An Improvement in or Addition to Certain kinds of Buttons.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Sept., 1887
Complete Left, 27th Jan., 1888
Complete Accepted, 2nd Mar., 1888
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in or Addition to Certain kinds of Buttons.
1 ARTHUR MANTON of Regent Works Clissold Street Birmingham in the County
of Warwick Manager of Works do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be
as follows:-
My invention has reference to the invention described represented and claimed in
the specification of Letters Patent granted to Alfred John Heys and Samuel Salkeld
on the 5th day of November 1884 No. 14636.
The patented invention referred to consists essentially of a button to be attached to
the garment without sewing the middle part of the hack disc or back shell of the
button being concave and slit so as to form a series of radial fangs or tongues. When
the middle fanged or tongued part of the button is pressed against the head of a stud
passed through the garment the fangs or tongues yield inwards and afterwards close
upon the shank or neck of the said stud and thereby attach the button to the said stud
and to the garment. The patented button is liable to become detached from the fangs
or tongues by the opening or yielding outwards of the latter when great strain is put
on the button and the object of my invention is to remedy this inconvenience. This
object I effect by the following improvement in or addition to the patented button.
According to my invention in place of making the button of two shells the back shell
having in its middle the gripping fangs or tongues described I make the button of
three parts namley of a plain front and back shell each perforated at its centre and a
middle cupped disc also perforated at its centre the middle part of the cupped disc
being pierced with radial slits so as to produce the series of gripping fangs or tongues
herein before described for gripping the shank or neck of the headed stud passed
through the garment. I make the middle cupped disc of smaller diameter than the
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page_text: front and back shells the middle part of the back shell being cupped to receive the
middle disc having the fangs or tongues. The three parts are secured together by
placing the middle cupped disc in the cupped part of the back shell and placing the
combined parts with their concave side outwards in the front shell. By now closing
the edge of the front shell upon the flange of the cupped back shell the front and
back shells are connected together with the small cupped disc containing the fangs or
tongues secured at its edge between them.
By constructing the parts of the button as described the fangs or tongues of the
3maller cupped disc readily yield inwards for fastening the button to the headed stud
but the back shell acts as a support to the fangs or tongues of the small middle disc
and prevents them yielding outwards when great strain is put upon them thus
effectually preventing the detachment of the button from the garment.
Dated this Seventh day of September 1887.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: An Improvement in or Addition to Certain kinds of Buttons.
I ARTHUR MANTON of Regent Works, Clissold Street, Birmingham in the County
of Warwick Manager of Works do hereby declare the nature of the said 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 has reference to the invention described, represented and claimed in
the specification of Letters Patent granted to Alfred John Heys and Samuel Salkeld
on the 5th day of November 1884; No. 14636.
The patented invention referred to consists essentially of a button to be attached to
the garment without sewing, the middle part of the back disc or back shell of the button
being concave and slit so as to form a series of radial fangs or tongues. When the
middle fanged or tongued part of the button is pressed against the head of a stud
passed through the garment the fangs or tongues yield inwards and afterwards close
upon the shank or neck of the said stud and thereby attach the button to the said
stud and to the garment. The patented button is liable to become detached from the
fangs or tongues by the opening or yielding outwards of the latter when great strain
is put on the button and the object of my said invention is to remedy this
inconvenience.
This object I effect by the following improvement in or addition to the patented
button.
According to my invention in place of making the button of two shells, the back
shell having in its middle the gripping fangs or tongues described, I make the button
of three parts, namely of a plain front and back shell, each perforated at its centre,
and a middle cupped disc also perforated at its centre, the middle part of the cupped
disc being pierced with radial slits so as to produce the series of gripping fangs or
tongues herein before described for gripping the shank or neck of the headed stud passed
through the garment. I make the middle cupped disc of smaller diameter than the front
and back shells the middle part of the back shell being cupped to receive the middle
disc having the fangs or tongues. The three parts are secured together by placing the
middle cupped disc in the cupped part of the back shell and placing the combined
parts with their concave side outwards in the front shell. By now closing the edge of
the front shell upon the flange of the cupped back shell, the front and back shells are
connected together with the sinall cupped disc containing the fangs or tongues secured
at its edge between them.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents in elevation, plan and section
the front perforated shell of my improved button; Figure 2 represents in elevation
plan and section the perforated and fanged and cupped disc of the said button;
Figure 3 represents in elevation plan and section the back perforated and cupped shell
of the said button.
Figure 4 represents in elevation plan of upperside, plan of underside and section
the back shell and the cupped disc fitted together ready for the front shell to be closed

page_text: upon their flanges and Figure 5 represents in elevation plan of upper side, plan of
underside and section, the finished button made from the front and back shells
Figures 1 and 3. and the middle cupped disc Figure 2.
Figure 6 represents in section my improved button fastened to the headed stud
passed through the fabric or material of a garment or other article.
In the several Figures of the Drawing the front shell is marked a the central
perforation in it is marked b and its turned in edge is marked c. The middle cupped
disc is marked d and the gripping fangs or tongues are marked e and the central
perforation f. By an examination of Figure 2 it will be seen that the fangs or
tongues e are made by piercing radial slits in the said cupped disc, the said slits com-
mencing at the central perforation f in the disc and terminating a short distance from
the angular part of the cupped disc. The bottom of the cupped disc d is concave and
its edge is slightly flanged. The back shell is marked g, its central perforation i and
its flange h. The part of the back shell g within the flange h has the same shape as
and is a little larger than the cupped disc d so that the latter will fit in the said back
shell in the manner represented in Figure 4. Having placed the small cupped disc d
in the back shell g as represented the combined disc and back shell are placed in the
front shell a with their concave side outwards and the edge of the said front shell is
closed upon the flange of the cupped back shell and edge of the cupped disc as
illustrated in the finished button Figure 5. The front and back shells a and g are
thus connected together with the middle cupped disc between them, the closing
operation being effected by a press and press tools in the ordinary way of manu-
facturing metal buttons.
The improved button is attached to the garment without sewing in the manner
represented in Figure 6.
The headed stud passed through the garment is marked k the head of the stud
having a size suitable to pass through the central perforation in the back shell g.
In attaching the button to the garment its back is pressed upon the head of the stud k
so as to cause the said head to pass through the perforation i in the back shell and press
against the fangs or tongues e in the middle cupped disc thereby causing the said
fangs or tongues to yield inwards and open sufficiently for the head of the stud to
pass them. After the head has passed the said fangs or tongues, they close under the
said head and thereby attach the button to the stud and to the garment without
sewing.
By constructing the parts of the button as described and represented the fangs or
tongues of the small cupped middle disc d readily yield inwards for fastening the
button to the headed stud k but the back shell g acts as a support to the fangs or
tongues of the said middle disc and prevents them yielding outwards when great
strain is put upon them thus effectually preventing the detachment of the button
from the garment as will be understood by an examination of the sections of the
finished buttons Figures 5 and 6.
Having now described the nature of my invention and the manner in which the
same is to be performed I declare that I claim as my invention ;-
Making buttons of the kind described of three parts, namely of a plain front shell
preferably perforated at its centre a cupped back shell perforated at its centre and a 4
middle cupped disc also perforated at its centre and having gripping fangs or tongues,
the front and back shells being connected together with the middle fanged and
perforated cupped disc secured between them for the purpose and substantially as
herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing.
Dated this Twenty fourth day of January 1888.