IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS PAR SOLITAIDS STUDS SLEFET LINKS AND OTHER ARTICLES LETTERS
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Garner Pendleton, of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Jeweller, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN FASTENINGS PAR SOLITAIDS STUDS SLEFET LINKS AND OTHER ARTICLES
LETTERS PATENT to Henry Garner Pendleton, of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Jeweller, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN FASTENINGS FOR SOLITAIRES, STUDS, SLEEVE LINKS, AND OTHER ARTICLES
OF JEWELLERY."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Garner Pendleton
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 21st September 1874.
I, HENRY GARNER PENDLETON, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Jeweller, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR SOLITAIRES, STUDS, SLEEVE LINKS, AND
OTHER ARTICLES OF JEWELLERY," to be as follows:-
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The nature of this Invention appears from the title. Its object is to
provide a fastening of a more secure and complete character than has
hitherto been done; and when in use the separate parts of which these
articles consist are by my Invention not only held together in a secure
manner, but the solitaire or stud, or other article to which the Invention

page_text: is applied is retained in the article of dress in which it is placed in one
position and cannot turn round; it can also be attached therein or
detached therefrom with the greatest facility.
My Invention consists substantially of three component parts.
There is, first, a plate or disc of metal suited to fit within the solitaire
and having its centre raised in such manner that a recess or grooved
space is formed in which the "post" (herein-after described) may
revolve.
The second component part is the "post," which is a piece of metal
attached vertically to a solitaire back, and which when in use takes
through the button hole of the article of dress to which the Invention is
applied. The "post" is so constructed that whilst it is plain at its top
or upper part it is provided lower down with a rim or projection to
prevent the cuff through which it may be placed from slipping upwards.
Above this rim or projection are two slots cut out of the metal which
causes the remaining or top part of the post to have the appearance of
two arms, and these two arms are shaped similarly to an archimedean
screw.
The third component part is the spring, which is made to fit the
inside of the solitaire, and which spring consists substantially of a thin
circular piece or disc of flat metal, but having so much of it cut away
as to leave two elastic arms, which when this cut-away disc is placed
within the solitaire may act as springs upon the two rigid arms of the
post when they come in contact with them, as they do when the post is
inserted through a suitable aperture provided in the first-named plate or
disc of metal, and the bevilled edges of the two arms or tops of the post
coming against these springs the said arms are caused to have a rotary
and inward motion until they reach and take into two slots or recesses
provided in the under side of the said first mentioned plate or disc, and
the fastening is complete.

page_text: position and cannot turn round; it can also be attached therein or
detached therefrom with the greatest facility.
My Invention consists substantially of three component parts.
There is, first, a plate or disc of metal suited to fit within the solitaire
and having its centre raised in such manner that a recess or grooved
space is formed in which the "post" (herein-after described) may
revolve.
The second component part is the "post," which is a piece of metal
attached vertically to a solitaire back, and which when in use takes
through the button hole of the article of dress to which the Invention is
applied. The post is so constructed that whilst it is plain at its top or
upper part it is provided lower down with a rim or projection to prevent
the cuff through which it may be placed from slipping upwards. Above
this rim or projection are two slots cut out of the metal which causes
the remaining or top part of the post to have the appearance of two
arms, and these two arms are shaped similarly to an archimedian screw.
The third component part is the spring, which is made to fit the
inside of the solitaire, and which spring consists substantially of a thin
circular piece or disc of flat metal, but having so much of it cut away
as to leave two clastic arms, which when this cut away disc is placed
within the solitaire may act as springs upon the two rigid arms of the
post when they come in contact with them, as they do when the post is
inserted through a suitable aperture provided in the first-named plate or
disc of metal, and the bevilled edges of the two arms or tops of the post
coming against these springs the said arms are caused to have a rotary
and inward motion until they reach and take into two slots or recesses
provided in the under side of the said first-mentioned plate or disc, and
the fastening is complete.
I will now more particularly describe my Invention and its mode of
action, and for this purpose I will refer to the Drawings annexed.
Fig. 1 gives a side view of the solitaire when fastened.
Fig.2, a view of the front part of the solitaire when unfastened, shewing
a peg a such as is ordinarily used in solitaires and studs and secured to
the inside of the solitaire.
Fig. 3 gives a view of the post b secured to a solitaire back c, shewing
the rim round the post at d, d, and the slots on each side the post at e, e;

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Henry Garner Pendleton in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 20th March 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, HENRY
GARNER PENDLETON, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Jeweller, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twenty-first day of September, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the thirty-
eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Henry Garner Pendleton, Her special
licence that I, the said Henry Garner Pendleton, my exccutors, admini-
strators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Henry Garner Pendleton,
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 SOLITAIRES, STUDS, SLEEVE LINKS, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF
JEWELLRY," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Henry
Garner Pendleton, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Henry Garner Pendleton, 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 nature of this Invention appears from the title. Its object is to
provide a fastening of a more secure and complete character than has
hitherto been done, and when in use the separate parts of which these
articles consist are by my Invention not only held together in a secure
manner, but the solitaire or stud, or other article to which the Invention
is applied is retained in the article of dress in which it is placed in one

page_text: also shewing the two arms f, f, and the slant on one side at g, there
being a corresponding slant on the other side at g, giving the end of the
post the appearance of an archimedian screw,.as also shewn at g,g,
Fig. 8.
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Fig. 4 gives a view of the plate shewing the circular, raised, or grooved
part h, h, in which the post revolves; and shewing also the hole į
through which the arms of the post are inserted.
Fig. 5 gives a sectional view of the plate when set in the solitair.
Fig. 6 gives another view of the plate, shewing the ends of the
spring j,j, and the end of the peg a through the hole i in the plate.
Fig. 7 gives a view of the spring shewing the elastic arms j, j.
Fig. 8 gives an end view of the post shewing the slants g, g, one on
each side of the arms, and shewing also a hole k going down the middle
of the post.
Fig. 9 gives an edge view of the post b, showing the slant g, the slot e,
and the rim d.
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Fig. 10 gives an inside view of the solitaire, showing the arms f, ƒ, of
the post locked behind the projections 1, 1.
When being used the post b is pushed through the button hole of the
cuff or other article of dress so that the cuff is below the rim d, d,
Fig. 3, the post b being formed to fit the button hole, and the rim d, d,
preventing the cuff slipping upwards; the peg a in the solitaire is then
inserted in the hole k (Fig. 8) in the post B, and the arms f,f, entering
the hole i in the plate meet with the elastic arms of the spring, which
acting on the slanting parts g, g, cause the post to revolve, and the plate
entering the slots e, e, as it revolves prevent the post being withdrawn
until it is revolved in the contrary direction to which the springs revolve,
it thus securing the two parts, back and front, of the solitaire together.
To prevent the post being undesignedly revolved when together, and
thus liberating the two parts, I put on the inside of the plate two pro-
jections, as shown at 1, 1, (Fig. 10) which when the spring has revolved
the arms of the post over them and pressed them down on the other side
prevents the post being re-revolved until the back and front parts of the
solitaire are pressed together and thus liberating the arms from behind
the projection and allowing it to be re-revolved, and thus the two parts
separated.

page_text: I also intend to use a small thin chain to connect the two parts of the
solitaire, so that it will be an impossibility for the separate parts to be
lost, as shown at Fig. 11.
Having thus described the nature and objects of my said Invention,
and the manner of carrying the same into effect, I declare that what I t
claim and desire to be secured to me by the herein-before in part recited
Letters Patent is, the improvements in fastenings for solitaires, studs,
sleeve links, and other articles of jewellery, substantially as herein-before
described and shewn on the annexed Drawings, or any mere modification
thereof.
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