Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 21st May, 1886.
Complete Left, 19th Mar., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 19th Apr., 1887.
1, MICHARD JONES, of 2 Barton Street, Birkenhead (Temporary Address), Clerk,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention is for the purpose of dispensing with the cumbrous method of attaching
buttons to cloth and other materials by means of thread.
Substantially my plan is to attach the button to the desired material by means of a
pin of brass or other suitable material, and catch or tongue, together with a suitable
aperture in the button. This catch or tongue may be either on the pin or on the
button, but in any case the attachment is quickly and securely made by inserting the
pin into an aperture in the button. The pin is pointed so as to pierce the material
without harm.
In one method the pin is provided with a slot. Connected with the aperture in the
button is a double tongue of metal or other suitable material which is forced back as
the pin enters, but when the pin has entered the aperture the double tongue drops into
the slot and thus makes the fastening secure. The pin may be unfastened and refastened
as often as is desired.
Another method of applying my invention is by attaching a spring tongue or catch
to each side of the pin. In this case the opposite sides of the aperture are made with
grooves with indentations into which the spring tongues or catches of the pin are
inserted by twisting the button, and thus hold fast the button. To unfasten the button
all that is required is to twist the button the reverse way.
D
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1000
W. H. MUNNS,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: I, RICHARD JONES, of 2 Barton Street, Birkenhead, in the County of Cheshire,
Clerk 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:
My invention is an improved method of attaching buttons to cloth and other
materials without the use of thread, whereby the buttons may be attached and detached
at pleasure.
To effect this object I construct the button in two parts, the front, which is furnished
with a cavity, and the back part consisting of a pin pointed and stout enough to
pierce the cloth, and prevented from completely passing through by a head of sufficient
size.
In carrying out my invention I make an orifice in the pin and insert a corre-
sponding tongue or bolt in the cavity. of the front part of the button. The tongue is
attached to a stud working in a slot on the back of the front part of the button. A
band of India rubber, steel, or other elastic material is fixed by its two ends within
the cavity and passes round the back of the tongue, forcing the tongue forward so as
to cross the opening of the cavity. The pin is pushed through the cloth into the
aperture of the front part of the button the spring tongue being drawn back so as to
admit the pin. The spring tongue when released is pushed through the orifice in the
pin and so makes the fastening secure.
To show more clearly how my invention is carried out, I furnish drawings in which
similar letters represent corresponding parts throughout.
Fig. 1 is a representation of the spring tongue inside the cavity pushed forward by
the spring.
Fig. 2 is a representation of the spring tongue drawn back.
Fig. 3 is the pin with head and orifice.
Fig. 4 is a view of the button fastened some of the parts being removed to show
more clearly the fastening contrivance.
Fig. 5 is a view of the back of the front part of the button showing aperture, slot,
and stud.
A is the pin.
B is the slot in pin.
C is the head of pin.
D is the front part of the button.

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:
1st. The front part of the button with cavity, spring, tongue, stud, and slot as
described.
2nd. The back of the button consisting of a pin with orifice or slot, and head as
described.
3rd. A method of fastening buttons by inserting a slotted pin through the cloth into
the front part of the button and securing the same by a spring tongue.
W. H. MUNNS,
Agent for the Applicant.