IMPROVEMENTS IN ATTACHABLE AND REMOVABLE BUTTONS, STUDS AND SOLITAIRES
Year: 1884

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We ALEXANDER MAC MILLAN, Manufacturer and AUGUSTUS. MORTON FESTING
Retired Major in Her Majesty's Service both of the firm of Mac Millan & Co of
3 Castle Court in the city of London do hereby declare the nature of the said
Alexander Mac Millan's invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN ATTACHABLE AND
REMOVABLE BUTTONS, STUDS AND SOLITAIRES to be as follows:-
This invention has for object the production of attachable and removable buttons
or solitaires for securing or holding together parts of wearing apparel and so forth.
The invention is carried out as follows:-
The shank of the button consists of a stud carrying at one end a plate and at the
other end terminating with a conical end below which is formed on the said shank
stud a surrounding groove. The second half of the button is made of a plate
stamped out so as to leave a central opening therethrough and two side wing pieces
(or a plate in one) which will be pressed into a certain extent so serving as guides
across the plate. A slide piece formed with an excentric circular piercing and a long
slot in connection with the piercing will work in the slido of the top plate and a
knob or shoulder is formed at the end of the slide piece so that the same will form
a projection for easy manipulation of the slide piece In using the button the shank
is pressed through the fabric to which it is to attached and the conical end of the
shank stud will readily press aside the fibres of the fabric without breaking them
and so as to bring the back plate up to the surface of the fabric on one side and
with the shank stud projecting through the other side of the fabric. The head of
the button (carried on the top plate) will then, with the eccentric piercing of the
slide adjusted to the central opening of the top plate, be placed upon the shank
which will pass into the head of the button for a certain distance, the slide will
then be pressed in so as that the slot of the piercing of the slide will engage with
the surrounding groove of the shank and so hold both parts securely together but
yet allow of the requisite play of the parts around and for convenience of
buttoning. The button stud or solitaire may be detached by drawing out the
slide until the eccentric piercing of the slide is central with the central piercing
of the top plate and so releasing the groove on the shank from the alot of the slide
piece.
Date: Oct
. 1001
WALTER A. BARLOW,
6, St. Paul's Churchyard, E.C.

page_text: We, ALEXANDER MAO MILLAN, Manufacturer and AUGUSTUS MORTON FESTING
Retired Major in Her Majestys Service, both of the firm of Mac Millan & Co of
3 Castle Court in the City of London, do hereby declare the nature of our
invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN ATTACHABLE AND REMOVABLE BUTTONS, STUDS
AND SOLITAIRES," and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:—
This invention has for object, the production of attachable and removable buttons,
or solitaires for securing or holding together parts of wearing apparel, and so forth.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings Fig 1, represents in section upon an
enlarged scale a button stud or solitaire constructed according to this invention,
and Figs 2, 3, 3ª, 4, 5 and 6, are details.
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The invention is carried out as follows -
The shank of the button (shown separately_in_Fig_2) consists of a stud a, carrying_
end the plate b, and at the other extremity terminating with a conical end c,
e which is formed on the shank stud a surrounding groove d.
The second half of the button is mad to contain a plate e, (Figs 3, 3ª, 5 and 6)
stamped out so as to leave a central opening f, there through, and two side wing
pieces g, g, (or a plate in one) which said wing pieces g, g', will be pressed in to a
certain extent or upwards from the surface of the plate (as shown in Fig. 3*, which
is a section of the plate at line x fig 2) so serving as guide across the plate. A
slide piece h, (shown separately in Fig 4) formed with an eccentric circular
piercing i, and a slot k, in connection with the piercing i, will work in the
guides g, g, of the plate e, and a knob or shoulder, is formed at the end of said
slide piece h, so that the same will form a projection for easy manipulation of the
slide piece.
In Fig 5, the slide piece h, is shown in place within the guides g, g', formed upon
the plate e and in the position occupied therein when the slide is drawn out to
allow of the insertion of or the removal of the stud a, Fig 6 shows the same in
position when fully closed upon and engaged with the groove d, of the stud o, as
when the two parts of the button are combined as represented in Fig 1.
In using the button the shank a, is pressed through the article to which it is to
be attached, and the conical end c, will readily press aside the fibres of the fabric
without breaking them, and so as to bring the plate b, up to the surface of the
fabric on one side, and with the shank or stud a, projecting through the other side
of the fabric. The head m, of the button carried on the top plate n, and carrying
also the plate e, will then, with the eccentric piercing i, of the slide h, adjusted to
the central opening o, in the top plate n, be placed upon the shank a, which will
pass into the head of the button for a certain distance, the slide h, will then be
pressed in so as that the slot k, of the piercing of the slide h, will engage with the
surrounding groove d, of the shank a, and so hold both parts securely together but
yet allow of the requisite play of the parts around and for convenience of
buttoning.
The button, stud or solitaire may be detached by drawing out the slide /, until
the piercing i, is central with the opening o, of the top plate n, and so releasing the
groove d, on the shank a, from the slot k, of the slide h

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that
what we claim is:-
The improvements in attachable and removable buttons, studs, or solitaires, as
and for the purpose herein set forth.