AN IMPROVED FASTENING FOR JEWELLERY AND ARTICLES OF DRESS
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to JOHN COMPTON WEEKS JEFFERYS, Manufacturing Jeweller,
14, Tottenham Court Road, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention
of "AN IMPROVED FASTENING FOR JEWELLERY AND ARTICLES OF DRESS."
Sealed the 4th August 1870, and dated the 19th February 1876.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Compton Weeks
Jefferys at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 19th February
1876.
JOHN COMPTON WEEKS JEFFERYS, Manufacturing Jeweller, of 14, Tottenham
Court Road, in the County of Middlesex. "AN IMPROVED FASTENING FOR JEWELLERY
AND ARTICLES OF DRESS."
My Invention relates to a fastening for two button holes or two parts of dress or
gloves which are used and fastened so as to be apart.
To describe my Invention; I place upon a bar jointed or otherwise towards the
ends a pillar for the attachment of solitaire heads or fronts after the passage of the
said pillars through the button holes of the linen, of gloves, or of dress, the said
solitaire heads being secured by chain one to the other or to the bar to prevent
them from being lost.
I also make as a modification of same and as a means by which the same effect
is obtained without deviating from the principle for which protection is sought,
namely, a centre pillar midway between the two pillars or their equivalents, as
before described; and in this case the said two pillars may be of ordinary stud tops
or their equivalents, attaching then one top or front piece instead of two, as before
described, to the said centre pillar, which covering over the two stud heads or
pillars after their passage into the article of dress secures the button holes on the
same principle as herein-before described in the case of the two fronts attached to
two pillars. These attachments of pillars to the pieces described may be by spring
or otherwise. I attach mine by spring, by preference, in each case claiming
the advantage and protection of a distinct Patent granted to me in 1874, viz.,
No. 2596.
Be it understood that in this Specification I seek for protection for a bar jointed
or otherwise having two or three pillars or their equivalents fixed for the attach.
ment of fronts, as already described.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said John Compton Weeks Jefferys in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 17th August 1876.
JOHN COMPTON WEEKS JEFFERYS, of 14, Tottenham Court Road, in the County
of Middlesex. "AN IMPROVED FASTENING FOR JEWELLERY AND ARTICLES OF DRESS
AND ORNAMENT."
My Invention relates to a fastening for two button holes or two parts of dress or
gloves which are used and fastened so as to be apart.
I will describe the Invention as applied to a collar, or cuff, or button holes of
lady's silk dress, but it will be readily understood that it is applicable every way for
securing bracelets, necklaces, and other such like articles of dress.
In order that my Invention may be more readily understood I have illustrated in
the accompanying Drawing several modifications of this Invention, all constructed
upon the same principle; viz., a bar jointed or otherwise, towards the ends of which
I place a pillar for the attachment of solitaire heads or fronts after the passage of
the said pillars through the button holes of the linen, of gloves, or of dress.
Figure 1 of the Drawing shows the fastener with two pillars on bar, and solitaire
head or front attached to same, and Figure 2 represents the same article open or in
its unfastened position. A is the bar, which may be thus or jointed; B, C, are the
pillars on same, D. representing the solitaire head or front. The pillars B, C, contain
springs (taking advantage of a Patent granted to me in 1874, viz., No. 2596, by
preference) for attachment; but these attachments may be otherwise, that is to say,
with or without springs.
Figure 3 shows the bar A. with pillars B, C, having two solitaire heads or fronts
connected by chain for attachment, viz., E, F.
Figure 4 is the same article shown apart or in its unfastened position.
Figure 5 shows a modification having three pillars G, H, I, fixed on bar A, in
which case the solitaire head or front K covers the pillars G, H, after they have
passed through the button holes of collar, cuff, dress, or article of dress or jewellery;
this Drawing shows the fastener fastened and unfastened.
Figure 6 shows the same modification as Figure 5; in this case as in the other
Drawing the solitaire head or front P covers over the pillars, with the exception of
the pillars M, N, being in the form of hooks instead of as G, H, shewn in Figure 5,
both making their attachment at pillar I.
Having described the nature of the Invention, and the manner of performing
the same, I declare that what I claim as my Invention be protected by the herein-
before in part recited Letters Patent is,-
A bar jointed or not jointed having two or three pillars or their equivalents fixed
for the attachment of fronts or solitaire heads, as already described, by means of
springs in pillars or otherwise.
Secondly. I claim the application of the said means of dress fastening for ends of
bracelets and necklaces, as herein specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Compton Weeks Jefferys, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this
day of August, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-six.
JOHN COMPTON WEEKS JEFFERYS. (L.S.)