An Improvement in the Fastening of Brooches or other Articles of Jewellery.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Feb., 1891.
Complete Specification Left, 7th Nov., 1891-Accepted, 12th Dec., 1891
PROVISIONAL DIVIN
An Improvement in the Fastening of Brooches or other Articles of
Jewellery.
ARNOLD HASELER, trading as Haseler & Milner, 31 Tenby Street, Birmingham,
in the County of Warwick, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
1. My invention relates to a hook and spring fastening instead of the usual pin
or tong.
2. This fastening is especially made for fastening the collars of ladies dresses,
and other similar articles, as the hook and spring tend to pull the ends of the said
collars together; and there are no uncovered points when in the dress.
3. The said fastening consists of pointed hooks, or hook, turned towards the
centre of the brooch, and secured at one end of the brooch.
4. At the opposite end of the said brooch is another hook on the end of a pin or
a piece of wire also turned towards the centre of the brooch-on which is a spiral
spring, which is sunk part way in the back of the said brooch. At the end of the
pin, or wire, opposite to the hook, is a small piece of metal secured, to prevent the
spring from coming off the said pin or wire. At the bottom of the said piece of
metal are two small projections which work through a slot at the bottom of the
groove, and slide under the back of the brooch to prevent the said wire and spring
from coming out.
5. The other end of the said hook is put between a slotted piece of tube,
the slut being large enough to take the said wire or pin, but not large enough to let
the said spring pass through. A piece of wire is then put through the said slotted
piece of tube to secure the pin and spring from rising up.
6. The said brooch, or other article, is fixed to the dress as follows: The hook
with the spring attached is pressed into the dress. The brooch is then pulled to the
full extent of the spring, and then the fixed hooks or hook is pushed into the dress
also, the contraction of the spiral spring keeping the two hooks together, and so
making the said brooch secure in the dress.
7. To remove the brooch from the dress: The end of the brooch on which is the
fixed hook, or hooks, is to be pulled to the full extent of the spring, and thus
releasing it from the dress at that end. The other end hook is then pushed out.
Dated this Sixth day of February 1891.
ARNOLD HASELER.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in the Fastening of Brooches or other Articles of
Jewellery.
I, ARNOLD HASELER, of the firm of Haseler & Milner, of 31 Tenby Street,
Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturing Jeweller, do hereby
declare the nature of my said 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 a hook and spring fastening instead of the usual pin or
tong which fastening is especially suitable for fastening the collars of ladies' dresses
and other similar articles as the hook and spring always tends to pull the ends of
the collars together thus leaving no uncovered points. The fastening consists of a
pointed hook or hooks turned towards the centre of the brooch and secured to the
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page_text: one end of the brooch. At the opposite end of the brooch another hook is provided
& is mounted upon the end of a pin or piece of wire with its point also turned
towards the centre of the brooch and on the stem of this hook a spiral spring is
placed which spring is sunk part way in the back of the said brooch. At the end
of the pin or wire opposite to the hook is a small piece of metal secured to prevent
the spring from coming off the said pin or wire; at the bottom of the said piece of
metal are two projections which work through a slot at the bottom of the groove
and slide under the back of the brooch to prevent the said wire and spring from
coming out. The other end of the hook is put between a slotted piece of tube the
slot being large enough to take the wire or pin but not large enough to let the
spring pass through. A piece of wire being put through the slotted piece of tube
then secures the pin and spring from rising up. The brooch or other article is
fixed to the dress as follows:-The hook with the spring attached is pressed into the
dress the brooch then pulled to the full extent of the spring the fixed hooks or hook
is then pushed in also the contraction of the spiral spring then keeps the two hooks
together thus making the brooch thoroughly secure in the dress. To remove the
brooch from the dress the end of the brooch upon which the hook or hooks are
fixed requires to be pulled to the full extent of the spring and thus releases
it from the dress after which. the other hook can readily be withdrawn from
the dress.
In order that my invention may be clearly understood and more easily carried
into practice I have appended hereunto a double sized sheet of drawings upon which
I have fully illustrated the nature of my said improvements.
Figure 1., shews a back view of a brooch having my improved fastening attached
thereto.
Figure 2., is a view of the back of the brooch with the stem of the hook and the
coiled spring removed.
Figure 3., is a side and end elevation of the hook stem and coiled spring detached
from the brooch.
Figure 4., is a back elevation of a modified form of brooch shewing two fixed
hooks.
Figure 5., is a side clevation of Figure 4.
Figure 6., is a back view shewing a modification in the mode of mounting the
pins upon the brooch.
Figure 7., is a side elevation of Figure 6.
In carrying my invention into effect I fix upon one end of the brooch back A the
hook pin B which has its point & turned outwards so as to readily engage with
the dress of the wearer. At the reverse end of the brooch another similar hook D
is mounted upon a stem d' which stem is inserted in the hollow a¹ formed in the
back of the brooch to receive it. Around the stem d' the expanding coiled spring E
is provided having one end bearing against the head d² of the stern d' the other end
bearing against the pin a' which secures the stem d¹ in position at the one end the
other end d² of the stem being retained in position by the head which enters the
slot which head is inserted in the slot as shown by dotted lines in Figure 2 being
afterwards turned round until in position shewn by Figure 1 where it is secured at
the other end by the pin a² as before described.
In place of only having one fixed hook pin BI may have two as shewn in
Figure 4 and in place of mounting the hooks and spring in a back as shewn in
Figures 1 to 5 I may fix the one hook pin B upon the tube F as seen in Figures 6
and 7 the stem spring of the sliding hook D being in that case mounted within the
tube and secured in position by the tube itself at the one end f₁ and by the pin f
at the other or reverse end.
It will be seen that the particular formation of the hooks render the attachment
of the brooch to the collar easy in-as-much as the sliding hook D has only to be
hooked into the one side of the brooch drawn in a direction to compress the spring
when the fixed hook E is hooked into the other side of the collar and upon the
brooch being loosed the two sides are drawn together by the expansion of the coiled

page_text: spring while the unfastening of the brooch is effected by a reverse movement and
thus the brooch may be readily attached or detached to a dress by one hand only if
desired.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what mauner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
The improvements in the fastenings of brooches or other such articles consisting
of the bent hooks D & E formed and mounted substantially as and for the purpose
herein set forth & shewn upon the accompanying sheet of drawings.
Dated this 6th day of November 1891.
GEORGE BARKER,
77, Colmore Row, Birmingham, Agent.