Improvements relating to Button-holes.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Feb., 1892-Accepted, 5th Mar.. 1892
COMPLETE. SPECIFICATION.
Improvements relating to Button-holes.
I, MARCUS WILLIAM LOWINSKY, of 7 Queen's Mansions, Victoria Street, in
the City of Westminster, Engineer 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:-
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The object of my invention is to provide ornamental and other button-holes
which can be sold ready made, and can be applied with great facility to jackets,
mantles, dresses and other garments and to various other articles, and which can,
moreover, be very readily removed and replaced when necessary or desirable. I
thus avoid the tedious operation of working button-holes as heretofore generally
practised, thereby facilitating the making of the garments or other articles and the
repair or renewal of the button-holes thereof.
My improved attachable and removable button-holes are manufactured as herein-
after described, that is to say, I make each button-hole of a single piece of textile
or other suitable material in such a manner that it has two portions which are
adapted, when the button-hole is inserted in the garment or other article as herein-
after explained, to be spread out one against the inner and the other against the
outer surface of the said garment or other article, and which are united by a neck
that forms the inner edge of the button-hole.
In the accompanying drawing I have shown how my said invention may be
conveniently and advantageously carried into practice. The several figures of the
drawing are hereinafter described.
According to one method of manufacture, I first produce, by weaving, knitting,
crochet-work or in any other convenient manner, a piece of textile fabric of suitable
length, and somewhat contracted or more tightly worked along the centre as shown
in plan in Figure 1, so that it is V-shaped in transverse section, as shewn in
Figure 2. I then form this piece of textile fabric into a ring or loop and unite its
ends, by stitching or otherwise, as indicated in Figures 3 and 4. The button-hole
thus made is used as follows, viz. An elongated hole or slit being formed where
required in the garment or other article, one of the parts or facings a or b of the
button-hole is passed through the said hole or slit, which should be of such size that
the neck c of the improved button-hole will fit therein; the said parts or facings a
and are then spread out one upon the outer and the other upon the inner surface
of the said garment or other article; and the two parts or facings a and b are
secured to the material of the garment or other article by stitching around their
outer edges, and, if necessary, at other parts of such facings.
It will therefore be seen that, by my invention, I obviate the necessity for
working the button-hole in the manner hitherto practised, that is to say, by what
are termed button-hole stitches. Moreover, when my improved button-hole becomes
worn, it can readily be removed and a new one inserted; the wear of the material
of the garment or other article at the edges around the hole or slit formed therein,
may thus be avoided; and furthermore my improved button-hole can be easily
applied to a garment or other article by an inexperienced person, and in less tinie
than is usually occupied by skilled persons in working an ordinary button-hole, all
the stitching that is necessary with my improved button-hole being the ordinary
stitching, as in hemming, around the outer edges of the facings.
According to another method, I make my attachable and removable button-hole
of a single continuous or endless piece of textile material, by weaving, kuitting,
crochet-work or otherwise, as shown in Figures 5 and 6.
One or both of the parts or facings a and 6 of my improved button-hole may, if
desired, be made ornamental, as shewn, for instance, in Figures 7 and 8. And I

page_text: can also make my improved button-hole as shewn in Figure 9, with a hole or loop
at one end thereof to receive the shank of the button.
I can make my attachable and removable button-holes of various materials, such
as linen, cotton, silk, wool, mohair or tinsel, or of leather, india-rubber or other
suitable material, according to the character of the article for which it is intended.
My improved button-holes are made of various sizes, which may be designated
by the number of "lines" corresponding to the sizes of the buttons for which the
said button-holes are made.
Amongst the articles of wearing apparel for which my improved button-holes
may be advantageously used, are ladies' jackets, mantles, dolmans, ulsters, dresses,
dressing-gowns, also underclothing of various descriptions, and covers for furniture
and other articles.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
First. The manufacture of an attachable and removable button-hole of a single
piece of textile or other material the ends of which are united, substantially as
hereinbefore described.
Second. The manufacture of an attachable and removable button-hole of a
single continuous or endless piece of textile or other material, substantially as
hereinbefore described.
Dated this 2nd day of February 1802
M. W. LOWINSKY.
D. Young & Co.,
11 & 12, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.