Improvements in and relating to Glass Buttons.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 15th July, 1892
Complete Specification Left. 15th Apr., 1893-Accepted, 20th May, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Glass Buttons.
We GUSTAV ESPREY and CARL EGEN, both of 7 Bow Lane in the City of
London and carrying on business under the name and style of Bergmann
Bellingrath and Nachfolger, Button Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention relates to certain improvements connected with glass buttons,
used for fastening garments, drapery and the like.
In carrying our said invention into effect we employ a cloth shank in connection
with the outer glass face of the button, instead of the metal shank usually
employed for the purpose of sewing said button to a garment or the like.
We are aware that a cloth shank has long been used in connection with cloth
and other buttons, but we wish it to be understood that it is only those formed of
glass to which our invention applies.
It is evident that in employing a cloth shank according to our said invention, a
glass button will be held more firmly and securely in its place than is now usually
the case..
Dated this 13th day of July 1892
FREDK. WALKER,
11, Furnival Street, Holborn, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in and relating to Glass Buttons.
We, GUSTAV ESPREY, and CARL EGEN, both of 7 Bow Lane in the City of
London, and carrying on business under the name and style of Bergmann,
Bellingrath, and Nachfolger, Button Manufacturers, 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 :—
Our invention relates to certain improvements connected with glass buttons used
for fastening garments drapery and the like.
In carrying our invention into effect we employ a cloth shank in connection with
the outer glass face of the button instead of the metal shank usually employed
for the purpose of sewing the said button to a garment or the like.
And in order that our invention may be fully understood we will proceed to
explain the same with reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings in
which :-
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Figure 1 represents a glass button with a cloth shank constructed according to
this invention.
Figure 2 is section of same shewing bush fastened into button.
Figure 3 is plan of underside of button.
Figure 4 is section of shank ready for inserting into the button.
Figure 5 is section of metal bush.
Figure 6 is section of finished button.
The shank which is made separately (see vertical section Figure 4) consists of
a metal disc a and the cloth which is pressed tightly into the ring and the
upper and lower edges thereof turned over the cloth. When the glass button is
cast, a metal bush & represented in Figure 5 is provided which is made at the
bottom with a projecting edge r obtained by pressure or otherwise.
Figure 2 in the drawing shows the vertical section of the button fitted with the

page_text: bush which is firmly held in it and is slightly projecting outwards from it; the
cloth shank Figure 4 is placed in this bush and the projecting portion thereof
turned over as shewn at Figure 6 by which means the shank is firmly secured to
the bush and the said bush tightly held in the button.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :-
A glass button with a cloth shank secured thereto by means of a bush d inserted
into the glass button the projecting edge of which bush is bent, turned or pressed
over the shank, substantially as described and shewn.
Dated this 15th day of Avril 1893.
FREDK. WALKER,
11, Furnival Street, Holborn, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicants: