IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF BROOCHES, BRACELETS, PINS, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF JEWELRY.
Year: 1858

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Jean Jacques Huber, of No. 14, Boulevart Mont-
martre, Paris, Jeweller, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
CONSTRUCTION OF BROOCHES, BRACELETS, PINS, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF
JEWELRY.".
Sealed the 13th April 1858, and dated the 23rd January 1858.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Jean Jacques Huber at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
23rd January 1858.
I, JEAN JACQUES HUBER, of No. 14, Boulevart Montmartre, Paris, Jeweller,
do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE
CONSTRUCTION OF BROOCHES, BRACELETS, PINS, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF JEWELRY,"
to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in the construction of
brooches, bracelets, pins, and other articles of jewelry, and consists in con-
structing them of a number of rings, or of pieces of other suitable shape
connected together in such a way that they may assume different positions in'
respect to each other, by which means the shape of the brooch or other article.
of jewelry may be altered at pleasure. For this purpose I prefer that each

page_text: ring or piece should be connected to a centre ring or piece by means of pins
or pivots, so that each of the rings or pieces may be in a straight line with
the centre ring or piece, or may be turned round to the back of the centre
piece, so as not to be seen when the brooch or other article is being worn, or
the separate pieces may be connected together by means of pins sliding in
grooves, so that each ring or piece may be moved laterally as well as turned
on a centre, or the parts may have a horizontal pivoting motion on a centre
placed in the centre or other part of the. piece of jewelry in conjunction or
otherwise with the vertical hinge motion..
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Jean Jacques Huber in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 22nd July 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JEAN
JACQUES HUBER, of No. 14, Boulevart Montmartre, Paris, Jeweller, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of January; in the year of our.
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, in the twenty-first year of
Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto
me, the said Jean Jacques Huber, Her special licence that I, the said Jean
Jacques Huber, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said Jean Jacques Huber, 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 "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF BROOCHES, BRACELETS, PINS, AND OTHER ARTICLES
OP JEWELRY," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Jean
Jacques Huber, 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 immediately after the date
of the said Letters Patent.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Jean Jacques Huber, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, that is to say:-
My Invention consists in giving to the different pieces composing a brooch;
bracelet, pin, or other article of jewelry, a capability of movement by means
of which the form of the article may be much varied at pleasure..
My system of construction is based in great part on a series of rings or
other pieces fixed together by screws or pin joints furnished with springs.
The rings or pieces may be round, oval, square, octagonal, festooned, or, of
any other form, and whether they be enamelled or otherwise, or engraved,
carved, polished, coloured, or set with stones, pivot by means of binge joints
upon the central portion of the ornament, or upon pieces hinged to the
central ornament, or upon other pieces, and by means of these several pieces
of the ornament being capable of: movement in this manner, one can give to
it new formis at pleasure without having recourse, to a jeweller.
The Drawing hereunto annexed is an example of one of the articles which
may be constructed according to this principle. Figure 5 represents a brooch
in its greatest development. This brooch has a moveable centre. Figure 1
-represents Figure 5, of which two of the larger pieces at the bottom have been
turned down, one to the right, the other to the left, the centre has also been
changed; Figure 2 represents Figure 5, of which eight smaller pieces have
been turned down, and the centre changed; Figure 3 represents Figure 5, of
which four of the larger pieces have been turned down, two at the right side,
and two at the left; the centre also is changed; Figure 4 represents Figure 5,
of which four of the larger pieces have been turned down, two at the top, and
two at the bottom, right and left; Figure 6 represents Figure 5, of which six
of the larger pieces have been turned down, three at the top and three at the
bottom; Figure 7 represents Figure 5, of which all the pieces have been
turned up, and the centre changed; Figure 8 represents Figure 5, of which
eight smaller pieces and four larger pieces have been turned up, and the centre
changed; Figure 9 represents Figure 5, of which eight larger pieces have
been turned down, and the centre changed; Figure 13 represents a pin in
its greatest development; Figure 12 represents Figure 18, with one of the
larger pieces at the top a little raised, one to the right, one to the left;
Figure 10 represents Figure 13, of which the three larger pieces and the three
smaller have been half opened; Figure 11 represents Figure 13, with all the
pieces closed, so as to form a ball. These examples are sufficient to explain
that the system is applicable to ornaments of various descriptions.

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Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I would have it understood that I do not confine myself
to the exact details described; but what I claim is the construction of
brooches, bracelets, pins, and other articles of jewelry according to the system
herein set forth.
In witness whereof, I, the said Jean Jacques Huber, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Nineteenth day of July, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
Genève, le 19 Juillet, 1858.
Witness,
PIERRE DUBOIS, de Genève (Suisse.)
HUBER.
(L.S.)