IMPROVEMENTS IN CLASPS OR FASTENINGS FOR SECURING BROOCHES, SOLITAIRES, AND OTHER DRESS ORNAMENTS
Year: 1863

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Samuel Cole, of Moseley, in the County of
Worcester, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN CLASPS
OR FASTENINGS FOR SECURING BROOCHES, SOLITAIRES, AND OTHER DRESS
ORNAMENTS."
Sealed the 29th December 1868, and dated the 30th June 1863..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Samuel Cole at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 30th.
June 1868.
I, SAMUEL COLE, of Moseley, in the County of Worcester, Manufacturer,
do hereby declare. the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
CLASPS OR FASTENINGS FOR SECURING BROOCHES, SOLITAIRES, AND OTHER DRESS
ORNAMENTS," to be as follows, that is to say :-
This Invention consists in applying to brooches, solitaires, and other dress
ornaments, requiring to be attached or removed at will, a spring or snap
fastening of the description shewn in the accompanying Drawings. Figures
1 to 6, inclusive, represent fastenings applicable to the kind of link known as
the "solitaire," for wristbands, collars, and other parts of dress, in which button
holes or eyelet holes may be formed, whilst Figures 7, 8, and 9, shew the
application of the same description of fastening to brooches or similar orna-
ments requiring to be attached by a pin. In Figures 1, 2, 3, the bar (a)
which is hinged to a metal plate secured to the back, or upon the back itself,
of the part forming the button, which is provided at the binge with a small

page_text: "flirt-up" spring tending to throw up the bar; the opposite end of the bar is
bent into the form shewn, so that upon being pressed, the point is caught in
a small hole, or beneath a catch in the spring snap (6), and thus the solitaire
is secured. To unfasten it, pressure applied to the beak of the snap forcing it
inwards releases the point, and the bar is thrown up by the "flirt-up" spring.
Figures 4, 5, 6, shew another mode in which the bar may be secured, the
action of the snap being reversed, that is to say, in unfastening the snap must
be drawn back by the finger instead of being pressed inwards.
Figures 7, 8, 9, shew the application of the form of catch already described
in Figures 1, 2, and 3, to securing the pins of brooches and other similar
ornaments, and by providing a small stop piece at the back of the hinge; the
hook can be prevented from going back more than just sufficient to allow
of the pin being released by the hand, so that if by accident the snap
should release the point of the hook, the hook, itself still retains the pin.
The fastening shewn in Figures 4, 5, 6, may also be thus modified to suit
brooches if preferred.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Samuel Cole in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
29th December 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, SAMUEL
COLE, of Moseley, in the County of Worcester, Manufacturer, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Thirtieth day of June, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, in the twenty-seventh year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Samuel Cole, Her special license that I, the said Samuel
Cole, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I,
the said Samuel Cole, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should
at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN CLASPS OR FASTENINGS FOR SECURING BROOCHES, SOLITAIRES,
AND OTHER DRESS ORNAMENTS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
Said Samuel Cole, by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal,

page_text: should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same
to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next
and immediately after. the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Samuel Cole, 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, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed,
and to the letters and figures marked thereon (that is to say) :-
This Invention consists in applying to brooches, solitaires, and other dress
ornaments, requiring to be attached or removed at will, a spring or snap
fastening of the description shewn in the accompanying Drawings. . Figures
1 to 6 inclusive represent fastenings applicable to the kind of link known as
"the solitaire," for wristbands, collars, and other parts of dress in which button
holes or eyelet holes may be formed; whilst Figures 7, 8, and 9, shew the
application of the same description of fastening to brooches or similar
ornaments requiring to be attached by a pin. In Figures 1, 2, 8, the bar (a)
which is hinged to a metal plate secured to the back, or upon the. back itself
of the part forming the button or link, is provided at the hinge with a small
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flirt-up" spring tending to throw up the bar; the opposite end of the bar.
is bent into the form shewn, so that upon being pressed down the point is
caught in a small hole or beneath a catch in the spring snap (6), and thus the
solitaire is secured. To unfasten it pressure applied to the beak of the snap,
forcing it inwards, releases the point, and the bar is thrown up by the. "flirt-
up" spring. Figures 4, 5, 6, shew another mode in which the bar may be.
secured, the action of the snap being reversed, that is to say, in unfastening
the snap must be drawn back by the finger instead of being pressed inwards..
Figures 7, 8, 9, shew the application of the form of catch already described in.
Figures 1, 2, and 3, to securing the pins of brooches and other similar.
ornaments, and by providing a small stop piece at the back of the hinge the.
hook can be prevented-from going back more than just sufficient to allow of
the pin being released by the hand, so that, if by accident the snap should
release the point of the hook, the hook itself still retains the pin. The fasten-
ing shewn in Figures 4, 5, 6, may also be thus modified to suit-brooches if
preferred.

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tion, shewing it also clasped, the bar (a) being secured by the point or beak. (a)
being engaged or sprung into an aperture or catch in the face: of the spring.
snap (6), this spring snap (6) being pressed by. the thumb or nail inwards the
flirt-up () throws. the bar. (a) into the position seen in. Figure. 1.
Figures 4, 5, 6, represent similar views of another mode of securing the same
parts, the action of the springisnap being to close inwards instead of pressing
outwards, consequently. to release: the bar the nail must be used. 'upon the
knib (c), drawing the spring slightly. outwards. Figures .10, 11, 12, 13, 14,
and 15, represent back views. and sections, open and closed, of two modifica-
tions in which.a flat curved spring (9) is secured to the inside of the back plate,
the point or. beak.of the bar.passing through the back plate and engaging in a
catch or stud formed upon the spring as in Figure 10, or upon the spring
itself. as: in Figure .13; in. both these examples. the release of the bar-is
effected by pressure of the nail inwards upon the.nib or projection (2) upon
the. edge of the mount. Figurés. 7, 8, 9, represent, in end elevation, back
view, and side elevation, the application of the form of catch shewn in Figures
1, 2, 3, to the purpose of securing the pins of brooches and other similar
ornaments; in this instance a stop (m) is placed at the back of the hinge of
the clasp, preventing its. opening to a greater extent than just sufficient to
allow the pin to be released by the hand, so that if by accident the clasp
become released the pin remains still partially secured.
The several other forms of clasps shewn may also be thus modified to suit
brooches; the mode of carrying this out, whether for brooches or for other like
ornaments of dress being similar to that already specified, further detail is
unnecessary.
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Having thus described the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, I claim, without confining myself to these exact
details which will admit of some variation, the several improvements in clasps
or fastenings for securing brooches, solitaires, and other dress ornaments, sub-
stantially as herein more fully set forth and specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said Samuel Cole, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of December, in the year of
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-three.
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