Improved Means for Attaching Buttons and the like to Shirts and other Articles of Wearing Apparel.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Dec., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 19th Sept., 1889-Accepted, 2nd Nov., 1889
TRUVIDIONAL DIMITIVATION.
Improved Means for Attaching Buttons and the like to Shirts and
other Articles of Wearing Apparel.
1, DANIEL WILKINS FESSEY, of 1 Worship Street, Finsbury, in the City of London,
Mechanical Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
My invention relates to means for attaching buttons and the like to shirts and other
articles of wearing apparel.
Hitherto it has been usual to attach buttons directly upon the material forming the
shirt or other article of wearing apparel by means of thread or the like, or, in the case
of studs, to form the button-hole directly in the material forming the shirt or other
article.
This method of securing the said buttons or studs is objectionable on account of its
wearing out and damaging that portion of the said shirt or other article to which the
said button or stud is attached. Moreover the lump formed by the stitching is
uncomfortable to the wearer more especially in the case of buttons placed upon the
rear part of the yoke or band of a shirt for convenience of attaching the collar. This
objection also occurs in the case of studs, owing to the metal or other material
forming the back of the said stud pressing against the neck of the wearer.
The main object of my said invention is to obviate the above objection and to
provide suitable means for attaching buttons, studs and the like to shirts and other
articles of wearing apparel in such a manner that the securing of the said buttons,
studs or the like will not injure the article to which they are attached, nor cause any
inconvenience to the wearer.
In carrying my said invention into practice, I provide a flap or tab of any suitable
form and either of the same material as the shirt to which it is attached or of any
other suitable material. The lower part or portion of the said flap or tab is fastened
by sewing or otherwise to the said shirt. Upon the upper or loose part or portion of
the flap or tab I secure a button or other device, or I form a button-hole for receiving
a stud or the like.
By these means it will be seen that the sewing, or the back of the stud, will come
between the said flap or tab and the material forming the shirt to which it is attached.
Moreover should the said flap or tab become damaged or unserviceable through the
tearing off of the button and repeated sewing on of the same, or through injury to
the button-hole, the said damaged flap or tab can be easily and expeditiously replaced
by a new one without injury to the shirt.
Flaps or tabs as above described may be placed at the back of the collar-band or
yoke of the shirt for convenience of attaching a collar thereto, or upon any con-
venient part of the wrist-bands for attaching cuffs, or they may be placed upon any
other suitable part of the said shirt.
Although I have hereinbefore described the said tabs or flaps as applied more
especially to a shirt, it is obvious that they are also applicable to other articles of
wearing apparel.
Moreover, instead of forming the said flaps or tabs separately from the said shirt or
other article of wearing apparel, and attaching them thereto by means of stitching or
otherwise as herein before described, I sometimes form the said flaps or tabs in one
with the said shirt or other article of wearing apparel.
Dated this 22nd day of December 1888.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Attaching Buttons and the like to Shirts and
other Articles of Wearing Apparel.
I, DANIEL WILKINS FESSEY of 1 Worship Street, Finsbury, in the County of
Middlesex, Mechanical Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and
in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
My invention relates to means for attaching buttons and the like to shirts and other
articles of wearing apparel.
Hitherto it has been usual to attach buttons directly upon the material forming the
shirt or other article of wearing apparel by means of thread or the like or in the case
of button holes for studs to form the said button holes directly in the said material.
This method of securing the said buttons or studs in position is objectionable for the
following amongst other reasons viz-on account of wearing out and damaging that
portion of the said shirt or other article to which the said button or stud is attached.
The inconvenience to the wearer caused by the lump or swelling formed by the
stitching in the case of buttons and in the case of studs by the metal or other
material forming the back of the said stud pressing against the wearer.
This inconvenience is especially experienced in the case of buttons or studs upon
the rear part of the yoke or band of a shirt for convenience of attaching the collar
thereto.
By my said invention I obviate these objections and provide suitable means for
attaching buttons, studs and the like to shirts and other articles of wearing apparel in
such a manner that the securing of the said buttons, studs or the like will not injure
the article to which they are attached, nor cause any inconvenience or discomfort to
the wearer.
In the accompanying drawing I have shown how my said invention may be
conveniently and advantageously carried into practice.
Figure 1 is a rear elevation and
Figure 2 is a side elevation showing a portion of a shirt with my improvements
applied to the yoke or band thereof.
Like letters indicate corresponding parts throughout the drawing.
A is the part of a shirt known as the yoke. B is the neck band thereof.
a is a flap or tab formed either of the same material as the shirt to which it is
attached or of any other suitable material. The lower part or portion of the said flap
or tab a is fastened by sewing or otherwise to the yoke and neck band B. Upon the
upper or loose part or portion of the flap or tab I secure a button 6 or other device, or
I form a button hole for receiving a stud or the like. It will be seen that in this
arrangement the lump or swelling caused by the sewing or the back of the stud will
be prevented from bearing against the neck of the wearer, and thus causing incon-
venience by the interposition of the neck band B.
Moreover should the said flap or tab become damaged or unserviceable through
the tearing off of the button and repeated sewing on of the same, or through injury
to the button hole, the said damaged flap or tab can be easily and expeditiously
replaced by a new one without injury to the shirt.
Flaps or tabs as above described may be placed at the back of the collar band or
yoke of the shirt for convenience of attaching a collar thereto, or upon any convenient
part of the wristbands for attaching cuffs, or upon any other suitable part of the said
shirt.
Although I have hereinbefore described the said tabs or flaps as applied more
especially to a shirt, it is obvious that they are also applicable to other articles of
wearing apparel.
Moreover instead of forming the said flaps or tabs separately from the said shirt or
other article of wearing apparel, and attaching them thereto, by means of stitching or
otherwise as hereinbefore described, I sometimes form the said flaps or tabs in one
with the said shirt or other article of wearing apparel.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said in-
vention and in what manner the same is to be performed I wish it understood
that I claim :—
The improved means substantially as illustrated and described for securing buttons,
studs or the like to shirts or other articles of wearing apparel.
Dated this 19th day of September 1889
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant