Im- PROVEMENTS IN SOLITAIRES, SLEEVE LINKS, AND OTHER FASTENINGS AND ORNAMENTS LIKE DR
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Cheshire, of Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, Corkscrew Manufacturer, for the Invention of “Im-
PROVEMENTS IN SOLITAIRES, SLEEVE LINKS, AND OTHER
FASTENINGS AND ORNAMENTS."
LIKE DRESS
Sealed the 31st August 1875, and dated the 2nd March 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Cheshire at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
2nd March 1875.
I, JOHN CHESHIRE, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Cork-
3 screw Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SOLITAIRES, SLEEVE LINKS, AND OTHER LIKE DRESS
FASTENINGS AND ORNAMENTS," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists of the improvements herein-after described in
those parts of solitaires, sleeve links, and other like dress fastenings and

page_text: ornaments by which the solitaire or article is fastened to and unfastened
from the dress, the object of my Invention being to effect the said
fastening and unfastening in a simple and efficient manner.
I will describe my Invention as applied to a solitaire. To the back of
the solitaire and perpendicular thereto two bearing plates are fixed, and
between the said plates two arms are jointed, the said arms being
situated on either side the centre of the solitaire. These jointed arms
are capable of being raised on their joints so as to be brought parallel to
one another, or of being turned down so as to make their outer ends
touch the back of the solitaire, the said arms when so turned down
crossing the solitaire in the direction of a diameter. The outer or
unjointed ends of the said arms are by preference made of a spherical or
rounded figure, and their inner or jointed ends are provided with heels
situated beyond the joints on which they turn, and against the said heels
the branches of a double or V spring bear, the said spring being situated
between the bearing plates to which the arms are jointed. By means of
the said spring the jointed arms are held firmly either in their open or
expanded position, or in their closed or collapsed position.
In applying the solitaire to a sleeve or other article of dress the jointed
arms of the solitaire are raised into their closed or collapsed position so
as to bring them parallel to one another and perpendicular to the back
of the solitaire. The parallel arms being passed through the holes in
the sleeve the said arms are opened out so as to cross the said holes, the
said arms being preserved firmly in their open or expanded position by
the action of the spring described. The solitaire is thereby fastened
very securely to the sleeve. By closing the jointed arms they may be
drawn through the holes in the sleeve and the solitaire removed.
.
I apply my Invention to sleeve links and other like dress fastenings
and ornaments, substantially in the manner described, with respect to a
solitaire.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said John Cheshire in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 1st September 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
CHESHIRE, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Corkscrew
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Second day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said John Cheshire, Her special
license that I, the said John Cheshire, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said John Cheshire, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN
SOLITAIRES, SLEEVE LINKS, AND OTHER LIKE DRESS FASTENINGS AND ORNAMENTS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said John Cheshire,
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 imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Cheshire, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
O following statement thereof, that is to say :-
My Invention consists of the improvements herein-after described in
those parts of solitaires, sleeve links, and other liko dress fastenings and
ornaments by which the solitaire or article is fastened to and unfastened
from the dress, the object of my Invention being to effect the said
5 fastening and unfastening in a simple and efficient manner.

page_text: I will describe my Invention as applied to a solitaire. To the back of
the solitaire and perpendicular thereto two bearing plates are fixed, and
between the said plates two arms are jointed, the said arms being
situated on either side the centre of the solitaire. These jointed arms
are capable of being raised on their joints so as to be brought parallel to
one another, or of being turned down so as to make their outer ends
touch the back of the solitaire, the said arms when so turned down
crossing the solitaire in the direction of a diameter. The outer or
unjointed ends of the said arms are by preference made of a spherical or
rounded figure, and their inner or jointed ends are provided with heels
situated beyond the joints on which they turn, and against the said
heels the branches of a double or V spring bear, the said spring being
situated between the bearing plates to which the arms are jointed. By
means of the said spring the jointed arms are held firmly either in their
open or expanded position, or in their closed or collapsed position.
In applying the solitaire to a sleeve or other article of dress the
jointed arms of the solitaire are raised into their closed or collapsed
position so as to bring them parallel to one another and perpendicular to
the back of the solitaire. The parallel arms being passed through the
holes in the sleeve the said arms are opened out so as to cross the said
holes, the said arms being preserved firmly in their open or expanded
position by the action of the spring described. The solitaire is thereby
fastened very securely to the sleeve. By closing the jointed arms they
may be drawn through the holes in the sleeve and the solitaire removed.
I will now describe with reference to the accompanying Drawing the
manner in which my Invention may be performed.
Figure 1 exhibits in side elevation and Figure 2 in section a solitaire
drawn to a large scale constructed according to my Invention, the
jointed arms of the said solitaire being represented in their closed or
collapsed position; Figure 3 represents a side elevation; Figure 4, a
section; Figure 5, an end elevation; and Figure 6, a plan of the same
with the jointed arms in their open or expanded position.
Figure 7 represents one of the jointed arms separately; Figure 8
represents the double bearing plate separately; and Figure 9 represents
the V spring separately.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts.

page_text: a is the solitaire to the back of which a double bearing plate 6 con-
sisting of two parallel parts is fixed. To the sides or parts of the
bearing plate 6 the two arms c, c, are jointed at c³, the said arms being
situated on either side the centre of the solitaire, as represented. The
jointed arms c, c, are capable of taking either the position represented in
Figures 1 and 2, or that represented in Figures 3, 4, 5, and 6. Between
the parallel parts of the bearing plate b a double or V spring d is fixed,
the free ends of the branches of the said spring being made to bear
against the heels f,f, of the jointed arms c, c, the said heels f,f, having
the Figure represented in the Drawing. By means of the said spring d
bearing on the heels of the jointed arms c, c, the said arms c, c, are held
firmly either in their open or expanded position, or in their closed or
collapsed position. When the arms c, c, are in their closed position the
branches of the spring a bear on one side of each of the heels f, as
seen in Figure 2, and when the arms c, c, are in their open or expanded
position the branches of the spring bear on the opposite sides of the
respective heels, as seen in Figure 4.
:.
In using the solitaire the jointed arms c, c, are raised into their closed
or collapsed position, Figures 1 and 2, and the nearly parallel arms are
passed through the holes in the sleeve or other part of the dress. The
said arms are then opened out, as represented in Figures 3, 4, 5, and 6,
so as to cross the said holes in the sleeve, the arms c, c, being held
firmly in their open or expanded position by the action of the spring d.
The solitaire is thus fixed very securely to the sleeve. To remove the
solitaire the expanded arms c, c, are raised into the position, Figures 1
and 2, when the said arms may be drawn through the holes in the sleeve
and the solitaire removed.
I apply my Invention to sleeve links and other like dress fastenings
and ornaments, substantially in the manner described and represented
with respect to a solitaire.
Having now described the nature of my Invention and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I do
not limit myself to the precise details herein described and illustrated, as
the same may be varied without departing from the nature of my In-
vention, but I claim as my Invention the improvements in solitaires,
sleeve links, and other like dress fastenings and ornaments herein-before
described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing, that is to sav

page_text: the construction and combination of the jointed arms c, c, double
spring d, and bearing plate b, for fastening the solitaire or article to and
unfastening it from the dress, the several parts being arranged and used
substantially as described and illustrated.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Cheshire, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Thirtieth day of August, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.
Witness,
FRANK TYRER,
Brougham St.,
Handsworth.
JOHN CHESHIRE. (L.S.)