AN IMPROVEMENT IN BUTTONS, AND MEANS OF ATTACHING THE SAME
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Herbert William Hart, of the Strand, in the City of
Westminster, Engineer, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN
BUTTONS, AND MEANS OF ATTACHING THE SAME."
"
BUTTONS, AND MEANS OF ATTACHING THE SAME."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Herbert William, Hart
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
10th May 1865.
I, HERBERT WILLIAM HART, of the Strand, in the City of Westminster,
Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN
IMPROVEMENT IN BUTTONS, AND MEANS OF ATTACHING THE SAME," to be as
follows:-
My Invention consists in constructing buttons with a shank formed of two
metal plates or wires unconnected at the outer ends, and provided with a
washer made with an aperture just large enough to allow of the two plates of
the shank when in contact passing though it. The plates or wires must be of
such metal as will allow of their being bent without breaking. To attach the
button, remove the washer, insert the shank through the material to which
the button is to be fixed, apply the washer and pass it down the shank,
separate the two plates or wires of the shank and turn them down close on the
washer. For the sake of neatness the length of the plates of the shank
should be such that when bent down on the washer they should not extend
beyond the edges thereof.
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page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of.the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Herbert William Hart in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 10th November 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HERBERT
WILLIAM HART, of the Strand, in the City of Westminster, Engineer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-eighth year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Herbert William Hart, Her special licence that I, the
said Herbert William Hart, executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Herbert William Hart, my executors, adminis-
trators, 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 lawfully 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 IMPROVEMENT IN BUTTONS, AND MEANS OF
ATTACHING THE SAME," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said
Herbert William Hart, my executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, 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 Herbert William Hart, 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 thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto
annexed, that is to say:-
My Invention consists in constructing buttons with a shank formed of two
metal plates or wires unconnected at the outer ends as hereafter described,
and provided with a washer made with an aperture just large enough to allow
of the two plates of the shank when in contact passing through it.
plates or wires must be of such metal as will allow of their being bent without
breaking.
The
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a section of a button con-

page_text: structed according to my Invention; Figures 2 and 3 are views of two
different sides; Figure 4 shews the button with a washer.
a, is the button; b, b, are two metal plates unconnected at their outer ends
and forming the button shank; c is the washer; d, d, are filling-in pieces of
metal, pasteboard, or other material. To attach the button, remove the
washer c, insert the shank 6 through the material e, Figure 5, to which the
button is to be fixed, apply the washer and pass it down the shank, separate
the two plates or wires b, b, of the shank and turn them down close on the
washer c, as seen in Figure 5. For the sake of neatness the length of the
plates b, b, of the shank should be such that when bent down on the washer c
they should not extend beyond the edges thereof.
For horn, hardened caoutchouc, and other similar buttons, the body of the
shank is inserted while the material is in a plastic state.
In witness whereof, I, the said Herbert William Hart, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Tenth day of November, One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-five.