Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Jan., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Oct., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 9th Nov., 1888
I, HORACE WILLIAM PETHERICK of Maple Lodge, Addiscombe, in the county
of Surrey, Mechanician, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
This my invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in buttons and
in button attachments, and which invention has for its object to render military,
livery and other expensive buttons capable of being quickly and permanently attached
to the cloth of wearing apparel, thus dispensing with sewing, the threads of which
soon wear through and the buttons thus attached become loose and are lost.
My invention is especially valuable to military men, and others who wear uniforms
provided with expensive buttons, for when said buttons are attached as hereinafter
described, it is impossible for them to become loose by wear or furbishing.
My invention may be described as follows:-Underneath the cloth, at the place
where the shank or loop button is to be attached, I place a small piece of metal
having one or more " tennons "which consist preferably of pieces of the aforesaid
piece of metal bent upwards at right-angles and the ends of said pieces are formed
with single or double barbs as found convenient.
When the aforesaid small-piece of metal is provided with one upwardly projecting
barb only, it will then be necessary to form said barb double. It will however be
readily understood that when the aforesaid small piece of metal is provided with
more than one upwardly projecting piece, said pieces may be formed at their ends
with double barbs if preferred to single barbs.
The upwardly projecting barbed pieces of metal are pressed through the cloth
from the underside, and then sprung into suitable apertures made for their reception
in the under-plate of the button, and out of which apertures the said upwardly pro-
jecting barbed pieces of metal cannot possibly be drawn without breakage.
Dated this 3rd day of January 1888.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Buttons and in Button Attachments.
I, HORACE WILLIAM PETHERICK of Maple Lodge, Addiscombe, in the county of
Surrey, Mechanician, 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 my invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in buttons and
in button attachments, and which invention has for its object, to render military,
livery and other expensive buttons capable of being quickly and permanently attached
to the cloth of wearing apparel, thus dispensing with sewing, the threads of which
soon wear through and the buttons thus attached become loose and are lost.
"My invention
especially valuable to military men, and others who wear uniforms
provided with expensive buttons, for when said buttons are attached as hereinafter
described, it is impossible for them to become loose by wear or friction.
My said invention may be described as follows, reference being had to the
drawings hereunto annexed and the figures and letters marked thereon; similar.
letters indicating like parts throughout.
Fig. 1. is a perspective view of a fastener made in accordance with my invention.
Fig. 2. is a sectional elevation through the centre of a military or other button
showing the manner of attachment by my improved fastener. Fig. 3 is an underside
plan view of the button showing the position of the holes. Fig. 4. is a front.
elevation of an alternated form of my improved button attachment. Fig. 5. is a
sectional elevation of a military or other button showing it attached to the cloth by
means of the attachment as illustrated in Fig. 4. Fig. 6. is a plan underside view of
the button as shown in Fig. 5.
My improved button attachment consists essentially of a piece of flat motal A which
is stamped out with or otherwise formed with upwardly projecting pieces B which at
their upper ends are bent over, or otherwise formed with barbs C.
The button D consists essentially of an ordinary metal or other button having
preferably a shank E. Four or more holes F are made in the underside of the
button, and which holes correspond with the pieces B upon the attachment.
In order to affix the button D to the cloth G, the upper ends of the pieces B are
..pressed through the fabric. The button is then pressed upon the barbs C. until they
enter the holes F, and spring outwards in the inside of the button where they catch
over the edge of the well E of the button.
It will be, readily understood that each of the pieces B may if desired be made
with double barbs projecting inwardly and outwardly where extra strength and
security is required.
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In Fig. 4 is shown an alternative form of my invention, which consists of a pieco
of circular or other shaped metal H in which projects upwardly a hollow stem J, the
sides of which are incised as shown at K. The pieces L, are then bent outwards
(Fig. 5) to form spring catclics:

page_text: The button M has one hole N in its centre sufficiently large to admit the
stem J.
To affix the button, the stem J, is pressed through an incision made in the cloth.
The button M is then pressed over the spring catches L when they will again spring
outwards in the inside of the button.
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:
1) A button attachment consisting of a flat piece of metal, having upwardly pro-
jecting pieces formed at their upper ends with barbs or spring catches adapted to be
sprung into suitable holes in the underside of the button all substantially as and for
the purposes hereinbefore set forth.
2) In combination with a button attachment herein before described and set forth
in the claim above, a button having suitable holes arranged upon its underside as
shown, and adapted to pass over the upwardly projecting pieces of the fastener, all
substantially as and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth.
3) A button attachment consisting of a flat piece of metal having a central
upwardly projecting stem formed with outwardly projecting spring catches, all
substantially as and for the purposes herein before set forth.
4) The combination with a button attachment consisting of a flat piece of metal,
having a central upwardly projecting stem formed with spring catches, a metal or
other button having a hole in the centre of its underside and adapted to pass over the
stem of the aforesaid attachment, all substantially as and for the purposes herein-
before set forth.
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