of Dress, Bags, and other Purposes.
Year: 1885

page_text: of Dress, Bags, and other Purposes.
We WILLIAM ALFRED BANCROFT and WALTER JOHN BANCROFT trading as
Bancroft Brothers of 170 Hockley Hill, Birmingham in the County of Warwick
Stampers and Piercera do hereby declare the nature of our said invention for
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FASTENINGS FOR ARTICLES OF DRESS
BAGS AND OTHER PURPOSES to be as follows :-
Our invention relates to the construction or manufacture of the description of
fastenings such as studs, collar studs, sleeve links, glove fastners, purses, satchells,
bags, dress buttons and other purposes where the shank and back or front of the
fastening works on axes or joints to permit of being readily passed through the
button hole or slot of the article to be fastened-And our improvements consist in
constructing or manufacturing the shank in such a way as to provide a projecting
point at each side of the said shank, and in the front or back part we place a circular
or other shaped plate with a deflection and small recess on each side of an opening
pierced in it-In connection with this plate we use a further plate with a part
raised from it forming a spring-When putting the fastener together the two
points on the shank drop into the recess at each side of the opening in the plate,
the spring plate is passed into position and the whole is secured together by bending
over the metal front or back at the edges, the part of the shank abutting against
the spring in the plate being flat so that when it is turned in either direction on
its axes or joints the spring is brought into action-By our improvements we
simplify the cost of production, by dispensing with independent axes or joints, a
better action is obtained with economy of cost.
WILLIAM ALFRED BANCROFT.
WALTER JOHN BANCROFT.

page_text: Improvements in the Manufacture of Fastenings for Articles
of Dress, Bags, and other Purposes.
We WILLIAM ALFRED BANCROFT and WALTER JOHN BANCROFT trading as
Bancroft Brothers of 170 Hockley Hill Birmingham in the County of Warwick,
Stampers & Piercers do hereby declare the nature of our invention for IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF FASTENINGS FOR ARTICLES OF DRESS, BAGS
AND OTHER PURPOSES and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
Our invention relates to the construction or manufacture of the description of
fastenings such as studs, collar studs, sleeve links, purses, glove fastners, satchels,
bags dress buttons and other purposes when the shank and back or front of the
fastenings works on axes or joints, to permit of being readily passed through the
button hole or slot of the article to be fastened-At each side of the shank there
are projecting points and in the back or front part we place a circular or other
shaped plate with a deflection and small recess on each side of an opening pierced
in it-In connection with this plate we use a further plate with a part raised from
it forming a spring or by preferance a disc of sheet steel or hard sheet metal-
When putting the fastner together the two points on the shank drop into the
recess at each side of the opening in the plate, the spring plate is placed in
position and the whole is secured together by bending over the metal front or back
at the edges the part of the shank abbutting against the spring plate being flat so
that when it is turned in either direction on its axes or joints the spring is brought
into action By our improvements we simplify the cost of production by dispensing
with independent axes or joints and also by the use of the spring plate as before
described a better action is obtained.
We will now describe our invention with referance to the accompanying
Drawings Figs 1 and 2 represent a front and back view of a solitare (open or
unsecured) in position to be passed through or withdrawn from the cuff-Fig. 3
the same closed or secured-Fig 4 and 5 represent a collar stud side and back
view-It will be seen that the working part A forms the back part of the solitare
and the front part in the stud, the outer covering of which is shewn at Fig. 12-
Fig. 13 represents the shank with its axes a. a. and is so drawn as to shew its
thickness which is necessary to its effective working-Figs 10 and 11 represent a
circular plate with deflections (b b) and small recesses c c on each side of an
opening (e) pierced in it-Figs 6 and 7 represent front and edge view of a circular
plate of sheet steel or hard sheet metal with a part raised from it forming a
spring Figs 8 and 9 another circular plate or disc also cut from sheet steel or hard
sheet metal which may be used for the same purpose it being equally effective―
In putting the fastner together the two points or axes a. a. on the shank (Fig. 13)
drop into the recesses c c in the deflections b b (Fig. 10) in which position they are
représented Figs 14 and 15-In the covering of the front or back part (Fig. 12) a
spring plate is placed and the deflected plate with the shank in position is placed
on the top and the whole is secured together by bending or closing over the edges
of the covering as shewn Fig. 15-The part of the shank abutting against the spring

page_text: plate being flat so that when it is turned in either direction on its axes or joints
the spring is brought into action as shewn Figs 16, 17, 18.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention & in what manner the same is to be performed we declare what
we claim is
The spring plate as before described by which the cost of production is reduced
and an improved action obtained.
Dated this 20th day of December 1995