IMPROVEMENTS IN BUTTONS
Year: 1882

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Willeringhaus at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 13th January 1882.
WILLIAM WILLERINGHAUS, of Hamsell Street, in the City of London.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN BUTTONS."
This Invention relates to improvements in that class of buttons which are
usually made from horn, bone vegetable ivory and the like and provided with
metal shanks.
A great objection to the use of such buttons as hitherto manufactured, is that
the button frequently becomes detached from the shauk in consequence of the
insecure manner in which the button and shank are connected together.
Now the object of my improvements is to obviate this objection and in manu-
facturing buttons according to my Invention I form the button of horn, bone,
vegetable ivory or the like as usual, but that part of the metal or other shank by
which it is fixed to the button is formed with an eye which fits into a corresponding
slot formed in the bottom or back of the button, and a pin is then passed through
a transverse hole in the button (made through the button from side to side) and.
through the said eye on the shank and the pin being rivetted or otherwise
secured, the shank and button will be so securely fixed together that they
cannot become detached the one from the other except by breaking or injuring
the parts.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said William Willeringhaus in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
13th July 1882.
WILLIAM WILLERINGHAUS of Hamsell Street, in the City of London.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN BUTTONS."
This Invention relates to improvements chiefly applicable to that class of
buttons which are usually made from horn, bone, vegetable ivory and the like, and
provided with metal shanks, but the improvements are also applicable to buttons
having flexible or thread backs.
A great objection to the use of such buttons as hitherto manufactured is that
the button frequently becomes detached from the shank or the thread back in
consequence of the insecure manner in which the button and shank or thread back
are connected together.
Now the object of my improvements is to obviate this objection and in manu-
facturing buttons according to my Invention I form the button of horn, bone,
vegetable ivory or the like as usual but that part of the metal or other shank by
which it is fixed to the button, is formed with an eye which fits into a corresponding
slot formed in the bottom or back of the button, and a pin is then passed through
a transverse hole in the button (made through the button from side to side) and
through the said eye on the shank and the pin being rivetted or otherwise
secured, the shank and button will be so securely fixed together that they cannot
become detached the one from the other except by breaking or injuring the parts.
In order to enable my Invention to be better understood I will proceed to
describe the same by reference to the accompanying Drawing in which Figure 1,
is a section of a button manufactured according to my improvements; Figure 2,
an elevation of the same; Figure 3, a detached view of the shank; Figure 4,
section of the button without the shank. Similar letters in all the Figures
represent similar parts.
a, is the button formed of horn, bone, vegetable ivory or the like as usual but
the part b, of the metal shank c is formed with an eye d, which fits into a corre-
sponding slot e, formed in the bottom or back of the button a, as shewn in
Figure 4, and a hole f, is made through the button from side to side; the eye d, of
the shank being placed in the slot e, in the button, a screw bolt or pin g, is then
.screwed or passed through the said hole f, and eye d, the shank and the button
will thereby be so securely fixed or connected together that they cannot become
detached the one from the other except by breaking or injuring the parts.
The ends of the screw pin or bolt may if required be rivetted and a plain pin or
bolt may also be employed instead of a screw pin or bolt.
Although I have described and illustrated my Invention as applied to a button
having a metal shank my improvements are equally applicable to buttons having. 4
flexible or thread backs as will be understood without further description.
Having thus described my Invention and the manner of performing the same
what I claim is:-
--
Firstly. The method herein described of attaching shanks to buttons by the
employment of a screw or other pin or bolt passing through the button and 4
through an eye on the shank such eye fitting in a corresponding slot in the
button substantially as above described and represented in the accompanying
Drawing.
Secondly. The manufacture and use of buttons having the shanks fixed
thereto by means of a screw or other pin or bolt passing through the button and

page_text: through an eye on the shank substantially as herein before described and represented
in the accompanying Drawing.
Thirdly. Forming the shanks of buttons with an eye for receiving a screw or
other pin or bolt to allow the said shanks to be fixed to the button substantially
as herein before described.
In witness whereof I the said William Willeringhaus have hereto set my
hand and seal this Twelfth day of July in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and eighty two.
WILL. WILLERINGHAUS. (L.S.)