IMPROVEMENTS IN BOLITAIRES, STUDS AND OTHER LIKE ARTICLES to be as follows:
Year: 1885

page_text: I JOHN CLAYTON MEWBURN, of 169 Fleet Street, in the City of London, Fellow
of the Institute of Patent Agents do hereby declare the nature of my invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BOLITAIRES, STUDS AND OTHER LIKE ARTICLES to be as
follows:-
"
The object of this invention is to make solitaires for wristbands, studs for shirt
fronts and other like articles so that they can be easily inserted and withdrawn
and at the same time are quite secure when in place.
The characteristic feature of the improved solitaire, stud or other like article is
the combination of two spring flaps or wings constituting the back plate and of a
shank of T form at its rear end to which the spring flaps are jointed without any
pin connection; the spring flaps in their normal position are at right angles to the
shank but they can be moved into line with the shank so as to form as it were a
prolongation of it. When thus in line with the shank they can be easily passed
through the slit or stud-hole of the garment; then by returning them to their
normal position they constitute the back plate and retain the solitaire or stud in
place.
In carrying out the invention the shank with T-formed rear end is soldered or
otherwise fixed to the back of the solitaire or stud head. The shank has shoulders
or side flanges within which are lodged the springs for the flaps or wings and
bearing plates for these springs, both the springs and the plates are fixed to the
shank by a rivet. On each arm of the T of the shank is hooked one of the two
flaps which is formed with a slot or opening to receive the arm. When the flaps
are in line with the shank the springs retain them by pressing against them with
their inner face; and when the flaps are in their normal position the springs again
hold them by pressing against the inner faces of the slots.

page_text: I JOHN CLAYTON MEWBURN, of 169 Fleet Street, in the City of London, Fellow
of the Institute of Patent Agents do hereby declare the nature of this invention
(a communication from abroad by La Société H. et G. Rouzé fils of 1 Boulevard
St Denis, Paris, France,) and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
:-
The object of this invention is to make solitaires for wristbands, studs for shirt
fronts, and other like articles so that they can be easily inserted and withdrawn
while at the same time they are quite secure when in place.
The characteristic feature of the improved solitaire, stud or other like article is
the combination of two spring flaps or wings constituting the back plate and of a
shank of T-form at its rear or inner end to which the spring flaps are jointed
without any pin connection; the spring flaps in their normal position are at right
angles to the shank but they can be moved into line with the shank so as to form
as it were a prolongation of it. When thus in line with the shank they can be
easily passed through the slit or stud hole of the garment; then by returning them
to their normal position they constitute the back plate and retain the solitaire or
stud in place.
In carrying out the invention the shank with T-formed rear end is soldered or
otherwise fixed to the back of the solitaire or stud head. The shank has shoulders
or side flanges within which are lodged the springs for the flaps or wings and
bearing plates for these springs; both the springs and the plates are fixed to the
shank by a rivet. On each arm of the T of the shank is hooked one of the two
flaps which is formed with a slot or opening to receive the arm.
When the flaps
are in line with the shank the springs retain them by pressing against them with
their inner face; and when the flaps are in their normal position the springs again
hold them by pressing against the inner faces of the slots.
The annexed drawings illustrate the invention, the figures being drawn about
double the natural size. Figure 1 is a mid section and Figure 2 a plan of the
inner side of a solitaire with the two flaps or wings in their normal position.
Figure 3 is a side view and Figure 4a plan of the same solitaire with the flaps or
wings moved into a position in line with the shank. Figure 5 is a side view,
Figure 6 a vertical section and Figure 9 a horizontal section of the shank.
Figure 7 is a face view of one of the flaps. Figure 8 represents one of the
springs.
a is the solitaire head and 6 the shank fixed thereto. The rear or inner end.c of
this shank forms a T, and the shank has shoulders or side flanges d, d within
which are lodged the springs g, g and bearing plates f,f for these springs. On each
arm of the T head c of the shank is hooked one of the flaps h which is formed
with a slot i (see Figure 7) to receive the arm. In the position shown in Figure 3
the springs g, g retain the flaps by pressing against them with their inner face,
while in the position shown in Figure 1 the springs retain the flaps by pressing
against the inner faces of the slots i. The springs g, g with their bearing plates f,f
are rigidly fixed to the sides of the shank 6 between the shoulders or flanges d, d
by means of a rivet j.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to
me, I declare that what I claim is
1. Constructing solitaires, studs and other like articles substantially as herein-
before described and represented in the annexed drawings.
2. In a solitaire, stud or other like article, a shank with a T shaped rear or
inner end for holding without any connecting pin two flaps or wings that constitute
the back plate and with shoulders or side flanges to receive the springs for said
flaps and bearing plates for the springs substantially as described and shewn.
3. In a solitaire, stud or other like article the combination with the shank
having a T shaped inner end of two flaps or wings constituting the back plate of
the solitaire or article, these flaps or wings taking on to the arms of the T and
being held or retained, without any pin connection, whether in their normal
position or in a position in line with the shank by means of springs rivetted to
the sides of the shank substantially as described and shown.
Dated this first day of January 1886