IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS, ESPECIALLY FOR OR APPLICABLE TO WEARING APPAREL AND PURPOSES WHERE A SPRING CONNEXION OR ADJUST. MENT IS DESIRABLE IN ARRANGING FOR SALE AND PACKING FASTENINGS AND AND IN ORNAMENTS FOR PERSONAL WEAR
Year: 1858

page_text: both of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturers, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS, ESPECIALLY FOR OR APPLICABLE
TO WEARING APPAREL AND PURPOSES WHERE A SPRING CONNEXION OR ADJUST.
MENT IS DESIRABLE IN ARRANGING FOR SALE AND PACKING FASTENINGS AND
AND IN ORNAMENTS FOR PERSONAL WEAR."
Sealed the 27th August 1858, and dated the 1st March 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James George Newey and
William Millars Newey at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 1st March 1858.
We, JAMES GEORGE NEWEY and WILLIAM MILLARS NEWEY, both of
Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturers, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS, ESPECIALLY
FOR OR APPLICABLE TO WEARING APPAREL AND PURPOSES WHERE A SPRING CON-
NEXION OR ADJUSTMENT IS DESIRABLE IN ARRANGING FOR SALE AND PACKING
FASTENINGS AND ORNAMENTS, AND IN ORNAMENTS FOR PERSONAL WEAR," to b
follows:-
We employ a loop or bar, either straight or curved, having a needle hole or
orifice at each end instead of the ordinary eye to receive the hook in books
and eyes, whereby a closer and more secure fastening is obtained. We apply
such loops or bars in forming bracelets, chains, and other ornaments for
Price 8d 1

page_text: personal wear, either alone or combined with beads or other adornments, which
may be threaded on or otherwise attached to elastic or other substance. We
also apply wood, horn, or composition stamped, impressed, or marked with
suitable devices, alone or combined with our improved loops or bars and beads
and other adornments, in forming bracelets, chains, and other ornaments
We employ various forms of spring catches, clasps, or cotters for securing
bracelets and for various other purposes, the connection being so arranged
as to render the article to which it is applied secure from a sudden snatch,
and each portion of the clasp or connexion is formed of one piece of metal,
the projections and springs being portions of the Lody of the clasp or con-
nection; we manufacture such spring attachments & clasps where desirable
of malleable iron. In respect of arranging for sale and packing fastenings
and ornaments, we propose to pack hooks and eyes or loops in envelopes,
each card of hooks and eyes or loops being attached to the back of envelopes
or put in loose; or the hooks and eyes or loops sewn on or attached to the
envelope itself; or the hooks and eyes or loops, or either separately, being
put into envelopes instead of being carded. We also propose to use sheet
lead, composition, or tin foil in packing up hooks and eyes or loops, and
trinkets or ornaments made into tubes or otherwise. And we also propose
to pack up hooks and eyes or loops in paper or other tubes fitting into other
tubes made large enough to slip over.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said James George Newey and William Millars Newey in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 1st September 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JAMES
GEORGE NEWBY and WILLIAM MILLARS NEWEY, both of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Manufacturers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the First day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-first year of Eer
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto us, the
said James George Newey and William Millars Newey, Her special licence
that we, the said James George Newey and William Millars Newey, our
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as we, the said James
George Newey and William Millars Newey, our executors, administrators,
and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time

page_text: 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 FASTENINGS, ESPECIALLY FOR OR APPLICABLE TO
WEARING APPAREL AND PURPOSES WHERE A SPRING CONNEXION OR ADJUSTMENT
IS DESIRABLE IN ARRANGING FOR SALE AND PACKING FASTENINGS AND ON AMENTS,
AND IN ORNAMENTS FOR PERSONAL WEAR," upon the condition (amongst others)
that we, the said James George Newey and William Millars Newey, our
executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under our or
their hands and seals, or under the hand and seal of one of us or them,
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 we, the said James George Newey and William
Millars Newey, 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 following statement thereof, reference being had to
the accompanying Drawings, that is to say :-
Our Invention consists,―
First, in the employment, as a substitute for the ordinary eye used in hooks
and eyes, of a (metallic) loop or bar, either straight or curved, having a needle
hole or orifice at each end, by means of which a closer and more secure
connection is obtained on inserting the hook than by the ordinary eye now
in use.
Secondly, in the application of such loops or bars in the manufacture of
bracelets, chains, and other ornaments for personal wear, alone or combined
with beads or other adornments, and threaded on or otherwise attached to
elastic or other substances, such, for example, as very fine covered wire.
Thirdly, in the application to the manufacture of bracelets, chains, and
other ornaments for personal wear of wood stamped or impressed with suit-
able devices, either alone or combined with our aforesaid improved loops or
bars, and also combined or not with beads and other adornments. In carrying
this part of our Invention into effect, the wood is stamped or impressed with
the devices at the end of the grain.
Fourthly, in improved forms or arrangements of spring catches, clasps, or
connections for securing bracelets and for other purposes of attachment, so
arranged as to render the article to which they may be applied secure from
a sudden snatch or pull, each part or side of the clasp or fastening being.

page_text: formed of one piece of metal, and the projections and springs being portions
of the body of the fastening. We manufacture such attachments, where
desirable, of malleable iron.
Fifthly, in certain improved arrangements for packing fastenings and
ornaments, and arranging them for sale. For this purpose we propose to
form cards for hooks and eyes or loops in the shape of envelopes, folding
over so as to preserve the contents from the air, or to form envelopes in such
manner as to hold hooks and eyes or loops instead of carding them, or to
attach the cards of hooks and eyes or loops to the backs of envelopes, with
flaps folding over to preserve them from air, or to put them in loose, or to
sew or attach the hooks and eyes or loops to envelopes.
We further propose to employ for packing up hooks and eyes, or loops, and
trinkets or ornaments, tubes of paper, pasteboard, sheet lead, composition, or
tinfoil, or other thin metal or suitable material of round, square, or other
form, so contrived as to fit into other tubes made large enough to pass or
slip over, and leaving the ends ornamented or otherwise. In carrying this
part of our Invention into effect, elastics are sometimes attached inside to
keep the inner portion covered and in its place.
The accompanying Drawings more fully exemplify our Invention, and the
mode in which it may be carried into effect.
Figures 1 and 1ª are plans of one (the simplest) form of our improved
loop or bar a (serving as a substitute for the ordinary eye) formed with needle
holes or orifices b, b, for attaching it to the garment or article to which it is
to be applied. The hook (taking over it, as shewn in dotted lines, Figure 1',)
is more closely and securely held by this loop than by the common eye.
Figures 2 and 3 are modifications; Figure 4, front view; and Figure 5 plan
of a modification, in which the part a is beut out of the horizontal. Figure 6
is a modification, in which the bar or wire a is turned under at b, b, instead of
over.
Figure 7 is a form of loop adapted for chains or bracelets. This may be
modified as to the number of curves and shape of bar.
Figures 8, 9, 9, and 10 are top views, and Figure 10" end view of
Figure 10, and Figure 11 end view, shewing various arrangements of our
improved loop a, a, combined with beads b, b, to form bracelets, chains, or
other ornaments.
Figure 12 is a plan, and 12ª section, of a portion of an ornament made of
wood impressed with a device according to the third head of the Specification,
and having a gem or gemsj set in it. Of course there may be a great variety
of modes of carrying into effect this part of the Invention.

page_text: Figure 13 is a plan, and Figure 13ª end view, of an improved spring catch,
hook, or fastening constructed according to our Invention, and Figure 13º,
view of the eye or loop (made of wire or sheet metal) to take in or catch the
hook; one or both sides may be covered over and the under parts concealed
when used for glove fastenings, bracelets, &c.
Figure 14 is a plan, and Figure 14ª edge view, of one side or part, and
Figure 14 plan, and Figure 14° edge view, of the other side or part, of
another form of improved clasp made of one piece of sheet metal. The
arrangement of the parts is clearly such that when connected they cannot be
pulled asunder by a snatch or drag.
Figure 15 is a plan, and Figure 15ª end view, of one side or part, and
Figure 15b plan, and Figure 15° section through A, B, of the other side or
part, of a modification of the preceding connection. Here hooks a, a, take
into curved slots b, b. The side Figure 15, in putting the parts together
(Fig. 15), is turned to the side Figure 15%, working for the purpose on a
projection or stud, made of the same piece.
Figure 16 and 16b are plans, 16ª edge view, 16° section, and 16d view as
closed, of another modification of clasp. We do not restrict ourselves to the
particular patterns of springs shewn, provided the general character of this
part of our Invention be retained.
Figure 17 is a section of one form of case or tube for containing hooks and
loops or eyes, consisting of two separate compartments; «, for hooks, and b,
for loops, and having two lids closing over, as shown; or the case may be
without lids, and the ends made to fold or close over.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
'manner the same may be performed, we declare that we claim,-
First, the employment of the loop or bar, herein-before described and
exemplified in the Drawings, as a substitute for the ordinary eye in hooks
and eyes.
Second, the employment of the aforesaid loop or bar in the manufacture of
bracelets and other ornaments for personal wear.
Third, the application, in the manufacture of bracelets and other ornaments
for personal wear of wood stamped or impressed with devices, alone or
combined with the herein-before referred to loops or bars and beads and other
adornments.
Fourth, the manufacture of fastenings, arranged as described under the
fourth head of the Specification, having springs and projections of a piece
with the body of the fastening, and the mode of arranging and constructing

page_text: connections generally in the manner described under the said fourth head of
our Specification.
Fifth, the improved methods of packing fastenings and ornaments, and
arranging them for sale, as described under the fifth head of this our
Specification.
In witness whereof, I, the said James George Newey, for myself and on
behalf of the said William Millars Newey, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of August, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
Witness,
C. H. LANGMEAD,"
Fleet Street.
JAMES GEORGE NEWEY. (L.S.)