19th Century Button Patents
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19th Century Button Patents
1830 American wire eyed cast buttons
1831 Dead eyed wood buttons
1833 Dead eyed wood buttons
1839 Dies for stamping button blanks
1840 Early rivet button
1841 Improved manufacture of ceramic button
1843 Improvement in making paper buttons
1845 Improvement in making "Pantaloon-Buttons"
1848 Application of Gutta Percha
1849 Wood molds for fabric covered buttons
1849 Improvements in fabric covered buttons
1849 Preparing strawboard for buttons
1850 Helix wire shank buttons
1851 Dies for making ornamental buttons
1851 Silk covered buttons
1852 Manufacturing Glass-Centered buttons (Cheshire)
1853 Gutta-Percha and India Rubber buttons(Goodyear)
1854 Manufacture of wood buttons
1860 Threadless buttons
1861 Buttons for holding photographs
1861 Revolving flexible eye (padback)
1861 Improvement in suspender buttons
1862 Improvement in padback buttons
1863 Tunnel shank buttons
1863 Bar shank buttons
1864 Process for making glass buttons
1865 "Hansom/Tasty" button display cards
1865 Use of Mother of Pearl *******
5 Picture frame buttons
1865 Molds for making glass buttons
1866 Helical spiral wire shank buttons
1867 Improved fasteners for studs/buttons
1867 Improved manufacture of enameled wood
1868 Ornamental fabric buttons
1868 Securing shanks to glass buttons
1868 Chain button fastener
1869 Hard rubber and Jet buttons
1869 Design patent for "Good Templars"
1870 Attaching shanks to composition and pearl buttons
1872 Combined sleeve buttons and lockets
1872 Preparing wood for buttons
1873 Removable shank for buttons
1873 Improved molds for fancy fabric buttons
1873 One piece metal buttons
1873 Wire screen backs for glass buttons
1874 Attaching buttons to shoes and gaiters
1874 Using pins for button fasteners
1874 Inexpensive buttons made from wire
1875 Improvement to reduce wobble of wire shanks
1875 Manufacture of glass in metal buttons
1876 Process for making casein
1876 Domed woven ropes design
1876 Printing with dye on vegetable ivory ******
1876 Improvements to strengthen padbacks
1877 Making glass buttons without a mold
1877 Metal loop shanks in cup design
1878 Improvement to reduce wear on fabric buttons
1879 Design for a separable and removable button
1879 Manufacture of cast metal shanks
1879 Using blood for mottled ornamental buttons
1880 Fastening buttons with wire loops
1880 Manufacturing Horn Buttons
1880 Plate and loop shank for glass buttons (12/28/80)
1880 Process for making leather or paper buttons
1880 Two piece Mother of Pearl buttons
1880 Uniting enamel and glass to metal
1880 Ornamental plastic cookie buttons
1880 Process for powdered horn buttons
1880 Bar shank for composition buttons
1880 Padbacks on composition buttons
1880 Buttons from hoof dust and blood
1880 Suspender button with crossbar
1880 Inlaying buttons with plastic materials
1880 Etching pearl buttons with Silver Nitrate
1881 Sew through buttons with plastic rivet design
1881 Soldering shanks for two piece buttons
1881 Button hole cutter
1881 Four-way thread groove design
1881 Gluing cloth to metal for fabric buttons
1881 Foil backs for buttons from pearl, horn, bone, etc.
1882 Using nails for shanks in molded buttons
1882 Gold leaf background in metal buttons
1882 Wood ball button with OME
1882 Metal backs on vegetable ivory buttons
1882 Ornamental rims on metal buttons
1883 OME on vegetable ivory buttons
1883 Rivet button
1883 Bar shank in glass button
1883 Canvas back on solid front buttons
1883 Mother of Pearl ornamentation
1883 Loop shank for glass with spiral wire plate
1883 Improvement for a frame button
1883 Attaching MOP to button body
1883 Oblong shoe button design
1884 Bar shanks in glass buttons
1884 Gluing two piece buttons
1885 Perfumer button *******
1885 Soldered omega shank
1885 Button hook holder on shoe
1885 Replaceable face button
1885 Special turned wire shank for glass buttons
1885 Link sleeve button
1886 Manufacture of leather buttons
1886 Replaceable face for Uniform/Civilian use
1886 Multiple face button
1886 Design under Glass button
1886 Leo Popper loop and plate shank design *****
1887 Button cleaning shield
1888 Button with crochet and embroidered cover
1888 Covered ball button
1888 Buttons imitating other materials
1889 Political button with slide out plate *****
Patents for Button Manufacturing Tools
1842 Punch for making fabric buttons
1849 Machine for making wood button molds
1858 Machine for Bapterosses shanked buttons
1865 Machine for making glass buttons
1865 Molding shanks into glass buttons
1865 Hand mold for making glass and composition buttons
1866 Machine for molding buttons from plastic materials
1868 Machine for making button from horn
1870 Machine for grinding pearl blanks
1870 Machine for making shaped glass buttons
1870 Molds for glass buttons
1873 Bapterosses machine for ceramic buttons
1873 Glass press for metal shanked glass buttons
1874 Press for ornamenting ivory buttons
1879 Lathe for turning horn buttons
1880 Bapterosses machine for ceramic buttons
1884 Press for making horn buttons
1884 Pearl grinding machine
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Acknowledgements:
A special thanks to Joan Lindsay & Joy Journeay for their expert editing skills!