IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR EARRINGS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Carter Haseler, of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Manufacturing Jeweller, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR EARRINGS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Carter Haseler
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 1st June 1874.
I, GEORGE CARTER HASELER, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Manufacturing Jeweller, do hereby declare the nature of tho
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR EARRINGS," to be as
follows:-
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My Invention consists of the improvements herein-after described in
fastenings for carrings of the kind commonly called in commerce solitaire
carrings, which improvements are also applicable to earrings having
drops attached to them.

page_text: I will describe my Invention as applied to a solitaire earring. At the
back of the disc or body of the earring is a spring arm made by pre-
ference to turn in a plane parallel with the said disc or body, the length
of the said spring arm being such that its extreme or free end reaches
the shaft or pin of the carring which is passed through the lobe of the
At the end of the said spring arm is fixed a small cup or hollow
cone or ring.
ear.
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turned aside, and the pin or
The said spring arm is then
In using the carring the spring arm is
shaft passed through the lobe of the car.
turned towards the shaft or pin, and at the same time slightly lifted.
When the cup, hollow cone, or ring on the end of the said spring arm is
immediately over the end of the shaft or pin described the pressure on the
spring arm is relaxed, and the cup, cone, or ring on its end falls upon or
engages with the end of the shaft or pin. The said arm is no longer
capable of turning, and the end of the shaft or pin is incapable of being
withdrawn from the ear.
In order to remove the earring the body or disc is held by one hand,
and the spring arm first raised and then turned aside by the other hand.
The cup, hollow cone, or ring being thus removed from the end of the
shaft or pin the said shaft or pin can be withdrawn from the lobe of the
ear.
Instead of using a spring arm moving in a plane parallel to the back.
of the body of the earring the arm may move in a plane perpendicular
to the back of the carring. In this case the arm itself need not be elastic,
but a spring is applied to the joint to press the arm in the direction
necessary to engage'the cup, cone, or ring on its end with the shaft or
pin on the body of the earring.

page_text: WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the First day of June, 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 George Carter Haseler, Her special license
that I, the said George Carter Haseler, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said George Carter Haseler,
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,
usc, 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 EARRINGS," upon the condition (amongst
executors or admini-
others) that I, the said George Carter Haseler, my
strators, by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of
their hands and scals, should particularly describe and ascertain tho
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 Scal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of
the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Carter Haseler, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof, that is to say :-—
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My Invention consists of the improvements herein-after described in'
fastenings for earrings of the kind called in commerce solitaire earrings,
which improvements are also applicable to earrings having drops attached
to them.
I will describe my Invention as applied to a solitaire carring. At the
back of the disc or body of the earring is a spring arm made by preference.
to turn in a plane parallel with the said disc or body, the length of the
said spring arm being such that its extreme or free end reaches the shaft,
or pin of the earring which is passed through the lobe of the ear. At
the end of the said spring arm is fixed a small cup, or cone, or ring,
or cyc.
In using the earring the spring arm is turned aside, and the pin or
shaft passed through the lobe of the car. The said spring arm is then

page_text: turned towards the shaft or pin, and at the same time slightly lifted.
When the cup, hollow cone, or ring on the end of the said spring arm is
immediately over the end of the shaft or pin described the pressure on
the spring arm is relaxed, and the cup, cone, or ring on its end falls
upon or engages with the end of the shaft or pin, the said arm is no
longer capable of turning, and the end of the shaft or pin is incapable of
being withdrawn from the ear.
In order to remove the earring the body or disc is held by one hand,
and the spring arm first raised and then turned aside by the other hand.
The cup, hollow cone, or ring being thus removed from the end of the
shaft or pin the said shaft or pin can be withdrawn from the lobe of the
ear.
Instead of using a spring arm moving in a plane parallel to the back
of the body of the earring the arm may move in a plane perpendicular
to the back of the earring. In this case the arm itself need not be
elastic, but a spring is applied to the joint to press the arm in the
direction necessary to engage the cup, cone, or ring on its end with the
shaft or pin on the body of the earring.
I will now describe with reference to the accompanying Drawing the
manner in which my Invention may be performed :—
Figure 1 represents in section, and Figure 2 in back elevation drawn
to a large scale a solitaire earring provided with a fastening constructed
according to my Invention, the spring arm of the fastening being repre-
sented engaged with the shaft or pin of the earring.
Figure 3 represents a side elevation, and Figure 4 a back elevation of a
the same unfastened, that is, the spring arm is represented turned aside
and disengaged from the shaft or pin.
a is the disc or body of the earring; 6 is the shaft or pin projecting
from the back thereof, which said pin or shaft passes through the lobe of
the car; o is the spring arm jointed at c² to the back of the body or 3
disc a, the said joint permitting the spring arm to be turned aside or to
be moved in a plane parallel with the back of the body a. On the free
or outer end of the spring arm is a small cup or hollow cone c³, or in
place of the said cup or cone a ring or eye may be used.
To fasten the earring to the car the parts are made to occupy the 3
position represented in Figures 3 and 4, and the shaft or pin bis free

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to be passed through the lobe of the ear. The shaft or pin 4 having been
passed through the said ear the spring arm c is slightly lifted and turned
aside so as to bring its cup, cone, or ring or eye over the shaft or pin b.
The pressure on the spring arm is then relaxed, when the cup, cone, or
ring c falls upon or engages by the elasticity of the spring arm upon
the end of the pin b, and thereby fastens the earring to the ear, the parts
of the fastening occupying the respective positions represented in Figures
1 and 2.
passed through the said ear the spring arm c is slightly lifted and turned
aside so as to bring its cup, cone, or ring or eyc over the shaft or pin b.
The pressure on the spring arm is then relaxed, when the cup, cone, or
5 ring c falls upon or engages by the elasticity of the spring arm upon
the end of the pin b, and thereby fastens the earring to the ear, the parts
of the fastening occupying the respective positions represented in Figures.
1 and 2.
To unfasten the carring the cup or cone c³ is lifted from the end of the
Opin or shaft b, and the spring arm c turned aside, as seen in Figures 3
and 4..
Figure 5 represents in back elevation, Figure 6 in section, and
Figure 7 in side elevation the arrangement of my Invention, in which
the spring arm moves in a plane perpendicular to the back of the earring,
the said Figures 5, 6, and 7 representing the carring fastened by the
engagement of the cupped end c³ of the spring arm c with the end of
the shaft or pin b.
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Figure 8 represents the said carring unfastened. In this arrangement
the joint c² is constructed differently from that of the earring first-
described, the said joint consisting of three knuckles secured together by
a joint pin, the middle knuckle of the joint carrying the arm c. The
said arm c is not itself clastic, but a spring d in the body a acts upon
the jointed end of the said arm..
The construction of the spring d, and the manner in which it acts
upon the arm c are best seen in the sections Figures 6 and 8. When
the arm c is turned on its joint c² to unfasten the earring the said arm c
is retained in its open position by the said spring d, and when the arm c
is closed upon the end of the pin or shaft to fasten the earring the
cup, cone, or ring at c³ on the end of the said arm snaps upon the end
of the said pin or shaft b, and fastens the carring, as represented in
Figures 5 and 6. It is only necessary to lift the arm c into the position
represented in Figure 8 to unfasten the earring.
I do not limit myself to the spring d for putting pressure on the arm c
for retaining it in its open and closed positions, as a coiled spring
pressing on the jointed end of the said arm will answer the same
purpose.

page_text: The improvements described and represented may be applied to ear-
rings having drops attached to them, as well as to solitaire earrings as
represented in the Drawing.
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
claim as my Invention, the improvements. in fastenings for carrings
herein-before described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawing,
that is to say, the combination of the jointed spring arm c, c², having a
cup, hollow cone, ring, or eye c³ on its free end with the shaft or pin b,
which is passed through the lobe of the ear, the said jointed spring arm
having motion either. in a plane parallel with or perpendicular to the
back of the body of the carring, and being engaged with and disengaged
from the end of the shaft or pin on the said body, substantially as.
described and illustrated.'
In witness whereof, I, the said George Carter Hascler, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of
November, in the year of our Lord One thousand cight hundred
and seventy-four.
Witness,
GEORGE SHAW. .
GEORGE CARTER HASELER. (L.S.).