IMPROVEMENTS IN BUTTONS
Year: 1861

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Baumann, of Altdorf Weingarten, Wurtem-
berg, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN BUTTONS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Baumann at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
16th December 1861.
I, CHARLES BAUMANN, of Altdorf Weingarten, Wurtemberg, do hereby
declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BUTTONS," to be as
follows:
This Invention has for its object improvements in buttons. For this pur-
pose the button is so made that it may be attached to the fabric by a screw
passing through the fabric from the back and entering the stem of the button.
The stem of the button is bored and tapped to receive the screw; there is a
head formed on the screw, and a disc on the lower end of the stem of the
button, and between these, when the button is fixed, the fabric is nipped.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles Baumann in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 14th
June 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
BAUMANN, of Altdorf Weingarten, Wurtemberg, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, in the twenty-fifth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the
said Charles Baumann, Her special licence that I, the said Charles Baumann,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Charles Baumann, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any
time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times there-
after 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 Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN BUTTONS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Charles
Baumann, 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 Charles Baumann, 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 fol-
lowing statement thereof, that is to say :-
This Invention has for its object improvements in buttons. For this pur-
pose the button is so made that it may be attached to the fabric by a screw
passing through the fabric from the back, and entering the stem of the button.
The stem of the button is bored and tapped to receive the screw; there is a
head formed on the screw, and a disc on the lower end of the stem of the
button, and between these, when the button is fixed, the fabric is nipped.
And in order that my Invention may be most fully understood, and readily
carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the Drawings hereunto
annexed.

page_text: DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is a plan view, and Figure 2 a side view of a button constructed
according to my Invention; Fig. 3 shews a side view of the button attached
to a piece of fabric. In each of these Figures a is the head of the button,
and 6 the stem, on the lower end of which is a disc c; e is the screw which
screws into the hole formed to receive it in the stem of the button, and on
this screw is a head d; the screw e is shewn separately at Figure 4. The
button, as shewn at Figure 3, is attached to a piece of fabric f by the screw e
passing through the fabric from the back, and screwing into the stem b, thus
nipping the fabric between the disc c and the head d of the screw.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Baumann, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of April, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
CHARLES BAUMANN. (L.s.)