Improvements in Buttons, Studs, Solitaires, or the like.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Dec., 1893-Accepted, 13th Jan.,
1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Buttons, Studs, Solitaires, or the like.
Partly my own invention, and for the other part a communication to me from abroad*
by WILLIAM JAMES MOORE, of 4205, St. Lawrence, Chicago, and COLBY
DAVIES, of Evanston, both of Cook County, Illinois, United States of
America.
I, ALBERT WILLIAM WALLACE MILLER of Manhattan, Rainhill in the County
of Lancaster, 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 invention has for its object a button, stud, sleeve link end or solitaire which.
shall be very quickly locked in position and removed. It is intended principally
for use as a self-fastening adjustable clothing button for ordinary wear.
It can be-
made of metal only or be cloth covered or have an ornamental head of almost.
any description. It is best described by aid of the accompanying drawings, in:
which:-
Figure 1 shew's the elements or parts of the invention detached, and
Figure 2 a mid-section of the stud or button completely built up and drawn on
somewhat larger scale than the foregoing.
In these A is a back plate which forms the holding plate or back for the button.
or stud and is attached to the link in the case of sleeve links. It is surmounted by
a thin pillar B-sharp at the point and having a groove C with its uppermost side
perpendicular to the axis of the pillar. D is the top or face of the button preferably.
made with a projecting centre E and projecting rim F, it has also a small slot Ġ
through which the pin of the working piece hereafter described passes. H is the
working piece and is with the exception of the piu I stamped out of one piece of
elastic sheet material, preferably brass steel or bronze. The pin I also could be
stamped out of this piece and bent upward. 1 prefer however a piece rivetted in..
The part J is a simple nearly circular spring. K is a sliding plate having a catch
or notch L which when in place fits into the groove C of the bottom plate A B..
M is the bottom plate of the head of the button or stud. This has a projecting
hollow shauk N preferably internally closely fitting the pin B and abutting against.
a slight offset at b. It will be seen then that there need be only four pieces, viz. :—
the base plate and pillar A B C, the working-piece F, the face plate D and bottom
plate M. The bottom plate M and the face plate D are fitted into each other, the
edge of the one of larger diameter, preferably the face plate, being turned or laid
over the edge of the other in the usual manner of making hollow buttons or studs..
The spring J is of such diameter as to press against the walls of the hollow formed
by the two plates D and M.
The mode of action is as follows:-
:-
The pillar of the base plate is passed through the cloth of the trousers or if
used as a stud through the button holes of the cuff, the top of the pillar B projecting
above. The head or other part of the button or stud already completely built up is
then placed with shank N over the point of pillar B. It is pressed down the
sloping top of the said pillar B and pushes aside the sliding plate K against the
force of spring J until its notch L falls into the groove C and holds it tight..
When the wearer wishes to remove the button, he presses back pin I with his nail
against the pressure of the spring until the back of the sliding plate strikes the
walls of its containing chamber; the catch L is then clear of the groove C and the
head can be taken off.

page_text: It will be obvious that by omitting the pin I, a self-fastening clothing button is.
formed that cannot be undone, when once the groove in the base plate pillar is
caught by the notch in the sliding plate.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as partly communicated to
me by my foreign correspondents, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. In a button, stud, solitaire or the like the combination of a sliding plate holding
onto the notch of the bottom plate pillar and a spring formed in one piece with said
sliding plate, and bearing against the containing chamber in such manner as to hold
the sliding plate in place.
2. The combination of a sliding plate for the purpose described and a pin passing
through the head and projecting slightly above it in the groove between the
.projecting centre and the rim whereby it can only be acted upon by design and is
therefore not liable to be pushed aside accidentally.
3. In a clothing button, stud, solitaire or the like, a pillar B the same diameter
both immediately above and below the groove C, in combination with a hollow
shank N closely fitting the said pillar whereby there is not the usual play
in the head that is found generally in the built-up buttons or studs, but the entire
feel of the button is as if it were a solid one.
4. The button or stud taken as a whole, substantially as herein desed, whether
'made to be taken in two at pleasure or when once its parts are embled,
permanently one piece, and whether plain ornamented or covered.
Dated this 4th dur af Dacombes 100º
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Agents for the Applicant.