An Improved Button for Wearing Apparel.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Dec., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 15th Sept., 1891-Accepted, 17th Oct., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Button for Wearing Apparel.
I, Dr. ANTON VON ZELEWSKI of Breslau in the German Empire, School
Professor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to a button for fixing on wearing apparel or fabrics without
sewing. It consists of a stud shaped body and a plate between which two parts
the fabric to which the button is to be fixed is placed. The plate is connected to
the body by a screw and by a pin by which latter the body is prevented from
turning round. The plate and pin may be in one piece the pin being formed by
punching out of the plate.
Dated this 20th day of December 1890.
CAPITAINE & VON HERTLING,
89, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Button for Wearing Apparel.
I, Dr. ANTON VON ZELEWSKI of Breslau in the German Empire, School
Professor, 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 :-
This invention relates to a button for fixing on wearing apparel or fabrics without
sewing. It consists of a button in the form of a stud made of ivory, horn, bone,
metal or other suitable material and of a metal fastening plate between which two
parts the fabric to which the button is to be fixed, is placed. The button has the
form of a circular top plate with an elliptic shank to which the fastening plate is
connected by a screw and a pin the latter preventing, the button from turning
round. The fastening plate and pin are in one piece the pin being formed by bending
or stamping the flat metal.
In the accompanying drawing
Fig. 1 is a sectional view of the button of this invention fixed to a fabric, the
section being taken through the major axis of the elliptic shank.
Fig. 2 is a section taken at right angles to that of Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 is an underneath view of the button.
Figs. 4 and 5 are modified forms of fastening plates.
Fig. 6 shews a hollow needle for passing the screw through the fabric.
a is the button to fix which on fabric a screw c is passed through fastening
plate d at orifice e into hollow needle held on the other side of plate d, ping formed
on this latter and the hollow needle are then passed through the fabric by pressing
with the thumb against plate d, the hollow needle is then drawn out and the button
fixed by screwing the screw tight into the same, the corresponding hole in the
shank being tapped for the purpose, and at the same time pin y is introduced into
another orifice corresponding thereto in shank h. Instead of pin g a second screw
may be employed for the same purpose in which case a fastening plate like that
shewn in Fig. 5 would be used.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is:
1. A button provided with an elliptic shank having two holes or recesses

page_text: respectively for the reception of a screw and a pin in combination with a fastening
plate formed with a pin projecting therefrom and fixed in the manner substantially
as shewn and described.
2. The button referred to in Claim 1 in combination with a fastening plate fixed
by two screws substantially as shewn and described.
Dated this 15th day of September 1891.
CAPITAINE & VON HERTLING,
89, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.