Combination Button and Fastener.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Aug., 1899
Combination Button and Fastener.
EDWARD WITTENBERG, 3 & 4, Bank Buildings, High Road, Chiswick, Mid-
dlesex, Boot Maker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
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Improved button fastener for fixing to boots shoes or anything where buttons
are required.
The object of this invention is the fixing of buttons without the use of any
machine.
No skill or trouble is required to fix them.
The fastener when fixed does not cause any inconvenience whatever.
It is easily and quickly fixed and can be as easily unfixed without damage to
where it was fixed.
It is very economic.
The novelty of this invention is that the fastener is manufactured to the button
of any shape or form. The shank and fastener is made of 17 guage steel wire.
The part for fixing is spiral shaped.
A on drawing is opening. 1, spiral. C, shank. D), button.
The button is of the size required. The shank is from 3/16 to ¼ inch deep.
The spiral part is ¼ inch in width (circumference). The opening is ¼ inch
from shank sufficient to allow for fixing and it is made to a point.
To fix the button and fastener it requires to be turned to the right and to unfix
the same to turn to the left.
Lundan. September the 29th 1899.
I, EDWARD WITTENBERG, 3 & 4, Bank Buildings, High Road, Chiswick,
Boot Maker, 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 an improved button fastener for fixing to boots, shoes
or anything where buttons are required. The object of this invention is to enable
buttons to be fixed to boots, shoes or the like without use of a machine.
For purposes of illustration, I will refer to the drawings filed with my Pro-
visional Specification.
Figure 1, is a side elevation showing my invention.

page_text: Figure, 2, sectional side elevation of same.
Figure 3, perspective view.
Figure 4, view of fixing device or spiral.
D is a button to which I attach the peculiarly shaped piece of wire or other
suitable material, through the medium of the shank C, B being what I term the
spiral. A is the point which is inserted into the fabric and by rotating the
button the spiral is caused to assume a position which will maintain it in
the fauric which is preferably of leather.
In Figure 3, the bent part E forms what may be termed an arched or bent
portion or projection, and it will be seen that a more or less of what may be
termied a cork screw action takes place when affixing a button in position, and
this action is the result of the particular way in which the coil is bent or shaped.
It will be readily understood that by suitably rotating the fastener in the
reverse direction to that required for fastening that the button and fastener may
be withdrawn if required owing to the arrangement and shape of the attaching
portion thereof.
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. In means for attaching buttons to boots, shoes and the like, of the class
herein described, the combined construction and arrangement of the various parts,
substantially as described and illustrated herein and for the purpose set forth.
2. In means for attaching buttons and the like to the required object, the
employment of an attaching device carried by the button, consisting of a piece
of wire or other suitable material so shaped or bent as to enable the free end of
such wire or material to be inserted into the required material with or without an
aperture therein, and by rotation or turning, to be brought into its securing posi-
tion, a bent or arched portion at or about the shank as shewn in Figure 3, for the
purpose of preventing the accidental or unintentional withdrawal, substantially
as described and illustrated herein and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 24th day of May 1900.
E. EATON,
Agent for Applicant.