A NEW STUD AND EYELET FASTENER
Year: 1883

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Amedee Combault of 226 Regent Street in the County
of Middlesex Jeweller for an Invention of A NEW STUD AND EYELET
FASTENER
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Amedee Combault at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 14th April 1883.
AMÉDÉE COMBAULT of 226 Regent Street in the County of Middlesex Jeweller
A NEW STUD AND EYELET FASTENER
This fastener consists of two parts: namely: -(1) a stud having a spherical or
flattened-spherical head or knob (figures 1 and la of drawing) and (2) an eyelet
hole or socket. The latter contains a small spring formed of steel or other elastic
metal either in bent wire or stamped out and shaped as shewn in figure 2 of
drawing. The internal diameter of the central part (a) of this spring is somewhat
smaller than that of the stud head (1) which is to fit into it. This spring is fitted
into a flat metal ring (figure 3) on two opposite points in the flat circumference of
which (on the same side) two slots are formed by thining away the metal as shewn
at d and e. The spring is placed on the ring, its two ends b and c resting in the
two slots d and e as shewn in figure 4; another flat ring (either correspondingly
slotted or not as may be necessary or convenient) is superposed upon the first ring
and the spring. The spring is thus retained between the two rings (figure 5), the
slots being of sufficient depth to prevent the ends of the spring being squeezed
between the rings. Or one thicker flat ring may be employed, instead of two
rings, the slots being pierced through its circumference to pass the spring through
them in the same sense. Or the second ring may form a part of the eyelet-hole or
socket itself When the spherical stud-head (1) is pierced into the eyelet hole or
socket containing the spring, the spring is forced open by the pressure, and at once
recloses around the neck of the stud head when the latter has passed through it;
and the stud head can be withdrawn in the same way by pulling it straight out.
The force required to press in or pull out the stud head is in proportion to the
thickness and strength of the spring used and to the diameter of the spring in
relation to that of the stud head The system is equally applicable to the most
delicate shirt stud as to the largest and strongest knob. The eyelet hole may bo

page_text: either used simply as such, or may form part of a button knob or any other article
of use or ornament requiring to be fixed with facility for unfixing and refixing
from time to time.
Thus the system is applicable to very numerous articles and purposes, as, for
example, to shirt and other studs, gloves, boots, gaiters portemonnaies, boxes,
books, door handles and fastenings, leather straps, belts and harness, wearing
apparel, &c. For the latter the system may supersede ordinary buttons and button
holes, the stud being riveted to one side of the garment to be fastened and the
eyelet hole (either simple or as a socket in a button or other article or ornament)
on the other
:
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Amedee Combault in the Great Seal Patent Office on tho
13th October 1883.
AMEDEE COMBAULT of 226 Regent Street in the County of Middlesex Jeweller
A NEW STUD AND EYELET FASTENER
This fastener consists of two parts; namely (1) a stud having a spherical or
flattened-spherical head or knob (figures 1 and 1 of drawing and (2) an cyelet
hole or socket. The latter contains a spring formed of steel or other elastic metal
either in bent wire or stamped-out and shaped as or according to the principle
shown in figure 2 of drawing. The internal diameter of the central part (a) of
this spring is somewhat smaller than that of the stud head (1) (1) which is to fit
into it. This spring is fitted into a flat metal ring (figure 3) If the spring be
shaped as shewn in figure 2, two slots are formed on two opposite points on the
same side of the flat circumference of the ring by thinning away the metal as
shewn at d and e. The spring is placed on the ring, its two ends b and c resting
in the two slots d and e as shewn in figure 4; another flat ring (either corre-
spondingly slotted or not as may be necessary or convenient) is superposed upon
the first ring and the spring. The spring is thus retained between the two rings
(figure 5), the slots being of sufficient depth to prevent the ends of the spring
being squeezed between the rings. Or modifications of the shape of the spring
may be adopted as shewn in figures 2a and 26, so as to place the entire spring thus
formed into a flat ring or socket or eyelet formed to receive it When the spherical
stud head is pressed into the eyelet hole or socket containing the spring, the spring
is forced open by the pressure, and at once recloses around the neck of the stud-
bead when the latter has passed through it; and the stud head can be withdrawn
in the same way by pulling it straight out. The force required to press in or pull
out the stud head is in proportion to the thickness and strength of the spring used
and to the diameter of the spring, in relation to that of the studhead. The system
is equally applicable to the most delicate shirt stud as to the largest and strongest

page_text: knob. The eyelethole may be either used simply as such, or may form part of a
button, knob or any other article of use or ornament requiring to be fixed with
facility for unfixing and refixing from time to time. The same system may be
employed also for fastenings intended to be permanently fixed by employing a
knob or stud head shaped as in figure 16, which when once introduced into the
eyelet or socket cannot be withdrawn
Thus the system is applicable to very numerous articles and purposes, as, for
example, to shirt and other studs, gloves boots, gaiters, portmonnaies, boxes, books
door handles and fastenings, leather straps, belts and harness paper binders wearing
apparel & For the latter the system may supersede ordinary buttons and button
holes, the stud being riveted to one side of the garment to be fastened and the
eyelet hole (either simple or as a socket in a button or other article or ornament on
the other. In straps harness, &, the system may supersede buckles; and in many
applications it may replace screws and screw bolts and nuts. In wituess whereof
I the said Amedee Combault have hereunto set my hand and seal this eleventh
day of October in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and eighty
three.
Signed Sealed and Delivered by the
above named Amedée Combault
in the presence of
W. F. NOKES
Sol™
57, Basinghall St
A. COMBAULT (L.S.)