Improvements in or relating to Buttons or Fasteners for Garments.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Nov., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 20th Aug., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 21st Sept., 1888
Improvements in or relating to Buttons or Fasteners for Garments.
A communication from H. THIER, of Königstein o/Elbe, in the Empire of
Germany.
I. ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex, M.I.M.E.
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
The present invention relates to improvements in buttons or fasteners for garments,
especially for ladies' garments and its object is to obviate the use of buttonholes and
to design a mode of fastening the garments which is stronger and at the same time
more pleasing to the eye.
Ordinary buttons of any suitable material are provided underneath with a projection
or enlargement in which is formed a recess for the reception of a hook fastened to the
other side of the garment in the place of the buttonhole.
To enable the said hook to pass easily under the button to be introduced into the
recess, the button is fastened on a metal spring one end of which is provided with two
projections which are passed through two slots formed in a hollow of the button into
which the end of the spring fits and are then bent over.
The spring is bent round the edge of the garment and is fastened thereto by being
compressed by a pair of plyers, the upper jaw of which is longer than the lower one.
During this compression the previously turned up point of the spring will be pressed
through the garment and through a corresponding slot formed in the upper part
of the spring and will then be flattened down by the projecting upper jaw of the
plyers.
If it is desired to sew the buttons on, about half of the spring is cut off and the
spring together with the button fastened thereto sewn on by means of an eye formed
in the enring

page_text: The hook on the other side of the garment is also sewn on by means of an eye
formed therein and is furthermore provided with another eye through which may he
passed a wire which passing through all the hooks fastened to the garment would
stiffen the edge of the latter.
If desired the spring underneath the button may be provided with a hook at
the end and then a corresponding eye would be fastened to the other side of the
garment.
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I, ALFRED JULIUS BOULT of 323 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex, M.I.M.E.
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:
The present invention relates to improvements in buttons or fasteners for garments,
especially for ladies garments and its object is to obviate the use of button-holes and
to design a mode of fastening the garments which is stronger and at the same time
more pleasing to the eye.
Ordinary buttons a of any suitable material are provided underneath with a
projection or enlargement (Figs. 1-4) in which is formed a recess c for the
reception of a hook d fastened to the other side of the garment in the place of
the button-hole.
To enable the said hook to pass easily under the button and be introduced into
the recess, the button is fastened on a metal spring e one end e¹ of which is pro-
vided with two projections e³ which are passed through two slots 2 formed in a
hollow of the button into which the end of the spring fits and are then bent over
(Figs. 3 and 4).
The spring
e is bent round the edge of the garment (Figs. 2 and 6) and is
fastened thereto by being compressed by a pair of plyers g Fig. 7 the upper jaw of

page_text: which is longer than the lower one. During this compression the previously turned
up point of the spring will be pressed through the garment and through a corre-
sponding slote formed in the upper part of the spring and will then be flattened down
by the projecting upper jaw g' of the plyers.
If it is desired to sew the buttons on, about half of the spring is cut off in the dotted
line Fig. 6 and the spring together with the button fastened thereto sewn on by means
of an eye e formed in the spring.
The hook d on the other side of the garment is also sewn on by means of an eye d'
formed therein and is furthermore provided with another eye d' through which may be
passed a wire which passing through all the hooks fastened to the garment would
stiffen the edge of the latter.
If desired the spring e underneath the button may be provided with a hook e
Figs. 8-10, at the end and then a corresponding eye h would be fastened to the other
side of the garment instead of the hook d.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by my
foreign correspondents, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. A button which is fastened by hooking a hook such as d in a recess formed in an
enlargement on the button which is fixed to a bent spring such as e.
2. The fixing of the button claimed in claim 1 to the garment by means of a spring
such as e by bending the spring round the edge of the garment through which the
turned up point of the spring is pressed which latter passes through a slot formed in
the body of the spring and is flattened down.
3. The modification of substituting the enlargement of the button with a recess by
a hook formed on the end of the spring carrying the button, which hook fastens in an
eye fixed to the other side of the garment.
The whole substantially as described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings.