IMPROVEMENTS IN STUDS AND BUTTONS
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Jefferys, of Tottenham Court Road, in the
County of Middlesex, Jeweller, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN STUDS AND BUTTONS."
Sealed the 28th October 1868, and dated the 10th July 1868.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Jefferys at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
10th July 1868.
I, JOHN JEFFERYS, of Tottenham Court Road, in the County of Mid-
dlesex, Jeweller, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN STUDS AND BUTTONS," to be as follows:-
My Invention relates to improvements in solitaires and other studs
and buttons whereby to facilitate their attachment to the collar,
cuff, shirt front, or other article of dress to which they may be
applied.
The improvements are more particularly applicable to solitaire and
other studs which are usually provided with a circular head or disc
(mounted on the end of the shank at the opposite end to the stud)
which requires to be inserted through the button hole made for its

page_text: reception in order to secure the stud thereto. This operation is attended
with some difficulty, owing to the circular form of the head; and the
object of my Invention is to remedy this by making the head of
crescent shape by stamping out or otherwise removing a portion of the
disc. The horns or points of the crescent are more readily introduced
into the button hole than the disc above mentioned, it being simply
necessary to insert either end of the crescent-shaped head and then
partially rotate the stud in order to attach it to the article. I also
provide button shanks with similarly shaped heads to facilitate their
attachment to any article.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Jefferys in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 9th January 1869.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
JEFFERYS, of Tottenham Court Road, in the County of Middlesex,
Jeweller, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-second
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said John Jefferys, Her special licence that I, the
said John Jefferys, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as I, the said John Jefferys, 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 STUDS AND BUTTONS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Jefferys, my
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my, or
their, or one of their hands and seals, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Jefferys, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and hy
the following statement, reference being had to the Sheet of Drawings
hereunto annexed, and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is
to say):-
My Invention relates to improvements in solitaires and other studs
and buttons whereby to facilitate their attachment to the collar,
wristband, cuff, shirt front, or other article of dress to which they
may be applied.
The improvements are more particularly applicable to solitaires and
other studs which are usually provided with a circular head or disc
(mounted on the end of the shank at the opposite end to the stud),
which head or disc requires to be inserted through the button hole
made for its reception in order to secure the stud to the garment. This
operation is attended with some difficulty owing to the circular form
of the head; and the object of my Invention is to remedy this by making
the head of crescent shape by stamping out or otherwise removing a
portion of the disc. The horns or points of the crescent are more
readily introduced into the button hole than the disc above mentioned,
it being simply necessary to insert either end of the crescent-shaped
head and then partially rotate the stud in order to attach it to the
article. I also provide button shanks with similarly shaped heads to
facilitate their attachment to any article.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents a back view
and Figure 2 an edge view of a solitaire stud with my improvement
applied.
a is the stud provided with a shank or stem 6 as usual, to which is
fixed the head c separately represented in Figure 3. This head c instead
of being a plain disc as usual is stamped out of the form shown. In
order to attach the stud one or other of the points c', c¹, of head c is
inserted through the button hole in the wristband or other article, and
the stud then rotated with the thumb and finger until the whole of the
head c has passed through the button hole. By means of this improved
form of head studs are much more easily attached to a wristband, cuff,.

page_text: or other article than hitherto; additional security is also obtained, as
the button holes need be made only half the usual length required for
the insertion of the usual disc-shaped head,
Figure 4 shows an edge view of the improved head c applied to a
shanked button whereby to facilitate its attachment to any article of
dress.
The
Figure 5 shows a back view and Figure 6 an edge view of a collar
stud provided with the improvement of my Invention, In this case I
place a disc d stamped out of the form above described in an
intermediate position on the shank e of the collar stud as seen.
head of the stud is inserted through the button hole in the neck band
of the shirt from behind as usual, and the crescent d then introduced
in the manner before described so as to retain the band between it
and the disc g, after which the collar is applied on the shank e in
the usual way. The addition of the intermediate part d prevents the
possibility of the stud escaping from the button hole by the pressure
of the tie or from other cause as is at present frequently the case.
Figure 7 shows the improvement of my Invention as applied more
particularly to diamond and other valuable studs or buttons for the
purpose of ensuring every possible security against loss. This Figure,
which is drawn on an enlarged scale, shows a back view of the stud
and Figure 8 an edge view of same; represents the head of the stud
or button; i, the shank, and & the crescent before described fixed in an
intermediate position thereon and seen separately in Figure 9. On the
end of shank i I fit a disc 1 so as to turn thereon; this diso may either be
of a crescent shape, as at k, or with a portion stamped out or removed
more or less in the form seen in Figure 7 and separately in Figure 10,
or of either of the forms shown in Figure 11, or as in Figure 12. In
order to secure the stud or button the head is made to coincide with
the crescent in the manner shown in Figure 13, and both then inserted
by one or other point into the button hole, after which the movable
head is turned by the thumb and finger so as to bring the plain part
of the disc opposite the crescent-shaped space in k. In this manner
there will be no possibility of the stud escaping from the button hole
which as before need only be of half the diameter of the disc. The
modified forms of head & shown in Figures 10, 11, and 12 are also
applicable to the other kinds of studs before described.

page_text: Having described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I declare declare that what I claim as my Inven-
tion to be protected by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is
the improvements in studs and huttons, substantially as shown and
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Jefferys, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Eighth day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine.
Witness,
A. M. CLARK,
Patent Agent,
53, Chancery Lane,
London.
JOHN JEFFERYS. (Ls.)