes.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 26th June, 1888
Complete Specification Left, 26th Mar., 1889-Accepted, 22nd June, 1589
Improved Means for Attaching Buttons to Finger Plates, Applicable
to other like Purposes.
We, EDWARD COLLIER and RICHARD COLLIER, trading together as Edward Collier
& Sons, of Stour Valley Works, Barker Street, Parade, Birmingham, Warwickshire,
General Wood Turners, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be us
follows:-
This invention consists of the improved means herein described for attaching
moveable ornamental buttons or boses to wood, china and other finger plates to cover
the hoads of the screws by which the finger platos are fixed, and the said invention is
applicable for other like purposes where bosses or buttons have to be removably fixed
to hide screw heads or for other like purposes.
An ordinary method of attaching the said buttons is by means of a screw threaded
shank provided on the bottom which is screwed into a tapped hole in the finger plate ;
but buttons attached in this way are liable to shake loose, and morcover the screw
thread on the shank is comparatively expensive to make, which defects it is the object
of this invention to overcome.
In attaching a button to a finger plate according to this invention we employ a clip
preferably formed of sheet metal which is formed so as to fit in a hole in the finger
plate and has a flange or projecting part which fits against the back of the plate.
The front of the clip forms spring jaws shaped so as to clip the shank of the button or
so as to engage with a central hole in the button.
The shank of the button by proference bulges outwardly so as to afford a better
grip by the jaws and, for the same purpose, when the clip ongages with a bole in the
button, such hole is enlarged inwardly.
When the screws which fix the finger plate have been screwed home and the finger
plate fixed in place the button is held in position against the clip and pressed against
the finger plate which causes the jaws to clip the button and hold it firmly in
position.
Instead of the clip being attached to the finger plate as above described it may be
entirely separate therefrom and be fixed in position from the front of the finger plate
by the head of a screw which passes through it, or by being formed so as to engage
in the hole in the plate.
Our invention is applied to fixing buttons or bosses to cover holes in other articles
similarly as above described with reference to fixing buttons to finger plates.
Our invention is applicable to buttons or bosses and finger plates of wood, china,
metal or of other substances.
Dated this 95th day of Inno 1900
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Attaching Buttons to Finger Plates, Applicable
to other like Purposes.
We, EDWARD COLLIER and RICHARD COLLIER, trading together as Edward Collier
& Sons, of Stour Valley Works, Barker Street, Parade, Birmingham, Warwickshire,
General Wood Turners, 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 of the improved means herein described for attaching

page_text: movable ornamental buttons or bosses to won 1, china and other finger plates to cover
the heads of the screws by which the finger plates are fixed, and the said invention is
applicable for other like purposes where bosses or buttons have to be removably fixed
to hida sarow heads or for other like purposes.
An ordinary method of attaching the said buttons is by means of a screw threaded
slank provided on the button which is serowed into a tapped hole in the finger plate;
but buttons attached in this way are liable to shake loose, and moreover the serow
thread on the shank is comparatively expensive to make, which defects it is the object
of this invention to overcome.
In attaching a button to a finger plate according to this invention we employ a clip
preferably formed of sheet metal which is formed so as to fit in a hole in the finger
plate and has a flange or projecting part which fits against the lack of the plate. The
front of the clip forms spring jaws shaped so as to clip the shank of the button or so
ns to engage with a central hole in the button.
The shank of the button by preference hulges outwardly so as to afford a better
grip by the jaws and for the same purpose, when the clip engages with a hole in the
button, such hole is enlarged inwardly.
When the serows which fix the finger plate have been screwed home and the finger
plate fixed in place the button is held in position against the clip and pressed against
the finger plate which causes the jaws to clip the button and hold it firmly in
position.
Instead of the clip being attach i to the finger plate as above described it uy be
entirely separate therefrom and be fixed in position from the front of the linger plate
by the heal of a screw which passes through it, or by being formed so as to engage
in the hole in the plate.
On the accompanying drawing (which illustrates what we consider to be the best
way for carrying our invention into practice but it is to be unde stool the the
invention is not limited to the precise details illustrated) Fig. 1 represents in elevation
and Fig. 2 in sectional plan part of a finger plate provided with a clip for fixing the
button by engaging in the central hole therein. Fig. 2 the button is also shewn:
Fig. 3 is a se tional plan of the finger plate and clip with the button separately and
Fig. 4 shews separate views of the clip for the same. The remaining Figures
illustrate modifications of our invention as hereinafter more fully describe..
The same letters of reference indicate the sune or corresponding parts in all tho
Figures.
Referring firstly more particularly to Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4, a is the finger plate and ↳
is the button for hiding the heads of the fixing screws c d is the clip consisting of
the flange & fitting against the back of the finger plate and provided with the
projecting spring jaws d² which pass through a hole in the finger plate and project in
the front thereof. These jaws project outwardly so as to engage with the holo & in
the hutton which is enlarged inwardly. The clip d is by preference made of thin
steel or other hard metal so that when the jaws & have been sprung together to insort
the clip through the finger plate they will spring outwardly again.
When the finger plate with the jaws projecting from the front as shown by
Figs. 1, 2 and 3 has been fixed in position by the screws ce, the button is placed in
position and pressed towards the finger plate which causes the jaws to close
together, and when the button comes in contact with the finger plate the jaws spring
apart and engage with the hole band firmly hold the button in position.
In the modification illustrated by Figs. 5, 6, 7 and 8 the button 6 is provided with
a shank bulging outwardly with which the jaws of the clip d engage to hold the
button in position instead of engaging in a hole in the button ns in the example
illustrated by the preceeding Figures.
Figs. 9, 10, 11 and 12 illustrate an example of our invention in which the clip dis
made entirely separato from the finger plate and fixed in position from the front of
the finger plate by the head of the scrow e which passes through it. This clip is
shown separately by Fig. 12, its jaws are of similar shape and engage in the hutton
in a similar manner to that illustrated by Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4.

page_text: Figs. 13, 14, 15 and 16 illustrate a modification of the example illustrated by
Figs. 9, 10, 11 and 12. In this example the jaws of the clip are shaped so as to grip
the shank of the button instead of engaging in a hole therein.
Figs. 17 and 18 illustrate a further modification of our invention in which the clip
is attached to the finger plate by engaging with a countersunk hole at the back of the
plate after the finger plato has been fixed in position. In this example the clip
consists of two sets of jaws marked respectively done set of jaws d³ being formed
so as to spring outwardly and engage in the said countersunk hole in the finger plate
and the other set of jaws d² projecting from the front of the finger plate so as to clip
the shank of the button or engage with the central hole 6 of the same.
Our invention is applicable to buttons or bosses and finger plates of wood, china,
metal, or of other substances.
Our invention is applied to fixing buttons, bosses, knobs, or other projecting parts
to cover holes in other articles such as articles of furniture or billiard tables similarly
as above described with reference to fixing buttons to finger plates.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. In attaching buttons knobs or bosses to finger plates and other articles, the
employment of a clip constructed and attached to the finger plate or other article
substantially in the several ways described and illustrated and provided with spring
jaws which engage with the button knob or boss for the purpose and substantially as
hereinbefore described and illustrated.
2. In a clip for attaching buttons knobs or bosses to finger plates or other articles,
the combination of the flange d' for engaging with the back of a finger plate or other
article and the spring jaws for engaging with the button knob or boss substantially
as hereinbefore described and illustrated by Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4 and by Figs. 5, 6, 7
and of the accompanying drawing.
3. A clip for attaching buttons knobs or bosses to finger plates or other articles
adapted for threading on to a headed screw or the like and provided with the spring
jaws d for engaging with the button knob or boss substantially as hereinbefore
described and illustrated by Figs. 9, 10, 11 and 12 and by Figs. 13, 14, 15 and 16 of
the accompanying drawing.
4. In a clip for attaching buttons knobs or bosses to finger plates or other articles
the combination of the spring jaws d' for engaging with a hole in the finger plate or
other article and the spring jaws d for engaging with the button knob or boss
substantially as herein before described and illustrated by Figs. 17 and 18 of the
accompanying drawing.
Dated this 23rd day of March 1889.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.