Improvements in Buttons or Studs
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 11th June, 1888
Complete Specification Left, 6th Mar, 1889
Complete Specification Accepted, 6th Apr., 1889
Improvements in Buttons or Studs
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co Patent Agents,
Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows
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This invention relates to improvements in detachable buttons or studs in which
the fastening is effected by means of folding wings pivoted to the shank of the
button, and the object of these improvements is to afford means for automatically
operating the wings when passing the button hole
The button is fixed to a plate carrying a pair of brackets serving as bearings for
the pivots, a pair of angle-levers, one arm of either of which formning together the
shank of the button in which the wings are journalled To either of the upright arms
is connected a spring bearing against the heads of the wings whilst a spring acting
upon the other arms of the said angle levers tend to overrule the action of the said
springs moving the wings
The heads of the wings are formed in such a manner as to enable the springs
connected to the upright arms of the said angle-levers to turn the wings into the
closed position, as soon as the wings have passed the button-hole and the corresponding
springs cease to act upon the angle-lever, which will happen as soon as the other
arms of the latter are pressed against the button-plate by means of the adjacent
material of the button-hole, when attaching the button to the objects to be joined
together
The wings are brought into the open position in the usual manner
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co,
45, Southampton Buildings, London,
Agents for the Applicant.

page_text: I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine Lake & Co, Patent Agents,
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
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This invention relates to the class of detachable buttons or studs in which the 5
fastening is effected by means of folding wings or flaps pivoted to the shank of the
button, and the object" of 'the" said invention is' to 'afford means for automatically
operating the folding wings when" "passing the button-hole This object is obtained
by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which
Figures 1 and 2 represent a button provided with the improved fastening device in 1
the position when entering the button-hole
Figures 3 and 4 are two different elevations, partly in section, of the improved
button when being locked
Figure 5 is a plan of Figure 3, and
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Figure 6 a vertical section of the device in enlarged scale
Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views
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The button is fixed to a plate, p, out of which are pressed the brackets », serving
as bearings for the angle-levers a, a and b, b', whereof the arms a and b form the
shank of the button, in which the wings h, h are duly journalled at 1, Two
tongues fand f¹ directly stamped out of these arms a and b and serving as springs,
bear against the heads of the wings h, h', while two other tongues 9, 9, which may
be also stamped out of the arms a¹, 6¹, and forming also springs, bear against the
plate p, so as to press the arms a, b together
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The heads of the wings h, h¹ pivoted at 1, 2 and acting as levers, are formed in
such a manner as to enable the springs f, f¹ to turn the wings into the closed position
as soon as the springs 9, 9 cease to act upon the arms a and b This is obtained
by pressing the arms a¹ and 6¹ against the plate p, so that the arms a and b diverge
from each other at 2, ¹ so far that the heads of the wings may pass each other
The operation of this fastening device is as follows When introducing the
wings h, h¹ in their opened position, Figures 1, 2, and 6, into the button-holes and
pressing the arms a², 6, against the adjacent solid material of the parts to be joined
together by the button, the ends of the arms a and b recede from each other, and the
springs, acting on the heads of the wings, will turn them into the position
Figures 3, 4 and 5
As soon as the arms a¹ and b¹
angle-levers a, a¹ and 6, 6¹ to
the blunt heads of the wings h, h³,
closed position.
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are released, the springs 9, 9³ tend to cause the
return into their normal position and to press
firmly together, and thus hold the wings in the
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page_text: The wings are opened in the usual manner
Instead of stamping the tongues f,f¹ and 9, 9' directly out of the arms a, b, and
a², 63, separate springs of any desired shape may be connected in any suitable manner
with the angle-levers, or the springs f, may be rigidly fixed to the plate p or the
brackets s, in which case springs 9, 9', may be entirely dispensed with
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
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First The combination, in a detachable button or stud, of the angular levers a, a
and 6, 6¹, and the wings h, h¹ pivoted to the ends 1, 2, of the angular levers a, a¹ and
b, b', with a plate p, having brackets s, whereon the angular levers are pivoted at c, c
substantially as and for the purpose specified
Second The combination, in a detachable button or stud, of the wings h, h¹,
pivoted to the ends 1, 2 of angular levers a, a¹ and b, 6, with the springs f,f¹ and
9, 9', and the said angular levers, substantially as, and for the purpose, set forth
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Third The combination, in a detachable button or stud, of the angular levers α,
and b, 6, and the wings h, h, pivoted to the ends 1, ¹ of angular levers a, a² and
b, b' with springs f,, rigidly affixed to the plate p, or brackets s, and bearing
against the heads of the wings h, h', substantially as, and for the purpose, specified
Dated this 6th day of March 1889
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co,
45, Southampton Buildings, London,
Agents for the Applicant