Improvements in Button Fasteners.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Button Fasteners.
SAMUEL SETTER, 1, Etloe Road, Westbury Park, Bristol, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
I make for the purpose of attaching buttons to boots, shoes, and other articles
where buttons are useful, a button-fastener by means of bent wire, stamped
metal, or any other known method. I make them in shape similar to an horse-
shoe, with a central tongue bent into such a shape, as to enable me to put the
tongue through from the inside of the boot or shoe, showing only the said tongue
on the outside, while the horse-shoe only appears on the inside. By this means
my button-fastener becomes fixed. I have only now to place my button on the
tongue, with a little pressure down between the sides of the horse-shoe, the same
time pushing forward to the loop I have provided in the tongue the opperation
is completed.
1
B
1000
SAMUEL SETTER, 1, Etloe Road, Westbury Park, Boot and Shoe Maker, Bristol,
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 follow-
ing statement:.
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I make for the purpose of attaching buttons to boots, shoes and other articles,
where buttons are useful.
A button fastener by means of bent wire, stamped metal, or any other known
method.
I make them in shape similar to a horseshoe, with a central tongue bent into
such a shape as to enable me to put the tongue through from the inside of the
boot or shoe showing only the said tongue on the outside while the horseshoe only
I have
appears on the inside, by this means my button fastener becomes fixed.
only now to place my button on the tongue with a little pressure down between
the sides of the horse-shoe, the same time pushing forward to the loop I have pro-
vided in the tongue, the operation is completed. Should buttons become broken
it is an easy matter for an inexperienced person to remove broken shanks and
adjust a new button, without removing boot or shoe from the foot.
Should buttons need moving backward or forward to make larger or smaller

page_text: this can easily be done by first removing the button, then my invention can be
taken out and replaced in any desired position.
My invention used as a button-fastener may be used to great advantage where
buttons need frequent cleaning as they are so easily removed and readjusted, thus
saving dirt & creasing of cloth.
I have herein before stated that I make the inner side of my invention similar
in shape to a horseshoe, but I do not confine my self to that particular shape as
will be seen by accompanying drawings.
Figures 1, 2, 3, 5 represent. my invention in different. shapes.
A, 1) represents a front view of three button fasteners unattached.
1 represents sectional view of the same.
Figure 4 represents my invention with button' attached.
Figure 6 represents my invention attached to material with button.
Figure 7 represents my invention attached to material E representing loop of
tongue on the outside. to receive the button.
I may make the extreme end of tongue pointed so as to use it without the aid
of an awl, or I may use an awl to bore for the said tongue to come through.
I may also pierce holes in any part of my invention I find convenient, where
permanent fixing is required.
I may also form shoulders in the aforesaid tongue over which I may pass a
shank of button which becomes permanently fixed when necessary.
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:
1st. Button fasteners for boots & shoes and other articles where buttons are
useful substantially as herein before described with special claims to the follow-
ing that is,
2nd. A button fastener which is self fixing apart from the button by means of
the flange on the inside, and the tongue bearing on the outside of material.
3rd. The central tongue being so constructed, I am enable to fix or remove
button as herein before described.
Dated thie 31st down of M1 1000