Improvements in Boot and other Buttons and in the Means for Fastening the same.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Feb., 1893-Accepted, 11th Mar., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boot and other Buttons and in the Means for
Fastening the same.
I, HARRY WALTER HULBERT of 32 Scrooby Street Rushey Green London S.E.
Merchants Clerk 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 :-
My invention relates to improvements in boot and other buttons and in the
means for fastening the same, and has for its object to fix the latter to the desired
material in such a manner that they cannot become detached therefrom, whatever
strain they may be subjected to when inserted into the button holes, while being at
the same time allowed full play for convenience of attachment.
In the accompanying drawings in which like letters of reference indicate corre-
sponding parts, Fig. 1 shows a button fixed to a piece or strip of material, Figs. 2, 3
and 4 being three different views of the disc or washer w.
According to my invention I provide the button b with a metallic pin or shank s,
furnished with a heel. This shank may, as shown in Fig. 1, be passed through
the button b in order to be rivetted at its outer end, or it may be fixed thereto
in any other suitable manner. To secure this button to a piece or strip of
material m for instance, I make use of the metal disc or water w. This washer
has a circular central perforation k from which radiate two oblique cuts c made
in the metal of the washer so as to allow the triangular piece p (Fig. 3) to be
partially detached therefrom and raised in an upright position as shown in Figs. 3
and 4, thus forming an opening o which will permit of the head / being con-
veniently inserted through the washer w. The shanks of the button being first
inserted through an opening formed in the material m, and of sufficient size to
allow the passage of the heel h, the latter is subsequently passed through the disc
or washer w, arranged as shown in Fig. 3, that is to say; with the piece p_raised,
after which the latter piece is bent down to close the triangular opening o (Fig. 1),
the central circular perforation k remaining open and allowing full play to the
button shanks, the heel h of which prevents the button from coming off the
washer to and material m, whatever strain it may be subjected to when trying to
insert it in a button hole.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
Improvements in boot and other buttons and in means for securing the same to
any material, consisting of the shank s fixed to the button, and furnished with a
heel 1, a loose plate w, having a small perforation through which the shank &
passes, and two oblique slits allowing a part to be raised for the insertion of the
heel and shank, the part being closed down afterwards, holding the shank in place,
substantially as described.
Dated this 9th day of February 1893.
GEO. H. RAYNER,
37, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.