IMPROVEMENTS IN BUTTONS OR WAGENINGE DISPENSING WITH BUTTON HOLES
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Durand, of No. 98, Rue de Maubeuge,
Paris, Merchant, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN BUTTONS OR
WAGENINGE DISPENSING WITH BUTTON HOLES."
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION filed by the said Joseph Durand at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition and
Declaration, on the 31st July 1871, pursuant to the 9th Section of
the Patent Law Amendment Act, 1852.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOSEPH
DURAND, of No. 98, Rue de Maubeuge, Paris, Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS I am in possession of an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
BUTTONS OR FASTENINGS DISPENSING WITH BUTTON HOLES," and have petitioned
Her Majesty to grant unto me, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, Her Royal Letters Patent for the same, and have made solemn
Declaration that I verily believe myself to be the first and true Inventor
thereof.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Joseph Durand, do hereby declare
that the following Complete Specification, under my hand and seal,
fully describes and ascertains the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be performed, reference being had to
the Drawing hereto annexed and forming part of this Specification, and
to the figures and letters marked thereon, that is to say :-
My improvements have for object the manufacture of buttons or
fastenings dispensing with button holes, such buttons or fastenings
being applicable not only to articles of dress, but also to jewellery, to
fancy and other articles.
To make my Invention better understood I will proceed to describe
the same by reference to the accompanying Drawing, in which Figures 1
to 11 shew various arrangements of my Invention.
In Figure 1, A represents a stem or pin provided with a plate C and a
groove B. This stem passes through a hole pierced in the two parts of
the material to be fastened or into an eyelet hole previously fixed in the
material. Over this stem is placed the plate D provided with a flange
in which the stem F plays, on which a spring E acts. By applying a
slight pressure a stem F becomes displaced and enters the groove B, and
thus closes the fastening. To open the fastening it is merely necessary
to draw back the ring F, and the plate D will come off and disengage
the two superposed parts.
Figure 2 shows a similar arrangement, except that the spring E is
placed outside and the knob F is placed on the side. The action is the
same. Under the pressure applied on the spring the closing piece G
catches in the groove B or is disengaged at will.
Figure 3 shews the stem A with a different form of spring. It
consists of three arms held only at a, a¹. When the part B is introduced
under the spring the plate 6 rises and the stem A slides in as far as the
centre, where it is held by the spring E. To undo the fastening it is a
merely necessary to slightly press it to raise the spring E, then to slide
the stem laterally in the contrary direction to its entrance.
Figure 4 represents a fastening in which the closing is effected by
means of a small pin F sliding on the cover, the extremity of which
takes into the groove B after sliding into its notch b; to ensure the
fastening it is then merely necessary to turn the cover on the stem. It

page_text: the manner and for the purposes herein-before described and represented
in the accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Joseph Durand, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one.