AN IMPROVED WATCH-CASECASE PENDANT, APPLICABLE ALSO TO OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Howard, of 23, Stanley Terrace, Deptford,
in the County of Kent, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED WATCH-CASE
Sealed the 10th May 1864, and dated the 23rd November 1863.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Howard at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 23rd
November 1863.
I, CHARLES HOWARD, of 23, Stanley Terrace, Deptford, in the County of
Kent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVED
WATCH-CASE PENDANT, APPLICABLE ALSO TO OTHER ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
In my Invention the principle I claim is the entire abolition of the screw or
pin which connects the bow and pendant, and the substitution of a solid bow
revolving or fixed as may be required and as is hereafter described.
A watch-case pendant is composed of two parts, the pendant proper soldered
to the case, and the bow which is connected to such pendant for the purpose of
suspension by chain; guard, or otherwise. These two parts are at present
united by a slight steel screw or pin. When two things strong in themselves
are joined by another weak and brittle, the whole becomes weak and insecure ;
and as this local weakness has been the cause of the loss of their watches to
many owners (the bows having being easily twisted from the pendants by
snapping the screw or pin), to prevent these losses is the object of my pro-
posed Patent, by superseding altogether the necessity for any screw or pin

page_text: and creating uniform strength where partial weakness now exists, by making
a solid bow of perfect and equal strength in all its parts its own unaided
connection between watch and chain or guard. To do this I form my pendant
originally with a hole or aperture through it sufficiently large for the intro-
duction of a bow of the size required. If the case be not and is not to. be
secret sprung, and a revolving bow be required, the operation is completed
when the bow is inserted through the pendant, shaped and soldered. If a
fixed bow is needed, the bow and pendant must both be tapped and screwed
together before being so shaped and soldered. If the operation of secret
springing is to be performed, the bow, whether revolving or fixed, must be
soldered after the springer has adjusted his push pin to the bow instead of. to
the screw. or pin as heretofore. If the pendant belong to an old case and is
required to be adapted to this Patent, the present screw hole or pin hole has
inerely to be enlarged to the size of the bow wire, and the process completed
a's before. If the old watch case has been secret sprung it will be necessary
before soldering the bow to send it to the springer for readjustment.
This Invention for the pendants of all watches, chronometers, and lockets
of whatsoever, material made, either for those already made or for those which
may be altered from their present insecure state to the safety principle herein
described, or for the watches, chronometers, and lockets of future manufacture,
I claim with the sole and peculiar use and adoption of the principle for myself
and the agents I may appoint.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles Howard in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
21st May 1864.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
HOWARD, of 23, Stanley Terrace, Deptford, in the County of Kent, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of November, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto me, the said Charles Howard, Her special licence that I, the said
Charles Howard, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such. others
as I, the said Charles Howard, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no. others, from time to time and at all

page_text: 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 "Ax
IMPROVED WATCH-CASE PENDANT, APPLICABLE ALSO TO OTHER ARTICLES," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Charles Howard, 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 immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
1. NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles Howard, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
In my Invention the principle I claim is the entire abolition of the screw
or pin which connects the bow and pendant and the substitution of a solid
bow revolving or fixed as may be required and as is hereafter described.
purpose
A watch-case pendant is composed of two parts, the pendant proper soldered
to the case, and the bow which is connected to such pendant for the
of suspension by chain, guard, or otherwise. These two parts are at present
united by a slight steel screw or pin. When two things strong in themselves
are joined by another weak and brittle, the whole becomes weak and insecure ;
and as this local weakness has been the cause of the loss of their watches to
many owners (the bows having been easily twisted from the pendants by
snapping the screw or pin), to prevent these losses is the object of my pro-
posed Patent' by superseding altogether the necessity for any screw or pin and
creating uniform strength where partial weakness now exists, by making a
solid bow of perfect and equal strength in all its parts its own unaided con-
nection between watch and chain or guard. To do this I form my pendant
originally with a hole or aperture through it sufficiently large for the intro-
duction of a bow of the size required. If the case be not and is not to be
secret spring, and a revolving bow be required, the operation is completed
when the bow is inserted through the pendant, shaped and soldered. If a
fixed bow is needed the bow and pendant must both be tapped and screwed
together before being so shaped and soldered. If the operation of secret
springing is to be performed, whether revolving or fixed, the bow must be
soldered after the push pin has been adjusted to it instead of to the screw or
pin as heretofore. If the pendant belong to an old case and is required to be

page_text: adapted to this Patent, the present screw hole or pin hole has merely to be
enlarged to the size of the bow wire and the process completed as before. If
the old watch case has been secret spring it will be necessary before soldering
the bow to send it to the springer for readjustment.
This Invention I claim for the pendants of all chronometers, watches,
and lockets, of what material soever made, either for all those which
may hereafter be made, or for those which may be altered from their present
insecure state to the safety principle herein described, and I claim the sole
and peculiar use and adoption of the principle for myself and the agents whom
I may appoint.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Howard, have hereunto set
my
hand and seal, this Second day of May, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-four.
CHARLES HOWARD. (L.S.)