Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Mar:, 1886.
Complete Left, 2nd Dec., 1886.
Complete Accepted, 28th Jan., 1887.
I CHARLES HENRY FELTON of 4 Keith Grove Uxbridge Road in the county of
Middlesex Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The object of my invention is to provide a simple cheap and effective instrument
by which button holes of any size can he rapidly cleanly and properly cut in linen
cloth and other material.
To carry out this object I secure on the end of any suitable handle a bracket in
which a pivot pin is fixed tranversely across the line of the handle. On this pin is
mounted a plate or disc preferably of steel the plane of which is therefore in con-
tinuation of the line of the handle or thereabouts and on the edges or periphery of
this plate or disc are formed two three or more sharp projecting chisel like blades of
the different widths required for cutting the button holes of different sizes. A small
stud is also secured on the bracket which can engage in holes in the plate or disc
made therefor so that the required cutting blade is duly presented to the material
firmly fixed in position. To clamp the plate or dise in the desired position a covering
piece is passed over the pivot pin somewhat similar in shape to the projecting part of
the bracket and a thumb or other screw on the end of the pivot pin is screwed tightly.
down over this covering piece which also is or may be prevented revolving by a stud
or key on the base of the bracket which enters a slot made therefor preferably on the
edge or periphery of the covering piece.
When therefore the sharp projecting blade corresponding to the size of the button
hole required is duly placed in position preferably with the edge thereof at right
angles or thereabouts to the line of the handle and the plate or dise carrying the
same is duly clamped in such position by the thumb or other screw any number of
button holes of exactly the same size can rapidly cleanly and properly be cut by
pressing down the edge of the blade on the linen cloth or other material as is
desired.

page_text: I CHARLES HENRY FELTON of 4 Keith Grove Uxbridge Road in the county of
Middlesex Engineer 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 object of my invention is to provide a simple cheap and effective instrument by
the which button holes of any size can be rapidly cleanly and properly cut in linen
cloth and other material.
In the accompanying drawing I have shewn a very convenient and useful form
and style of this my button hole cutter.
Figure 1 shews the complete instrument. Figure 2 shews the cutter. Figure 3
shows the bracket on which the cutter is mounted.
On the end of any suitable handle A I secure a bracket B of any desired shape in
which bracket B a pivot pin D is fixed transversely across the line of the handle A.
On this pivot pin D is mounted a plate or disc preferably of steel which constitutes
the cutter the plane of which plate or disc is in continuation of the line of the handle
or thereabouts and on the edges or periphery of this plate or disc are formed two
three or more sharp projecting chisel like blades E of the different widths required
for cutting the button holes of different sizes. Four of such sharp cutting blades E
constitute a very convenient and efficient instrument as is shown in the drawing. A
small stud F is also secured on the bracket B which can engage in holes H in the
plate or dise made therefor so that when the required cutting blade is duly presented
to the material the plate or disc which carries the same is firmly fixed in position.
To clamp the plate or disc in the desired position a covering piece K preferably
somewhat similar in shape to the projecting part of the bracket B is or may be passed
over the pivot pin D and a thumb or other screw L on the end of the pivot pin D is
screwed tightly down over this covering piece K if any which also may be prevented
revolving by a stud or key M on the base of the bracket B which enters a recess or
slot made therefor on the edge of the covering piece K.
When therefore the sharp projecting blade of the cutter corresponding to the size
of the button hole required is duly placed in position preferably with the edge
thereof at right angles or thereabouts to the line of the handle and the plate or disc
which carries the same is duly clamped in such position by the thumb or other screw
any number of button holes of exactly the same size can be rapidly cleanly and
properly cut by pressing down the edge of the blade on the linen cloth or other
material as is desired.
I may also when desired dispense with the covering piece and screw the thumb or
other screw directly down on the plate or disc which thumb or other screw may have
as broad a flange round the base thereof as may be suitable.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim is
1. The combination with a plate or disc carrying two or more sharp projecting
blades of different widths of the pivot pin on which the same is mounted the stud and
the holes through which the same is fixed in position and the thumb or other screw
by which the same is clamped in such position substantially as and for the purpose
herein before described and declared.
2. The button hole cutter substantially as hereinbefore described and shewn in the
accompanying drawing