Improvements in Buttons and Button Fasteners.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Aug., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 2nd May, 1893-Accept:d, 2nd June, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Buttons and Button Fasteners.
I ROBERT WILKIE of No. 17 Belmont Villas High Road Leyton in the County
of Essex Land Agent do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
This invention relates to improvements in that class of buttons suitable to be
secured to garments by metalic connection. The object of the invention is the
construction of a device with a sharp pointed and barbed shank fastener and a
base end the stem of which when viewed in section is egg shaped triangular or of
such other forms as nearly similar thereto as may be most convenient. The said
sharp pointed and barbed shank fastener is the only piercing appliance required to
pierce a hole in the garment and it then enters the underside of a head button
through an opening on the underside of the head button near its outer edge the
said underside of head button being composed of pliable or soft metalic or other
substance and the said opening leading through an incision upon the side of and
into the central opening which is corresponding in shape to the stem of the said
sharp pointed and barbed shank fastener mentioned.
The front of the said head button is provided with a recess dome or constructed
above the central opening in said head button with sloping inner sides of the said
head button which admit and guide the sharp point of said shank fastener upwards
to the centre.
The said shank fastener is provided with a base end or foot to hold same to the
garment.
The said central opening through said underside of said head button is con-
structed with an incision and at which point it is thinner and more pliable than the
other portion which forms a bearing edge in part round and admitting through said
incision said stem of shank fastener upon pressure being applied thereto.
The distance between the point of the said shank fastener and that part of the
stem which comes into contact with the underside of the said head button may be
less than that which is between the front and the back of the said head button
and the point of the said shank fastener may be bent up slightly when pressure is
applied by its being brought into contact with the front of the said head button so
that it may be assisted to be held more firmly against the said head button or the
distance may be equal or nearly so and the said shank fastener may be left intact
without being bent.
The said pointed and barbed shank fastener having been pressed by means of
the sharp side of its stem through the said incision upon the side towards and into
the said central opening automatically engages itself with the head button and the
combination forming said button described and comprising my said invention
is secured to the garment without the employment of any other implements
whatever.
Dated this 1st day of Aug 1909
ROBERT WILKIE,
17, Belmont, Villas, High Road, Leyton, Essex.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Buttons and Button Fasteners.
I ROBERT WILKIE of No. 201, Stanhope Street Regents Park in the County
of Middlesex Land Agent 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 improvements in that class of buttons suitable to be
secured to garments by automatic attachment. The object of the invention is the
construction of a device with a sharp pointed and barbed necked shank fastener
having a base end and a stem which latter viewed in section is either circular
egg shaped or of such other form as near thereto as may be most convenient and a
head button composed of a dome front or upper part and an underside provided
with a small central opening corresponding substantially to the diameter and shape
of the stem of the said shank fastener and a larger opening in juxtaposition to and
opening towards and into the central opening in said underside so as to admit and
firmly hold the stem of said barbed necked shank fastener when force is applied as
hereafter described.
The said sharp pointed and barbed necked shank fastener is the only piercing
appliance required to pierce a hole in the garment and it then enters the underside
of the head button through the larger opening in a slanting direction either towards
or in contact with the inner side of the dome front or upper part of said head
button.
The side of the stem of said barbed necked shank fastener is then forced sideways
through the opening at the edge of the larger opening and into the said central
opening to the underside of said head button and said sharp pointed and barbed
necked shank fastener automatically engages itself with said lead button and the
combination forming the said button attachment described and comprising my
said invention is secured to the garment without the employment of any other
implements whatever.
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.) The methods of inserting said sharp pointed and barbed necked shank
fastener through the garment and of fastening same to said head button described
as my said invention substantially as and for the purposes herein set forth.
(2.) The head button with an underside having a small central opening at the
edge of the said central opening in juxtaposition to and opening towards or into
said small central opening and which small central opening is of a diameter and
shape corresponding substantially to the diameter and shape of the stem of said
barbed necked shank fastener described as my said invention substantially as and
for the purposes respectively herein set forth.
(3.) The said barbed necked sharp pointed shank fastener with a base end and
stem which latter viewed in section is either circular egg shaped or of such other
form as near thereto as may be most convenient for effecting said automatic fixing
and combination forming said button attachment substantially as and for the
purposes herein described.
(4.) The said automatic fixing and combination forming said button attachment
substantially as and for the purposes herein described and for the like purposes.
Dated this 2nd day of May 1893.
ROBERT WILKIE.