Improvements in Buttons for Wearing Apparel.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Oct., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 23rd July, 1891-Accepted, 29th Aug., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by JOSEPH HINNER, of Vienna VIII, Lederer-
gasse 30, in the Austrian Empire.]
Improvements in Buttons for Wearing Apparel.
I, HENRY HARINGTON LEIGH, Fel. Inst. P.A., Assoc. M. Inst. C.E., practising
as Phillips & Leigh, of No. 22, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, in the
County of Middlesex, Engineer and Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows :-
:-
This invention relates to improvements in buttons for wearing apparel; and its
object is to adapt the button for attachment to the garment by simple pressure,
and for removal therefrom without injury to the fabric.
In carrying the invention into effect, I provide a plate from which projects a
tongue having an enlarged or swelled end. This tongue is preferably formed by
punching it out of the plate.
The button proper consists of three plates, the back plate in which a cavity is
sunk, a saucer-shaped plate lying within the former, and the front plate adapted to
engage the turned up edge of the back plate. A convex plate is introduced into
the cavity in the back plate so that it lies immediately under the saucer-shaped
plate. The latter carries two spring fingers. These are preferably formed out of
the plate by punching or slitting and turning up the edges of the slit.
The button is attached to the garment by pushing the tongue through the fabric
from the back, and passing the button over it until the head is engaged by the
spring fingers. It is detached by inserting a hook in a notch provided for that
purpose in one of the fingers, and separating them so that the head of the tongue
can be withdrawn.
The button-front is sunk and perforated in the centre, and the head of the
tongue projects through the same.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Buttons for Wearing Apparel.
HENRY HARINGTON LEIGH, of 22 Southampton Buildings, in the County of
London, 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 improved button which forms the subject of the present invention is
intended to be fixed in a very firm manner upon any kind of material by a simple
pressure and at the same time the said button can be removed without any damage
thereto, and without injuring in any way the material upon which it had been
fixed.
In the accompanying drawing,
Figure 1 is a transverse section of the button fixed upon the material.
Figure 2 is a plan.
Figure 3 is a side view of the completed button and,
Figures 4 to 7 show details of the several parts forming the button.
a is the covering plate of the button the edges of which engage with the bottom

page_text: d is a plate in which has been formed in a cutting out machine a pin d having a
head d'.
The bottom plate c as will be seen in Figure 1 is constructed in the form of a
cup having below a cylindrical extension which bears against the material, and in
the interior of which is placed the convex piece d³. In the cup formed by the
bottom plate c is placed the lining plate b. This latter piece (see Figures 4 and 5)
-is provided with a slit 61 forming two wing pieces 62, these wing pieces are elastic
and slightly bent in an upward direction. In the centre of the slit 61 is formed a
hole 63 through which is driven by pressure the head d' of the pin d. Before being
placed in position the button consists in two separate parts, that is to say,-
First. The head consisting of the covering plate a, of the lining piece b, and of
the bottom plate c.
Second. The plate d² with the pin d having a head d¹.
When it is desired to fix the button to some material such as an article of
wearing apparel the pin d with its head d¹ is first inserted through the material e
until the plate d² is pressed tightly against the said material. After completing
this work the head of the button is placed upon the head of the pin d¹ and pressure
is exerted until the said head d' has passed through the hole 63 between the
elastic-wing pieces 62 which afterwards return to their normal position, when the
button is securely fixed to the material.
The removal of the button previously fixed upon the material is performed in the
following manner.
In one of the wing-pieces 62 of the lining plate b (see Figures 4 and 5) is formed
a notch 6* which permits the easy introduction of a hook by the help of which the
above mentioned wing piece 62 is slightly raised, sufficiently to be able by seizing
the plate d² with the fingers to remove the pin d with its head d¹.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention 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 :-
A button provided with an elastic slit lining plate b and having a plate provided
with a pin d having a head d', capable of being inserted through the above-
mentioned elastic lining plate.
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HENRY H. LEIGH.
Haseltine, Lake & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.