Improvements in Cards for Mounting Buttons to Facilitate Sales.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Dec., 1891-Accepted, 23rd Jan., 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Cards for Mounting Buttons to Facilitate Sales.
We TномAS WEBBER JERRARD, ARTHUR GEORGE DARBY, and JOHN
GUSTAVUS CLEGG, all of the firm of Jerrard Darby and Clegg, Warehousemen,
124 Wood Street, London, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention for improvements in cards for mounting buttons to facilitate sales
has for its object to render the cards on which buttons are usually mounted for
ready inspection and sale easily divisible without the aid of scissors or other means
into sections containing a definite suitable number of buttons, say for example half
a dozen, and consists essentially in dividing the card into the said sections by means
of lines of small holes or pinking somewhat similar to a sheet of stamps, the buttons
being mounted on the card by cotton threads or any other suitable means which do
not pass from one section of the card to another and consequently do not require to
be cut when separating the sections.
In the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings :
Fig. 1 is a face view of a card of buttons showing one method of dividing it into
sections by lines of pinking, and
Fig. 2 is a back view shewing one method of separately securing the buttons of
each section.
The card A. is divided into four sections B by means of the two lines C of
pinking at right angles to one another. Each section B is shown containing six
buttons D secured to that section by a separate piece of thread E passed through
the shank or fastening eyes d of the buttons and secured at its ends.
Instead of two lines at right angles the card may be divided into four sections
each containing six buttons by means of three parallel lines of pinking or into six
sections each containing four buttons by five parallel lines of pinking. The card
may be backed in the usual manner by a piece of paper pasted by its edges over
the back of the card and divided into corresponding sections by lines of pinking,
each section containing the trade description of the button.
The cards may be of any convenient size and may contain any desired number of
buttons and may be divided into equal or unequal sections containing the desired
number of buttons.
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. Dividing a card for mounting buttons into sections each containing the
desired number of buttons, by lines of perforated holes or pinking substantially as
described and for the purpose set forth.
2. Dividing a card for mounting buttons into sections each containing the
desired number of buttons, by lines of perforated holes or pinking and securing the
buttons of each section to that section by independent means substantially as
described and for the purpose set forth.
3. Cards for mounting buttons to facilitate sales arranged and divided sub-
stantially as described with reference to the drawings.
Dated this 8th day of December 1891.
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, Agents.