An Improved Fastening Device for Garments and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Dec., 1898-Accepted, 4th Feb., 1899
[Communicated from abroad by EUGÈNE BERTHOIN, of Rue Lesdiguières, Grenoble,
in the Department of Isère, in the Republic of France, Dealer in Hides and
Skins.]
An Improved Fastening Device for Garments and the like.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent Agents,
45, Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, 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:--
The subject of this invention is a novel clasp-stud or button specially applicable
to gloves though capable of being used also for garments of every description,
boots or shoes and the like.
Its main feature is that, instead of being fastened, as are the majority of glove-
buttons with clasps hitherto employed, either by depression or by means of a
spring-device, it is secured simply by a sliding connection and the natural tension
of the two edges of the glove, garment, boot or shoe, which are drawn and fastened
together.
The novel clasp-stud or button-whereof Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying
drawings only represent the parts characterizing the present improvement-con-
sists of two main devices, each of which is secured (or attached) in any suitable
manner to one of the edges of the glove, garment or boot or shoe to be fastened.
Figure 1 comprises an elevation and a plan illustrating the improved construc-
tion of one of the main parts of this clasp-stud, while
Figure 2 is a plan illustrating the novel construction of its other part, and
Figure 3 is an enlarged section showing, by way of example only, an arrange-
ment which may be employed in securing each of the said two parts in position
on the article it is desired to provide with the novel fastening.
One part of the fastening is the stud proper, consisting of a head A of any desired
shape, the stem B of which is mounted excentrically on the part C constituting its
foot or base. As regards the other part designated by the letter D, it likewise
comprises, eccentrically placed, an aperture E corresponding to the head A in size
and shape and terminating in a contracted extension or slideway F, which, in
conjunction with the head A and stem B, constitutes the means of fastening
together the two parts of the improved clasp-button.
To effect such fastening it is only necessary to draw 'the side of the glove, gar-
ment, or boot or shoe to which the part B is attached, in the direction of the
arrow 1 (see Figure 3), until the head A of the other part can be wholly inserted
into the 'aperture E. The part D on being now released, will, by reason of the
natural tension taking place in the opposite direction indicated by the arrows 2,
quickly draw back until the stem B reaches the bottom of the slide-way or groove
i.e. the position indicated in Figure 3) and is thereby checked in its backward
motion.
The fastening thus effected will remain secure so long as the stem B is. by ten-

page_text: sion, maintained in its groove. To unfasten the two parts of the stud or button
the piece D is simply pulled until the head A becomes disengaged from the aperture
or recess E.
As before stated the two parts of the fastening may be secured in position in
any convenient manner say by stamping, rivetting, stitching, by means of joined
and "cupped" collars (or washers), or the like; the arrangement shown in Figure 3
by way of illustration not being intended to limit the scope of the invention.
According to the purpose to which it is applied this fastening button or stud
may vary in size and shape; also, any suitable metal may be used in the manu-
facture.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is;-
1. A clasp-stud or button operating by tension and comprising a head the stem
of which is mounted eccentrically upon its foot or base.
2. A clasp-stud or button operating by tension and comprising a part provided
with an aperture or recess and terminating in a groove or slideway.
3. A clasp-stud or button, the means of fastening which is supplied by the com-
bination of one part, comprising the head and stem of the stud, with another part
having a recess and a slideway; all substantially as described and illustrated in
the drawings.
Dated this 21st day of December 1898.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.