IMPROVEMENTS IN SOLITAIRES, SLEEVE LINKS, COLLAR AND OTHER STUDS, BUTTONS, AND FASTENINGS FOR ARTICLES OF DRESS AND OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1876

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Emanuel Frederick Griffin at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 13th October 1876.
EMANUEL FREDERICK GRIFFIN, of Handsworth, in the County of Stafford, Manu-
facturer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN SOLITAIRES, SLEEVE LINKS, COLLAR AND OTHER
STUDS, BUTTONS, AND FASTENINGS FOR ARTICLES OF DRESS AND OTHER ARTICLES."
My Invention has reference to such solitaires, sleeve links, collar and other studs,
buttons, and fastenings for articles of dress and other articles, as consist of a single
dise or head having at its back a central stem; and my said Invention consists in
constructing and applying to such solitaires and fastenings mechanism of the kind
herein-after described for connecting the said solitaires and fastenings to and dis-
connecting them from the sleeve, cuff, collar, glove, or other article.
I will describe my Invention as applied to a solitaire. I make on the back or
inner face of the disc or head of the solitaire a shank or stem, which may either be
flat, elliptical, or other figure in cross section; this stem passes nearly across the
disc or head, and to the top of the said stem a plate is hinged or jointed. This
hinged plate may either be square, angular, circular, or of other figure in plan, and
preferably of the same breadth or diameter as the stem. The said plate is hinged at its
middle to the top of the stem, the said plate having a middle knuckle which engages
between end knuckles on the top of the stem, the engaged knuckles being hinged
together by a joint pin passed through them and rivetted. The plate so hinged to
the stem is capable of either being turned or closed upon the side of the stem, so
that a part lies parallel thereto, or of being opened from and placed at right angles
to the said stem. When the plate is in its closed position the lower half lies against
the side of the stem, while the upper half projects beyond the stem, the plate
forming in this position a prolongation of the stem, and when the plate is in its
open position it constitutes as it were a crossing bar or T head to the stem.
In order to prevent the accidental opening of the hinged plate when the stem of
the solitaire is being passed through the holes in the cuff, sleeve, or other article of
dress, I make near the base of the stem and on each side thereof a straight or
curved shoulder, according as the plate has a straight or curved edge; these
shoulders have a thickness equal to the thickness of the hinged plate, so that when
the said plate is turned or closed upon one or other side of the stem the lower edge
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page_text: of the said plate abuts or bears closely against the shoulder at the said side. The
plate is thus flush with the stem, and hence no projecting part is presented to the
sleeve or other article of dress. In using the solitaire the hinged plate is closed
upon the stem, and the closed plate and stem are passed through the holes in the
sleeve or cuff, and when the lower edge of the hinged plate has passed beyond the
inner side of the sleeve or cuff, it is opened out or turned at right angles to the stem
so as to cross the holes in the sleeve or cuff. The solitaire is thereby very securely
fastened to the sleeve or cuff; the greater the outward pull upon the crossing plate
the tighter will the solitaire be held in its place. To disconnect the solitaire the
hinged plate is closed upon the side of the stem, when the said plate and stem may
be drawn through the holes in the cuff or sleeve and the solitaire removed.