IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR WEARING APPAREL
Year: 1840

page_text: BARNETT, of 39, Jewin Street, in the City of London, Tailor, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain, bearing date at West-
minster, the Eleventh day of July, in the fourth year of Her reign, did, for
Herself, Her leirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said George
Barnett, Her especial licence, full power, sole privilege and authority, that I,
the said George Barnett, my exors, adñors, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said George Barnett, my exors, admors, or assigns, should at any time
agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times during the term
of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick-upon-Tweed,
my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR WEARING APPAREL;" in
which said Letters Patent is contained a proviso, that I, the said George
Barnett, shall cause a particular description of the nature of my Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be inrolled in Her
said Majesty's High Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and
by the same, reference being thereunto had, will more fully and at large
appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said proviso, I, the said
George Barnett, do hereby declare the nature of my Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, are fully described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the

page_text: Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters marked
(that is to say):
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The Invention relates, first, to a peculiar construction of spring hooks,
which are shewn at Figures 1, 2, and 3; Figure 1 representing a plate of
steel, cut to the proper figure or shape by a fly press or other suitable means;
Figure 2 shows an edge view of the hooks and guard complete; and Figure 3,
a plan thereof. a, a, are the hooks, which pass through openings b, b, when
in use; c, c, are holes by which the hooks are affixed by sewing to parts of
garments, d being a hole through the shield, by which the needle is passed
through and through in sewing on the hooks; when the instrument is not in
use the hooks are below the openings b, b. Figures 4 and 5 shew a plan and
edge view of another shield with hooks somewhat different to the previous one,
the shield not extending beyond the hooks.
What I claim as the first part of the Invention is, the mode of constructing
hooks with shields, as described. Figure 6 shows an improved instrument for
retaining a button on to garments, in those cases where the shank of a button
is passed through an eyelet hole; it is formed by bending wire into the shapes
or figures shewn, there being a spring tongue e to the frame f, as is clearly
shewn. The elastic tongue-passes-through the shank of the button, and
retains it attached to the garment; by these instruments it will be evident that
buttons may be readily attached and detached. Figure 7 shews a similar
instrument, but formed out of the sheet metal.
What I claim as the second part of my Invention is, the mode of construct-
ing instruments, shewn at Figures 6 and 7, for securing buttons on garments;
as described. Figures 8 and 9 shew an arrangement or construction of hook,
and the improvement consists in indenting the hook or stem of the hook, as
shewn at i, by which the hook when in use is prevented unhooking from the
eye, into which it may be inserted, and the elasticity of the hook will allow
the hook to pass into and from an eye when pressed with force.
What I claim as the third part of my Invention is, the mode of forming
hooks with the part i, as described. Figure 10 shews the mode of making an
improved brace button, A being the upper side; B, the under side of a button
complete; C is a section of the button complete; E shews another circular
disc of metal similar to A, with holes; the edges of such disc E and the holes
are raised by means of dies, as is well understood, into the Figure F, which
shews a section of the disc E; the object of so raising the edges of the holes
in the disc E is to enable the coned ends of such holes to pass through the
holes formed in the disc G, which disc is dished or sunk into the form
shewn by suitable dies, as is well understood, and the disc G is then placed

page_text: into the shell or disc E, and then by means of dies the button is pressed. into
the finished, shape A, B, C. By this mode of making buttons, it. will.readily
be understood that the holes are so formed as not to cut the thread by which
the same are affixed to garments, or in place of causing the coned openings
or holes of one plate to pass through the holes in the other; each plate may
have the holes coned, and then flattened down, and then the two plates or shells
combined together, as shewn H, I, J..
What I claim as the fourth part of my Invention is, the mode of forming
brace buttons with holes made as herein described. Figure 11. shews an
improved buckle, the tongue of which acts by pressure; j is the frame of the
buckle, on which the tongue k is hinged, or moves on an axis, as is shewn,
and I may remark that the pressing edge of the tongue may be roughed or
jagged, or it may be smoothed, as are shewn in the different views. The
frame j with its tongue is to be attached to a strap or belt.or band by sewing
or otherwise, as is shewn at 1, 1, and the other end of the strap, belt, or band
passes between one end of the framed lever tongue k, and the frame j. The
strap, belt, or band then passes under the other end of the framed lever tongue
by which means the strap, belt, or band, will be held secure without the
tongue passing through the material of the strap, belt, or band, which is most
generally the case; but I would remark that it is not always so, as buckles
have been before formed to act simply by pressure.
What I claim as the fifth part of my Invention is, the mode of constructing
and combining the frame j, and the framed lever tongue k, as described.
Figure 12 shews an edge view and plan of improved straps, to be applied to
the waistbands of trowsers, and also to waistcoats which are tightened by
lacing. m, m, are two ears or straps of the ordinary construction, but in
place of their being separate, as heretofore, they are joined by the centre
piece l, as is shewn, leaving only a very short length of the ends of the ears or
straps m, beyond the attachment. The straps or ears are to be attached at
the points m' to the garment, as heretofore.
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What I claim as the sixth part of my Invention is, the mode of applying
the centre piece 7, as described. Figure 13 shews various views of a means of
fastening the two straps of trowsers. n, n, are the two straps to be attached
to one leg of a pair of trowsers; the apparatus or fastening o is rivetted or
fastened to one strap, and there is a hold formed through the other, as is
shewn. p is a sliding plate, which slides in a groove, as is shewn; hence when
the belt is slided out, the other strap can have the hole passed over it, and.
then by sliding the plate p in towards the rivet, the straps will be retained
together till the plate p is again slided outwards, and then the straps can. be

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Inrolled the Eleventh day of January, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and forty-one.
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