A Reliable Fastener and Safety Brooch.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 2nd Sept., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 7th Sept., 1897-Accepted, 30th Oct., 1897
A Reliable Fastener and Safety Brooch.
ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL COCKREN, 38, Ellington Street, Barnsbury, London, N.,
Manufacturing Jeweller, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
Is to provide a safe and reliable mode of fastening which can be used with
great facility & is exceedingly durable, and is so made as to receive any kind of
ornament that may be desired. It opens horizontally & so does away with the
leverage both upon the pin & also the body of the brooch while it gives the wearer
great facility for pinning any fabric as the front part can be brought in a direct
line with the pin. The point of the pin is covered by the act of closing being
made to spring into its place by a stop piece. An inner socket can then be turned
locking the pin in its place.
ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL COCKREN, 38, Ellington Street, Liverpool Road, Barnsbury,
N., Manufacturing Jeweller, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
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The fastener opens horizontally, doing away with the leverage, both upon the
pin and the body of the brooch. This gives greater facility in using, as the pin
can be brought in a direct line with the front of the brooch, and when the pin
has been used, the front is brought round and passed over the point of the
pin. The point of the pin is made to spring into a socket, which socket can be turned
round and locks the pin in its place so that there is no danger of its becoming
unfastened without the consent of the wearer. The turning forward and backward
in this locking process is of the easiest description; both the hinge upon which
the fastener opens and the socket which receives the pin are strong cheniers, one
working inside the other which gives great strength and durability. It can be used
as a simple fastener, or, by attaching any kind of ornament to the front becomes
a brooch, and the action being independent of the ornamental part, the ornamental
part is not liable to breakage.
Fio 1. Is side view of brooch A the front. B the pin at back. C the end

page_text: that is hinged to open horizontally. D the opposite end to receive the point of the
pin containing moveable centre turning backward to allow the pin to pass in and
forward to prevent the pin coming out or locking the pin in its place. E is stop
piece causing spring to pin. F is stop piece to prevent pin coming out.
Fig. 2. Is front view of brooch with pin B open at back. Front A to secure
any kind of ornament which may be affixed to it. Fronts of ends I and J showing
how inner cheniers or tubing are rivetted over washers.
Fig. 3. Shows the two parts of which the brooch is composed. G is smaller
chenier or tubing which fits through larger chenier C and the washer I and both
parts are rivetted together causing brooch to open and close horizontally. The
opposite end D, to hold the pin, is made with the same two size cheniers with a
slot through both at the bottom. Slot H is made for pin to pass into the centre
of inner chenier. I and J are washers to receive inner chenier, over which, the
cheniers are rivetted.
Fig. 4. Is the back view of brooch, open. Shewing pin to be flattish to prevent
its bending, and to keep it springy. K shows the side where the pin enters the
slot. F shows stop piece when the slot is open to receive the pin; when the pin
passes into the centre of inner chenier it is then moved round to the opposite side
as in Fig. 1.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my. said
invention, and in what, manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:-
The improved fastener and safety brooch substantially as herein described, and
illustrated.
Dated this 14th day of October 1897.