Improvements in Buttons or Studs.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Mar., 1887
Complete Left, 7th Dec., 1887
Complete Accepted, 7th Apr., 1888
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Buttons or Studs.
HENRY MORGAN, Clyde House, Gravesend, County of Kent Gentleman do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to the construction of buttons employed for connecting
together portions of wearing apparel and consists in constructing the button in the
form of a stud, the back portion of which is composed of an elastic disc somewhat
larger than the front or button head. This button may be constructed with the
ordinary pearl button stitched to the flexible dise or may be connected to the button
head by a shank in the ordinary manner. The flexible nature of a button thus formed
will not only allow buttons to be readily displaced from or attached to garments but
will form a slightly yielding attachment moro comfortable to the wearer than the fixed
buttons now employed.
Dated this 7th day of March 1001.
THOMAS WRIGLEY,
36, High Holborn,
Agent to Applicant.

page_text: I HENRY MORGAN of Clyde House Gravesend in the County of Kent Gentleman,
do hereby declare the nature of the said invention and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement
This Invention relates to Buttons employed for connecting together portions of
wearing apparel and consists in attaching a button to a back composed of an elastic
disc somewhat larger than the front or button.
The aforesaid affixing the elastic disc to the Button may be performed variously
ris. by stitching with needle and thread cord or other suitable fastening and by
soldering rivitting or otherwise affixing the Button or Stud and elastic disc together
by a shank pin or other suitable means, in the latter case the invention takes the
form of a stud but in all cases the buiion with its attached back is used in the manner
of a Stud.
The method of inserting the Button or Stud in the Garment or other article is
performed by means of a Button hole or Slit through which the Button head is passed
leaving the elastic disc on the other side and then passing the Button head through a
similar Button hole or Slit made in the portion of the Garment or other article
intended to be connected therewith.
The flexible nature of a Button thus formed will not only allow buttons to be
readily displaced from or attached to garments but will form a slightly yielding
attachment more comfortable to the wearer than the fixed buttons now employed for
in whatsoever position the wearer of the bution may sit or whatever the strain may
be to which the head of the bution may be subjected the disc will yield in accordance
with such position or strain whether such strain be vertical horizontal or lateral.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is.
The construction of a button in the form of a Stud the back portion of which is
composed of an elastic disc somewhat larger than the front or button head either
stitched or fastened together by an ordinary shank or otherwise as may be found most
convenient.