An Improved Combined Brooch and Flower Holder.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 9th June, 1886.
Complete Left, 9th Mar., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 15th Apr., 1887.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Combined Brooch and Flower Holder.
We, JOHN RICHARDS, of 62, Northampton Street, Birmingham, Warwickshire,
Chaser, FREDERICK JENKINS and SAMUEL JENKINS, both of Unity Works, Vittoria
Street, Birmingham, aforesaid, Stampers and Piercers, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows:-
One form of our improved combined brooch and flower holder consists of a strip or
blank of sheet metal of suitable thickness, length and width bent centrally at right
angles to its length to the shape of the letter U when viewed edge ways the two
arms of the U forming the front and back respectively of the brooch and flower holder
of which the said bent part may be said to form one side. The front arm may be
ornamented in any desired manner and to the back arm is fixed an ordinary hinged
brooch pin and catch for attaching it to the dress as a brooch. One of the said arms
is made a little longer than the other and bent inwardly to form a hook under which
the end of the other arm can be sprung to secure the ends of the two
together when required. The said bent part connecting the two arms together forms
a spring hinge which causes the two arms to spring a short distance apart when their
ends are not secured together.
arms
Flowers can be securely held by our Invention as above described by placing their
stalks between the said arms and then fastening the ends of the arms together as above
described.
We prefer to form teeth on the edges of either the back or front arm or on both so
as to hold the flower stalks more securely.
Instead of securing the ends of the arms together by forming one of them as a hook
as above described other means may be employed such for instance as an ordinary
spring catch formed on the end of one of the arms which takes into a corresponding
hole formed in the other.

page_text: Instead of bending the strip or blank centrally to form a back having an arm hinged
at one side as above described it may be bent at about one-fourth its length from each
end so as to form a back part having two arms hinged at opposite sides the ends of the
two arms thus formed meeting in front at the centre of the brooch where they may be
fastened to the back part by an ordinary catch when required.
Sheet metal may, if desired, be only used for the bent or hinged part or parts of
our Invention the back and front thereof being formed of other metal or suitable
substance as used for other articles of jewellery.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Combined Brooch and Flower Holder.
We, JOHN RICHARDS, of 62, Northampton Street, Birmingham, Warwickshire,
Chaser, FREDERICK JENKINS and SAMUEL JENKINS, both of Unity Works, Vittoria
Street, Birmingham, aforesaid, Stampers and Piercers, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
One form of our improved combined brooch and flower holder consists of a strip or
blank of sheet metal of suitable thickness, length and width bent centrally at right
angles to its length to the shape of the letter U when viewed edgeways the two arms
of the U forming the front and back respectively of the brooch and flower holder of
which the said bent part may be said to form one side. The front arm may be
ornamented in any desired manner and to the back arm is fixed an ordinary hinged
brooch pin and catch for attaching it to the dress as a brooch. One of the said arms
is made a little longer than the other and bent inwardly to form a hook under which
the end of the other arm can be sprung to secure the ends of the two arms together
when required. The said bent part connecting the two arms together forms a spring
hinge which causes the two arms to spring a short distance apart when their ends are
not secured together.
Flowers can be securely held by our Invention as above described by placing their
stalks between the said arms and then fastening the ends of the arms together as
above described.
We prefer to form teeth on edges of either the back or front arm or on both so as
to hold the flower stalks more securely.
On the accompanying drawing Fig. 1 represents a sheet metal blank for forming
one form of our improved combined brooch and flower holder, Fig. 2 is a plan open
of the brooch and flower holder made from the sheet metal blank represented by
Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a front view and Fig. 4 a back view of the same.
In these Figures
the same letters of reference indicate the same parts.
In making one form of the said combined brooch and flower holder we take a strip
or blank of sheet metal as represented by Fig. 1 which is bent centrally at so as to
form two arms a, b, representing together the letter Ụ (see Fig. 2). The arm a
which may be ornamented as desired forms the front of the brooch and flower holder
and the arm & forms the back thereof and has an ordinary hinged brooch pin d and
catch for attachment to the dress as a brooch. One of the arms, preferably the
arm b, is made longer than the arm a and bent inwardly at so as to form a hook
under which the end a¹ of the arm a can be sprung to secure the two arms together
when required (see Fig. 4). When the ends of the arms a, b are not secured together
they are caused to spring apart by the bent part e which forms a spring hinge con-
necting the two arms a, b together. Teeth e are formed on the back arm b (and they
may be similarly formed on the front arm) so as to more firmly hold the flower stalks

page_text: when placed between the arms, and the outer ends a¹, b¹ of the arms are secured
together as above described.
Instead of securing the ends of the arms together by forming one of them as a
hook as above described and illustrated by Figs. 1 to 4, both inclusive, other means
may be employed such for instance as an ordinary spring catch f (see Fig. 5) formed
preferably on the end of the arm which takes into a corresponding hole g formed in
the arm a.
Instead of bending the strip or blank centrally to form a back having an arm hinged
at one side as above described and illustrated by Figs, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 it may be bent
at about one-fourth its length from each end (see Figs. 6 and 7) so as to form a back
part having two arms a², a hinged at opposite sides, the ends of the two arms thus
formed meeting in front at the centre of the brooch (see Fig. 7) where they may be
fastened to the back part b when required by the ordinary catch which takes into
holes, in the said arms.
As a modification of the above instead of forming the front and back parts together
they may be formed separate from each other and hinged or jointed together for
instance as shewn by Figs. 8 and 9 where the back part 6 has a tongue 62 formed at
one side and the front a has two similar tongues a, a' which said tongues are turned
round to form eyes through which a wire passes thus forming an ordinary hinge which
allows of the front part a being opened out from the back part (see Fig. 8) or of
being brought against the back part band connected thereto (see Fig. 9).
Sheet metal may, if desired, be only used for the bent or hinged part or parts of our
Invention the back and front thereof being formed of other metal or suitable substance
as used for other articles of jewellery for instance as in the brooch and flower holder
illustrated by Fig. 10 where the sheet metal bent part e is soldered or otherwise fixed
to the back part band to the front part a.
In conclusion we wish it to be understood that we do not limit ourselves to the
precise details herein described and illustrated as the same may be varied without
departing from the nature of our Invention as for instance the front part a and the
back part may be hinged together at the right hand side or at the top or bottom of
the article instead of at the left hand side as illustrated.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is :
1st. The improved combined brooch and flower holder hereinbefore described with
reference to Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9 and 10 of the accompanying drawing, that is to
say, an article for the purposes described consisting essentially of two arms forming
respectively the back and front of the article hinged or jointed together at one side
and so constructed that they may be fixed together when required substantially as
described and illustrated.
2nd. The modified form of combined brooch and flower holder hereinbefore
described with reference to Figs. 6 and 7 of the accompanying drawing, that is to say,
an article for the purposes described consisting essentially of a back part having an arm
hinged or jointed at each side and so constructed that the said arms and back part
may be fixed together when required substantially as described and illustrated.
Dated this 8th day of March 1887.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.