Improvements in or relating to Buttons, Personal Decorations, and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Sept., 1896-Accepted, 17th Oct., 1896
[Communicated from abroad by CARLO CASSANDRO, of late Raffaele, ANTONIO
INDIVERI, Advocate, and MICHELE INDIVERI, Proprietor, all of Piazza
S. Anna a Capuana No. 12, Naples, in the Kingdom of Italy.]
Improvements in or relating to Buttons, Personal Decorations, and
the like.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON F.C.S., M.I.M.E., of The Agency for
Foreign Patent Solicitors, 322, High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, 6, Lord
Street, Liverpool, and 6, Bank Street, Manchester, both in the County of
Lancaster, and Lower Temple Street, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Civil Engineer, 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 this invention is to construct of metal fruit stones or other similar
material an improved button which can be attached without sewing. The
improved button can be attached and taken off immediately, leaving only small
traces or holes where it was fixed, and is not liable to become accidentally
detached.
The improved button consists of two distinct parts, the head and the foot, one or
both of said parts are provided with sharp points which enter into the cloth or
other material which remains fastened directly between the parts of the button.
Said parts are united by a small screw or a stem with a cross-bar.
In the accompanying drawing
Figures 1. 2. 3. are central sections illustrating the improved buttons.
Figure 4 shews various forms of cross bars, and
Figure 5 is a plan view of the button shewn in Figure 3.
The same letters refer to the same parts in the different figures. In Figure 1
the head of the button A is shewn strengthened by a base B perforated by a tapped
hole and provided with one or more points C destined to penetrate in the cloth S.
The foot consists of a disc or rivet plate D of circular or polygon form, flat or
embossed, of a suitable size, provided also with an ordinary hole in its centre and
with points C destined like C to penetrate the cloth. The screw V passing
through the central hole of the disc D and the cloth S is screwed into the base and
the points C and C³ penetrate in the cloth and the button is securely fixed in
position.
In Figure 2 the points C2 are shewn longer, than they are in Figure 1 so that
they pass entirely through the material till they reach the foot D' which has
instead of points a suitable number of holes or depressions F in which the points C³
fix themselves. The union of the different parts is made in the same way as
described in Figure 1. The points C can be fixed also on the dises instead of on
the head of the button, and in this case the holes, or depressions are made in the
head of the button. In Figures 3 and 5 the head of the button is provided with a
hole in the centre of its base and with two other orifices E and E', the use of which
will be hereinafter explained.
The foot D2 is also provided with points C', but instead of having a hole in the
entre like D and D' it is provided with a stem G, consisting of a pin, perforated
t its free end, or of a small wire suitably bent so as to form an eye H. The
tem G passing through the cloth and the base of the button, penetrates with its

page_text: eye H in the interior cavity of the head of the button, where it is secured by the
small cross-bar P which passes through the eye H, being pushed through the
orifice E' in the edge of the button.
The other orifice E in the centre of the top surface of the button permits the
eye H of the stem to be seen, and the introduction of the cross-bar P in the eye to
be regulated.
The cross-bar can be of different forms and in Figure 4 there are indicated four
types. Type M is an ordinary pin, types N and P are in the form of a hair pin
with one or two curves K; the two free ends are pressed together so as to enable
them to enter the eye H, and when the curves K have passed through it, the limbs
open and the projections K prevent the cross-bar from going back again, unless it
is pulled out by force.
The type Q is formed of a central tongue I between two lateral limbs L. When
the tongue I penetrates in the eye H, the limbs L are forced open, shutting again
as soon as about half of the tongue has passed through the eye. The types N. P.
and Q. consist of different elastic parts which can be made separately and united or
only one piece of wire suitably prepared and curved may be employed.
In Figure 3 the cross-bar P is represented, but there might have been represented
one of any other form.
The application of this invention is not limited to buttons only, but embraces all
objects which are to be for some reason or other affixed to a coat, cloth, and
so forth, as for instance decorations, stars, little scutcheons, and the like.
The improved button constructed according to this invention can also be applied
to skins, leather or other similar materials.
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. A button or the like which can be attached without sewing and comprising a
head and a base piece each provided with one or more points or spikes, or one of
the parts provided with holes or depressions into which the points or spikes can
enter after passing through the cloth or the like, substantially as described.
2. The devices for securing the button to the cloth or the like substantially
as described and shewn in Figure 1, or Figures 3, 4, and 5 of the accompanying
drawing.
Dated this 4th day of September 1896.
W. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
322 High Holborn, W.C., Patent Agents for the Applicant.