Improvements in Fastenings for Brooches, Medals, and the like.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 18th Apr., 1890-Accepted, 7th June, 1890
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fastenings for Brooches, Medals, and the like.
We WILLIAM JOHN NIEHUS and EDWARD CHARLES NIEHUS both of Bridge
Street in the City and County of Bristol Manufacturers do hereby declare the nature
of this invention and in what manner the saine is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
Our invention is designed to produce an improved fastening for brooches and like
articles to which it may he applicable and is intended to obviate the necessity of using
hinges, joints or eyes for attaching the pin to the back of the brooch or other
article.
By our invention the pin also is made in one piece and without any attachment
thereto by soldering, welding or like means.
In carrying out our invention we secure in a suitable position on the back of the
brooch or other article a block or pillar, say of metal of convenient shape and formed
in one or more parts, and in this we pierce or drill a vertical hole to receive the bent
end of the pin or bar, we also pierce or drill a second smaller hole at right angles to
the first hole and intersecting the same at a convenient distance from the centre
thereof.
The bent end or base of the pin or bar is cut or grooved to allow of the passage of
a small pin inserted into this second and horizontal hole so as to form a stop and
retain the base of the pin proper in the hole or hollow of the block or pillar whilst it
permits of its being turned or revolved on its shorter or bent arm for a certain
distance so as to enable the brooch pin being passed through the clothing or the like
on which the brooch, medal or other article is to be secured.
Or we may as a modification of our invention after piercing the block or pillar at
or near the centre in a vertical direction cut away or slot the lower portion of the
pillar or block so as to form a race in which a return or foot on the shorter or bent
arm of the pin may work and in this modification we pierce the second hole to
receive the stopping pin also in a vertical direction and parallel to the main or central
hole and at a convenient distance therefrom.
The pin of the brooch after being bent to form the short arm has the end of this
arm again bent to form a foot or return in the opposite direction. When the short
arm of the pin carrying the foot has been slipped into the slot the small vertical
stopping pin is inserted and the pin thus secured may be revolved on the short arm
as on a pivot for about a quarter of a circle and sufficiently to allow of the opposite
end of this brooch pin being when disengaged from the book or other device passed
through the clothing or the like on which the brooch, medal or other article is to be
secured.
Referring to the accompanying sheet of drawings and to the figures and letters of
reference thereon
Figure 1 is a side sectional elevation and
Figure 2 a front sectional elevation of our invention.
Figure 3 shows the modification before described.
The drawings for convenience sake are on an enlarged scale.
In Figures 1 and 2 the pin of the brooch A is shown with its longer arm cut away
for convenience, B is the block or pillar, C the central hole to receive the short
arm A', and D is the small securing pin passing through a portion of the groove F
cut in the short arm A' of the pin A. The block or pillar B is secure to the brooch
plate or back G in any convenient and well known manner and the opposite end of
the long arm of the pin A engages with the usual hook or other device fixed in a
suitable position in the plate or back.
In Figure 3 A is the long arm of the brooch pin cut away for convenience, B the

page_text: short arm having a bent end or foot C at right angles to B; D is the block cut away
to form a central pillar E in which is pierced a hole F; this hole is cut out towards
one side as at G and undercut or slotted at H so as to form a race for foot (to work
in, I is the stopping pin; 'the block D is secured as before to the plate or back of the
brooch J
We may if found desirable form the block or pillar in two or more parts suitably
cut and slotted, and so that when secured together by any well known means they
may embrace and restrain the short arm of the pin proper whilst allowing sufficient
movement of the said short arm on its axis to permit of its engaging with and dis-
engaging from the hook or device which receives the pointed end of the said pin
when in position and in this case the small restraining or stopping pin may be'
dispensed with.
It will be seen that a variety of methods of forming the block or pillar and
restraining and retaining in position the short arm of the brooch pin or fastener may
be employed without departing from the spirit of our invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion and in, what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is:
1. In fastenings for brooches, medals or other like articles the use or employment
of a bar or pin to secure the said brooch or other article to the garment or material
constructed of one continuous piece of wire or metal without attachment of any kind
substantially as herein described.
2. In fastenings for brooches, medals and the like securing a loose bent pin to a
block or pillar formed in one or more parts by means of a short arm entering a
vertical hole in the said block or pillar and being free to partially revolve therein
until stopped by a transverse pin or equivalent mechanical device substantially as
herein before described.
3. In fastenings for brooches, medals and the like the loose fastening pin such as A
having a short arm B carrying a foot such as C working in a slot cut such as G, H,
its action being restrained by a vertical pin I or equivalent mechanical device whilst
free to partially revolve therein substantially as hereinbefore described and as
illustrated by Fig. 3 of the accompanying drawing.
4. The fastening for brooches, medals or other like articles substantially as herein
described and illustrated by the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 15th day of April 1890.
POPPLEWELL & Co.,
17 & 18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicants.