IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BUTTONS
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Cawley and Edmund Squire Norcombe, Button
Manufacturers, of 52, Hatton Garden, in the County of Middlesex, for the
Invention of " IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BUTTONS."
Sealed the 21st March 1879, and dated the 9th October 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Cawley and Edmund
Squire Norcombe at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 9th
October 1878.
CHARLES CAWLEY and EDMUND SQUIRE NORCOMBE, Button Manufacturers, of
52, Hatton Garden, in the County of Middlesex. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF BUTTONS."
Instead of drilling or punching two or more perpendicular holes in buttons for
the purpose of attaching or fastening them on, as hitherto adopted, we make a
single perpendicular or taper hole, and one or more horizontal ones, see Figure 1.
A, the perpendicular or taper hole, and B the horizontal one, the latter of which
may be made wholly or partially through the button. Into the horizontal hole B
we insert a piece of wire C, Figure 2; then by means of a press or punch or other
mechanical contrivance applied through the perpendicular or taper hole we bend the
wire C, Figure 3, which secures in its place, and forms a smooth even surface for
fastening on the button. Figure 4 represents the wire pressed so as to protrude
below the under side of the button, thus forming a shank or eye; Figure 5 repre-
sents two pieces of wire placed side by side, thus forming a band with curved edges.
We also form a band by pressing the wire after its insertion in the button between
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page_text: two dies, when it takes the form of Figure 6, of which a transverse section is repre-
sented by Figure 6a. We fill up the space between the end of the inserted wire,
if any, and the outer edge of the button by a plug of the same meterial as the
button, or with a cement of the same color as the button, thus making the surface
smooth, and hiding the hole in which the wire is placed; and by the Invention
above described we obtain more thread space for sewing on the buttons, and less
liability to cut the thread than ordinary drilled holes, and is especially applicable to
buttons made of vegetable ivory, ivory, bone, wood, or any fictile production and
ceramic manufactures.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent and of
an Order of the Lord Chancellor, filed by the said Charles Cawley and Edmund
Squire Norcombe in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 23rd April 1879.
CHARLES CAWLEY and EDMUND SQUIRE NORCOMBE, Button Manufacturers, of
52, Hatton Garden, in the County of Middlesex. "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANU-
FACTURE OF BUTTONS."
Instead of drilling or punching two or more perpendicular holes in buttons for
the purpose of attaching or fastening them on, as hitherto adopted, we make a
single perpendicular or taper hole, and one or more horizontal ones, see Figure 1.
A, the perpendicular or taper hole, and B the horizontal one, the latter of which
may be made wholly or partially through the button. Into the horizontal hole B
we insert a piece of wire C, Figure 2; then by means of a press or punch or other
mechanical contrivance applied through the perpendicular or taper hole we bend
the wire C, Figure 3, which secures it in its place, and forms a smooth even surface
for fastening on the button. Figure 4 represents the wire pressed so as to protrude
below the under side of the button, thus forming a shank or eye; Figure 5 repre-
sents two pieces of wire placed side by side, thus forming a band with curved edges.
We also form a band by pressing the wire after its insertion in the button between
two dies, when it takes the form of Figure 6, of which a transverse section is repre-
sented by Figure 6 a. We fill up the space between the end of the inserted wire, if any,
and the outer edge of the button by a plug of the same material as the button, or with
a cement of the same color as the button, thus making the surface smooth, and
hiding the hole in which the wire is placed; and by the Invention above described
we obtain more thread space for sewing on the buttons and less liability to cut the
thread than ordinary drilled holes, and is especially applicable to buttons made of
vegetable ivory, ivory, bone, wood, or any fictile production and ceramic manu-
factures.
Having described our Invention we claim the improvements therein described,
which are as follows:-
1st. We claim the drilling or punching a perpendicular or taper hole wholly or
partially through the button.
2nd. We claim the drilling or punching a horizontal hole or holes wholly or
partially through the buttons.
3rd. We claim the inserting a length or lengths of metal wire in the horizontal
hole or holes in the said button.
4th. We clain by means of punches or hooks worked by suitable mechanical con-
trivance (inserted into the perpendicular or taper hole) the bending the inserted
wire to any form of shank required.
5th. We claim stopping the unfilled portion of the horizontal hole with a plug or
hard cement of a similar color to the button.