IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO EARRINGS, EAR-STUDS, NECKLETS, CHAINS, AND BRACELETS, APPLICABLE TO OTHER ORNAMENTAL AND Useful ArticLES OR APPENDAGES.
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Price Hunt, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Jeweller, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO
EARRINGS, EAR-STUDS, NECKLETS, CHAINS, AND BRACELETS, APPLICABLE TO
OTHER ORNAMENTAL AND Useful ArticLES OR APPENDAGES.'
"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Price Hunt at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 23rd July 1879.
"IM-
JOHN PRICE HUNT, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Jeweller.
PROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO EARRINGS, EAR-STUDS, NECKLETS, CHAINS, AND
BRACELETS, APPLICABLE TO OTHER ORNAMENTAL AND USEFUL ARTICLES OR
APPENDAGES."
This Invention relates to certain improvements in earrings, ear-studs, necklets,
chains, bracelets, and other articles of jewellery, and is also applicable to other
articles or appendages of ornament and utility.
The Invention has especial
to the means of fastening or securing the
jewellery or other articles to the person or clothes of the wearer or user, with the
objects of facilitating the placing or removal of them, and of ensuring their safety.
when in position.
The Invention consists in adapting to such articles as earrings and ear-studs a
wire of gold or other metal suitable for passing through the lobe of the ear, instead
of the well known earring-hook, and in adapting to other articles of jewellery, such
as those herein before referred to, a wire or tube of gold or other metal suitable for
the requirements of the case, such wire being soldered or otherwise fastened at one
end to the article, and being notched in one or more places for the reception of a
detent spring, the fastening and safety being obtained by means of a plate or piece
of gold or other metal or alloy drilled through for the reception of the notched wire
or tube; or in lieu of this drilled plate or piece the detent spring may be received
and permanently retained by a suitably shaped tube of gold or other metal; and
which arrangement when placed on the notched wire or tube by the wearer is
simultaneously fastened, and cannot be removed except when required by the

page_text: wearer, who to effect this end must press a projection in connection with the
detent spring of which it may or may not form a part, the projection thereupon
elevating the detent spring, and thereby releasing the notched wire or tube from
the said arrangement in which it may or may not terminate.
The detent spring is
formed flat, and of steel or other suitable metal, the middle of its free end being
employed in retaining the notched wire or tube, and its sides being continued to
adinit of the action of the said projection.
The above described arrangement of drilled plate, or piece, or equivalent tube
containing the detent spring and projection may or may not be enclosed in a cap of
gold or other metal, or other suitable material, and being then applied to the
earrings or other articles may or may not be attached to the body of the same by a
chain or otherwise.
'

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said John Price Hunt in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 23rd
January 1880.
JOHN PRICE HUNT, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Jeweller.
"IM-
PROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO EARRINGS, EAR-STUDS, NECKLETS, CHAINS, AND
BRACELETS, APPLICABLE TO OTHER ORNAMENTAL AND USEFUL ARTICLES OR
APPENDAGES."
This Invention relates to certain improvements in earrings, ear-studs, necklets,
chains, bracelets, and other articles of jewellery, and is also applicable to other
articles or appendages of ornament and utility.
The Invention has especial reference to the means of fastening or securing the
jewellery or other articles to the person or clothes of the wearer or user, with the
objects of facilitating the placing or removal of them, and of ensuring their safety
when in position
The Invention consists in adapting to such articles as earrings and ear-studs
a wire of gold or other metal suitable for passing through the lobe of the ear,
instead of the usual hooks in earrings and screws in ear-studs, and in adapting
to other articles of jewellery, such as those bereinbefore referred to, a wire, tube,
or flat piece of gold or other metal suitable for the requirements of the case, such
wire or piece being soldered or otherwise fastened at one end to the article, and
being notched in one or more places for the reception of a detent-spring, the
fastening and safety being obtained by means of a thin plate or piece of gold, or
other metal or alloy, stamped or otherwise shaped and drilled through for the
reception of the notched wire, tube, or flat piece; or in lieu of this stamped or
otherwise shaped plate or piece, the detent-spring may be received and permanently
retained by a suitably shaped tube of gold or other metal, or of a combination
thereof; and which arrangement when placed on the notched wire, tube, or flat
piece by the wearer is simultaneously fastened, and cannot be removed except
when required by the wearer, who to effect this purpose must press a projection in
connection with the detent-spring of which it may or may not form a part, the
projection thereupon elevating the detent-spring, and thereby releasing the notched
wire, tube, or flat piece from the said arrangement in which it may or may not
terminate. The detent-spring is formed flat and of steel or other suitable metal,
and is fixed in a fine niche cut into the stamped or tubular arrangement in such
a position as to allow of its action and retention of the said wire, tube, or flat piece,
the middle of its free end being employed in retaining the latter, and its sides being
continued to admit of the action of the said projection.
The above described stamped and tubular arrangement containing the detent
spring and projection may or may not be enclosed in a cap of gold or other metal,
or other suitable material, and when applied to earrings or other articles may or
may not be attached to the body of the same by a chain or otherwise.
The Invention as above described is illustrated on the accompanying Sheet of
Drawings in Figures 1 to 9, in which Figure 1 represents one of the improved
fastenings which I propose to use in lieu of the usual wire hooks in earrings; the com-
ponent parts of this fastening are shewn detached in Figures 2 to 6; they consist as
above described of a wire, tube, or flat piece 1 which is notched at 2, and is inserted
in a central hole 3 in a cap or socket 4, and is retained therein by the detent-spring 5
which is fixed in a niche 6 in a tubular piece 7, which is fed into the cap 4, the
spring being released when desired by the projection or pusher 8; Figure 7
represents a soap-form of the same fastening intended to be used for necklets and
such like articles; Figure 8 shows the uniting parts thereof detached, the action
being similar to that herein before described; Figure 9 represents the ornamental
upper part of an earring adapted with the attachments or improved fasteners.

page_text: Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention, together with
the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or carried into
practical effect, I would remark in conclusion that I claim as my Invention,-
The above described improved means of fastening earrings or other ornamental
or useful articles or appendages, as illustrated in Figures 1 to 6 on the accom-
panying Sheet of Drawings, and the use of such fastenings separately or in
combination, as shewn in Figures 7 to 9, or otherwise, for any purpose to which
such fastenings are applicable, substantially as hereinbefore specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Price Hunt, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Nineteenth day of January, in the year of our Lord One
_thousand eight hundred and eighty.
Witness,
JOHN KENDRICK.
JOHN PRICE HUNT. (L.S.)