A Back Slot or Improved Button Hole for the Back of Shirt Collars.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Nov., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 14th Aug., 1889-Accepted, 21st Sept., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Back Slot or Improved Button Hole for the Back of Shirt Collars.
I, SAMUEL SALTER of 6 Donnington Gardens Reading in the County of Berkshire,
Carpenter, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
The inconvenience of the present mode of attaching loose collars to the shirt band
at the back of the neck is well known. An ordinary button and button hole, or a
stud are employed, and it is almost impossible to pass the button or stud through the
button-hole without either crumpling the collar, straining the button hole or loosening
and sometimes detaching the button.
This is especially the case if the collar is stiff with starch, and the difficulty is
particularly felt with paper and india-rubber or xylonite collars which have little
pliability, and the button holes of which are easily broken.
My invention is designed to remove this difficulty, which it does by providing a
horizontal pear shaped aperture or a circular or oval button hole with horizontal slot
on one side similar to the hole used on stay-busks to receive and hold the headed rivet
which forms the fastening.
The enlarged end of the hole passes over the button easily, and the collar is then
drawn a short distance on one side, so as to engage with and lock the button in the
slot before described.
It is obvious that the slot being the resting place of the button must be in the
centre of the collars length, and consequently the enlarged part of the button hole
must be a little on one side or slightly out of the centre.
This improvement makes it perfectly easy to attach collars however stiff, and keep
them comfortably in place, or detach them when required without straining either the
button or button-hole.
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S. S. BROMHEAD,
97, Newgate Street, E.C., Patent Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Back Slot or Improved Button-hole for the Back of Shirt Collars.
I, SAMUEL SALTER of 6 Donnington Gardens, Reading in the County of Berks,
Carpenter, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
same is to be perforined, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :-
This invention relates to collars worn around the neck by both sexes, and is designed
to facilitate their attachment to the band of the shirt or other garment on which they
are worn, and also to enable them to be readily removed when required.
The inconvenience of the present mode of attaching loose collars, when they are
stiff from starch or other causes, is well known. An ordinary button and button-hole,
or a stud are employed and it is almost impossible to pass the button or stud through
the button-hole without either crumpling the collar, straining the button-hole or
loosening and sometimes detaching the button.
This is especially the case if the collar is thick or is stiff with starch, and the
difficulty is particularly felt with paper and india-rubber or xylonite collars, which
have little pliability, and the button-holes of which are easily broken. My invention
removes this difficulty, by providing a horizontal pear or clove-shaped aperture, or a
circular or oval button-hole with horizontal slot on one side, similar to the hole used
on stay-busks to receive and hold the headed rivet which forms the fastening.

page_text: The enlarged end of the hole passes the button or stud easily, and the collar is then
drawn a short distance on one side so as to engage with and lock the button in the
slot before described. It is obvious that the end of the slot being the resting place of
the button, must be in the centre of the collars length, and consequently the enlarged
part of the button-hole must be on one side or out of the centre.
In the accompanying drawings:-
Fig. 1 shows an inside of a collar fitted with one form of my improved button B.
In this case it is merely cut or stamped out and stitched or worked round the edges
in the usual way. The large end of the aperture can be placed on either side as
preferred. The dotted line C shows the centre of the collar.
Fig. 2 shows an outside view of the collar with my improved button-hole
strengthened by means of an arched shaped band of additional material A attached.
The portion of the collar D between the arch and the aperture is left unstrengthened.
Fig. 3 shows another form of collar with the strengthening band E immediately.
surrounding the aperture B, which is shewn in this instance turned the reverse way
This is the form which I think most likely to suit the public taste.
My improved button-hole can be formed of an preferred size or length to suit the
material of which the collar is made, or the stud or button worn. The enlarged end
may be round, oval or of any other outline.
By this invention it becomes perfectly easy to attach collars however stiff, and keep
them comfortably in place, or detach them when required without bending or tumbling
them or straining either the button or button hole.
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 1 claim is:
1. A button-hole for the back of collars having a horizontal slot on one side to
receive and hold the button, the whole forming an approximately pear shaped or
clove-shaped aperture as herein described and set forth.
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S. S. BROMHEAD,
97, Newgate Street, E.C., Patent Agent.
S. S. BROMHEAD,
97, Newgate Street, E.C., Patent Agent.