Improved Button for Garments.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Feb., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 1st Nov., 1892-Accepted, 10th Dec., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Button for Garments.
I, ALFRED WEINTRAUD, of the firm Weintraud Sons & Co., 2 Cripplegate
Buildings, Wood Street in the City of London, Manufacturer, do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Buttons as at present constructed are provided sometimes with holes for the
passage of a needle and thread through central part of the button for sewing it to
the garment, or instead of the holes, a small tuft or neck of fabric is formed at the
back of the button as a shank for the needle and thread to pass through transversely
and then through the fabric of the garment for securing one to the other.
In practice when buttons of the kind first described are used, a neck or shank is
formed by passing several turns of thread round between the button and the fabric
of the garment in order to slightly raise the button from the fabric to facilitate the
action of buttoning up.
The object of my invention is a combination of the two systems above described,
by forming a button with holes for passing a needle and thread from front to back
and through the fabric, also with a tuft or shank of fabric for sewing transversely,
whereby I obtain the advantages of a double sewing and a secure attachment, at
the same time the button is raised or stands up from the garment for easy
buttoning.
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1006.
H. GARDNER,
Per R. Core Gardner,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Alfred Weintraud.
H. GARDNER,
Per R. Core Gardner,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Alfred Weintraud.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Button for Garments.
I, ALFRED WEINTRAUD, of the firm Weintraud Sons & Co., 2 Cripplegate
Buildings, Wood Street in the City of London, Manufacturer, 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 :-
Buttons as at present constructed are provided sometimes with holes for the
passage of a needle and thread through central part of the buttons for sewing it to
the garment, or instead of the holes, a small tuft or neck of fabric is formed at the
back of the button as a shank for the needle and thread to pass through transversely,
and then through the fabric of the garment for securing one to the other.
In practice when buttons of the kind first described are used, a neck or shank
is formed by passing several turns of thread round between the button and the
fabric of the garment in order to slightly raise the button from the fabric to
facilitate the action of buttoning up.
The object of my invention is a combination of the two systems above described,
by forming a button with holes for passing a needle and thread from front to back
and through the fabric, also with a tuft or shank of fabric for sewing transversely,
whereby I obtain the advantages of a double sewing and a secure attachment, at the
same time, the button is raised, or stands up from the garment for easy buttoning.
An example of my invention is represented in the annexed drawings.
Figure 1 a front plan or elevation of a fourholed button.

page_text: Figure 2 a back plan or elevation of a cloth shank button.
Figure 3 a side elevation of same.
Figure 4 sectional elevation of the combined holed and cloth shank button.
Figure 5 detached plan of claw ring hereafter referred to.
A is the holed button formed with an annular channel or groove B in the back
rim C. D is a ring with points E projecting radially.
F Figure 6 is the cloth or fabric made baggy by pressure with an edge, into
which the points E can be caused to enter when bent downwards, and then to
curl in to obtain a firm grip in the cloth or fabric, portions of which become
shut in between the rim and the base of the claws.
G Figure 7 is a shaped ring socket, which when forced into position has the
inner flange sett into close contact with the cloth or fabric, the outer flange
being spread outwardly to occupy the groove or channel in the button back, and
so unite the four parts together and constitute the button, which forms the subject
of this invention.
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 :-
1. The construction of holed buttons and fabric shanked button as a single
button for being sewn on by thread passed through the holes, or through the fabric
shank, as described and substantially as represented in the annexed drawings.
2. The construction of holed buttons, as herein before described, in which the
fabric shank takes the strain of a garment when buttoned up, instead of such
strain being imparted upon, or against the thread, by which such button is
:sewn on.
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H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Alfred Weintraud.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Alfred Weintraud.