IMPROVEMENTS IN STUD EYELETS FOR BRACES BAGS AND STRAPS AND FOR OTHER ARTICLES to be as follows:-
Year: 1884

page_text: I HENRY DOWLER of the firm of Frederick Dowler and Sons of Wainwright
Street Works Aston near Birmingham in the County of Warwick Manufacturers
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN STUD
EYELETS FOR BRACES BAGS AND STRAPS AND FOR OTHER ARTICLES
to be as
follows:-
"
My invention has reference to stud eyelets in which an eyelet capped at its front
or wide end is fixed in its place and the back of the eyelet covered by a second cap
having a conical projection or shank and my said invention consists principally in
the combination of a capped eyelet having its narrow or point end split or divided
with a back cap for expanding and covering the said split or divided end of the
eyelet as herein after described.
I make the capped eyelet from sheet metal in the ordinary way but instead of
leaving the narrow or back end of the eyelet plain I split or divide it by a series
of parallel slits extending a short distance down the said narrow end By this
means the expansion of the narrow or back end of the eyelet is much facilitated.
I use with the said split ended eyelet a back cap with a conical projection or shank
by which the expansion or spreading out of the split end of the eyelet is effected.
The said conical projection or shank is either made of a separate piece of metal and
connected to the back cap or is made in one piece with the back cap. In the
former case the back cap is flat while in the latter case it is hollow or cupped.
The parts described are connected together in the ordinary manner.
The projection or shank of the back cap may be plain but I prefer to flute it
with longitudinal flutes or instead of making the projection or shank of the back
cap hollow it may be made solid by dies and pressure from wire the solid projection
or shank being either plain or fluted and connected to the back cap in the ordinary
way of connecting the hollow or sheet metal projection to the cap.

page_text: I HENRY DOWLER of the firm of Frederick Dowler and Sons of Wainwright
Street Works, Aston near Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Manufacturers
do hereby declare the nature of my invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN STUD
EYELETS FOR BRACES, BAGS AND STRAPS AND FOR OTHER ARTICLES " and in what
manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement:-
My invention has reference to stud eyelets in which an eyelet capped at its front
or wide end is fixed in its place and the back of the eyelet covered by a second cap
baving a conical projection or shank and my said invention consists principally in
the combination of a capped eyelet having its narrow or point end split or divided
with a back cap for expanding and covering the said split or divided end of the
eyelet as herein after described.
I make the capped eyelet from sheet metal in the ordinary way but instead of
'leaving the narrow or back end of the eyelet plain I split or divide it by a series
of parallel slits extending a short distance down the said narrow end. By this
means the expansion of the narrow or back end of the eyelet is much facilitated.
I use with the said split ended eyelet a back cap with a conical projection or
shank by which the expansion or spreading out of the split end of the eyelet is
effected. The said conical projection or shank is either made of a separate piece
of metal and connected to the back cap or is made in one piece with the back cap.
In the former case the back cap is flat while in the latter case it is hollow or
cupped. The parts described are connected together in the ordinary manner.
The projection or shank of the back cap may be plain but I prefer to flute it
with longitudinal flutes; or instead of making the projection or shank of the back
cap hollow it may be made solid by dies and pressure from wire the solid projection
or shank being either plain or fluted and connected to the back cap in the ordinary
way of connecting the hollow or sheet metal projection to the cap.
Figure 1 represents in elevation and vertical section a capped eyelet made
according to my invention, the said Figure 1 and the other Figures herein after
described being drawn to a large scale.
a is the body of the eyelet capped or covered at its front or wide end by the
sheet metal separate cap b in the ordinary way. The body of the said eyelet is
split or divided at its narrow or back end by a series of parallel slits c, c extending
a short distance down the said narrow end.
The split ended eyelet permits of the ready expansion of its narrow or back end
for fixing the eyelet in its place and enables a thinner metal to be used in its
manufacture.
Figure 2 represents in elevation and section the back cap of the eyelet provided
with a conical projection or shank by which the expansion or spreading out of the
split end of the eyelet is effected, the said back cap and its projection or shank
being made in two pieces, namely of a separate sheet metal back cap d to which
the separate conical expansion or shank e is affixed by a closing operation in the
ordinary way. The sheet metal conical projection or shank e may either be plain
as represented in Figure 2 or fluted with longitudinal flutes as represented in
Figure 3. By fluting the said projection or shank e its rigidity is much increased
and thinner metal can consequently be used in its manufacture.
Figure 4 represents in elevation and section a solid projection or shank made
according to my invention to be used in place of a sheet metal projection or shank

page_text: and Figure 5 represents the back cap of sheet metal connected to the said solid
shank. The said solid shank may either be plain or fluted as represented in
Figure 4.
The solid shank Figures 4 and 5 is made by dies and pressure from wire the
tools and appliances used being the same as those commonly employed in shaping
metals for other purposes.
Figure 6 represents the back cap and its conical projection or shank made of one
piece of sheet metal. The back cap and its shank made in this way is a hollow
cone with its outer edge turned outwards and under as seen in the section. The
shank e Figure 6 may be fluted to increase its rigidity as described with respect to
the shank e represented in Figure 3.
Figure 7 represents in elevation and Figures 8 and 9 in section stud eyelets
made according to my invention connected to portions of braces, bags, straps or
other articles by the expanding of the split end of the eyelet a by the use of the
shank e of the back cap d. In Figure 8 a back cap of the kind represented in
Figure 6 is used and in Figure 9 a back cap of the kind represented in Figure 2
or Figure 3 is used.
The split body of the eyelet together with its closing cap may be made of one
piece of sheet metal instead of making them separately. This modification of my
invention is represented in Figure 10 where the body is marked a and the cap b,
In this case the slits in the body a of the eyelet extend down the said body to the
cap or closed end b which is made in one piece with the said body as shown in the
elevation and section marked p, p in Figure 10; or the body a of the eyelet may
consist of four divided pieces connected by the cap b as shown in the elevation and
section marked qq in Figure 10. The eyelets p and q represented in Figure 10
may be used with or without a back cap.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is of "Improvements in stud eyelets for braces, bags and straps and for
other articles" :-
First The combination of an eyelet covered or capped at its front or wide end
and having a split or divided body or point end, with a back cap having a shank
or projection for expanding and covering the said split or divided eyelet, whether
the split or divided eyelet and its front cap be made separately or of one piece of
sheet metal substantially as herein before described and illustrated in the
accompanying Drawing.
Secondly Fluting the sheet metal conical projection or shank of the back cap
with longitudinal flutes, whether the said projection or shank be made in one piece
with or separate from the back cap substantially as herein before described and
illustrated in the accompanying Drawing.
Thirdly-Making the separate conical projection or shank of the back cap solid
from wire by dies and pressure, whether the said solid projection or shank be plain
or fluted longitudinally substantially as herein before described and illustrated in
the accompanying Drawing.
Fourthly The split stud eyelets represented in Figure 10, whether used with or
without a back cap.