In Improved Fastener for Buttons, Watch Chains, Guards, and other
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 1st June, 1886.
Complete Léft, 26th Feb., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 29th Mar.; 1887.
[Communicated from abroad by JOHN MCDONNELL, of Avisawella, in the Island
of Ceylon, of Her Majesty's Public Works Department.]
In Improved Fastener for Buttons, Watch Chains, Guards, and other
I JAMES HART-DAVIES M.A. of the firm of Hart & Co. Patent Agents of
186 Fleet Street in the City of London do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
This is an improvement on and an adaptation of the fastener for buttons as
described in the provisional specification accompanying the application for a Patent.
filed on the 29th day of March 1886 under No. 4381 by the said John McDonnell.
According to the present invention this fastener is intended to subserve the same
ends and objects and to remedy the same disadvantages in the usual fasteners as are
described in the said provisional specification but the shapes and methods of construc-
tion and fitting are so modified and improved that the button will the more easily and
quickly be connected to the fastener while the security thereof will in no wise he
diminished and at the same time this fastener is adapted for securing the ends of
watch chains hat and other guards fan suspenders and many other similar articles and
appliances..
To carry out this object and to make this fastener I take a piece of brass wire or
other similar and suitable material and I bend the same into a form somewhat like a
yoke for a pair of oxen that is to say a somewhat straight bar with a recess or bend
or elbow formed in the centre thereof and the end parts of the wire are bent down-
wards at the extremities of the straight part and doubled back parallel or thereabouts
therewith in such a manner as to create springs of the same. The ends of the wirę
may meet each other at or about the centre of the bar under the recess or bend or
elbow therein or thereabouts and may there overlap cach other a certain desired
distance or may abut against each other or may be bent up into the recess bend or
elbow aforesaid or away from the same or may have pins or studs by which they can
be rivetted or connected together or be otherwise treated in any usual or convenient
Manner.

page_text: The shank of the button is then passed in between these ends so that one of the
said ends shall enter the eye of the shank when the pins or studs if any may rivet or
connect the two ends together and the button is passed along the fastener to one of
the extremities thereof where the wire is doubled back as aforesaid. The two parts
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of the fastener parallel or thereabouts with each other as aforesaid are preferably so
close together that the shank of the button can only somewhat stiffly or hardly or
with a small expenditure of force so pass along between the two parts so that the
button will always remain in the position in which it is placed until it is forcibly
removed therefrom. The other end of the fastener or that is to say that end thereof
where the button is not is then passed through the eye made in the garment or other
article for the button until the shank thereof has entered this eye when the fastener is
preferably moved until the shank of the button enters and is situated at the recess
bend or elbow in the centre and the button is very firmly and safely secured in
position but can easily be removed therefrom by reversing this aforesaid procedure
and as there is a somewhat straight bar formed by this fastener across the eye in the
garment or other article it is practically impossible that the button should fall out.
This fastener is also obviously adapted for securing the ends of watch chains guards
and other articles and appliances by fitting a ring in the ends of these articles and
appliances and passing this ring into and along the fastener in the same manner and
by making the somewhat straight bar of the fastener long enough to secure the end
of the article or appliance into the button hole or other aperture as is required.
The fastener can be so made as to allow the shank of the button or the ring to pass
to both or either of the ends or extremities thereof or only to one end or extremity
as may be desired.

page_text: similar Articles and Appliances.
A communication to me from abroad by Jonn MCDONNELL, of Avisawella, in the
Island.of Ceylon, of Her Majesty's Public Works Department.
I JAMES HART-DAVIES M.A. of the firm of Hart & Co. Patent Agents of
186 Fleet Street in the City of London 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 is an improvement on and an adaptation of the fastener for buttons
as described in the specification of the application for a Patent by the said
John McDonnell dated the 29th day of March 1886 and numbered 4381.
According to the present invention this fastener is intended to subserve the same
ends and objects and to remedy the same disadvantages in the usual fasteners as are
described in the aforesaid specification but the shapes and methods of construction
and fitting are so modified and improved that the button will the more easily and
quickly be connected to the fastener while the security thereof will in no wise be
diminished and at the same time this fastener is adapted for securing the ends of
watch chains hat and other guards fan suspenders and many other similar articles and
appliances.
In the accompanying drawing are shewn four very suitable and convenient styles
of this fastener.
A piece of brass or other wire A or other suitable material is bent as shewn into a
form somewhat like a yoke with a recess or bend B formed in the centre thereof and
the end parts A¹ of the wire or other material are bent downwards at the extremities
of this yoke like form as shewn ai D and are doubled back parallel or thereabouts
with the other parts in such a manner as to create springs of the same. The ends E
of the wire or other material A preferably meet each other at or about the middle of
this fastener under the recess or bend B and may there be bent up into this recess or
bend B as shewn in Figure 1 pressing somewhat hardly against each other or may
abut against each other as shewn at E' in Figure 2 also pressing somewhat hardly
against each other or may overlap each other a certain desired distance as shewn at
Ein Figure 3 in which case the ends E may be rivetted or brazed or otherwise
secured or connected together when the fastener is connected to its button or a recess
or bend B may be formed in one or both of these parts A¹ of the wire or other
material corresponding to or complementary of the recess or bend B aforesaid as
shewn in Figure 4 in which case the ends can conveniently overlap each other as
shewn at Efor these ends may be otherwise treated in any usual or convénient
manner as may be desired.
The shank of the button is inserted between the ends E so that one of these ends E
shall enter the eye of the shank and the button is so passed along the part A' to

page_text: one of the extremities D. of the fastener where the wire or other material is doubled
back as aforesaid. The two parts A and A¹ of the fastener are preferably so close
together that the shank of the button at some part of its aforesaid passage can only
somewhat stifly or hardly or with a small expenditure of force so pass along the
fastener so that the button will always remain in and at that part of the fastener
where it may be placed until it is forcibly removed therefrom.
.
The other end of the fastener or that is to say that extremity D where the button is
not is then passed through the eye made in the garment or other article for the button
and the whole of the fastener is drawn therethrough until the shank of the
button enters this eye when the fastener is forcibly moved on or in the shank of the
button in such wise that the part A of the fastener moves in the eye of the shank until
the shank of the button arrives at the recess or bend B or when the fastener is formed as
shewn in Figure 4 it may be the part A¹ that moves in the eye of the shank until the
shank of the button arrives at the recess or bend B₁ in either case the button being
very firmly and safely secured in position as is desired while by reversing this afore-
said procedure or succession of movements the button can easily be removed therefrom
and as there is obviously a somewhat straight bar formed by this fastener across the
eye in the garment or other article it is practically impossible that the button should
fall out or become disconnected by accident or misadventure from the garment or
other article.
This fastener is also obviously adapted for securing the ends of watch chains guards
and other similar articles and appliances by fitting if required a ring in the ends of
these articles and appliances and passing this ring into and along the fastener in the
same manner as hereinbefore described in all cases care being taken that the some-
what straight bar formed by this fastener is long enough to secure the end of the
article or appliance in the button holė or other aperture as is required.
The fastener can be so made as to allow the shank of the button or the ring to pass
as shewn in the drawing to either of the ends or extremities D thereof as may be
desired or on one side the two parts A and A' may be so close together or may be so
formed or treated that the shank of the button or the ring can only pass to the other
end or extremity D on the other side thereof.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is
The fastener for buttons and other articles and appliances made and formed
substantially as herein before described and shewn in the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 28th day of February 1887