AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PENDANTS, LOCKETS, STUDS, BROOCHES, BUTTONS, AND OTHER SIMILAR DRESS FASTENINGS AND ORNAMENTS
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Lawrence Moses Jacob, of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Manufacturer's Clerk, for the Invention of
"AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PENDANTS,
LOCKETS, STUDS, BROOCHES, BUTTONS, AND OTHER SIMILAR DRESS FASTENINGS
AND ORNAMENTS."
Sealed the 10th May 1872, and dated the 17th November 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Lawrence Moses Jacob
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 17th November 1871.
I, LAWRENCE MOSES JACOB, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Manufacturer's Clerk, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF PENDANTS, LOCKETS, STUDS, BROOCHES, BUTTONS, AND OTHER SIMILAR DRESS
FASTENINGS AND ORNAMENTS," to be as follows :—
.
My Invention consists of the improvement or improvements herein. :
after described in joining together without solder the parts or shells of

page_text: which metallic pendants, lockets, studs, brooches, buttons, and other
similar dress fastenings and ornaments are composed.
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I will describe my Invention as applied to the manufacture of a
metallic pendant to be worn on the person: -I cut out and shape by
press tools two convex disks or shells, the said disks or shells when
fastened together edge to edge constituting a hollow metallic pendant.
One of the said disks or shells has at its edge and made in one piece
therewith a series of ears or projecting pieces, the said ears being situated
in the same or nearly the same plane as the said disk or shell. By
placing the two disks or shells edge to edge, and turning the ears or
projecting pieces at the edge of one disk or shell upon the outer side of
the other disk or shell, the two disks or shells are securely connected
together without solder, and a pendant is produced. The disks or shells
of which the pendant is composed are ornamented by the raising or
shaping process by which they are made, or are otherwise ornamented, ]
and the turned-over ears or projecting pieces on the outer side of one of
the disks or shells may be made ornamental, and constitute part of the
ornamental design of the pendant.
In addition to pendants the articles among others to the manufacture
of which my Invention is applicable are lockets, studs, brooches, ear-
rings, breast and other pins, sleeve links, solitaires, and buttons.
In making the articles enumerated I proceed in the manner described
with respect to a metallic pendant, such parts being added to the hollow
body or article produced as will fit it for the particular purpose to which
it is to be applied.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of November, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the
thirty-fifth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Lawrence Moses Jacob, Her special
licence that I, the said Lawrence Moses Jacob, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Lawrence Moses
Jacob, 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 "AN
IMPROVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF PENDANTS, LOCKETS,
STUDS, BROOCHES, BUTTONS, AND OTHER SIMILAR DRESS FASTENINGS AND ORNAMENTS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Lawrence Moses
Jacob, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under
my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, 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 imme-

page_text: ears or projecting pieces, the said ears being situated in the same or
nearly the same plane as the said disk or shell. By placing the two
disks or shells edge to edge and turning the ears or projecting pieces at
the edge of one disk or shell upon the outer side of the other disk or
shell, the two disks or shells are securely connected together without
solder, and a pendant is produced. The disks or shells of which the
pendant is composed are ornamented by the raising or shaping process
by which they are made or are otherwise ornamented, and the turned
over ears or projecting pieces on the outer side of one of the disks or
shells may be made ornamental, and constitute part of the ornamental
design of the pendant.
Having explained the nature of my Invention, I will proceed to
describe with reference to the accompanying Drawing the manner in
which the same is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents in front and side elevation one of the shells of
which the pendant is composed; and Figure 2 represents in front and
side elevation the other of the said shells.
Figure 3 represents in side elevation and front elevation a pendant
made of the two shells Figures 1 and 2, the said shells being joined
together according to my Invention. The back shell of the pendant is
marked a, and the front shell is marked b, the said shells having the
convex figure represented. The back shell a has at its edge and made in
one piece therewith a series of projecting ears or pieces c, c, of an orna-
mental shape. The said ears or pieces c, c, are situated in the same or
nearly the same plane as the back shell a (see Figure 1). In order to
join together the two shells a, b, Figures 1 and 2, the said shells a, b, are
placed edge to edge and the ears or projecting pieces c, c, at the edge of
the back shell a are turned upon the outer side of the front shell b, in
the manner represented in Figure 3. A hollow metallic pendant is
thereby formed from the two shells a, b, without solder. Each of the
shells a, b, has at its top a half ring or loop d, which half loops when
brought together by the joining of the shells a, b, form a complete ring
or loop by means of which the pendant is secured to a chain or other
support.

page_text: shells a, b, joined together edge to edge without solder by the connecting
ears or pieces c, c, on the edge of the back shell a being turned upon the
front shell b. Figure 5 represents an elevation and edge view of the
back shell a, and Figure 6 represents a front elevation and section of
the front shell b. The back shell a consists of a flat disk having the
connecting ears c, c, on its edge, and the front shell 6 has the convex
figure represented. To the outer face of the back shell a the pin of
the brooch and the guard for the said pin to engage in are connected in
the ordinary way.
Figure 7 represents in front elevation an ear-ring made according to my
Invention of two shells a, b, one flat and the other convex, as described
with respect to a brooch, the said shells being joined together edge to
edge by the connecting ears or pieces c, c, on the back shell a being
turned upon the front shell b. Figure 8 represents the back shell, and
Figure 9 the front shell of the ear-ring. The body of the ear-ring may be
surmounted by the ornamental part e carrying the wire of the ear-ring,
the said ornamental part e being hooked or otherwise connected to the
ear-ring.
In addition to pendants, brooches, and ear-rings, the articles among
others to the manufacture of which my Invention is applicable, are
lockets, studs, breast and other pins, sleeve links, solitaires, and buttons.
In making the articles enumerated, and the other articles to which my
Invention is applicable, I proceed in the manner described and repre-
sented with respect to a metallic pendant, brooch, or ear-ring, such parts
being added to the hollow body or article produced according to my
Invention as will fit it for the particular purpose to which it is to be
applied.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that I do
not limit myself to the precise details herein described and illustrated, as
the same may be varied without departing from the nature of my
Invention. But I claim as my Invention the improvement or improve-
ments in the manufacture of pendants, lockets, studs, brooches, buttons,
and other similar dress fastenings and ornaments, herein-before described
and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing, that is to say, joining
together without solder the metallic parts or shells of which the said

page_text: articles or the bodies of the said articles are composed, by means of a
series of ears or projecting pieces on the edge of one of the parts or
shells being turned upon the outer side of the other part or shell, sub-
stantially as described and illustrated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Lawrence Moses Jacob, have here-
ant
no hand and cool
this Ninth day of May in the roo0%
series of ears or projecting pieces on the edge of one of the parts or
shells being turned upon the outer side of the other part or shell, sub-
stantially as described and illustrated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Lawrence Moses Jacob, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Ninth day of May, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.
In witness whereof, I, the said Lawrence Moses Jacob, have here-
unte set my hand and seal, this Ninth day of May, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-two.
Witness,
GEORGE SHAW.
LAWRENCE MOSES JACOB. (L.S.)