Improvements in Buttons and in Attaching Buttons to Garments and other articles.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 27th July, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 6th Apr., 1893-Accepted, 6th May, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Buttons and in Attaching Buttons to Garments
and other articles.
We ARTHUR MANTON of Regent Works Clissold Street Birmingham in the
County of Warwick Manager of Works and WILLIAM WHELDON of No. 59 Barker
Street Lozells, near Birmingham aforesaid Commercial Clerk do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention has reference to buttons which are attached to garments and other
articles without sewing and consists of the improvements hereinafter described in
buttons to be attached without sewing and in the means of attaching the said
buttons.
Our improvements are especially suited to metallic buttons made of a front and
back shell, the said shells being connected at their edges so as to make a hollow
button, and we will describe our invention in connection with a button of this
kind.
The front and back shells which we employ have each a central opening of such
a size as to permit of the free passage through them of the head of the stud
hereinafter described. We cut out of strong leather a circular disc of a size
In this leather disc we
suitable for filling or nearly filling the hollow button.
make a central conical hole the said hole being of such a size at its larger end as
to permit of the ready introduction of the stud hereinafter described, but of such
a size at its smaller end as to require considerable pressure to force the head of the
stud through it.
In making up the bottom we enclose the leather disc between the two shells the
larger end of the hole in the leather disc being presented to the back shell and
the smaller end consequently to the front shell. The shells are connected by the
ordinary closing process, the leather disc being held firmly between them.
The stud hereinbefore referred to, which stud is used to attach the button to a
garment or other article, consists of a metallic disc having a central stem
terminating in a nearly hemispherical head. The stem is of a length equal to the
combined thicknesses of the button and the garment or article to which the button
is to be attached, and the head is of larger diameter than the smaller end of the
hole in the leather disc between the front and back shells of the button.
The attaching of the button to a garment or other article is thus effected. A
piercing is made in the garment or article at the part where the button is to be
attached, the said piercing being preferably so small that the head of the stud can
only be passed through it from the back by the application of considerable pressure.
The back of the button is presented to the head of the stud protruding at the
front of the garment or article, and the said head is engaged in the larger end of
the leather disc. The head of the stud enters the back of the button readily but
considerable pressure is required to force the button home on the stud in con-
of the smallness of the hole at the front of the button. Sufficient
pressure being applied, the head of the stud expands the smaller end of the hole
and passes through the expanded hole to the front of the button. Immediately
the head of the stud has passed through the hole the front end of the expanded
part contracts on the stem of the stud immediately behind the head and the button
is securely attached. As the back of the head of the stud is flat the button can
only be detached by a force sufficient to tear the leather disc.
sequence
Although as we have already stated our invention is especially adapted to
metallic buttons consisting essentially of two shells yet our said invention may be

page_text: carried into effect in connection with buttons made wholly
materials.
or in part of non-metallic
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Buttons and in Attaching Buttons to Garments
and other articles.
We ARTHUR MANTON, of Regent Works Clissold Street Birmingham in the
County of Warwick Manager of Works and WILLIAM WHELDON, of No. 59
Barker Street, Lozells, near Birmingham aforesaid, Commercial Clerk do hereby
declare the nature of our invention and in what manner the same is to be
performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
Our invention has reference to buttons which are attached to garments and other
articles without sewing and consists of the improvements hereinafter described in
buttons to be attached without sewing and in the means of attaching the said
buttons.
Our improvements are suited to metallic buttons made of a front and back shell,
the said shells being connected at their edges so as to make a hollow button and
we will describe our invention in connection with a button of this kind.
The front and back shells which we employ have each a central opening of such
a size as to permit of the free passage through them of the head of the stud herein-
after described. We cut out of strong leather, a circular disc of a size suitable for
filling or nearly filling the hollow button. In this leather disc we make a central
conical hole, the said hole being of such a size at its larger end as to permit of the
ready introduction of the stud hereinafter described but of such a size at its smaller
end as to require considerable pressure to force the head of the stud through it.
In making up the button we enclose the leather disc between the two shells, the
larger end of the hole in the leather disc being presented to the back shell and
the smaller end consequently to the front shell. The shells are connected by the
ordinary closing process, the leather disc being held firmly between them.
The stud herein before referred to, which stud is used to attach the button to a
garment or other article, consists of a metallic disc having a central stem
terminating in a nearly hemispherical head. The stem is of a length equal to
the combined thicknesses of the button and the garment or article to which the
button is to be attached and the head is of larger diameter than the smaller end
of the hole in the leather disc between the front and back shells of the button.
The attaching of the button to a garment or other article is thus effected. A
piercing is made in the garment or article at the part where the button is to be
attached, the said piercing being preferably so small that the head of the stud can
only be passed through it from the back by the application of considerable pressure.
The back of the button is presented to the head of the stud protruding at the front
of the garment or article and the said head is engaged in the larger end of the
hole in the leather disc. The head of the stud enters the back of the button
readily but considerable pressure is required to force the button home on the stud
in consequence of the smallness of the hole at the front of the button. Sufficient
pressure being applied, the head of the stud expands the smaller end of the hole
and passes through the expanded hole to the front of the button. Immediately the
head of the stud has passed through the hole the front end of the expanded part
contracts on the stem of the stud immediately behind the head and the button is
securely attached. As the back of the head of the stud is flat the button can only
be detached by a force sufficient to tear the leather disc.
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page_text: The perforation in the leather disc may be cylindrical with a conical or expanded
end.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents in perspective a button com-
posed of two metallic shells and a leather filling disc according to our invention
and Figure 2 represents in perspective the stud which we use to attach the button
to a garment or other article ;
Figure 3 represents a cross section of the button;
Figure 4 represents in section and
garment;
Figure 5 in plan the button attached to a
Figure 6 represents in section and plan the front metallic shell and Figure 7
represents in section and plan the back metallic shell of the button;
Figure 8 represents in section and plan the perforated leather disc before it is
compressed and Figure 9 represents a section of the compressed disc which is
enclosed between the two metallic shells of the button.
The button and parts thereof are drawn to a large scale: a is the front metallic
shell and is the back metallic shell having the form, before their edges are closed
upon one another, represented in Figures 6 and 7. The front shell a has a central
opening and depression at a' and the back shell has a central opening 2, the said
openings being of such a size as to permit of the free passage through them of the
The leather disc is
head of the attaching stud, the said head having a flat back.
marked c and has a central perforation c² in it, one end of the perforation in the
compressed disc being expanded so as to give the said perforation a conical figure.
The expanded end of the perforation, or the wider end of the conical perforation, is
presented to the back shell and the other narrow end to the front shell. The
perforated leather disc Figure 8 is compressed in a die before it is enclosed between
the shells of the button so as to give it the shape represented in Figure 9.
In making up the hutton the compressed leather disc c, c² represented in
Figure 9 is introduced between the shells a, b and the said shells connected together
by the ordinary closing process the leather disc c, c² by the closing operation being
held firmly between them and made to take the figure of the interior of the two
closed shells as represented in Figures 3 and 4.
The stud which we employ to connect the button to the garment, consists of the
stem d having a nearly hemispherical head e of a diameter greater than the smaller
part of the hole c² in the leather disc c. The base of the stem d has attached to it
a metal collar. In attaching the button to a garment or other article, a piercing
is made in the fabric y (see Figure 4) where the button is to be attached to it, the
said piercing being so small that the head e of the stud can only be passed through
it from the back by the application of considerable force. Having fixed the stud
in the fabric the back of the button is presented to the head e protruding at the
front of the fabric g and the said head is engaged in the enlarged end of the conical
hole c² in the leather disc c, adjacent to the back shell b. By considerable pressure
the stud is forced through the hole c² in the leather disc c thereby expanding the
narrow end of the said hole and permitting of the head of the stud passing to the
front of the button, the said head seating itself in the seat or depression at a² at
the front of the button. Immediately the head e of the stud has passed through
the hole in the leather disc c, the said hole contracts on the stem d behind the
head e and the button is securely attached to the garment. It will be seen by an
examination of the section Figure 4 that the flat back of the head e of the stud
rests on the shoulder formed by the contraction of the leather disc ou the stem of
the stud and hence the button can only be detached by a force sufficient to tear the
leather disc.
C
Although we have described and prefer to use a compressed perforated leather
disc with which to fill the interior of the button, and which leather disc we have
found to answer well in practice, yet hard india rubber or hardened paper or other
hard and durable material capable of slightly yielding may be employed in place of
leather.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our invention
and the manner in which the same is to be performed we declare that we claim as
our invention :
The improvements in buttons and in attaching buttons without sewing to
garments and other articles herein before described and illustrated in the accom-
panying drawing; that is to say, the combination with a button composed of a
metallic front and back shell, of a perforated disc or filling of leather hard india
rubber or other hard and durable slightly yielding material, the said perforated
disc or perforated filling material being enclosed and securely held between the
said front and back shells of the button, the button so constructed being attached
to the garment or article without sewing by the use of a headed stud attached to
the garment or article over the head of which stud the button is forced and thereby
fixed substantially as described and illustrated.
Dated the Fifth day of April 1893.
ARTHUR MANTON.
WILLIAM WHELDON.