An Improved Button for Oars and Sculls:
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Dec., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 10th Dec., 1892-Accepted, 11th Feb., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Button for Oars and Sculls:
I, JOHN MAXWELL LOGAN, of Chesterton Road, Cambridge, in the County of
Cambridgeshire, Boat Builder, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
My invention relates to an improved button for oars and sculls, the object
being to do without the usual long nails passing through the button into the oar
to fix it, so making the oar perfectly safe from snapping in two where the greatest
strain takes place.
I construct a right or left hand metallic plate and on this said plate I rivet a
casting projecting outwards of any suitable shape. Holes are drilled in the plate
in order to fix the same to the oar and then leather is wrapped over the plate
and underneath the casting and where it stands up is fitted with leather and
another piece is put on top and fastened through the whole by ordinary screws.
The shapes and parts may be varied in many ways within the scope of my
invention.
Dated this 2nd day of December 1892.
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, W., Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Button for Oars and Sculls.
I, JOHN MAXWELL LOGAN, of Chesterton Road, Cambridge, in the County of
Cambridgeshire, Boat Builder, do hereby declare the nature of this invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described in
and by the following statement :-
My invention relates to an improved button for oars and sculls, the object being
to do without the usual long nails passing through the button into the oar to
fix it, so making the oar perfectly safe from snapping in two where the greatest
strain takes place.
I proceed to describe this invention by the aid of the accompanying drawing,
in which-
Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the button and plate.
Fig. 2 is a side elevation of Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the button, plate and leather fitted to an oar.
Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.
I construct a right or left hand metallic plate a slightly curved, and on this said
plate a I rivet a recess or curved casting d projecting outwards of any suitable
shape by the rivets e or otherwise. Holes are drilled in the plate a in order to fix
the same to the oar fand then leather 9 is wrapped over the plate a and underneath
a part or the whole of the casting d; and another piece of feather bis put on top
and fastened through the whole by ordinary screws c as indicated by dotted lines in
Fig. 2.
The shapes and parts may be varied in many ways within the scope of my
invention.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
In a right or left hand button for oars or sculls, the combination of the plate a
curved casting d leather g and b, with screws c and rivets e, substantially as herein
described and according to Figs. 1, 2, and 3, of the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 10th day of December 1892.
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, W., Agent for the Applicant.