An Improvement connected with Fasteners for Buttons.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 13th .Jan., 1894-Accepted, 24th Feb., 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement connected with Fasteners for Buttons.
I ERNST PUTTMANN of the Firm Ernst Püttmann and Co. of Barmen,
Rhenish Prussia, Manufacturer 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 for object the manufacture of fasteners for locating and fixing
buttons on garments without the necessity of sewing them on as at present.
For the purpose of my invention I employ a staple or two or more flat headed
pins in combination with a washer and a back plate for their attachment as a single
article the legs of the staple or the pins standing out from one side of the washer
so that they can be readily pushed through a fabric say leather, cloth, or the like
and then on a button being passed over with the legs or pins diagonally arranged the
projecting legs or pins can be curled over and downwardly by a pinching tool, in
such manner that the points of the legs or of the pins pass into and through the
other but more distant holes of the button and towards their own stems, or so that
the points re-enter the fabric to prevent them fraying the button hole when the
garment is buttoned up.
The buttons are of the holed or "sunken" kind and have either slotted holes, or
holes made in rectangular fashion instead of being at equal distances apart as at
present, and when staples are employed I purpose flattening the body or yoke so
that the back plate is flattish or only slightly rounded, and when headed pins are
employed I intend to use flat headed ones and to puncture the holes in the washer
or disc as to form a slight bulge in order that the shoulder of the flat head can rest
therein, in which case the back plate would be quite flat the edges of the back plate
being burred over the edge of the washer to fix the appliance as a single article, to
which a button can be applied as before mentioned.
My invention will be clearly understood by the annexed drawings.
Figure 1 a detached elevation of the staple, washer and backplate.
Figure 2, section of a holed or sunken button.
Figure 3 perspective elevation of the staple, washer and backplate combined and
constituting one of my improved fasteners.
Figure 4 an under perspective elevation of a four holed button the holes being
arranged in rectangular fashion.
Figure 5 shows my fastener with the staple legs pushed through the fabric and
also through the holes of a button and previous to the legs being curled.
Figure 6 is a view of the same with the legs curled and with the points turned
into the fabric.
Figure 7 is a plan, and
Figure 8 a side elevation of the complete attachment of both to fabric.
Figure 9 is a sectional elevation of a two flatheaded pinned fastener the washer
of which has been punched to form recesses for the shoulders and heads of the pins
to lie in.
Figure 10, is a perspective elevation of a triple pinned fastener in which the pins
are curled into opposite holed button as seen at Figure 11.
Figure 12 is a plan of a four holed button to show the relative positions of said
holes and
Figure 13 a similar view of a slotted two holed button.
A. A, represent legs of a staple the body or yoke B of which is flattened for
lying snug between washer C and back plate D. E, is a button. F the fabric.
I am aware that a round headed nail has been passed through a disc and the

page_text: point through a button, and with the end curled into and through another hole in
the button to fix such button to a garment, and I make no claim to the fact or
principle of such method of attaching buttons to garments, but
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 :-
1. The combination of legs of a staple with washer and back plate as a fastener
for the attachment of a button of the kind described to garments, as indicated in
the annexed Figures 1, 4, 5, and 6.
2. The combination of two or more flat headed pins with a washer and back plate
as a means of attaching a button to a garment as set forth and substantially as
shown at Figures 9 and 10 of the annexed drawings.
3. As a means of attaching buttons to garments the manufacture and employment
of an appliance composed of two or more pins with washer and back plate, the holes
in the buttons being rectangularly arranged or slotted for the points to be curled
or bent into the corresponding holes or ends of holes on the same side of the
rectangle as that from which the pins project, all as described and substantially as
represented.
Dated this 15th day of January 1894.
H. GARDNER,.
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said E. Püttmann.