AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PERFORATED BUTTONS
Year: 1853

page_text: Sealed the 27th January 1854, and dated the 18th November 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Patrick Benignus
O'Neill at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 18th November 1853.
I, PATRICK BENIGNUS O'NEILL, of Paris, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
PERFORATED BUTTONS" to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object an improved manufacture of brace
and such like perforated buttons, and the improvement consists of
making each button with a central hole for the passage of the needle

page_text: and thread, in combination with other holes around such central hole.
By this construction the button will be held to a garment by the
thread binding down the ring of material which bounds or surrounds
the central hole.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Patrick Benignus O'Neill in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 17th May 1854.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
PATRICK BENIGNUS O'NEILL, of Paris, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her Most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Eighteenth day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the
seventeenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Patrick Benignus O'Neill,
Her special licence that I, the said Patrick Benignus O'Neill, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Patrick Benignus O'Neill, 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 King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of
Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PER-
FORATED BUTTONS," communicated to me from abroad, upon the con-
dition (amongst others) that I, the said Patrick Benignus O'Neill, by
an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Patrick Benignus O'Neill, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner

page_text: the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement thereof (that is to say):
This Invention has for its object an improved manufacture of brace
and such like perforated buttons; and the improvement consists of
making each button with a central hole for the passage of the needle
and thread, in combination with other holes around such central hole.
By this construction the button will be held to a garment by the
ring of material which bounds or surrounds
thread binding down the
the central hole.
Having thus stated the nature of the said Invention, I will proceed
to describe the manner of performing the same.
The Drawing represents a button on a magnified scale, made accord-
ing. to the Invention. a, is the outer ring of the button; b, is the
central hole for the passage of a needle and thread; c, is the ring or
substance of metal which surrounds the central hole; d, d, are the
parts which connect the outer ring a, and the inner ring c, there being
openings between the parts d, d, for the passage of the needle and
thread. By this construction of button the thread will pass round the
ring or substance c, which surrounds the central opening, and the
button will be fixed by such ring c, to the garment. I would remark
that the number and form of the parts d, d; and consequently the holes

page_text: or passages for the needle and thread between them, may be varied.
What I claim is, the manufacture. of perforated buttons herein
described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Patrick Benignus O'Neill, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Sixteenth day of May,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
fifty-four.
Witness,
S. CARPMAEL.
P. B. O'NEILL. (L.S.)