A New or Improved Fastener.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Oct., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 12th Feb., 1896-Accepted, 14th Mar., 1896
A New or Improved Fastener.
JAMES TILLETT of 8 Falcon Street Aldersgate Street in the City of London
Warehouseman and SAMUEL FREEMAN of 46 Great Charles Street Birmingham
in the County of Warwick Foreman do hereby declare the nature of our said
invention to be as follows :-
The object of our invention is to manufacture a new or improved fastener
suitable for securing buttons, hooks and eyes, coat hangers, and analogous articles
to wearing apparel and the like, also applicable for securing together papers, tapes
or bands, samples, patterns, and the like, for attaching tickets, labels, and the like
to goods and for analogous purposes.
According to our invention, we attach to or form with the buttons, hooks and
eyes, cont hangers, paper and other fasteners, a split pin or tang or a staple, in
some cases carrying a washer.
We make use of two discs preferably united at one side, one of these discs being
slightly larger in diameter than the other. The smaller disc is formed with a slot
to receive the split pin tang or staple, which, after being passed through the
material to be fastened (or to which such buttons coat hangers and the like are to
be secured) is inserted through the slot and separated and bent over.
The larger
dise is then het over on as to cover the land secured by a tang and
slot or by other suitable means.
It will thus be seen that the bent over portions of the split pin are prevented
from resuming their straight position (and drawing back through the smaller disc)
by the larger disc, the use of the larger di-e acting as a lock, as well as improving
the appearance.
Dated 15th October 1895
GEO.
DOWNING,
8 Quality Court, London, W.C., Agent.
A New or Improved
rastener.
JAMES TILLETT, of 8 Falcon Street, Aldersgate Street, in the City of London,
Warehouseman, and SAMULL FREEMAN, of 46 Great Charles Street, Birmingham
in the County of Warwick, Foreman, do hereby declare the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
The object of our invention is to manufacture a new or improved fastener,
suitable for securing buttons, hooks and eyes, coat hangers and analagous articles
to wearing apparel and the like; also for securing together papers, tapes or bands,
samples, patterns and the like; for attaching tickets, labels and the like to goods,
and for analagous purposes..
According to our invention, we attach to or form with the buttons, hooks and
eyes, coat hangers, paper and other fasteners, a split pin or tang or a staple, in some

page_text: cases carrying or being formed with a washer or head. We make use of two dises
preferably united at one side, one of the dises being slightly larger in diameter
than the other. The smaller dise is formed with a slot to receive the split pin,
tang or staple, which, after being passed through the material to be fastened for to
which such buttons, coat-hangers and the like are to be secured) is inserted
through the slot and separated and bent over. The larger dise is then bent over
so as to cover the smaller dise and is secured in that position by a tang and slot or
by other means.
And in order that our said invention may be particularly described and
ascertained, reference is hereby made to the accompanying drawings, in which
similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.
Fig. 1 is a section of a tang or split pin formed with a head or button.
Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of a tang or split pin fitted with a washer.
Fig. 3 is an elevation and Fig. 4 a plan of the double disc.
Fig. 5 shows in section the method of securing same Fig. 6 being a plan view
thereof,
Fig. 7 is an elevation and Fig. 8 is an underside plan of a hook formed with a
split pin or tang,
Fig. 9 is a sectional elevation and Fig. 10 a plan of the eyelet end of a cont
hanger.
is the split pin, tang, or staple which, in some cases (such as for buttons, hooks
and eyes and analagons articles) is formed in one with the article as shown by
Figs. 1, 8 and 9, and in other cases separately, but preferably fitted with a
washer as shown by Fig. 2.
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The double disc is formed of two dises c and d united at one side as shown
(Figs. 3, 4, 5 and 6) the dise being usually of a larger diameter than d and
formed with a slote and depression to accommodate the tangy of the smaller dised.
The latter is formed with a slot through which the split pin, tang or staple
is passed and bent over as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 6.
In using our invention the split pin or tang carrying, or formed with the button
is passed through the material, an incision having been previously made to
facilitate such an operation. The disc d is placed over the end of the split pin
which is separated and bent over as shown, the disc e being then depressed until
the tang genters the slot when the tang is bent over and caused to lie sung
within the depression 7, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6.
When using the fastener in combination with a coat hanger (Figs. 9 and 10) the
end of the chain or other op is provided with an eye piece & formed No as
to fit over the split pin or tang and preferably between the coat material and the
double disc.
It is obvious that the bent over portions of the split pin or tang are prevented
from resuming their straight or normal position by the larger disc which acts as
a lock and effectually prevents the drawing back of the split pin or tang through
the smaller disc.
The improved fastener is formed without projections or sharp edges with
which to cut or wear the material to which such fasteners are applied, the whole
appearance being greatly improved also.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
1. The new or improved fastener, substantially as specified.
2. An improved fastener consisting of a split pin or tang, carrying a washer, or
formed with a head or button, in combination with a double disc, one dise being
perforated to receive the split pin or tang, the other to act as a lock to the bent
over portions of the split-pin or tang, severally operating substantially as and for
the purposes hereinbefore described.
3. The several constructions of hooks and eyes, buttons, coat hangers and the

page_text: like acting in combination with the double disc, substantially as herein before
described and illustrated by the drawings.
Dated 10th Februr 1806
GEO.
DOWNING,
8 Quality Court, London, W.C., Agent.