AN IMPROVED BUTTON
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Hugh Willock, of Ardrossan, in the County of
Ayrshire, North Britain, Hardware Merchant, for the Invention of
" AN IMPROVED BUTTON."
Sealed the 21st July 1874, and dated the 5th May 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Hugh Willock at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents; with his Petition, on the
5th May 1874.
I, HUGH WILLOCK, of Ardrossan, in the County of Ayrshire, North
Britain, Hardware Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "AN IMPROVED BUTTON," to be as follows:-.
The Invention consists of a button the head of which is removable,
so as to enable the shank to be passed through the button hole. The
head is hollow, is partly filled with caoutouche, is perforated on the
under side, and has an internal groove or recess crossing the perforation
or aperture at right angles. The shank, rod, or stalk terminates at one
end in a disk, at the other in a short transverse bar, so as to form a
T shaped cross.

page_text: To use the button the shank is passed through the button hole into
the perforation in the button head, and being turned one-fourth round
falls into the internal groove, and is retained in that position by the
elasticity of the rubber.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,.
filed by the said Hugh Willock in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 28th October 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HUGH
WILLOCK, of Ardrossan, in the County of Ayrshire, North Britain,
Hardware Merchant, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fifth day of May, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Hugh Willock, Her special. licence
that I, the said Hugh Willock, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said Hugh Willock, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no
others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term
therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and
vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVED
BUTTON," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Hugh
Willock,. my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly
describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed
in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Hugh Willock, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement, reference being had to the accompanying
Drawings, and to the letters and figures marked thereon, that is to
say:

page_text: angles. The shank terminates at one end in a disk, and at the other in
a short transverse bar, so as to form a cross head.
To use the button the shank is passed through the button hole into
the perforation in the button head, and being turned one-fourth round
falls into the internal groove, and is retained in that position by the
elasticity of the rubber.
Buttons made upon this principle may be constructed of various sizes
and proportions, and of different materials, such as metal, vulcanite,
ivory, or any other suitable substance.

page_text: claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent the improved button,
substantially as above described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Hugh Willock, have heretofore set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of October, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.
HUGH WILLOCK. (L.S.)