Method of Storing or Mounting Eyelet-button Fasteners for Facilitating their Introduction into Button fastening Machines.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Dec., 1893
Complete Specification Left, 8th Sept., 1894-Accepted, 20th Oct., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Method of Storing or Mounting Eyelet-button Fasteners for
Facilitating their Introduction into Button fastening
Machines.
1, Hugo BremeR, of The Neheimer Metallwaarenund Werkzeug-fabrik, Manu-
facturers, of Neheim on the Ruhr, Germany, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
Eyelet buttons or boot-buttons are frequently fastened to the leather or other
material by means of a metallic staple or pin and a footplate, counterplate, or washer,
the said pin or staple passing through the central opening of the washer until the
head of the staple or pin rests upon the foot plate. Such fasteners are usually sold
loose in boxes. Instead of this, I mount them in straight rows upon a sheet of
cardboard, paper or other suitable material, which may be left flat or rolled up into
cylindrical shape. The pins or staples are inserted through the supporting material
at such distances apart, that the circular foot plates of adjoining fasteners overlap
each other, each plate being therefore slightly inclined in the same direction and
resting with the highest part of its circumference on the lowest part of the
immediately preceding plate.
Owing to this arrangement, each fastener may be easily drawn off the supporting
material by means of a fork which passes underneath the several consecutive plates
of the same row, and forms part of the button fastening machine. If the supporting
plate is bent into a cylindrical shape, the circular foot plates are situated on the
outside of the cylinder, while the points of the staples or fastening pins are directed
towards the axis of the cylinder.
Dated this 14th day of December 1893.
FAIRFAX & WETTER,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Method of Storing or Mounting Eyelet-button Fasteners for
Facilitating their Introduction into Button fastening
Machines.
I, HUGO BREMER, of The Neheimer Metallwaaren und Werkzeug-fabrik, Manu-
facturers, of Neheim-on-the-Ruhr, Germany, 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:-
Eyelet buttons for boots and other wearing apparel are frequently fastened to the
leather or other material by means of a metallic staple or pin and a foot-plate,
counterplate, or washer, the said pin or staple passing through the central opening
of the washer until the head of the staple or pin rests upon the foot plate. Such
fasteners are usually sold in boxes. Instead of this, I mount them in straight rows
upon a sheet of cardboard, paper or other suitable material, which may be left flat,
or rolled up into cylindrical shape. The pios or staples are inserted through the
supporting material at such distances apart, that the foot plates of any two consecu-
tive fasteners in the same row overlap each other, each plate being therefore slightly

page_text: inclined in a forward direction and resting with the highest part of its circumference
on the lowest part of the immediately preceding plate.
Owing to this arrangement, each fastener may be easily drawn off the supporting
material by means of a fork which passes underneath the several consecutive plates
of the same row, and forms part of the button fastening machine. If the supporting
plate is bent into a cylindrical shape, the cylindrical foot plates are situated on the
outside of the cylinder, while the points of the staples or fastening pins are directed
towards the axis of the cylinder.
In the accompanying drawings:
Fig. 1 is a side view of a tubular base plate or sheet on which are mounted eight
rows of fasteners according to my invention.
Fig. 2 is a plan corresponding to Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 represents a sheet of cardboard carrying 8 rows of fasteners.
a represents a base plate or tube, b the fasteners, and c an instrument for removing
the fasteners from their base.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
The arrangement of eyelet button fasteners on a supporting base of cardboard
or other suitable material in the manner substantially as described and for the
purpose specified.
Dated this 6th day of September 1894.