An Improvement applicable to Brooches, Bracelets, Breast Pins. Ear Rings, and like Articles of Jewelry.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Oct., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 12th July, 1895-Accepted, 17th Aug.,
1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement applicable to Brooches, Bracelets, Breast Pins.
Ear Rings, and like Articles of Jewelry.
I, EDWARD HULME, Junior, of 26 St. Ann's Square, Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Tailor, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
My invention relates to an improvement in brooches, bracelets, breast pins,
earrings, and like articles of jewelry, and the improvement consists chiefly in
combining one (or more than one) shirt stud collar or sleeve stud, or solitaire with a
brooch, bracelet, breast pin, earring or other like article of jewelry in such manner
as to form a complete brooch or other article when the stud is in position and also
to permit the stud to be detached and used separately when required.
To carry this improvement into effect I make the brooch or other article in two
or more parts binged or otherwise suitably connected together say at one end or in
more than one place if desired and at the other end fastened together by means of
a screw coupling, clasp, clip or other convenient device. For example, in the case
of a brooch the coupling may be made by pivoting the brooch pin to a screwed
stud which screws into the two parts and so unites them firmly. The two parts
are made with stationary or adjustable jaws, spring clips or recesses which engage
the shank of the stud and hold it firmly in position when the parts are closed, and
yet allow the stud to be detached and used separately by simply unfastening the
parts.
Dated this 13th day of October 1894
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
Agents for Applicant.
An Improvement applicable to Brooches, Bracelets, Breast Pins,
Ear Rings, and like Articles of Jewelry.
I, EDWARD HULME, Junior, of 26 St. Ann's Square, Manchester, in the
County of Lancaster, Tailor, 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 :-
My invention relates to an improvement in brooches, bracelets, breast pins, ear
rings, and like articles of jewelry, and the improvement consists chiefly in combining
one (or more than one) shirt stud, collar or sleeve stud, or solitaire with a brooch,
bracelet, breast pin, ear ring or other like article of jewelry in such manner as to
form a complete brooch or other article when the stud is in position and also to
permit the stud to be detached and used separately when required.
To carry this improvement into effect I make the brooch or other article in two or
more parts hinged or otherwise suitably connected together say at one end or in
more than one place if desired and at the other end fastened together by means of
a screw coupling, clasp, clip, or other convenient device. For example, in the case

page_text: of a brooch the coupling may be made by pivoting the brooch pin to a screwed
stud which screws into the two parts and so unites them firmly. The two parts
are made with stationary or adjustable jaws, spring clips or recesses which engage
the shank of the stud and hold it firmly in position when the parts are closed, and
yet allow the stud to be detached, and used separately by simply unfastening the
parts.
And in order that my invention may be fully understood and readily carried into
effect I will describe the accompanying sheet of drawings reference being had to
the figures and letters marked thereon.
Figure 1 is a front elevation, Fig. 2 a plan and Fig. 3 a transverse vertical
section of a combined stud and brooch made according to my invention.
Fig. 4 is a detail showing part of the brooch pin detached and Fig. 5 is a view
showing the brooch open.
Figures 6 and 7 are two views of another brooch in this case combined with three
studs according to my invention.
Referring first to the construction of brooch illustrated by Figs. 1 to 5 ;-in
which a a designate the two parts of the brooch which are hinged together at one
end by a pin band at the other end are fastened together by a screwed stud c to
the head of which the brooch pin d is pivoted. The two parts a a are curved or
shaped at mid-length to form a recess a¹ to receive the shank or pillar of the stud
or solitaire e which is put in position while the parts are open as shown in Fig. 5,
and is securely fastened in place when the parts a a are closed and united by the
screwed stude of the brooch pin d as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.
In the construction illustrated by Figs. 6 and 7 the parts a a are hinged together
by a pin b and closed by a screwed stud c as before described; but instead of a single
recess they are furnished in this case with three pairs of jaws which form recesses a¹
for three studs.
It will be readily understood that the brooch may be combined with any suitable
number of studs and also that instead of the modes of binging and fastening the
parts of the brooch together any convenient form of coupling may be employed.
Again although I have only illustrated the application of my invention to a brooch
it will be perfectly obvious to any practical jeweller that studs can be similarly
combined with bracelets, breast pins, ear rings, and other like articles of jewelry.
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
The herein described improvement which consists essentially in the combination
with a brooch, bracelet, breast pin, ear ring or like article of jewelry, of a stud or
studs substantially in the manner herein set forth.
Dated this 11th-day of July 1895.
H. B. BARLOW & GILLETT,
17 St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for Applicant.