Improvements in Flexible Wire Colls or Metallic Strips for Bodice Busks and the like, and for Bracelets, Bangles, Finger and other Rings, and other Articles of Jewellery, and for other purposes.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 12th July, 1892
Complete Specification Left, 12th Apr., 1893-Accepted, 13th May, 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Flexible Wire Colls or Metallic Strips for Bodice
Busks and the like, and for Bracelets, Bangles, Finger and other
Rings, and other Articles of Jewellery, and for other purposes.
I, ENOCH JAMES TREVITT, of 29, Augusta Street, Birmingham, Warwick-
shire, Manufacturing Jeweller and Silversmith, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention to be as follows
This invention consists in the hereindescribed improvements in flexible wire coils
or metallic strips for busks used for strengthening and shaping bodices, corsets,
jackets and the like worn by women, also for bracelets, bangles, finger and other
rings, necklets and other articles of jewellery and for watch and other guards
waist bands and other bands for wear and for serviette rings and for the spring
bottoms of bedsteads spring mattresses and chairs and other articles of furniture.
In making a flexible wire coil or flexible metallic strip according to my invention
I first make single coiled wire springs (preferably round coils) of any convenient
length by coiling the wire around a spit. I then take two of these coiled wire
springs one of which has been wound as a right hand coil and the other as a left
hand coil and these two coiled springs I attach together by placing them side by
side and forcing the coils of one wire spring between the coils of the other spring.
I then thread a strip or thin flat spring steel or other suitable substance through
the coils of the two springs and pass the springs and strip through a pair of rolls
which flatten the springs and press them down on to and around the strip or strand
thereby forming a very flexible metallic strip which if required is cut into lengths
for use as bodice busks, corset busks or the like, or for the various purposes above
mentioned, the compound strip being either straight or bent as may be required for
the particular article for which it is used. Each end of the compound strip formed
as above described is or may be enclosed in a metallic cap which is pressed on to
and around the compound strip so as to keep the inner strip in place in the coiled
wires. When desired these end caps may form the clasps or other means for
securing the ends together as in a bracelet waistband or other band. In some cases
where the coils are not required to stretch above a certain amount I may instead
of using the metal strip place a cord or a strip of any flexible unstretchable
substance in the coils and secured to the ends of the same."
By employing a right hand and a left hand coil together as above described
the flexible metallic strip or compound coil when rolled has no tendency to buckle
as would be the case if both coils were the same händ.
I may similarly make the flexible strip or compound coil of more than two
coiled springs, one or more of the coils employed being of the opposite hand to the
others. The said wire coils can either be parallel that is of the same size from end
to end or they may be taper or of other form and the coils may either be round square
or of other form.
For some articles and particularly for bracelets and other bands for wear I may
dispense with the use of the said strip or cord inside the coils and use the said coils
alone.
Dated this 11th day of July 1892.
LOV2.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Flexible Wire Colls or Metallic Strips for Bodice
Busks and the like, and for Bracelets, Bangles, Finger and other
Rings, and other Articles of Jewellery, and for other purposes.
I, ENOCH JAMES TREVITT, of 29, Augusta Street, Birmingham, Warwick-
shire, Manufacturing Jeweller and Silversmith, do hereby declare the nature of
this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention consists in the hereindescribed improvements in flexible wire coils
or metallic strips for busks used for strengthening and shaping bodices, corsets,
jackets and the like worn by women, also for bracelets, bangles, finger and other
rings, necklets and other articles of jewellery and for watch and other guards
waist bands and other bands for wear and for serviette rings and for the spring
bottoms of bedsteads spring mattresses and chairs and other articles of furniture.
I will describe my invention by referring to the accompanying drawings on
which
Fig. 1 shews part of a flexible metallic strip made according to this invention ;
Fig. 2 shews another form of my invention;
Fig. 3 shews another form of my invention and Fig. 4 shews another form of
the same;
Fig. 5 shews a ladies' waist belt made of three of the strips such as shewn
in Fig. 4, and
Fig. 6 shews another form of ladies' waist belt made of six of the strips such as
shewn in Fig. 4 plaited together.
The same letters of reference indicate the same or corresponding parts in all the
figures.
In making a flexible wire coil or flexible metallic strip according to my
invention I first make single coiled wire springs (preferably round coils) of any
convenient length by coiling the wire around a spit. I then take two of these
coiled wire springs one of which has been wound as a right hand coil and the other
as a left hand coil and these two coiled springs I attach together by placing them
side by side and forcing the coils of one wire spring between the coils of the other
spring. I then thread a strip of thin flat spring steel or other suitable substance
through the coils of the two springs and pass the springs and strip through a pair
of rolls which flatten the springs and press them down on to and around the strip
or strand thereby forming a very flexible metallic strip which will have the
appearance shewn by Fig. 1 where the two wire coils are marked respectively A
and B and the said strip of thin flat spring steel or other suitable substance is
marked C. If required the compound strip thus formed is cut into lengths for
use as bodice busks, corset busks or the like, or for the various purposes above
mentioned, the compound strip being either straight or bent into a curve or hoop
or other form as may be required for the particular article for which it is used.
Each end of the compound strip formed as above described or each end of each of
the lengths into which the said strip is cut, is or may be enclosed in a metallic cap
such as D (Fig. 1) which is pressed on to and around the compound strip go as to
keep the inner strip C in place in the coiled wires A and B. When desired these
end caps D may form the clasps or other means for securing the ends together as
in a bracelet waist band or other band. By employing a right hand and a left
hand coil together as above described the flexible metallic strip or compound coil
when rolled has no tendency to buckle as would be the case if both coils were the
game hand.
By using a thin flat spring steel or other suitable strip or stand C in the coils A
and B as above described, the coils are prevented from coming apart sideways as
they might do if the inner strip C were not so used. When the strip C is made of

page_text: metal as shewn in Fig. 1 or any other unstretchable substance, the compound strip
will not stretch; but if it is desired for the compound strip to stretch then the
strip C is made of elastic or other suitable stretchable substance; or where the
compound coil is not required to stretch above a certain amount I may place a cord
or strip of any flexible unstretchable substance in the coils and secure the ends to
the ends of the same the said inner cord or strip being of such a length as to prevent
the coils being stretched too far.
I may similarly make a flexible strip or compound coil of more than two of the
said flattened coiled springs one or more of the coils employed being of the opposite
hand to the others. Fig. 2 shews a flexible strip or compound coil of this kind
made of three wire coils marked respectively A B and E of which the coils B
and E are left hand and the coil A is a right hand coil. These coils are wound a
coarser pitch than those shewn in Fig. 1 and they are prevented from coming apart
sideways by the two strips CC made of wire, elastic cord, or other suitable flexible
material. The flexible metallic strip or compound coil shewn by Fig. 3 is also
formed of the three coils A B and E but in this case the flexible strips C¹ C'
consist of small coiled wires threaded into the coils A B and E so as to prevent
them coming apart as above described and also permit of their stretching end wise..
It will be evident that the said wire coils of which the compound flexible metallic
strip or compound coil is formed can either be parallel that is of the same size from
end to end as shewn or they may be taper or of other form and the coils may either
be round square or of other form by coiling the wire upon a spit or mandrel of the
corresponding shape.
For some articles and particularly for bracelets and other bands for wear I may
dispense with the use of the said strips or cords C or C' C³ inside the coils and use
the said coils alone. A compound coil of this kind is shewn by Fig. 4 the two
coils A and B being pulled apart at one end so as the better to shew the formation
of the same. In order to prevent the two coils being pulled apart the ends of the wire
coils have to be soldered together or otherwise secured together as by the metallic
D above described.
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Two or more of the compound flexible metallic strips such as shewn by Fig. 4
or by Fig. 1 can be used in a waist belt or other band as shewn for instance by
Fig. 5, where three of the compound coils are used and secured together by flat
metallic bands F G and H which encircle the same; or these bands may be
dispensed with and the flexible metallic strips or compound coils be fixed together
by soldering or by other means.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The hereindescribed improved flexible compound wire coils or metallic strips
for bodice busks and the like, and for the other purposes herein set forth, each
made of two or more right hand and left hand flattened coiled wire springs engaged
together by the right hand coils having been forced sideways into and between the
left hand coils with or without a thin flat steel or other flexible strip or strand
threaded in the pair of coils or in each pair of coils substantially as hereinbefore
set forth.
2. The improved flexible compound wire coil or metallic strip for a bodice busk
or the like or for the other purposes herein set forth made of a flattened right hand
wire coil and a flattened left hand wire coil engaged together as set forth and
having a thin flat steel or other flat flexible strip threaded through the two coils
the ends being protected with metal caps all substantially as hereinbefore described
and illustrated by Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings.
3. Making flexible compound wire coils or metallic strips of the kind herein-
before described and shewn by Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawings for bodice
busks and the like and for the other purposes herein set forth, by forcing together
sideways a right hand wire coil and a left hand wire coil so that the coils engage

page_text: together and then threading a flat steel or other flexible strip through the two coils
and finally flattening the coils down upon the said strip by rolling all substantially
as herein before described with reference to Fig: 1 of the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 11th day of April 1893.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,.
Agent for the Applicant.