Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 17th July, 1886.
Complete Left, 16th Apr., 1887
Complete Accepted, 27th May, 1887.
I, EDWARD BOURON, of 39 Boulevard de Strasbourg, Paris, France, Clock and
Watch Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to improvements in buttons, and consists essentially in
providing the same with screw-threaded shanks so that the said buttons can be firmly
attached to a garment or other article.
I can apply my improvements to buttons of any kind and for any purpose, for
instance, to buttons covered with cloth or other fabric, for tailors and seamstresses, to
buttons of ivory, horn, celluloid, wood or other substance, to braco buttons, to boot
buttons, or to buttons for uniforms or liveries.
By way of example, I will describe my improvements as applied to buttons covered
with cloth or other fabric.
I first cut out a thin round metal plate and turn up the edge by stamping or
otherwise to form a kind of cup. I next cut out a circular piece of fabric and apply
it upon the round metal plate-turning it over the edge of the said plate. I then take
a disc of cardboard or the like and insert it into the cup.
I next provide a metallic base formed of two pieces, which base is placed in the cup
the edges of the latter being bent over the edges of the base. At the centre of the
baso is formed a screw threaded hole into which the shank, provided with a
corresponding screw-thread, is adapted to be inserted.
The head of the shank is milled to facilitate the application of the button by
enabling the shank to be firmly held by the fingers.
If the button is composed of ivory or like substance the metal base into which
the rod forming the shank is screwed is attached directly to said substance.
In certain cases the screw-threads may be formed directly in the substance of the
button.
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HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Buttons.
1 EDWARD BOURON, Clockmaker of 39 Boulevard de Strasbourg in the city of
Paris do hereby declare the nature of the said invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN AND
RELATING TO BUTTONS and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
The object of this invention is to obviate the necessity of sewing on buttons to
wearing apparel or other articles, by securing or attaching them thereto by a ready
and simple method, entirely dispensing with the needle and thread, whilst buttons
connected by my method are more securely attached than hitherto.
In order to effectually carry out my invention without injury of the slightest
description to the article to which such buttons are connected, I construct the shanks
or necks of the buttons of a peculiar and variable form, for the double purpose of
connecting them to the button heads, and also for the reception and insertion of a
screwed pin with connecting plate attached.
By passing this pin through the material or article of clothing and fixing it by
screwing it through the shank or neck of the button into the head at the under part,
the material composing the article is securely held between the bottom of the shank
and the fixing plate or disk.
In the accompanying drawings several forms of shank are illustrated as demonstrating
the principle of my invention, the same letters of reference indicate like parts shown
in the different Figures.
Fig. 1 shows the connecting plate b, and pin a which is of steel; this pin is screw
cut; and terminates at its suminit in a sharp point for piercing the material through
which it is to be passed, and being very fine or thin, the pin makes a hole no larger
than would be the case with a stout needle.
Fig. 2 represents a hollow shank c seen in section, which may be of any kind of
.metal, in the centre o it is screw threaded for the reception of the pin a; at the upper
part this shank is provided with pointed projections a' of variable number, these are
buried or sunk in the button head, so as to immovably fix the two together.
Fig. 3 represents another form of button shank, in this case it is of open vase shape
minus the projections as in Fig. 2.
Figs. 4 and 5 represent in section complete buttons of the description referred to.
In Fig. 4 the shank is of somewhat similar construction to that shown by Fig. 2.
Fig. 5 is provided with a shank of the shape represented by Fig. 3, in this case the
shanke is forced into a hollow in the button head, where it is secured by the
introduction of a dome shaped plate e fixed between the bent edges el of the button
head f. The same is the case with Fig. 4. The pin a, and connecting plate bare
employed as before.
Fig. 6 represents the button as attached to some article which is securely held
between the bottom of the shank c and the connecting plate b, a being the pin screwed
into the shank.

page_text: Fig. 7 represents a button head i seen in section to which a shank c is fixed, in this
case the shank at the part d, is forced in the button head, and is there set by bending
the under part of the button head over it, is the material or article to which the
button is attached as previously described.
By this method buttons can be removed, fixed or replaced in any position, on any
article requiring it, with rapidity, ease and security without injury to the article to
which it is attached.
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 :-
The construction of hollow metal shanks to buttons of the forms herein mentioned and
as indicated in the drawings by the letter c in the several Figures, such shanks having a
central screw threaded aperture o, in which is screwed the pin a, with sharp point at
its summit, and connecting plate b, at its base, the whole as and for the purposes
herein before specified.
Dated this 16th day of April 1887.
MESSIEURS A. C. HENDERSON & Co.,
Patent Agents,
46, Southampton Buildings,
Agents for the Applicant.