A New or Improved Device for Easing Shirt and other Button Holes Preparatory to the Insertion of Studs or Buttons.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 18th July, 1896-Accepted, 12th Sept., 1896
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Device for Easing Shirt and other Button
Holes Preparatory to the Insertion of Studs or Buttons.
I, GIBBON BAYLEY WORTHINGTON, of 8, Balfour Place, Park Lane
London, W. Gentleman 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 :--
This invention relates to a new or improved device for easing shirt and other
button-holes preparatory to the insertion of the fastening studs or buttons by means
of which the operation of buttoning the shirt collar or cuff same upon the buttons
or studs is much facilitated, if the shirt-front, collar, or cuff, has been stiffly
starched, to pass the stud or button through the button hole and much annoyance
and inconvenience thereby which disadvantages, by this my invention. are entirely
overcome.
The device or instrument constructed in accordance with this invention is simple
and inexpensive to make, small in size and may readily be carried in the pocket if
desired and by its use or employment the button hole may by the operations of
one end of the instrument be quickly opened sufficiently to allow the button or stud
to pass, and with the other end of the instrument the edges of the button holes may
be smoothed or flattened after the studs or buttons have been inserted.
And in order that this my invention may be fully understood I will proceed to
describe same with reference to the accompanying drawings and the letters and
figures of reference marked thereon.
Fig. 1 is a plan view of the device constructed in accordance with this invention.
Fig. 2 is a side elevational view of the same.
Fig. 3 is a view in perspective of the instrument.
Similar letters of reference indicate like points in each of the figures.
a is a strip of metal, wood, bone, ivory, papier mache, or any other suitable
substance or material which may be of any desired shape or configuration and of
any convenient size. At and upon one end of the strip a is mounted a conical
projection b which may be screwed, cemented, or in any other manner attached and
secured to the strip a aforesaid. This projection 6 by reason of its conical shape
may be easily be inserted within the button hole, however stiffly starched the shirt,
collar, or cuff, may be, and the button hole be thereby opened or eased sufficiently
to allow of the passage of a button or stud. The opposite end of the strip a may
be tapered off as at c and be furnished centrally with for slight indentation or
hollow and will serve as aforesaid for smoothing or flattening the edges of the
button holes after the studs have been inserted.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The new or improved device for easing shirt and other button holes
preparatory to the insertion of studs or buttons substantially as hereinbefore
described and shewn.
2. The device for easing shirt and other button holes consisting of the strip a of

page_text: metal, bone, ivory, papier mache, or other suitable substance or material, tapered
at one end as at c and having mounted upon its other end the conical projection b ;
substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in the drawings."
Dated this 18th day of July 1896.
HUGHES, ELI & HUGHES,
Agents for Applicant.