A SHANK TO BE ATTACE'D TO ALL DESCRIPTIONS OF BUTTONS, TO BE CALLED AN EYLUT SHANK
Year: 1857

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Munt, of No. 16, Charterhouse Lanc,
Smithfield, London, for the Invention of "A SHANK TO BE ATTACE'D TO
ALL DESCRIPTIONS OF BUTTONS, TO
BE CALLED AN EYLUT SHANK.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Munt at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 6th
July 1857.
I, WILLIAM MUNT, No. 16, Charterhouse Lane, Smithfield, London, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "A SHANE TO BE ATTACH'D
TO ALL DESCRIPTIONS OF BUTTONS, TO BE CALLED AN EYLOT SHANK," to be as
follows:-
one end of it, to
end is an eylot
The shank stem is made of metal with a flat head on
which is attached the top of the button; on the other
attached, which fixes the button on to any article by being passed through
a hole in the same and clenched by a press on the other side.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Munt in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
1st January 1858.
ATT MA GHAM
MURCH DEN ALL COME I WANT
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said William Munt in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
1st January 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE DRESENTS SHALL COME, I WILL
MUNT, of No. 16, Charterhouse Lane, Smithfield, London, send greeting.

page_text: the said
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of July, in the year of our Lord Oue
thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, in the
year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
William Munt, Iler special licence that he, the said William Munt, or his
exccutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as he, the said William
Munt, or his 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 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 "A SHANK TO BE ATTACHED
TO ALL DESCRIPTIONS OF BUTTONS, TO BE CALL'D A PATENT EYELET SHANK BUTTON,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that he, the said William Munt, or his
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under bis, 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 he, the said William Munt, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
The shank is made of metal, with a head on one end, to be inserted in the
button or made fast thereto, as occasion might require for the different classes
of buttons for which it may be used. On the other end is an eyelet, either
attach'd to or made entire with the stem, which by being passed through the
material to which the button is requir'd to be made fast and clenched over a
collar or washer of metal, is rendered perfectly secure.
In witness whereof, the said William Munt, have hereunto set my s
hand and seal, this the First day of January, One thousand eight
hundred and fifty-eight.
WILLIAM MUNT. (L.S.)