Improvements in Buttons, Applicable also to Sontaires.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 28th June, 1887
Complete Left, 28th Mar., 1888
Complete Accepted, 18th May, 1888.
Improvements in Buttons, Applicable also to Sontaires.
WILLIAM FRASER Engineer 49 Oxford Road Finsbury Park London, N., do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The Button can be manufactured in any kind of material & applied to Gloves,
Solitaires Costumes Boots & Shoes & the like. Figure I shews the top portion of
the Button. "A" is a cap about 1" deep or thereby. "B" is a small pin with the
point or bottom end of it split in two & is hollow, with a small piece of India Rubber
compressed into the hollow part for the purpose of giving the pin sufficient spring to
hold when it is pressed into the bottom half of the button. The top end of the pin
passes through the cap & in fixing it to the material which is caught between the
bottom or inside of the cap & the top end of the pin. The top part of the button is
thus fastened & made a fixture by the pin being riveted to the cap & the material
compressed by the riviting of the two together. It is thus fixed without any
sewing whatever.
The bottom half "C" has a hole fair through it the bottom end of the hole being a
little smaller than the point of Pin "B" the top side is tapered to the very edge thus
the pin "B" is easily entered into the hole "D" by it being so much larger at
the top side than the bottom end of Pin "B." "C" is fixed to the material by a
small plate or base perforated with holes which enables to be sewn on in the ordinary
way or by means of the end of the base of "C" passing thro' the material & doubled
up at the bottom side a small plate a little larger than the dia' of the base with holes
to admit the ends of base "C" to pass thro' thus the material is caught between the
bottom of the base & the top side of the bottom plate the forked ends can be either
turned back or riveted (as shewn in a. b. I.).
Claims, to have a cap with tapered or pin or with both or part of both. To be
fixed to the material by means of the head of the pin passing thro' the cap, the material
being between & afterwards riveted or otherwise, with or without a split point either
hollow or solid with or without Rubber or otherwise. To have the bottom half with
or without tapered or parallel holes with a base & bottom plate for securing the
material between same & Riviting or with perforated plates for sewing them on to
the material or otherwise.

page_text: If the button or fastner is applied to boots, shoes, gloves, or costumes, it would be
fixed in the ordinary way or manner already described, but if applied to sleeve links
the bottom half of the button would be provided with a plate about " or thereby in
dia & would be attached to the bottom end of "C" then a similar plate would be
attached to the top half of the fastner marked B. The plate can be of any ornamental
design & of any shape & fixed either above the cap "A" or to the part marked "B"
direct that is if the ornamental plate was attached to "B," the fastner would give
the same results without it as with it, but the cap "A" would be the best permanent
fixir, whereas the two plates on the respectave halfs of the fastner would be most
suitable when used for solitaires. To use same for cuffs "C" would be inserted thro'
the hole in the cuff the plate would prevent it from going thro' all together, "B"
would be inserted thro' the cuff from the top side, The plate would remain outside &
would be seen as an ordinary solitaire then by pressing the two halfs together they
become fastned.

page_text: Improvements in Buttons, Applicable also to Solitaires.
1, WILLIAM FRASER, Engineer, 49 Oxford Road, Finsbury Park, London N.,
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 has reference to buttons and other like fasteners, for gloves, boots
and shoes and other articles of wearing apparel, and consists essentially of two parts;
the one part consisting of a raised shell, with a sub-divided stalk, and which said stalk
takes within a like undercut hole or recess, formed within the middle of the other part,
and on the two parts being put together, they become detachably fastened.
Figure 1 represents a glove, provided with my new or improved button or
fastener.
Figure 2 represents a side elevation of one part of the button or fastener, and
figure 3 represents a side elevation of the other part of the button or fastener,
while figure 4 is a vertical section of figure 2, and figure 5 is a vertical section of
figure 3.
Figure 6 represents a vertical section of the two parts of the button or fastener
together, and figure 7 represents a transverse section of figure 4, upon the dotted
lines CD.
Figure 8 represents a side and front elevation of the stalk or stem part of the button
or fastener, figures 2 and 4.
The two parts of the button or fastener, are represented by the letters A B,
respectively.
The part A consists of an outer shell a, with a central piercing a², and with its
edges slightly turned inwardly, over which, the edges 62, of a securing neck part b,
passes.
The neck part b, has a lower end 63, which secures centrally, and in position, the
depending stalk c, by its upper edges c², engaging under, or within the cupped inside
part of the said lower part 68.
The stalk or stem c, has its interior filled with india-rubber or other yielding
material d, and with its lower part slit or partially divided upwardly, and marked c
The said lower end of the stalk, has an annular swell c, with the boundary edges
slightly turned inwardly.
The materiale of a glove, is secured between the top underside of the outer
shell a, a, and the upper side of the hollow neck part b, b³.
The top of the stalk c, is enclosed by a plate co.
The other part B consists of a shell 9, with an inwardly inclined sunken sleeve g³,
within its middle; and with the said sleeve depending inwardly, and provided near its
lower end, with a shoulder or throttled part g³.

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Thus, it will seen that the sleeve which hangs interiorly within the shell inclines
inwards, with its lower end throttled and turned outwardly, so as to form a shoulder,
over which the shoulder c* of the other part A engages.
A are attachment ears or prongs, and i is a metal disc, pierced with holes, where-
through the prongs / pass, and are clenched, on the underside, in securing the said
part B, to the material f of a glove.
In fastening a glove provided with my new or improved fastener, it is only necessary
to pass the stalk c, within the hollow of the sleeve g², and on the same being pressed
home, the two parts become detachably connected together, by the compression
inwardly, and springing outwardly of the swell c¹ of the one part passing and coming
upon the lower side, or under the throttled part g³ of the other part.
To disconnect the two parts, simply pryse the one from out of, or from off the
other, when the sides of the stem or stalk yield inwardly, and allow the same to be
withdrawn.
Instead of employing india rubber as the means for imparting additional elasticity
to the sub-divided parts of the stalk, may employ thin sheet steel, slitted and made
to fit within the inside of the said stalk as a lining, a forked lining, cut from sheet
steel.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is―
First. A button or fastener, consisting of the one part, of a shell a, with a bulbous
and slitted ended stalk or stem c, c³, depending from the underside of the said shell,
and of the other part, consisting of a shell g, with an inwardly inclined and throttled
sleeve g, g²; g³, wherein the stalk or stem as aforesaid, takes, and is secured, on the
two parts of the button or fastener conring together; and which said parts are
constructed, arranged and are put together, and operate, substantially as described and
set forth.
Secondly. Filling the interiors, or placing within the interiors of the stalk or stem
parts, of buttons or other fasteners, india-rubber, sheet steel, or other yielding
material, so as to impart thereto, greater elasticity to the sub-divided parts, substantially
as set forth.
Dated this Twenty-sixth day of March 1888.