A NEW OR IMPROVED DEVICE OR MEANS FOR SECURING SCARF PINS, BROOCHES, AND OTHER DESCRIPTION OF JEWELLERY
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Payne and Peter Steel, both of the City of
Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, for the Invention of "A NEW OR
IMPROVED DEVICE OR MEANS FOR SECURING SCARF PINS, BROOCHES, AND
OTHER DESCRIPTION OF JEWELLERY."
Sealed the 12th January 1877, and dated the 14th October 1876.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Payne and Peter
Steel at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 14th October 1876.
CHARLES PAYNE and PETER STEEL, both of the City of Manchester, in the County
of Lancaster. "A NEW OR IMPROVED DEVICE OR MEANS FOR SECURING SCARF
PINS, BROOCHES, AND OTHER DESCRIPTION OF JEWELLERY."
The object of this Invention is the production of a simple and inexpensive device
for securing or assisting the securing of scarf pins, brooches, ear-rings, and other
descriptions of jewellery, and preventing their accidental loss through the working
out of the pin usually employed to secure such descriptions of jewellery in their
places.
As applied to brooches this device consists of a small ferrule, tube, or boss capable
of being slid upon the pin of the brooch after it has been passed through the fabric
and clamped thereto by a small set screw carrying a milled head or other ornamental
head for effectually turning such set screw. A similar arrangement may be applied
to scarf pins, ear-rings, and other descriptions of valuable jewellery. Instead of a
set screw a spring may be employed taking into suitable serrations on the pin. In
some cases the device may be attached to the jewel by a small chain, or when a
watch chain is worn such chain may be connected to or supported by such device.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Charles Payne and Peter Steel in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 14th April 1877.
CHARLES PAYNE and PETER STEEL, both of the City of Manchester, in the County
of Lancaster. "A New OR IMPROVED DEVICE OR MEANS FOR SECURING SCARF
PINS, BROOCHES, AND OTHER DESCRIPTIONS OF JEWELLERY."
IDAJI

page_text: This Invention has for its object the construction of a device or means for securing
scarf pins, brooches, ear-rings, and other similar descriptions of jewellery, and
preventing their accidental loss from the person or dress of the wearer.
Referring to the annexed Sheet of Drawings, Fig. 1 represents a side view of a
brooch having our improved device applied thereto; Figs. 2 and 3 are a side end
view respectively of the fastening device illustrated in Fig. 1.
Fig. 4 is a side view of a scarf pin with a modification of our improvements
applied thereto; and Fig. 5 is a further modification of our fastening device.
Referring to Figs. 1, 2, and 3, A is a tube or ferrule sufficiently large in the bore to
allow an ordinary sized brooch or scarf pin to pass through freely; and B is a set
screw fitted into the tube or ferrule, as illustrated, by turning which the tube or
ferrule B may be firmly fixed upon the pin C, as illustrated.
When desired the fastening device itself may be attached to the brooch or
pin by means of a small chain fastened to the ring B¹ on the end of the set
screw B. In applying this device to the securing of a brooch, as illustrated, the
pin C of the brooch is passed once through the fabric, the tube or ferrule A is
then slipped upon the pin & secured by turning the set screw B firmly down upon
the pin C at or about the position illustrated. The pin C is then passed through
the fabric a second time, and hooked upon the staple D in the ordinary manner.
The device effectually prevents the brooch working loose and coming out of the
fabric should the pin C by accident become unhooked from the staple D.
From the foregoing description it will be readily apparent how the same device
could be applied to securing scarf pins, ear-rings, and other similar descriptions of
jewellery.
In Fig. 3 we show a modification of our improvements applied to a scarf pin.
In this case we employ a spring E instead of a set screw, such spring taking into
serrations or pressing upon the pin, as illustrated, so that it cannot be drawn off
without considerable force.
In Fig. 4 we show a modification constructed to enclose a block of india-rubber or
other elastic material F having a hole G through the centre less in diameter than
the pin it is intended to fasten. The friction of the elastic substance serves the
same purpose as the spring the last-mentioned modification.
Having thus particularly described the nature of our said Invention, and the
method of carrying the same into practical effect, we wish it to be understood that
we claim, the device for securing articles of jewellery, substantially as described
and illustrated on the accompanying Drawing.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Payne, for and on behalf of myself
and the said Peter Steel, have hereunto set my hand and seal, this Thirteenth
day of April, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
seventy-seven
CHARLES PAYNE. (L.S.)