IMPROVEMENTS IN BUTTON-HOLE BOUQUET OR FLOWER HOLDERS
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Albert Porter, of Stonehouse, Maidstone, Kent, for the
Invention of " IMPROVEMENTS IN BUTTON-HOLE BOUQUET OR FLOWER
HOLDERS."
Sealed the 5th September 1879, and dated the 21st March 1879.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Albert Porter at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 21st March 1879.
ALBERT PORTER, of Stone-house, Maidstone, Kent,
HOLE BOUQUET OR FLOWER-HOLDERS."
"IMPROVEMENTS IN BUTTON-
Button-hole flower holders heretofore used in connection with ordinary button
holes have not been provided with means for holding them in dressed position. The
object of my improvement is to provide them with such means.
The holder may be made of any known suitable material. The improvement
consists in combining a hook and pin with the holder for securing and retaining it
in position. The hook is usually attached to the top of the holder, and the pin to
the lower part of it. The hook and pin may be made separate and attached to the
holder. When the holder is made of metal the hook and pin may be formed out of
a portion of the material forming the holder.

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SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Albert Porter in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 18th
September 1879.
"
ALBERT PORTER, of Stonehouse, Maidstone, Kent. IMPROVEMENTS IN BUTTON-
HOLE BOUQUET OR FLOWER HOLDERS."
Button-hole flower holders heretofore used in connection with ordinary button
holes have not been provided with means for holding them in dressed position. The
object of my improvement is to provide them with such means.
The holder may be made of any known suitable material. The improve-
ment consists in combining a hook and pin with the holder for retaining it
in dressed position. The hook is usually attached to the top of the holder and
the pin to the lower part of it. The hook and pin may be made separate or
together and attached to the holder. When the holder is made of metal the
hook and pin may be formed out of a portion of the material forming the
holder.
Fig. 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a partial view of a coat showing
the flower holder applied to use; Fig. 2 represents a perspective elevation and
transverse sectional view of the holder as usually made; and Fig. 3 shows a
glass holder placed in a frame or net work of metal for supporting it and
forming the hook and pin for attaching it to the garment.
.
The holder A, as represented in Fig. 2, is usually made of gutta-percha,
india rubber, or any other known suitable substance or composition. It is
usually made semi-circular. The hook B and pin C is made of any suitable
metal, usually in one piece, and attached to the holder A by passing the pin C
down through the bottom of the holder until the hook B comes to the top edge of
the holder; the hook and pin is then secured to the holder by a rivet at a near the
top of the holder.
Fig. 3 shows a glass holder supported by a frame of metal consisting of bands
which are united to a piece of metal forming the hook B and pin C for attaching it
to the garment. The Drawing fully illustrates this mode of supplying the holder
with a hook and pin without further specification.
The whole of the holder may be made of any suitable metal. In such cases the
hook and pin will be formed out of a continuous bit of the metal, forming the
holder.
Having now described the nature and construction of my improvement, what I
claim is,―
First. The pin C or its equivalent in combination with the holder A for the
purposes before described.
Second. The hook B and pin C in combination with the holder A, all for the
purposes described in the foregoing Specification.
In witness whereof, I, the said Albert Porter, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Sixteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord
1879.
ALBERT PORTER. (L.S.)