Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Apr., 1888
Complete Left, 26th June, 1888
Complete Accepted, 27th July, 1888
1 JAMES KENDAL of 106 Cheapside in the City of London Watch and Clock
Manufacturer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to an improved mode of fastening buttons of any description
to cloth or other material by means of a small screw without the necessity of sewing.
To carry my invention into effect 1 make a button of any kind with a metal shank
having a flat bottom in the centre of the end of which is a small hole tapped with a
finely pitched thread into which the screw hereafter mentioned will fit. A sinall screw
is provided with a thread corresponding to that in the shank of the button.
The screw has a sharp conical point and is slender enough to admit of its being
easily pressed through the material to which it is desired-to attach the button and it
has a thin flat head either circular square triangular or oblong (if circular with a
thin milled edge) and in surface rather larger than the flat base of the shank before
referred to.
To attach the button to cloth or other substance the screw is pressed through from
the opposite sido to that to which the button is to be. The button is brought into
position and screwed on to the screw till the material is tightly clasped between the
base of the shank and the head of the screw.
This invention may also be applied to paper fasteners the necessary modifications
being made.
LESLIE, ANTILL & ARNOLD,
1, Gresham Buildings, Basinghall Street, E.C.,
Agents for the said James Kendal.

page_text: I JAMES KENDAL of 106 Cheapside in the City of London Watch and Clock
Manufacturer 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 nature of this invention is an improved form of button so made that it may
be attached to cloth or other material securely and expeditiously without the use of
needle and thread or other fastening other than that forming part of the button
itself.
The invention is applicable to any form of button and also to a paper fastener the
necessary modifications hereinafter described being made.
The mode of carrying the said invention into effect is shewn in the accompanying
drawings and the description following Figure 1 is, a sectional elevation of a metal
button to which this invention is applied.. In the centre of the base of the button is
a cylindrical projection "A" with a flat base and forming a shank to the button. In
the centre of this shank is a small perforation (B₁ B) extending from the base
nearly to the top surface of the button and tapped with a finely pitched thread
forming a female screw into which fits a male screw (C) more particularly described
in figure 2.
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Figure 2 is a view of the, male screw before referred, to which consists of a screw
with a finely pitched thread rivetted or otherwise attached at one, end to a plate (D,)
and the other end having a sharp conical, point (E). so that the screw may be easily
pressed through the cloth or other material to which the button, is to be fixed. The
plate D
is a' tliin piece of metal, larger in surface than the flat base of the shank (A).
It may be any, convenient shape circular or angular,, if circular it should have a
milled edge. In either case the inner surface, should preferably be roughed by small
toothed projections turned in the opposite direction to the way in which the screw
turns so that when pressed against the cloth and, the. button is being screwed upon it
it may be more effectually held in its position without turning round by reason of the..
toothed projections, catching against the cloth. In order to attach, the button tho
(Figure 2) is pressed through the cloth in the desired position on the opposite..
side to that to which the button is to be attached the button is then brought into.
position with the central perforation B over the point of the screw and the button is
then screwed on till the cloth is held, fast between the base of the shank, (A) and the
plate (D) the said plate being meantime held with the finger against the cloth, the
pressure and the toothed projection before mentioned preventing same
from turning
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round.
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The length of the screw, (Figure 2), varies according to the thickness of the
material to which the button is to be attached and the depth of the button.
Figure 3. is a view of another, form of button where less rigidity is required than
is the case with a button in the form of Figure I. In this form on the under
surface of the button is fixed a metal plate in the centre of which two perforations SS
are made leaving a short circular bar of metal (P) between them the shank of the
button is in the form of a small cylinder (A) having the central perforation B. as in
the form of bution described in figure 1 but to the other end of which is fixed an
eye by means of which the shank is securely but loosely attached to the bar P in

page_text: such a way that on the shank being held in position the button will be held firmly
but with freedom of movement in each direction. The male screw is applicable to
this form and the button is attached in the same way as in the form described in
Figuro I. The circular bar (P) may project either outwards or inwards from the
under surface of the button according as more or less freedom of action and distance
of the head of the button from the cloth is required. The bar (P) may also be found
of a separate piece of metal rivetted on to the metal plate.
Figure 4 is a sectional elevation of a non-metallic button as a bone or pearl button
where a metal back as in figure 3 is not desirable or of a thin metal button where it
is desired to have a shank of smaller diameter than is represented in figure 1.
In this form in order to provide the male and female screws for which other
materials for metal are unsuitable and which require more depth than a thin metal
button would furnish I form a central perforation in the button into which is
inserted a small metal cylinder (A) projecting if necessary slightly above the head of
the button as in the figure C. containing the central perforation B. B. as described in
figure 1. The body of the cylinder (A) is made of as small a diameter as possible
consistently with strength but the base of the cylinder has a broad plate between
which and the plate (D) of the male screw (Fig. 1) the cloth may be gripped.
other respects this form of button is similar to that described in figure 1 and is
attached in the same way.
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Figure 5 is a sectional view shewing the application of my said invention to a
paper fastener. In this case the central perforation B. D. extends from the centre of
the under surface of the head of the fastener which is flat into a projection in the
centre at the top. The length of the male screw C. will vary according to the
thickness and number of sheets of paper to be fastened.
It will be readily understood that the invention may be applied to any kind of
button the necessary modification indicated above or applicable in any particular
case being made.
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
1. The combination with a button front of a-shank (A) containing a central
perforation (B. B.) tapped with a female screw into which fits a male screw (C.)
capable of being easily pressed through cloth or other material and to which is
fixed the plate (D) between which said plate and the base of the shank the cloth is
firmly held substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to the accompanying
drawings.
2. The combination with a button front of a shank fitted with the male and female
screws before mentioned connected with the button front by means of an eye and
bar (P) in the under surface of the button front so as to give freedom of action to
the button substantially as herein before described with reference to the accompanying
drawings.
3. The combination with a button front of a sbank fitted with male and female
screws before described but of smaller diameter and having at its base a broad plate
between which and the plate (D) the cloth may be gripped, so that the large diameter
of the shank may be avoided, substantially as hereinbefore described with reference
to the accompanying drawings.
LESLIE, ANTILL & ARNOLD,
1, Gresham Buildings, Basinghall Street, E.C.,
.Agents for the said James Kendal.