IMPROVEMENT IN STUDS AND SOLITAIRES
Year: 1884

page_text: I EMILE LANSARD, of Goswell Road in the County of Middlesex, Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for AN IMPROVEMENT IN
STUDS AND SOLITAIRES to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to an improvement in shirt studs and solitaires, which has
for its object to avoid injury to the linen or to the person of the wearer both when
inserting the studs or solitaires in or removing them from the button holes or
during wear. Studs and solitaires made with crescent shaped backs to facilitate
insertion into and removal from the button hole are liable to pierce and fray the
linen and binding of the button hole and to scratch or otherwise injure the skin
of the wearer owing to the sharpness of the horns of the crescent.
Now my
Invention consists in rounding and thickening the horns of the crescent by tipping
them with spherical or other shaped metallic or other knobs which in the act of
insertion and removal spread or open the button hole sufficiently to permit the
easy passage of the remaining portion of the back and so facilitate the insertion
and removal of the stud without being liable to the objections of the sharp pointed
crescent backs.

page_text: EMILE LANSARD of Goswell Road in the County of Middlesex, Manufacturer,
do hereby declare the nature of my Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN
STUDS AND SOLITAIRES" and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:—
My Invention relates to an improvement in shirt studs and solitaires and has for
its object to avoid injury to the linen or to the person of the wearer, both when
inserting the studs or solitaires in, or removing them from, the button holes, and
during wear.
Studs and solitaires made with crescent shaped backs to facilitate insertion into
and removal from the button hole, are liable to pierce and fray the linen and
binding of the button hole, and to scratch or otherwise injure the skin of the
wearer owing to the sharpness of the horns of the crescent. Now my Invention
consists in rounding and thickening the horns of the crescent by tipping them
with spherical or other shaped metallic or other knobs which in the act of
insertain and removal spread or open the button hole sufficiently to permit the
easy passage of the remaining portion of the back and so facilitate the insertion
and removal of the stud without being liable to the objections of the sharp pointed
crescent backs.
In the accompanying Drawings, Figure 1 shows an underside view and Figure 2
an end view of a solitaire provided with the improvement of my Invention, while
Figure 3 is a view in perspective. The other Figures shew different forms of stud
backs.
a is the stud or solitaire and b the crescent shaped back whose horns are
furnished with the knobs c. These knobs may be made of spherical or other
equivalent shape the object being, as above mentioned, to avoid damage to the
linen in the act of inserting and removing the stud or solitaire, and to protect the
wearer from the injury which the present crescent shaped backs are liable to
occasion. The knobs c would preferably be of metal and formed in one with the
back, but the said knobs may be of any other suitable material such as horn,
ivory &c. according to the style of solitaire or stud and be attached to the horns of
the back by soldering or otherwise instead of being integral therewith.
I would have it understood that my Invention is not limited to any particular
form of crescent back but may be applied to other equivalent shaped backs as
illustrated in the Drawings in which Figures 4, 5, 6 and 7 shew the Invention
applied to backs which are known and sold as crescent backs.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
In a solitaire or stud having a crescent or equivalent shaped back, providing the
horns of the said back with knobs or enlargements substantially as shewn and
described for the purposes specified.
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