Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 10th May, 1887.
Specification Accepted, 10th June, 1887.
[Communicated from abroad by CARL WERNER STUART, of No. 18, East 32nd Street,
in the City of New York, United States of America.]
I PHILIP ARTHUR NEWTON of the Office for Patents, 6 Bream's Buildings,
Chancery Lane in the County of Middlesex, Patent Agent 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:-
This invention consists in a fastening for garments composed of a base or head
having a ring, loop, or open shank permanently or firmly attached, and an elastic
link which is contracted on each side of the centre of its length in such manner.
as to form a central eye and two looped prolongations, and which is interlinked with
the ring, loop, or shank attached to the head or base. The contracted portions of the
said link enable it to retain itself on the ring, loop, or shank of the base
or head, either with one of its looped ends in engagement with the said ring,
loop, or shank, or with its central eye in such engagement, in the first of which
conditions, the link can be drawn through an eyelet hole or button hole in a glove or
other article of apparel, for the purpose of performing the fastening or unfastening of
the said article, and in the second of which conditions, the link lies across the eyelet
hole or button hole in such manner that the ring, loop or shank cannot be withdrawn
from the garment, thus making the fastening secure. The moving of the link
end wise on the ring shank or loop of the base or head is provided for by the
elasticity of the link, which enables its contracted parts to pass the ring, shank
or loop, when sufficient force is applied to the link to move it endwise on the
latter.
Fig. 1 in the accompanying drawing represents a portion of a glove with the
improved fastenings applied.
Fig 2 is a similar view illustrating a modification of the fastenings.

page_text: Fig. 3 is a side view of one of the fastenings shown in Fig. 1, and a transverse
section of the portion of the garment to which it is permanently attached.
Fig. 4 is a longitudinal sectional view of a portion of the glove shown in Fig. 1.
Fig. 5 is a longitudinal sectional view of a portion of the glove shown in Fig. 2.
Fig. 6 represents separately the several parts of the fastening shown in Figs. 2
and 5.
Fig. 7 is a front view of a portion of a glove with another modification of the
fastening.
Fig. 8 is a perspective view of a boot with fastenings like those shown in Figs. 2,
5, and 6.
Figs. 9 and 10 are respectively a side view and a back view illustrating the
adaptation of the fastening to the purpose of attaching ordinary buttons to wearing
apparel.
Fig. 11 is a transverse sectional view, in perspective, of an elongate link.
Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the Figures.
The simplest form of the invention is that shown in Figs. 1, 3, and 4, in which
the fastening is composed of two pieces only, viz., a base A, and the elongate link B.-
The base, as here shown, consists simply of a piece of metal of the form of a letter 8,
one half or part of which constitutes a shank b, with which the elongate link B is
permanently engaged, and the other half or part of which constitutes an eye a to
receive a tape or cord c, for the purpose of attaching the base A to the inner lap d of
the wrist opening of the glove, the said base being inserted through a small hole
provided in the said lap, so that the shank bis presented outside of, and the eye a is
presented inside of, the said lip.
In the example shown in Figs. 2. 5. 6 and 8, the base A is made of three pieces,
one of which pieces constitutes the ring, loop, or shank b, and has two prongs ii,
and the other two of which pieces consist simply of centrally perforated washer-like
collets or discs jj, the said collets or discs being placed one inside and one outside of
the inner lap, d, and the prongs ii being inserted through them both, and through
the lap from the outside, and then clinched on the inside, as shown in Fig. 5, to
secure the base to the lap d of the opening of the glove or hoot.
The elongate link may be made of any stiff; but elastic metal, of any transverse
sectional form. It may, for instance, be made of round, square, or flat wire, or
may have a sectional form externally hollow, and internally round, as shown in
Fig. 11.—Its contracted parts f, by which its central eye g and terminal loops h are
separated, must have the opposite sides brought so near together that in the normal
condition of the link, the ring, loop, or shank 6 of the base, cannot pass accidentally
from the eye g to the loops h, or vice versa.
In the example shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, the outer lap k of the opening of the
glove or boot, is shewn as made with ordinary stitched button holes m, but in Fig. 7
it is shown with a metal lined eyelet-hole l.
b
When the glove or boot is first put on, the links B hang with one of their terminal
loops / in engagement with the ring, shank, or loop 6 of the base A.-To produce the
fastening, the free end of the link is drawn through the button hole or eyelet hole,
and the link is worked like a button hook to draw the ring, shank, or loop 6 into the
hole. The link is then pushed half way back to cause one of the contracted parts f
to pass the ring, shank or loop b, which then engages with the central eye g of the
link, in such manner that the latter is caused to lie across the button hole or eyelet
hole, and prevent its withdrawal therethrough.-To unfasten, the link B is pushed
end wise to bring one of its terminal loops into engagement with b, and the link may
then, of itself, slip out of the hole, or be easily withdrawn therefrom.
The invention, in either of the forms illustrated in Figs. 1 to 7, may be applied to
various articles of wearing apparel in the same manner as hereinabove described,
with reference to those Figures, that is to say, with a base A attached permanently
to the inner lap of the article, but for those articles of wearing apparel in which it is
preferable to use a button to give the appearance of the buttons commonly used,
there is substituted for the base A an ordinary button-head 'A', as shown in Figs.

page_text: and 10, with a regular button shank 6 corresponding with the ring, shank, or loop b
previously described, and in that case, there is no permanent attachment of the
fastenings to the garment, but the inner lap of the opening of the garment has
provided in it, eyelet holes for the passage of the links B, which are passed through
the said laps from the outside, leaving the buttons like ordinary buttons on the outside
of the inner lap, to be used like ordinary buttons with button holes in the outer lap.
In this form, the invention is suitable for cuff or sleeve buttons.
Fastenings constructed and applied, as described, with reference to Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4,
5 and 6, may be easily applied to gloves already made, and may be easily removed
from worn-out gloves and applied to new ones.-They may therefore be made of
precious metal without necessitating great costliness, as one set of fastenings would
out last many pairs of gloves.
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 :-
1. A fastening for gloves, boots, shoes, or other articles of wearing apparel,
consisting of a base or head having a permanently attached or fixed ring, loop, or
shank, as b, and an elastic elongate link, as B, contracted on each side of the centre of
its length, interlinked with said ring, loop, or shank, substantially as and for the
purpose herein described.
2. A fastening for gloves, boots, shoes or other articles of wearing apparel,
consisting of a base provided with a permanently attached or fixed ring, shank or
loop, as b, to be attached to one lap of the opening of such an article, and an elastic
elongate link, as B, contracted on each side of its central opening, to be passed
through a hole in the outer lap of the garment; substantially as and for the purpose
herein described, with reference to Figs. 1 to 6..
3. The combination with a button A³, having an open shank, as 6, of an elastic
elongate link, as B, contracted on each side of the centre of its length; substantially
as and for the purpose herein described with reference to Figs. 9 and 10.
4. The combination with a base or head, as A or A¹, having a ring, shank, or loop
as b, of an elastic elongate link having a central eye g, and terminal loops h, with
contractions between them, substantially as and for the purpose herein described.
Dated this 10th day of May 1887.
NEWTON & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.