Year: 1888

page_text: We, FRANK WALTER HAYWARD of White Lion Street Norwich in the County of
Norfolk Watch Maker, and FREDERICK MILLS of Verandah Terrace Bracondale
Norwich in the County of Norfolk aforesaid Gentleman, 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 :-
The object of this Invention is to construct articles of personal adornment such as
brooches, lockets, tiaras finger rings scarf pins, studs, solitaires, &c. fitted with a
mainspring and train of wheels and a fly or other known means of retarding the
mainspring from running down too quickly for the purpose of imparting circular
reciprocating oscillating or any other kind of motion to the said article of personal
adornment or to any part or parts thereof whereby the same will appear to greater
advantage and form a more attractive ornament than heretofore.
The spring can be wound either by a key or may be furnished with a handle for
facilitating the winding thereof and so made as to run for any predetermined time say
an hour or six hours, or even 24 hours or more if required.
The mechanism is provided with a stop or detent so that the spring may be wound
up and the detent removed whenever it is convenient to allow the mechanism to work.
And in order that our invention may be more fully understood we will now proceed
to describe the same with reference to the accompanying drawings in which similar
letters indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.
The drawings are furnished to illustrate the manner in which our invention may be
applied to a brooch, but we wish it to be clearly understood that we do not confine
ourselves to any of the details shewn therein the essence of our invention being the
construction of an article of personal adornment fitted with a mainspring and train of
wheels and a fly or other known means for regulating the running down of the main-
spring for the purpose of imparting motion to or to any part or parts thereof for
the purpose of enhancing the brilliancy or beauty of the said article of personal
adornment.
Fig. 1 is a plan of a brooch fitted with our invention.
Fix shows the face ar eu of said brooch

page_text: Fig. 3 is a plan of the brooch with the face or cap removed.
Figs. 4 & 5 are respectively side and end elevations of the interior mechanism: and
Fig. 6 is a plan of the Star G, Fig. 1, when removed from the brooch.
The face or Cap A of the brooch is intended to securely hold the mechanism and is
covered at the back to protect the mechanism from dust and injury, and is made of
any ornamental design and fits loosely on the spindle H. Motion is imparted to the
spindle H by the mainspring D and the train of wheels C.
The said mainspring D is wound by means of the handle E or may be furnished
with a boss and wound with a key as convenient, and provided with a stop J. The
dise B is rigidly attached to the spindle H and revolves with it. The Star G is
rigidly attached to the said spindle H. The disc B can be seen to revolve through
the spaces F F. . . on the face or cap A hence the brooch will present a much more
attractive appearance.
It is obvious that our invention is equally applicable to all articles of personal
adornment and will greatly enhance the brilliancy of diamonds precious stones and
paste crystals or similar imitations of precious stones set in brooches lockets, tiaras
finger rings, scarf pins, studs, solitaires &c. It will also be readily seen that the
invention is capable of considerable modification. For example the names in
brooches &c. &c. can be made to move, figures such as ships, windmills, see-saws,
animals, dancing figures, and such like can be made to move in the brooch &c. &c.
Or pleasing combinations of colours can be made by making the brooch locket &c. &c.
of different colours, and imparting motion to any or all of the coloured parts as
desired.
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:
The construction of a brooch locket, or any other article of personal adornment
fitted with a mainspring and a train of wheels and a fly or other known means of
regulating the movement of the wheels so as to prevent the mainspring from running
down too rapidly, for the purpose of imparting motion to, or to any part or parts of,
the said article of personal adornment substantially as and for the purpose hereinbefore
set forth.