IMPROVE. MENTS IN
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Augustus Huddart, of Brynkir, in the County
of. Carnarvon, Gentleman, for the Invention - of
..BUTTONS."
"IMPROVEMENTS IN
Sealed the 23rd June 1863, and dated the 7th January 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION, left by the said George Augustus Huddart
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with bis Petition, on
the 7th January 1863.
I, GEORGE AUGUSTUS 'HUDDART," of Brynkir, in the County of Carnarvon,
Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE.
MENTS IN BUTTONS," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to certain novel means for securing pearl and other
buttons to garments or fabrics, the object being to facilitate the application
of buttons.
The first part of the Invention relates to the employment of a screw shank,
which may either be a detachable shank of metal or a tapped projection on
the under side of the button head. In the former case I either tap a recess
in the button head or in a shoulder of the button head to receive a screw, or
I pierce a hole through the centre of the button head and apply a clamping
nut to the screw. In the latter case I use a similar clamping nut.
Another improvement is to employ a tubular shank. When applying this to
bution heads of pearl or other hard material, I countersink or drill a hole
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page_text: through the button head, and apply the shank thereto by pressure after the
manner of an eyelet-hole tube. This improvement also applies to cloth
buttons.
In all the above-described arrangements the shank or clamping piece will
be applied to the button at the time or in the act of attaching it in place on
the garment or fabric.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Augustus Huddart in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 7th July 1863.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
AUGUSTUS HUDDART, of Brynkir, in the County of Carnarvon, Gentleman, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventh day of January, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-sixth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me,
the said George Augustus Huddart, Her special license that I, the said
George Augustus Huddart, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said George Augustus Huddart, 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," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said George Augustus Huddart, by an instrument in writing
under my hand and seal, 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 George Augustus Huddart, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same was to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement, reference being had to the Drawing hereunto annexed,
and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say):-
This Invention relates to certain novel means of constructing pearl . and

page_text: other buttons, whereby their application to garments or fabrics will be greatly
facilitated as compared with the tedious operation of sewing, and their security
likewise ensured.
The Invention has reference, first, to the employment of a screw shank,
which may either be a detachable shank of metal or a tapped projection on
the under side of the button head. In the accompanying Drawing both these
arrangements are shewn to suit various kinds of buttons.
Fig. 1 shews in transverse section a pearl headed button having a
shoulder or projection a¹ on the under side of the head a, which shoulder
is tapped to receive a binding screw b. By simply passing this binding
screw (which forms the shank of the button) through the fabric or
garment c, and screwing it up tightly into its socket, the button will be
firmly secured. Fig. 2 shews a metal button with a screw or tapped
shank b projecting from a shoulder on the under side of the button head a.
This shank is inserted in a hole in the garment c, and a screw cap d is applied
to the tapped shank so as to nip the fabric tightly between the shoulder of the
button and the screw cap. Fig. 3 shews in section a shell or covered
button constructed according to this improvement, the screw shank being
secured to and forming part of the back shell of the button and receiving a
clamping nut or screw cap d.
Another arrangement consists in piercing a hole through the centre of the
button to receive a screw, and applying to that screw a clamping nut or
screw cap. At Fig. 4 this modification is shewn as applied to a pearl, ivory,
or bone button, and at Fig. 5 to a cloth or washing button.
Another improvement consists in applying buttons to garments by employing
a tubular shank. When applying this to button heads of pearl or other hard
material; drill a hole through the button head, as shewn at Fig. 6, and
pass into that hole, and through a hole made in the garment or fabric that
is to receive the button, the tubular shank, securing it in position by means of
pressure after the manner of applying ordinary eyelet-hole tubes. This
improvement also applies to cloth buttons, as shewn at Fig. 7.
Another mode of employing this adaptation of the eyelet fastening is shewn
at Figures 8 and 9, which represent a pearl, ivory, or bone button with a
tubular shank in the position to be attached to a garment, and after the
attachment has been effected. The shoulder or head a of the button is
countersunk to receive the tubular shank b, which, after being passed through
a hole in the fabric c, is compressed endwise, as shewn at Fig. 9, and then
the attachment of the button is completed.
In all the above-described arrangements the shank or clamping piece will

page_text: be applied to the button at the time or in the act of attaching it in place on
the garment or fabric.
Having now set forth the nature of my Invention of "Improvements in
Buttons," and explained the manner of carrying the same into effect, I wish it
to be understood that under the above in part recited Letters Patent I
claim, manufacturing buttons in the manner and for the purpose above
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Augustus Huddart, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, the Fourth day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight lundred and sixty-three.
ARA
GEO. A. HUDDART. (S.)