IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR WEARING APPAREL
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Frederick Arthur Walton, of Birmingham, in
the County of Warwick, Manufacturing Jeweller, for the Inven-
tion of "IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR WEARING APPAREL."
Scaled the 31st July 1874, and dated the 2nd February 1874.
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Frederick Arthur
Walton at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 2nd February 1874.
I, FREDERICK ARTHUR WALTON, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Manufacturing Jeweller, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR WEARING APPAREL," to
be as follows, that is to say :-
My Invention consists in forming studs, brooches, and other similar
articles used for fastening wearing apparel with a back plate of metal
or other suitable material, on which I attach a bent piece of wire or flat
metal by passing one or both ends through small tubes formed upon the
back plate. One or both ends of this bent wire or flat picce of metal
projects beyond the edge of the plate, and the wire being bent in a bow

page_text: shape the pressure of the finger upon the projecting end or ends will
cause the wire to act as a spring.
For studs made in two separate parts I form upon the bar shank a
small slot, which becomes caught by the wire spring when pressed into
the tube shank, at the end of which upon the plate the wire spring is 5
attached, or I attach the spring to the plate having the bar shank, and
form a collar upon the tube shank, which will become held by the
spring when the two portions of the stud are adjusted.
For brooches and similar articles having hinged bar fastenings I form
upon the free end of the bar a flanged catch, which when pressed down 1
upon the spring becomes firmly held.
Upon the bar on the reverse side to the flange catch I also form a
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Frederick Arthur Walton in the Great Scal Patent
Office on the 1st August 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FREDERICK
ARTHUR WALTON, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manu-
facturing Jeweller, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Second day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in
the thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and
successors, give and grant unto me, the said Frederick Arthur Walton,
Her special license that I, the said Frederick Arthur Walton, my 1
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
Frederick Arthur Walton, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR WEARING APPAREL," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Frederick Arthur Walton, my

page_text: 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
5 Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immedi-
ately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Frederick Arthur Walton, 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, that is to say :-
My Invention consists in forming studs, brooches, and other similar
articles used for fastening wearing apparel with a back plate of metal
or other suitable material, on which I attach a bent piece of wire or flat
metal by passing one or both ends through small tubes formed upon the
back plate. One or both ends of this bent wire or flat piece of metal
projects beyond the edge of the plate, and the wire being bent in a bow
shape the pressure of the finger upon the projecting end or ends will
cause the wire to act as a spring.
For studs made in two separate parts I form upon the bar shank a
small slot, which becomes caught by the wire spring when pressed into
the tube shank, at the end of which upon the plate the wire spring is
attached, or I attach the spring to the plate having the bar shank, and
form a collar upon the tube shank, which will become held by the
spring when the two portions of the stud are adjusted.
For brooches and similar articles having hinged bar fastenings I form
upon the free end of the bar a flanged catch, which when pressed down
upon the spring becomes firmly held.
Upon the bar on the reverse side to the flange catch I also form a
small stop to prevent the end of the bar passing too forward.
I will now proceed to describe my Invention more fully in detail,
reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the letters
and figures marked thereon.
Fig. 1 is a front elevation, Fig. 2 a side elevation, Fig. 3 a back
elevation, and Fig. 4 a section of a solitaire, stud, or brooch constructed
according to my improvements. (a) is the back plate formed of metal
or other suitable material, on which I attach a bent piece of wire or flat

page_text: metal spring, as shewn at (6) in the section, Fig. 4, by passing one or
both ends (c) of such spring (6) suitably shaped through small tubes or
slots formed upon the back plate (a), or cut in the rim thereof, as in the
side elevation, Fig. 2. One or both of the ends (c) of the spring projects
as shewn beyond the edge of the back plate (a), the spring (6) being
bent or cut into a bow shape, so that the pressure of the finger upon the
projecting end or ends (c) will cause the spring (b) to act, releasing the
snap or catch (d) of the hinged bar (d'). The spring (6) may be
arranged either upon the outer or inner face of the back plate (a), but
I prefer to place it inside, as shewn, and the spring (b) may be of any 1
suitable curve or outline.
For studs made in two separate parts I form upon the bar shank (e),
Fig. 5, a small slot (ƒ), which becomes caught by the wire or metal
spring (g), Figs. 6 and 7, when pressed into the tube shank (h), as in.
the part sectional elevation of the parts, Fig. 7. The spring (9) is ]
attached to the plate (i) as in the flat section, Fig. 6, and it may be
conveniently formed with an arm (k), the free end of which passes
through a slot in the tube shank (h), so as to engage into the small.
slot (f) of the bar shank (e). The appearance in front elevation of studs
so made is seen in Fig. 8, and will be similar to the other arrangement 2
described, the two parts being freed by pressure upon the thumb bits (2)
or projecting ends of the spring (g).
Having thus described the object and nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be carried into effect, I claim,.
without limiting myself to these precise details the improvements in 2
fastenings for wearing apparel, substantially in manner as hercin more
fully set forth and specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said Frederick Arthur Walton, have here-
unto set my hand and scal, this Thirty-first day of July, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy- 3