IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BUTTONS
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Edwards, of 77, Aldermanbury, in the City of
London, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
BUTTONS."
Scaled the 1st April 1862, and dated the 5th October 1861.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Edwards at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 5th October
1861.
I, JOHN EDWARDS, of 77, Aldermanbury, in the City of London, do bereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF BUTTONS," to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to the making of buttons or parts of buttons of brass,
copper, or zinc, which metals are coated with what is known as German silver;
also for making buttons of the same metals, which metals are coated with tin;
also to the application of a metal face to trowser buttons made of non-metallic
substances, when such buttons are made with a projecting neck or shank for
the button-holo to work on.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said John Edwards in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
5th April 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
EDWARDS, of 77, Aldermanbury, in the City of London, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of October, in the year of our Lord

page_text: One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said John Edwards, Her special licence that I, the said John Edwards,
my exccutors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
John Edwards, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter
during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BUTTONS," upon the condition (amongst others)
that I, the said John Edwards, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and
seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the
same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Edwards, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, that is to say :-
My Invention relates to the making of buttons or parts of buttons of brass,
copper, or zinc, when such brass, copper, or zinc is coated with what is known
as German silver; these metals are coated with German silver in the ordinary
manner by rolling together, being what is termed fire plating, and is an article
of commerce so plated. I do not claim the manufacture of this metal, but I
claim the application of brass, copper, or zinc coated with German silver in
any way to the manufacture of buttons or parts of buttons; also I claim the
application of a metal face to bone buttons, when such buttons are made
with a projecting shank or neck for the button-hole to work on. I find that
buttons made from these metals coated with tin is not new, I therefore do not
claim it.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Edwards, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Fifth day of April, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
JOHN EDWARDS. (L.S.)