Improvements in Buttons.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Dec., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Sept., 1895-Accepted, 12th Oct., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Buttons.
We, THOMAS COOK, of Stephen Royd, Apperley Bridge, near Leeds, in the
County of York, Wholesale Clothier, and JOHN HENRY INGLE, of Chevin House,
Otley, in the County of York, Commission Agent, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows:-
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This invention relates to improvements in buttons such as are used on trousers
and like garments, and its object is to provide a cheap and simple arrangement of
button that may be readily fixed or fastened to the garment without sewing and
without any complicated arrangement of parts.
Various arrangements have previously been proposed for dispensing with sewing
buttons on to the garments and with more or less success, but such buttons have
either been difficult to fix in position or the number of component parts has increased
their cost of manufacture.
According to this invention the button is made in two parts which for convenience
of description are respectively termed the rim and the shank.
The rim which is somewhat in appearance like an ordinary metal trouser button,
consists of a disc suitably dished and provided with a central hole. Whilst the shank
is made hollow and consists of a straight or tapering tube provided at its largest
end, when the tube tapers, with a suitable flange.
To fix the button in position a hole is punched or otherwise made in say the
garment, the shank is then passed through the hole until its flange is about level
with the inner face or side of say the garment. The rim is then placed upon the
shank, on the outside of say the garment-and the end of the hollow shank turned
or clenched over, with or without the use of an additional washer, to form a second
flange for retaining the rim in position.
Any suitable setting tool or machine may be employed for turning over or clenching
the end of the hollow shank.
Dated this Eleventh day of December 1894
THOMAS COOK,
JOHN HENRY INGLE,
By W. Fairburn-Hart,
Agent.
Improvements in Buttons.
We, THOMAS Cooк, of Stephen Royd, Apperley Bridge, near Leeds, in the
County of York, Wholesale Clothier, and JOHN HENRY INGLE, of Chevin House,
Otley, in the County of York, Commission Agent, 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 relates to improvements in buttons such as are used on trousers

page_text: and like garments, and its object is to provide a cheap and simple arrangement of
button that may be readily fixed or fastened to the garment without sewing and
without any complicated arrangement of parts.
Various arrangements have previously been proposed for dispensing with sewing
buttons on to the garments and with more or less success, but such buttons have
either been difficult to fix in position or the number of component parts has increased
their cost of manufacture.
In the drawings :-
Fig. 1 is an enlarged sectional elevation of the button complete, shown fixed in
position.
Fig. 2 an enlarged plan of same.
Figs. 3 and 4 are respectively an enlarged sectional eleration and a plan of the
rim of the button.
Fig. 5 an enlarged sectional elevation of the shank.
Figs. 6 and 7 an enlarged sectional elevation and a plan of the shank with its
upper end clenched or turned over and the rim shown in position in dotted lines.
Figs. 8 and 9 are respectively enlarged sectional elevation and a plan of covering
for the flange of the shank.
The button and the means for attaching same consists of the rim A, shank B, and
in some cases also of a covering C for the flange of the shauk when it is required
to make the back of the shank neat and tidy. The above described parts are made
of any suitably shaped metal.
The rim A which is somewhat in appearance like an ordinary metal trousers
button consists of a disc dished or recessed at a and provided with a central hole a'.
Whilst the shank B is made hollow, somewhat in the form of an elongated or
ordinary eyelet. The hollow barrel portion of the shank may be made either
parallel or to taper as shown in the drawings. The shank is provided at one end
with a flange which may be formed by bending the metal outwards as shown,
or the flange may be formed separately and attached to the barrel by any con-
venient means, but we prefer to make it in one piece as shown.
When a covering C is required for the flange b' of the shank it may be formed
out of a metal disc or ring, having its outer edges c turned or bent over, by stamping
or otherwise, to the shape shown at Fig. 8, a central hole c¹ being thus formed
through which the barrel portion of the shank passes. A central hole c³ may,
or may not, also be formed in the disc C as shown at Fig. 1, and when provided.
may be about the same diameter as the hole in the barrel portion or flange of the
shank.
To fix the button in position a hole is punched or otherwise made in say the
garment, fabric or other article, D, all of which are herein termed and included
in the term "garment," the shank B is then passed through, the hole thus made
until its flange is about level with the inner face or side of say the
garment D as shown at Fig. 1. The rim A is then placed upon the shank,-
on the outside of say the garment-and the unflanged end of the hollow shank B
turned or clenched over the rim of the button (as shown at Figs. 1 and 6) with
or without the use of an additional washer, to form a second flange for retaining
the rim in position.
Any suitable setting tool or machine may be employed for turning over or
clenching the end of the hollow shank.
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 :-
The improved button substantially such as herein described, consisting of a
dished or recessed metal rim provided with a central hole, in combination with
a hollow metal flanged shank B (with or without a covering C) the unflanged
end of the shank being made to pass through the garment and through the

page_text: central hole of the rim and to be clenched over onto the rim to form a second
flange for securing the two parts together in position on the garment.
Dated the Thirty-first day of August 1895.
THOMAS COOK.
JOHN HENRY INGLE.