IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF COVERED BUTTONS
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Robert Watts and John Shakespeare Manton, of
Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Button Manufacturers,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF COVERED
BUTTONS."
Sealed the 16th May 1871, and dated the 23rd December 1870.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Robert Watts and John
Shakespeare Manton at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 23rd December 1870.
We, ROBERT WATTS and JOHN SHAKESPEARE MANTON, of Birmingham,
in the County of Warwick, Button Manufacturers, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUPACTURE OF
COVERED BUTTONS," to be as follows, that is to say:-
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This Invention refers more particularly to the description of buttons
known as linen covered buttons, though it may also be equally applicable
to buttons covered with silk, cloth, mohair, or other textile fabric; and
it consists in forming such buttons with a sunk centre in which are

page_text: pierced the holes for sewing them on, so that the thread being below the
general surface of the button is protected from all friction in ironing or
mangling.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Robert Watts and John Shakespeare Manton in
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 22nd June 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, ROBERT
WATTS and JOHN SHAKESPEARE MANTON, of Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, Button Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date, the Twenty-third day of December, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto us, the said Robert Watts and John Shakespeare
Manton, Her special license that we, the said Robert Watts and John
Shakespeare Manton, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as we, the said Robert Watts and John Shakespeare Manton, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the
term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN THE MANUFACTURE OF COVERED BUTTONS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that we, the said Robert Watts and John Shakespeare Manton,
our executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
our, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately
after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Robert Watts and John Shake-
speare Manton, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement, reference being had

page_text: to the Drawings hereunto attached, and the letters and figures marked
thereon, that is to say :-
This Invention refers more particularly to the description of buttons
known as linen covered buttons, though it may also be equally applicable
to buttons covered with silk, cloth, mohair, or other textile fabric; and
it consists in forming such buttons with a sunk centre in which are
pierced the holes for sewing them on, so that the thread being below the
general surface of the button it is protected from all friction in ironing
or mangling.
Referring to the accompanying Drawings, Figure 1 represents in front
and back elevations a linen or other covered button provided with our
improved metallic sunk centre (a) pierced with holes for sewing on, so
that the thread may be below the general surface of the button and be
protected from friction in wear; the back elevation of Figure 1 shews
the metallic sunk centre (a) as a plate securing the edges of the linen or
other fabric. Figure 2 shews our improved button having the metallic
sunk centre pierced with three or four holes as required.
We sometimes prefer to cover the backs of our improved buttons with
linen or other suitable fabric or material presenting a similar appearance
to Figure 3.
As shown at Figure 4 the form of the sunk centre may be varied as
desired, and to its particular shape we do not confine ourselves, but claim
the making of covered buttons with a sunk centre by preference formed
of metal pierced with holes for sewing on, for the purpose and formed
in the manner as herein described.
In witness whercof, we, the said Robert Watts and John Shakespeare
Manton, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Twentieth
day of June, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and seventy-one.