Improvements in Button Fasteners.
Year: 1897

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Button Fasteners.
WILLIAM FRYARS, Railway Porter, 3, Randolph Street, Blackburn, Lancashire,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
It is a worm pointed like a needle, and fixed to an ordinary button instead of
the shank it can be screwed into the cloth & and pressed into position by the fingers
in half a minute & can be as readily removed. When attached to the cloth it
forms a ring or circle on the opposite side to the button
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I, WILLIAM FRYARS, Railway Porter, No. 3, Randolph Street, Blackburn, 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 relates to button fasteners, and consists in attaching a piece of
wire of requisite length and strength to an ordinary button. The wire is pointed
at the end. The wire is then twisted into a spiral or other similar shape.
To attach the button, all that is requisite is to to take hold of the button, and
force the point of the spirally shaped wire into the material of the garment, then
turn the button round, when the wire will screw into the garment, and become
firmly fixed thereto. The point of the wire is now pressed under one of the spiral
coils to prevent it catching with other clothing worn by the wearer.
The wire may be brazed or soldered to the button, but it is preferably formed
The hole is
with a head like a nail, and passed through a hole in the button.
preferably formed oval, and the wire oblong in cross section with a slight indent
near the head, so that when the wire is pushed through the oval hole, it will snap
into position. The wire may afterwards be coiled as desired.
My invention will be distinctly clear by reference to the accompanying drawing,
which is a sectional view of a button with my improved fastener attached.
A is the button in cross section; B the wire, which is preferably formed with a
It is then twisted
head C, and pushed through a hole in the button A, as shewn.
into a spiral or other suitable coil D. The hole is made oval, and the wire oblong
in cross section, so that the latter may be tightly fixed by the button snapping into
an indent near the head C. The button is thus prevented from turning round, when
the wire is screwed into the garment. The pointed end of the wire is then pressed

page_text: under one of the spiral coils on the reverse side of the garment. Thus, a permanent
fastening is effected, without boring or cutting a hole in the cloth in any manner.
The wire may be brazed, soldered or otherwise attached to the button A.
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 improved button-fastener, substantially as described and shewn in the
accompanying drawing.
2. In button fasteners, the employment of a piece of pointed wire B, fixed to
the button A, and afterwards bent into a spiral or other similar shape, so that by
merely turning the button, it becomes fixed, without boring a hole in the cloth,
substantially as described and illustrated.
Dated this 20th dow of December 1907
RICHMOND & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant, 12, Standish Street, Burnley.