Improvements in Button-hole Decorations.
Year: 1893

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by HENRY WASHINGTON FISHEL, residing at
No. 156, East 65th Street, in the City, County, and State of New York,
one of the United States of America, Jeweller.]
Improvements in Button-hole Decorations. :
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent
Agents, 45 Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, 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:-
The object of my improvement is to furnish a button-hole decoration or bouton-
niere, with a reservoir, for perfume or water, whence may be ejected a spray.
I will describe a boutonniere, embodying my improvement, and point out the
novel features in a claim.
In the accompanying drawing,
Figure 1 is a central longitudinal section on an enlarged scale.
Figure 2 is a perspective view of a nozzle, comprised in the stem.
Figure 3 is a perspective view of the body of the boutonniere.
Figure 4 is a perspective view of the reservoir, and a nipple with which it is
provided.
Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.
A designates the body of the boutonniere. It may be made of sheet metal.
As here shown, it consists of a tubular stem A, having a flange, shoe or back
plate B, at the rear extremity, and provided at the forward extremity, with a
Hange C, consisting of a socket for sustaining the flower D. The parts A, B, C,
may be made in one integral piece and the stem is intended to open through the
back plate and through the socket.
The flower D may be made of leaves of celluloid, or analogous material, fitted
together so as to bear against the socket. Within the flower is a nozzle E, which
may be made of metal, with a flange e, and a screw-threaded portion e' capable of
being screwed into the front portion of the stem A. The flange e will hold the
leaves of the flower in or against the socket.
F designates the reservoir, preferably consisting of a bulb of soft india rubber.
It is provided with a nipple G, which may be most advantageously made of metal,
with two flanges g', g². The bulb or reservoir has a hole into which the flange g'
may be inserted. The nipple is screw-threaded, so that it may engage with the
interior of the rear portion of the stem A.
The reservoir is so small that the boutonniere may be slipped through an
ordinary buttonhole in the lapel of a coat, and the reservoir will be accommodated
behind the lapel. I am unwilling to confine myself to any particular shape for the
reservoir, as it is only essential to provide for reducing the interior capacity so as
to eject liquid therefrom.
It is intended that the nozzle within the flower shall not be covered by any
portion of the flower, in order that when any one invited to smell the flower, avails
himself of the invitation, the wearer of the flower may compress the reservoir and
eject perfume or water in the nozzle.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondent I declare that what I claim is :
1. A boutonniere provided with a reservoir and a nozzle, for ejecting a liquid,
substantially as specified.

page_text: 2. A boutonniere having a hollow stem, a liquid reservoir communicating with
one end of the stem, and a nozzle at the other end of the stem, substantially as
specified.
Dated this 8th day of May 1893.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.