Improvements in Buttons.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Apr., 1893 Accepted, 10th June, 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Buttons.
I, HERMANN MÜLLER of No. 1 Kothererstrasse Barmen, Rhenish Prussia,
Germany Manufacturer 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 :-
My invention relates to metal buttons, especially for trowsers, which are fixed to
the garment without being sewn thereto; such a button consists of two parts i.e. of
a stem which is stuck through or into the waist band of the trowsers and having a
conical or spherical head of somewhat larger diameter than the stem itself and of
a disc of suitable shape which forms the button proper and which is put upon the
stem being held therein by springs which are pressed over the said head of
the stem.
The button and the manner of fastening the same to the garment is shown on the
accompanying drawing.
Figure 1 is an outside view of the disc;
Figure 2 is a section of the same;
Figure 3 is a top view of it;
Figure 4 is an elevation of the stem ;
Figure 5 is a plan of the same;
Figure 6 shows how the disc is put upon the stem ;
Figure 7 shows how the button is fixed to the waist band of the trowsers.
The button proper consists of a stamped disc A of dish or cup shape having a
central hole B in its bottom and radial slits C cut therein; the sectoral parts H
thus formed being bent upwards so as to form a concave.
The fastening stem consists of a plate or disc D, to which is sottered or rivetted
or otherwise fixed a little stem or pin E being crowned by a somewhat enlarged
head F of conical or half spherical shape; the stem E is of same thickness as the
diameter of the hole B in the disc A.
The two parts described and shown in detail in Figures 1-5 are put together
and fixed to the waist band as shown in Figures 6 and 7. The stem is stuck
through the stuff G of the waist band; the dish A is pressed over the head F of
the stem, the sectors H of its bottom acting thereby like springs and preventing
the pulling off of the button, when once fastened, by their standing against the
shoulder formed by the head F of the stem.
I am aware that buttons which can be fixed to a garment without sewing have
been known before, but they were all of complicated construction, whereas my new
button is a solid metal button pressed and formed of one piece of sheet metal only,
one of its particularities being, that the bottom of the disc A, whilst it is cut by
the radial slits C at the same time is compressed and bent to form the concave and
thus to be made elastic, so that to be completed for fixing it only requires the stem
as described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what
I claim is :
In a button a solid disc A made of sheet metal having a hole B cut into the
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page_text: combination with a stem E having a dise D at one side and a head F at the other.
The whole as described and illustrated and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 17th day of March 1893.
HERMANN MÜLLER,
Per Karl J. Mayer,
Agent.