Buckles and the like.
Year: 1886

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ALFRED JAMES CHESHIRE 55 Tenby Street North, Birmingham in the County
of Warwick, Silversmith do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
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The brooch tongue instead of being soldered on a joint the ordinary way is a
piece of wire bent at one end and a head on the joint is a piece of metal gapped
out in the centre to the size of wire tongue so that when it is soldered on any
brooch, scarfslide, buckle &c you simply pass the tongue through between the
brooch and joint and then bend it over and then it is securely fixed without any
pinning up as ordinary brooch joints require.
THOS KENDRICK,
Agent for Applicant.

page_text: Buckles, and the like.
I, ALFRED JAMES CHESHIRE, 55 Tenby Street North, Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Silversmith, 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 :-
The brooch tongue instead of being soldered on a joint the ordinary way is a
piece of wire bent at one end and a head on the joint is a piece of metal gapped
out in the centre to the size of wire tongue, so that when it is soldered on any
brooch, scarf slide, buckle & you simply pass the tongue between the brooch and
joint and then bend it over and then it is securely fixed without any pinning up
as ordinary brooch joints require.
Having thus specified the object and nature of this my said Invention for
"Joint and tongue to be applied to brooches, hair slides, buckles and the like" its
description will be proceeded with in reference to the accompanying drawings,
which illustrate my Invention as applied to a brooch that is to say.
Fig. 1 is a view longitudinal section.
Fig. 2 a plan view of underside.
Fig. 3 part plan view shewing method of putting in tongue.
Fig. 4, part section view shewing tongue being bent, after having been put in.
Fig. 5, views in two elevations and plan of joint piece detached.
Fig. 6, a view longitudinal of tongue.
The same letters of reference upon the several figures indicate like or corre-
sponding parts.
a, is the brooch, b the brooch tongue as it is known in commerce but generally
the brooch pin, made from wire a required length, one end of which is pointed
at 61, the other end provided with a head b' and a flattened surface at 6s for a
purpose to be hereafter explained.
The part c, which I designate a joint is made from the solid metal, and with
tools, gapped or reduced in thickness in the centre thus forming an axis c¹, this is
permanently secured to the brooch a, by soldering, by preference. By reference to
Fig. 3 I illustrate the mode of connecting or jointing the tongue or pin b, to the
axis c¹ that is to say between c¹ and a, and when 62 is brought close up to c.-
b, is first bent up as Fig. 4, and then down as Figs. 1 and 2, encircling c¹ finding a
bearing upon 62 which imparts a spring or elasticity to b, sufficient to retain in
position when placed in the loop or catch d, as Figs. 1 and 2,-By reference to
Figs. 1, 2, 4, it will be seen that the flattened surface 6³ meets the surface of c,
and undue wear is obviated.
The aim and object of this my said Invention, is simplicity in construction with
durability; hitherto the mode has been to joint these parts by soldering a small
tube known as joint wire, to the one end of tongue or pin, and two pieces of
the same tube to the brooch at such a distance from each other as to allow the
first named to be placed between, and finally, a pin is placed therein and the end

page_text: rivetted over; but this was always liable to disarrangement and separation of
parts. The joint I construct cannot get out of order, and if the tongue or pin
by accident should get broken another can be replaced readily by an unskilled
hand.
I do not confine myself to the precise details herein given and set forth and
shewn on the accompanying sheet of drawings, but that I hold myself at liberty
to alter, or modify the same without departing essentially from the principle of
this my said Invention.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
1st The construction of the tongue or pin b, provided with the head b² with
flattened surface b³ as hereinbefore described in this Specification.
2nd The construction of the joint c, made from the solid metal gapped or reduced
in thickness in the centre, as c¹ forming an axis upon which b, takes a bearing as
hereinbefore described in this Specification.
3rd The combination or arrangement of parts the whole forming a "Joint and
tongue to be applied to brooches, hair slides, buckles, and other like purposes" as
herein before described in this Specification and shewn on the accompanying
drawings.