A NEW OR IMPROVED RING FOR KEYS AND OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES."
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Valentine Wisedill, of Upper Street,
Islington, in the County of Middlesex, Jeweller, for the Invention
of "A NEW OR IMPROVED RING FOR KEYS AND OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Valentine
Wisedill at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 14th February 1868.
I, GEORGE VALENTINE WISEDILL, of Upper Street, Islington, in the
County of Middlesex, Jeweller, do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "A NEW OR IMPROVED RING FOR KEYS AND OTHER USEFUL
PURPOSES," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to a novel construction of ring for the purpose
of holding keys or for suspending articles in shop windows, or for
other useful purposes to which rings are applicable, such as for finger
rings or for cravat or scarf fasteners. The ring may be of metal,
bone, ivory, or other suitable material, and is made to open
divide and to close by the spring of the ring itself, one extremity having
a guide or groove cut on thunder surface, beyond which a cavity is

page_text: formed for the reception of a small projection or stud on the other end
of the oper ring, so that when the projection is pushed along the
groove and into the cavity the ring is fastened, and in order to open
it the under half of the ring is slightly pressed inwards, whereby the
projection springs back and leaves the cavity. If the ring is made of
bone or ivory or similar substance the projection may be of metal fixed
in the ring, and the groove and cavity may also be of metal for the
sake of durability. The projection or stud may be circular, square, or
polygonal, as desired.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Valentine Wisedill in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 14th August 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
VALENTINE WISEDILL, of Upper Street, Islington, in the County of
Middlesex, Jeweller, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Fourteenth day of February, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the
thirty-first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said George Valentine Wisedill, Her
special licence that I, the said George Valentine Wisedill, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said George
Valentine Wisedill, 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 "A NEW OR IMPROVED RING FOR KEYS AND OTHER USEFUL PURPOSES," upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said George Valentine
Wisedill, 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 George Valentine Wisedill, 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 :-
My Invention relates to a novel construction of ring for the purpose
of holding keys or for suspending articles in shop windows, or for other
useful purposes to which rings are applicable, such as for finger rings,
or for cravat or scarf fasteners. The ring may be of metal, bone,
ivory, or other suitable material, and is made to open or divide and
to close by the spring of the ring itself, one extremity having a guide
or groove cut on the under surface, beyond which a cavity is formed
for the reception of a small projection or stud on the other end of the
open ring, so that when the projection is pushed along the groove and
into the cavity the ring is fastened, and in order to open it the under
half of the ring is slightly pressed inwards, whereby the projection
springs back and leaves the cavity. If the ring is made of bone, or
ivory, or similar substance, the projection may be of metal fixed in the
ring, and the groove and cavity may also be of metal for the sake of
durability. The projection or stud may be circular, square, or polygonal,
as desired.
In order that my said Invention may be completely understood I
annex the accompanying Drawings, in which Fig. 1 shews an open view
of one form of ring with flat closing surfaces; Fig. 2 shews a. similar
view (in section) with curvilinear closing surfaces; and Fig. 3 shews the
ring in its closed position; Fig. 4 is a plan or top view of Fig. 1, and
Fig. 5 is a similar view of Fig. 2, the same letters denoting correspond-
ing parts in each Figure.
In Fig. 1a a represents the ring with the stud or projection b on the
surface of the under closing tongue c, which when the ring is closed
springs upwards and fits into the hole or cavity d, shewn in Fig. 4. In
Fig. 2 the projection 6 is shewn on the under surface of the upper
tongue e, and it passes along the groove f into the hole or cavity d in
the under tongue g. The movements necessary to open and close these
rings are easily accomplished; in order to close them it is only necessary
to apply the pressure of the finger to the ring near the under tongue,
keeping the upper tongue in a fixed position, when the two parts will spring
into gear and become secured together, effecting perfectly flush joints.

page_text: Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be carried into effect, I would remark
in conclusion that I do not limit myself to the exact details and
configuration of parts expressed and shewn, as the same may obviously
be varied or modified without departing from the principle of the
Invention; but what I claim and desire to be secured to me by the
herein in part recited Letters Patent is, the new or improved construction
of rings whereby they may be opened and closed and firmly secured,
substantially as and for the purposes herein specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Valentine Wisedill, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Sixth day of August, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
GEORGE VALENTINE WISEDILL. (L.S.)
Witness,
ALEXR. PRINCE,
Office for Patents,
4, Trafalgar Square,
Charing Cross.