Improvements in Buttons and in Means for Fastening same to Boots, or for similar purposes.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Oct., 1894-Accepted, 1st. Dec., 1894
Improvements in Buttons and in Means for Fastening same to Boots,
or for similar purposes.
I STANDEN LEONARD PEARCE, 42 York Road, West Hartlepool, Durham,
Engineer, 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 :-
حمد
My invention relates to improvements in buttons and in means for fastening same
to boots, or for similar purposes and has for its object to provide means whereby
such buttons can be fastened to the uppers of boots, or to coats or other articles
which demand the employment of buttons for closing or securing same, in a ready,
simple, and effectual manner.
The invention consists in the employment of a button having a shank and a
flexible base, in conjunction with a socket or eyelet for receiving and holding
such base.
And in order that the said invention may be the more readily understood,
reference is hereby made to the drawings accompanying this Specification, in which
drawings:
.
Fig. 1 is an elevation of the button.
Fig. 2 being a plan, partly in section of same.
Fig. 3 is an elevation of the socket or eyelet into which the base of the button is
Becured.
Fig. 4 being a plan thereof, while
Fig. 5 is a section of Fig. 3 and
Fig. 6 shows in section the button and socket or eyelet complete and the manner
in which same is fastened into a boot upper or the like.
Referring to the drawings, a is the button having a shank a¹ and a base a', which
latter is preferably notched as shown by a³, and fashioned of such a thickness and
of such a material, as to possess a requisite degree of flexibility, the notches a
accentuating this quality.
b represents the socket or eyelet, which is hollow and preferably of circular
form, the upper edge being inwardly-turned or flanged, so as to leave a
small central opening 63, of smaller diameter than that of the base a³ of the
button a.
The base of the socket or eyelet is extended outwardly or flanged, for
the purpose of providing a stop to prevent such socket or eyelet being pulled or
forced through the opening in the boot upper or the like, c into which same is
affixed.
The button a is secured in the said socket or eyelet 6 by bending or compressing
the flexible base a² of said button, in such a manner as to diminish the diameter of
same, thereby allowing of such base a being inserted through the opening 6* into
the interior of the sccket or eyelet b, the flexibility of the said base a causing
same to assume its original position and being greater in diameter than the
aforesaid opening 62, the said button a will be rendered incapable of being displaced
from the said socket or eyelet b.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The improvements in buttons, and in means for fastening same to boots or the
like, substantially as described and as illustrated.

page_text: 2. In combination with a button comprising a head, a shank and a flexible
notched base, of a socket or eyelet having an inwardly turned or flanged upper rim
and a central opening 'smaller in diameter than the base of the said button, and an
extended or flanged base, substantially as, and for the purpose specified, and as
illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 27th day of October 1894.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23, Coleman Street, London, Agents. for the Applicant.