AN IMPROVED MANU. FACTURE OF COVERED BUTTONS
Year: 1864

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Augustus luddart, of Brynkir, in the County
of Carnarvon, Gentleman, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED MANU.
FACTURE OF COVERED BUTTONS."
Scaled the 24th January 1865, and dated the 30th July 1864.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Augustus Huddart
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition. on
the 30th July 1864.
I, GEORGE AUGUSTUS HUDDART, of Brynkir, in the County of Carnarvon.
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN
IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF COVERED BUTTONS," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to improvements on a Patent granted to me for
improvements in buttons, and bearing date 17th Dec, 1862, (No. 3379).
the chief object of that Invention being to effect the attachment of certain
kinds of buttons to garments and fabrics by means of pressure.
The present Invention relates to the manufacture of cloth or covered
buttons, which may be attached to garments by pressure in place of by sewing.
I provide a disc of soft brass or other suitable material, with or without a
projection at its centre. This disc or its projection I countersink to receive
the pin of a stud, the end of which pin is made capable of expanding under
pressure and filling the countersunk hole in the disc when it is desired to
attach the button to a garment. The face of this metal disc I cover with a
disc of cloth, and submit it to the action of dies for the purpose of turning
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page_text: over the edges of the metal and cloth discs, and thereby securing the cloth in
the ordinary way of making covered buttons. Or I overlay the countersunk
disc with any ordinary soft sheet metal, and use the edges of that metal for
turning in and securing the cloth. By this means I get a strong covered
button, similar in appearance (when applied to a garment) to the ordinary
covered button, but yet admitting of being attached simply by the action of
pressure.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Augustus Huddart in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 30th January 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
AUGUSTUS HUDDART, of Brynkir, in the County of Carnarvon, Gentleman,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of July, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, in the twenty-eighth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said George Augustus Huddart, Her special license that I, the said George
Augustus Huddart, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said George Augustus Huddart, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and law-
fully might make. use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an
Invention for "AN IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF COVERED BUTTONS," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said George Augustus Huddart, by
an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Augustus Huddart, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement. reference being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed,
and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say):-

page_text: This Invention relates to improvements on a Patent granted to me for
"Improvements in Buttons," and bearing date Seventeenth December, One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, (No. 3379), the chief object of that
Invention being to effect the attachment of certain kinds of buttons to garments
and fabrics by means of pressure.
The present improvement has reference to the manufacture of cloth or
covered buttons, which may be similarly attached to garments by pressure in
place of by sewing. In carrying out my Invention I provide a disc of soft
brass or other suitable material, with or without a projecting shoulder at its
centre. This disc or its projecting shoulder 1 countersink to receive the pin
of a stud, the end of which pin is made capable of expanding under pressure,
and filling the countersunk hole in the disc when it is desired to attach the
button to a garment. The face of this metal disc I cover with a disc of cloth,
and submit it to the action of dies for the purpose of turning over the edges
of the metal and cloth discs, and thereby securing the cloth in the ordinary
way of making covered buttons. Or I overlay the countersunk disc with any
ordinary soft sheet metal, and use the edges of that metal for turning in and
securing the cloth, by which means I get a strong covered button similar in
appearance (when applied to a garment) to the ordinary covered button, but
yet admitting of being attached simply by the action of pressure.
In the accompanying Drawing, Fig. 1 shews in section on an enlarged scale
the parts of a cloth button made according to this Invention, and ready to be
applied to a garment.
a is a disc of soft metal covered with cloth, which is secured by turning in
the edge of the disc. This disc has a shoulder or projection at its centre
countersunk to receive the hollowed end of the pin of a stud b, which is
intended to form the shank of the button. In order to attach the button to a
garment a hole is made in the fabric as shewn at c. and the pin of the stud b
being passed through it and inserted into the countersunk hole of the disc a.
pressure is applied and the hollowed end of the pin is caused to spread and
fill the countersunk hole, as shewn at Fig. 2. This result is facilitated by
forming a slight projection at the bottom of the countersunk hole, as shewn in
the Drawing. The fabric is then firmly held between the stud b and the
shoulder of the disc a.
Figures 3 and 4 shew in section a stronger kind of covered button, the
disc a being in this case overlaid by an overlapping disc d of softer metal for
turning in and holding the cloth covering; Figure 3 shews the parts in
position ready for attachment to the garment c, and Fig. 4 shews them after
the pressure has been applied.

page_text: Figures 5 and 6 shew the manner of applying the improvement to a shell-
covered button. In this instance the disc d is formed with a projection for
spreading the end of the stud pin, and a hole is merely punched through the
back or metal shell e. The cloth covering is secured as usual in the manu-
facture of this class of button. When pressure is applied to affix the button
to a garment the hollowed end of the stud pin will spread, and lapping over
the shell e hold the button firmly in position.
Having now set forth the nature of my Invention of "An Improved
Manufacture of Covered Buttons," and explained the manner of carrying the
same into effect, I wish it to be understood, that under the above in part
recited Letters Patent, I claim manufacturing covered buttons that will admit
of being attached to garments by pressure in the manner above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Augustus Huddart, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, the Twenty-seventh day of January, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
GEO. A. HUDDART. (L.S.)