A NEW OR IMPROVED STUD OR DRESS FASTENING
Year: 1885

page_text: I HARRY GEORGE SMITH of No 352 Farm Street Birmingham in the County of
Warwick Imitation Stone Maker do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "A NEW OR IMPROVED STUD OR DRESS FASTENING" to be as follows:-
My invention consists of a stud or dress fastening the parts of which are
constructed and combined in the manner hereinafter described, whereby great
simplicity in construction and efficiency in action are obtained.
My new or improved stud consists of three parts each of the said parts consisting
of a dise and central stem two of the central stems being hollow or tubular and
the third by preference solid. I will hereinafter call the said discs the back middle
and front discs respectively. The stem of the back disc is hollow and has an
internal screw thread.
The stem of the front disc has an external screw thread which takes into the
hollow or internal screw in the stem of the front disc The stem of the middle
disc is tubular and plain that is it has no screw thread either internally or
externally. The middle disc is of somewhat less diameter than the back disc and
a recess is made in the back disc in which recess the middle disc can enter when
the stem of the middle disc has been fitted on the stem of the, back disc and the
said middle disc is pressed towards the back disc.
My new or improved stud or dress fastening is used as follows:-Suppose it to be
used as a shirt stud the stem of the back disc passed from the back of the under
part of the shirt front through the hole therein. The stem of the middle disc is
next passed onto the stem of the back disc and the said middle disc is pressed
towards the back disc. The under part of the shirt front is thereby grasped
between the back and middle disc (which two parts constitute the rear part of the
fastening) and is securely attached thereto and prevented from turning.
stem of the rear part of the fastening is then passed through the hole in the front
part of the shirt front and the screwed stem of the front disc is inserted in the
hollow screwed stem of the back disc and screwed home therein. The two parts
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of the shirt front are thus fastened together and there is no risk of the front part
of the stud becoming unscrewed or lost. The said front part may be ornamented
in any desired way and instead of being made of a disc shape may have any
desired ornamental shape.

page_text: I HARRY GEORGE SMITH of No 352 Farm Street Birmingham in the County of
Warwick, Imitation Stone Maker do hereby declare the nature of my Invention
for "A NEW OR IMPROVED STUD OR DRESS FASTENING" and in what manner the
same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:-
My invention consists of a stud or dress fastening the parts of which are
constructed and combined in the manner hereinafter described whereby great
simplicity in construction and efficiency in action are obtained.
My new or improved stud consists of three parts, each of the said parts consisting
of a disc and central stem, two of the central stems being hollow or tubular and
the third by preference solid. I will herein after call the said discs the back
middle and front discs respectively. The stem of the back disc is hollow and has
an internal screw thread.
The stem of the front disc has an external screw thread which takes into the
hollow or internal screw in the stem of the back disc. The stem of the middle
disc is tubular and plain, that is it has no screw thread either internally or
externally. The middle disc is of somewhat less diameter than the back disc and
a recess is made in the back disc in which recess the middle disc can enter when
the stem of the middle disc has been fitted on the stem of the back disc and the
said middle disc is pressed towards the back disc.
My new or improved stud or dress fastening is used as follows. Suppose it to
be used as a shirt stud the stem of the back disc is passed from the back of the
under part of the shirt front through the hole therein. The stem of the middle
disc is next passed onto the stem of the back disc and the said middle disc is
pressed towards the back disc. The under part of the shirt front is thereby
grasped between the back and middle disc (which two parts constitute the rear
part of the fastening) and is securely attached thereto and prevented from turning.
The stem of the rear part of the fastening is then passed through the hole in the
front part of the shirt front and the screwed stem of the front disc is inserted in
the hollow screwed stem of the back disc and screwed home therein. The two
parts of the shirt front are thus fastened together and there is no risk of the front
part of the stud becoming unscrewed or lost. The said front part may be
ornamented in any desired way and instead of being made of a disc shape may
have any desired ornamental shape.
In the accompanying Drawing my new or improved stud or dress fastening and
the portion of the shirt front to which it is applied are represented drawn to a
large scale in order the better to exhibit the construction of the said stud or dress
fastening.
Figures 1, 2 and 3 represent the three parts of which the stud is composed,
Figure 1 representing the back part, Figure 2 the middle part and Figure 3 the
front part; Figure 4 represents an elevation of the inner face and section of the
back part and Figure 5 represents an elevation of the inner face and section of
the middle part; Figure 6 represents in edge view and Figure 7 in section the
manner in which the stud is applied to a shirt front or other article of dress.

page_text: The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several Figures of
the Drawing.
a is the back disc and a² the tubular stem of the same having an internal screw
thread; b is the middle disc the inner face of which is slightly concave the said
disc having a tubular unscrewed stem be open at both ends and c is the front disc
having an external screwed stem c* the said screwed stem c* being of a size proper
for taking into the hollow screw of the stem as of the back disc a.
The inner face of the back disc a is recessed at d for receiving the middle
disc b which is of somewhat less diameter than the back disc as represented.
.
In using the stud or dress fastening as a shirt stud it is applied to the shirt
front in the manner illustrated in Figures and 7. The stem a of the back disc a
is first passed from the back of the underpart e of the shirt front through the hole
therein. The stem 62 of the middle disc b is next passed onto the stem a² of the
back disc a and pressed towards the back disc as represented in Figure 6. The
stems a, b of the two discs a, b constituting the back of the fastening are now
passed through the hole in the front part f of the shirt front and the screwed
stem c of the front disc c is finally inserted in the hollow screwed stem a² of the
back disc a and screwed home therein as illustrated in Figure 7. By the screwing
home of the front disc c, the middle disc b is pressed towards the back disc a so as
to force a portion of the under part e of the shirt front into the recess d in the
back disc as represented in the said Figure 7; the underpart of the shirt front is
thereby grasped between the back and middle discs a, b of the stud and firmly
attached thereto. The two parts e, f of the shirt front are thus fastened together
and as the principal part of the stud is securely fastened to the shirt front by the
gripping action of the back and middle parts a, b there is no risk of the front part o
becoming accidentally unscrewed or lost.
The middle disc b is slightly elastic and when it has been forced home by the
front disc c the said middle disc acts as a spring to lock or bind in its place the
front disc c.
The gripping of the inner part of the shirt front between the back and middle
discs a, b may be effected by forcibly pressing the two discs a, b together before
their stems are passed through the hole in the front part of the shirt.
The part c of the fastening may have any desired ornamental shape given to it.
In applying my improved stud or fastening to the fastening of cuffs, collars and
other articles of dress, the parts of the said stud are constructed and used in the
manner described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing with respect to the
fastening of a shirt front.
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
A new or improved stud or dress fastening composed of a back part, a middle
part and a front part, each part consisting of a disc and central stem, the stem of
the back part being hollow and having an internal screw thread, the stem of the
middle part being hollow or tubular and unscrewed and the stem of the front part
being screwed with an external screw for taking into the hollow or internal screw
of the stem of the back part, the said three parts of the stud or fastening being
constructed combined and used substantially as herein before described and
illustrated in the accompanying Drawing.
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