IMPROVEMENTS IN BUTTONS, STUDS, OR OTHER SIMILAR FASTENINGS FOR WEARING APPAREL OR OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Edouard Landsberg, ainé, of Paris, France, Manu-
facturer of Small Wares, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN
BUTTONS, STUDS, OR OTHER SIMILAR FASTENINGS FOR WEARING APPAREL OR
OTHER PURPOSES."
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Sealed the 31st July 1860, and dated the 13th February 1860..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Edouard Landsberg,
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 15th February 1860.
I, EDOUARD LANDSBERG, ainé, of Paris, France, Manufacturer of Small
Wares, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE.
MENTS IN BUTTONS, STUDS, OR OTHER SIMILAR FASTENINGS FOR WEARING APPAREL
OR OTHER PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
These improvements relate to buttons, studs, or other similar fastenings
which by a string, tie, tape, leather or other strap, or band, cord, small chain,
or other similar medium or appendix are connected or tied to another
button, stud, clasp, buckle, or other similar fastenings for wearing apparel or
or other similar purposes. They consist in providing the said buttons, studs, or
other similar fastenings with a spring or other elastic medium for drawing
entirely or partly in the'interior of the button, stud, or other fastenings or
receiver the said tie, string, tape, strap, band, chain, or other similar medium
or appendix, so as to hide them entirely or partly from sight. In fact the
Invention consists in applying to buttons, studs, or other similar fastenings or
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page_text: parts the same principle as has already been applied to curtains of coaches
and to the barrels for measuring tapes, which curtains or which tapes, when
left free, are by the action of a spring instantly drawn into the interior of the
cover or barrel. I intend applying the Invention to buttons, studs, or other
fastenings for wearing apparel, or for head-dresses of men, women, children, or
soldiers, to the leather tie, straps of trunks, carpet bags, portmanteaus, or
other similar objects, to ties for gloves, umbrellas, parasols, to curtain bands,
and other objects in which braid, strings, tape, straps, bands, chains, or other
similar ties serve for connecting momentarily two or more parts together, and
in which one should wish after disconnecting to have the said braid,strings,
tape, straps, bands, chains, or other tie drawn back into a button, stud, or other
proper receiver,in which they are entirely or partly hidden from sight, and for
which purpose any suitable metal or other spring, india-rubber, or elastic
medium,and suitable arrangements may be made use of, but for which I prefer
employing a spring box or barrel, round which the braid, string, tape, strap,
band, chain, or other tie is wound up.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Edouard Landsberg in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
13th August 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, EDOUARD
LANDSBERG, ainé, of Paris, France, Manufacturer of Small Wares, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirteenth day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-third year of
Her reign, did, for herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said Edouard Landsberg,ainé, Her special licence that I, the said
Edouard Landsberg, ainé, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as 1,thesaid Edouard Landsberg,ainé, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at
all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully
might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
IMPROVEMENTS IN BUTTONS, STUES, OR OTHER SIMILAR FASTENINGS FOR WEARING
APPAREL OR OTHER PURPOSES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said Edouard Landsberg, ainé, my executors or administrators, by, an

page_text: instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same
to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Edouard Landsberg, ainé, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :--
These improvements relate to buttons, studs, or other similar fastenings,
which by astring, tape, braid, leather or other strap, or band, cord, small chain,
or other similar medium or appendage are connected or tied to another
similar or to an ordinary button, stud, clasp, buckle, hook, or other similar
fastening for wearing apparel or other purposes. The Invention consists in
providing the inside of my improved button, stud, or other similar fastener
with a spring acting in a barrel, for causing the tape, string, braid, or other
tie by which the button is to be fastened to another button or stud, when not
actually operating, this fastening to be drawn back into the interior of the
button, and wind itself round the said barrel so as to be hidden from sight,
a small part only-of the tape or braid remaining protruding beyond the outside
of the button, for allowing the tape again to be drawn out when it is.wished to
make use of the tape or braid for connecting my improved button or stud to
another one.
In the annexed Drawings, Fig. 1 is an outside view of a button or stud.
constructed according to my Invention, the Figs. 2, 3, and 4 showing the
arrangement of the interior parts thereof, in these Figures corresponding parts
are indicated by the same letters of reference. The button consists of a small
box formed by two shells A and A', the rims of which overlap each other, or
which by any other means are held firmly together, and so as to leave between
them the required space for the spring B, barrel C, and connecting tape 1).
The shells A and A'are shallow, and may be made of any suitable metal, wood,
pasteboard, gutta percha, vulcanite, or other suitable hard resisting material.
Against the inside of the shell A is fixed in a concentric manner a tube or
spindle E, provided with a projecting knob e, taking into a corresponding notch
in the end of the spiral spring B, the other end of which spring is fixed in b, to
the inside of a barrel or flat cylinder C,encircling the spring B, and to which
barrel is fixed.in d the end of the tape or braid D wound round this barrel
C, and passing through a suitable opening in the projecting rim of the shell
A', whilst the other end of the braid is provided with a nipple or a knob d¹ for

page_text: preventing the same from being drawn entirely into the interior of the shell.
If now the two shells A and A' be fixed together by means of their rims over-
lapping each other, or by any other suitable means, so as to form a shallow
box or hollow button, the knob e of the spindle E being entered, and thereby
fixed into the corresponding notch of the spring B and the braidor tape D
wound on the barrel C, it will be evident that whenever by means of the
knot d the braid is drawn partly out of the button, the barrel C on turning
will cause the spring B to be rolled up and bent; the braid or tape may then
be fastened to another button or stud, while on liberating again the
braid from this button or stud the spring in unbending itself will cause the
braid to roll itself up round the barrel C, and thus the same be drawn into the
interior of the button and concealed from sight. Fig. 3 shows the position of
the spring when the braid is drawn out of the button, while Fig. 4 shows
the position of this spring when the braid is concealed in the interior of the
button. It will be understood that this latter inay be covered on the outside
entirely or partly with lacework or any other ornamentation, as shown in
Fig. 1.
In the Figs. 5, 6, and 7 are shown various views of some slight
modifications of the above described button; Fig. 5 shows the inside of
one of the shells; Fig. 6 is a similar view of the other shell; and Fig. 7
shows a side view of the two shells soldered, bezilled, or otherwise fixed
together. The shells have a shallow hollow form, and they are provided with
an opening for the braid or tape to pass through when the shells are fixed
together. In the centre of the shell G is a circular opening g, through which
passes a tube h, forming spindle, and fixed in the centre of the other shell G',
which .tube has a split for one end of the spiral spring to be fixed in, which
spring is wound round this spindle h, and has its opposite end fixed to the inside
of the spring barrel i, which latter is passed over the tube h, and round which
barrel is wound the braid in the manner and for the purpose as has been
described in the first part of this Specification.
I finally wish to indicate some of the many applications of the above described
mode for causing a braid, tape, cord, string, leather or other strap or band, small
chain, or other similar medium or appendage, either to conceal itself in the
interior of a button, stud, or other fastening arranged according to my Inven-
tion by being drawn and wound round a barrel by the effect of a spring, or to
allow this braid, tape, or other appendage to be drawu partly from out the
interior of the said button, stud, or other fastening, and thereby allow to con-
nect this latter with another button, stud, or other fastening. My buttons,
studs,or other similar fastenings are applicabletowearing apparel or garments
for men, women, or children, for head-dresses, bonnets, straps for soldier's or

page_text: sailors' head-dresses, strings or ties for umbrellas, parasols, gloves, trowsers
straps, curtain bands, straps for trunks, chains for dogs' or other collars, or
other purposes where the braid, tape, cord, string, strap, band, chain, or
other tieing medium is wished to be concealed in some instances and in
others is to serve for use. I also wish to add that, instead of the metallic
spiral spring, a piece of india-rubber might be made serviceable as an elastic
medium for drawing the tape, braid, or other similar tie into the interior of
the button, stud, or other fastener arranged according to my Invention.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my Inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is or may be used, I would observe,
in conclusion, that I do not confine or restrict myself to the precise details or
forms of the above described and illustrated Invention, as many variations
may be made therefrom without deviating from the principle or main features
of the said Invention; but what I consider to be novel and original, and there-
fore claim as the Invention secured to me by the herein before in part recited
Letters Patent, is, providing the interior of buttons, studs, or other similar
fasteners with a spring for causing a braid, tape, cord, string, strap, band,
chain, or other tie either to be drawn into the interior of the said button, stud,
or other similar fastener, or to allow the same to be partly drawn out therefrom
and have its free end fastened to another button, stud, hook, clasp, or other
fastener.
In witnesswhereof, I, the said Edouard Landsberg, ainè, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Eighth day of August, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty.
Witness,
A. G. BRADE.
E. LANDSBERG, AINÉ. (L.S.)