AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BUTTONS FOR GARMENTS
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS' PATENT to Alfred Isidore Honoré Parent, of the Firm of
A. Parent and Co., of Boulevard de Strasbourg, 123,. at Paris,
Merchant,. for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF BUTTONS FOR GARMENTS."
Scaled the 26th September 1873, and dated the 2nd May 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION loft by the said Alfred Isidore Honoró
Parent at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 2nd May 1873.
I, ALFRED ISIDORE HONORÉ PARENT, of the Firm of A. Parent
and Co., of Boulevard de Strasbourg, 123, at Paris, Merchant, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF BUTTONS FOR GARMENTS," to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to manufacture a solid and shanked
button of plastic material covered with metal, such button being pro-
duced with great economy of -hand labour.
The process of manufacture is as follows:-
:-
1st. I cut and stamp a first disc or blank of metal intended to form
the shell of the button.

page_text: 2nd. I cut a second disc or blank of pasteboard, hard wood, gutta
percha, or other plastic or malleable material of a diameter capable of
entering the metal shell or first disc. The plastic or malleable disc is
submitted to strong pressure so as to give to it the form, much in relicf
of the shank which it is wished to obtain.
3rd. I cut a third disc or blank of thin metal and stamp it hollow
exactly of the form in relief of the second or plastic disc.
These three discs make up the button as follows:-I place the second
or plastic disc in the third disc of thin metal, then I introduce these
two discs together into the shell or first disc. I next submit the whole
to strong pressure so as to close and finish the button. In this operation
the face of the shell may be ornamented by stamping, and at the same
time two notches are formed one at each side of the shank to facilitate
the piercing of the shank, which may be effected by any suitable tool or
apparatus; this completes the manufacture of the button.
The shell may in some cases be covered with a fabric, then the plastic
disc is stamped with the thin metal disc, and they are united to the
curved shell by the ordinary means.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Alfred Isidore Honoré Parent in the Great Scal 2
Patent Office on the 29th September 1873.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ALFRED
ISIDORE HONORÉ PARENT, of the Firm of A. Parent and Co., of Boulc-
vard de Strasbourg, 123, at Paris, Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her 2
Letters Patent, bearing date the Second day of May, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the thirty-sixth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto me, the said Alfred Isidore Honoré Parent, Her special
licence that I, the said Alfred Isidore Honoré Parent, my executors, 3
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Alfred Isidore
Honoré Parent, my exccutors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times

page_text: 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 Inven-
tion for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN the ManufacturE OF BUTTONS FOR GARMENTS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Alfred Isidoro
Honoré Parent, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in.
writing under my, 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 I, the said Alfred Isidore Honoré Parent, do
hereby declare the nature of my said Invcution, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the
accompanying Drawings, that is to say:-
The object of this Invention is to manufacture a solid and shanked
button of plastic material covered with metal, such button being pro-
duced with great economy of hand labor.
The process of manufacture is as follows:---
1st. I cut and stamp a first disc or blank of metal intended to form
the shell of the button, scc a, Figures 1 and 2.
2nd. I cut a second disc or blank b, sec Figures 3 and 4, of paste-
board, hard wood, gutta percha, or other plastic or malleable material of
a diameter capable of entering the metal shell or first disc a. The
plastic or malleable disc is submitted to strong pressure, so as to give
to it the form, much in relief (sec Figure 5) of the shank which it is
wished to obtain.
3rd. I cut a third disc or blank c of thin metal and stamp it hollow,
exactly of the form in relief of the second or plastic disc, see Figures
6 and 7.
These three discs make up the button as follows:-I place the second
or plastic disc b in the third disc of thin metal c; then I introduce these
two discs together into the shell or first disc a, sec Figure 8. I next
submit the whole to strong pressure so as to close and finish the button,
sco Figure 9. In this operation the face of the shell may be orna-

page_text: mented by stamping (see Figure 10), and at the same time two notches
d, d, are formed one at cach side of the shank, sec Figure 11, to facilitato
the piercing of the shank (Figure 12), which may be effected by any
suitable tool or apparatus; this completes the manufacture of the
button.
The shell may in some cases be covered with a fabric, then the plastic
disc is stamped and set in the thin metal disc, and they are united to
the covered shell by the ordinary means.
The essential feature of the Invention is the employment of a plastic
or malleable shanked disc set solidly between a shell, which may be
ornamented by stamping.or otherwise and a metal disc.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in
what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim manu-
facturing buttons for garments, substantially as herein-before described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Isidore Honoré Parent, have
hereunto set my hand and scal, this Twenty-sixth day of Sep-
tember One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three.
Witness,
ALBERT CALLEN,
Civil Engineer,
of 32, Boulevard Magenta,
at Paris.
A. I. H. PARENT. (L.S.)