Improvements in Boots, Shoes, Gaiters, Leggings, Spats, Gloves, and like Button-fastened Articles.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Oct., 1893.
Complete Specification Left, 6th July, 1894-Accepted, 11th Aug., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Boots, Shoes, Gaiters, Leggings, Spats, Gloves, and
like Button-fastened Articles.
I, WILLIAM MUIR ANDREWs, of 217 St. George's Road, Glasgow, in the
County of Lanark, North Britain, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows, that is to say :-
My said invention has for its object to make the button holes of boots, shoes,.
gaiters, leggings, spats, gloves, and like articles of an improved form and so as to
facilitate the operation of buttoning without liability to become unintentionally
loosened.
In carrying out my invention I have each button hole made to consist of a.
straight or nearly straight slit, with or without a small enlargement at the outer
end; but instead of the button-hole slit being at right angles to the edge of the
part to be secured to an opposite part by buttoning I make it diagonal or inclined..
Dated this Fourteenth day of October 1893.
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.
COMILELE
Improvements in Boots, Shoes, Gaiters, Leggings, Spats, Gloves, and.
like Button-fastened Articles.
I, WILLIAM MUIR ANDREWs, of 217 St. George's Road, in the County of the
City of Glasgow, North Britain, Manufacturer, 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, that is to say :-
My said invention has for its object to make the button holes of boots, shoes,
gaiters, leggings, spats, gloves, and like articles of an improved form and so as to
facilitate the operation of buttoning without liability to become unintentionally
loosened. The advantage and convenience of the improvements are such that in
many cases a button hook may be dispensed with.
In carrying out my invention I have each button hole made to consist of a
straight or nearly straight slit, with or without a small enlargement at the outer
end; but instead of the button-hole slit being at right angles to the edge of the
part to be secured to an opposite part by buttoning I make it diagonal or inclined..
And in order that my said invention and the manner of performing the same
may be properly understood I hereunto append a sheet of explanatory drawings, to
be hereinafter referred to, and showing examples of articles as made with my
improvements.
Figures, 1, 2, and, 3, of the drawings are respectively representations of a boot,
a gaiter, and a glove. In these drawings the same reference letters are used to.
mark the same or like parts wherever they are repeated.
I have each button hole made to consist of a straight or nearly straight slit, A,
with or without a small enlargement at the outer end; but instead of the button-
hole slit, A, being at right angles to the edge, B, of the part to be secured to an
opposite part by buttoning I make it diagonal or inclined.
Various button-fastened articles or parts of wearing apparel may be made with
the improved button holes.

page_text: 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 :-
Forming boots, shoes, gaiters, leggings, spats, gloves, and the like button-
fastened articles, or parts of wearing apparel with button holes which are diagonal
or inclined to the meeting or connecting edges, substantially as hereinbefore
described.
Dated thin with donne TL 1004
EDMUND HUNT,
Applicant's Agent.