An Improvement connected with Button, Link, or Stud Holes of Shirts, Cuffs, and Collars.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Mar., 1895-Accepted, 1st June, 1895
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement connected with Button, Link, or Stud Holes of
Shirts, Cuffs, and Collars.
I. JOSEPH BODY HAWKINS, of Hazledean, Ladbroke Road, Epsom, Surrey,
Drapery Buyer, 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 its object, so shaping button, link, or stud holes of shirt
fronts, bands, cuffs, false cuffs, and detachable collars, that the improved slits for
openings will enable buttons, links, or studs to be more readily inserted than is
possible with plain straight slits.
Great difficulty is often experienced, especially when under-linen is highly
starched and glazed, in getting the shank plate of a link, solitaire or stud, or the
head of a button to enter its hole without damaging or creasing, or making the
surrounding part unsightly. By my invention, the inconveniences are overcome
and whereby the shank or head can freely enter and the stem become localised in
the stiffened fabric without in any way destroying the neatness of the button hole
portion.
The invention consists in making the slits undulating, wavy or of serpent form
in their length, two or more lips on one or on both edges filling the hollows between
the lips of the opposite edges respectively, each lip being of such depth that they
yield upwardly and downwardly to the pressure of the shank or head while it is
being inserted and then to readily spring back as the shank or head is canted, the
article being thus locally adjusted and fitted in position without risk of the
surrounding portions of the fabric being disturbed or creased, or of the hole being
strained or torn.
The slit can extend beyond the serpentine portion if desired.
I am aware that button, link or stud holes in cuffs have been made of a shape
other than straight, such as a crescent, a V, or an Ụ in which each has a single
lip A only, as represented at Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 of the annexed drawings,
whereas my improved invention consists in so shaping the slit or hole that two lips
exist i.e. one B on one edge of the slit or hole and one lip C, on the other edge of
the same slit or hole, the lips occupying a position in the hollows of the opposite
edges of the slits respectively, as represented at Figure 6, or five lips are formed as
at Figure 7, i.e. two lips B, B, being on one edge of the slit or hole, and three
lips C, C, C, on the other edge of the same slit or hole.
The end or ends of each of my improved slits or holes may terminate in a
straight line slit beyond the lips B and C, as indicated at D, Figure 8 and Figure 9
in order that very large shanks or backs of solitaires, links, studs, or button heads can
be easily entered and be localised in position. Such straight line slit portion may
terminate in an enlarged or circular hole E, as at Figure 10.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. Making slit holes in shirt fronts, shirt bands, shirt cuffs, false cuffs, and
detachable collars undulating in their lengths with lips from each edge and occupying
positions in the hollows of the opposite edges respectively, as represented at
Figures 6 and 7 of the annexed drawings.

page_text: 2. Making undulating or wavy shaped slits as button holes in shirt fronts, cuffs
and collars with plain straight extensions therefrom as at Figures 8 and 9 of the
annexed drawings.
3. Making undulating, wavy, or serpentine shaped button holes with straight and
enlarged hole, as at Figure 10 of the annexed drawings.
Dated thin 14th d...
1002
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Joseph Body Hawkins.
H. GARDNER,
Patent Agent, 166, Fleet Street, London,
Agent for the said Joseph Body Hawkins.