CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BROOCHES, PART OF WHICH SAID IMPROVEMENTS ARE APPLICABLE TO THE MANUFACTURE OF LOCKETS
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Carter Haseler and John Bush Haseler, both
of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Jewellers, for the Invention
of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BROOCHES, PART OF
WHICH SAID IMPROVEMENTS ARE APPLICABLE TO THE MANUFACTURE OF
LOCKETS."
Sealed the 4th August 1865, and dated the 11th February 1865.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Carter Haseler
and John Bush Haseler at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents,
with their Petition, on the 11th February 1865.
We, GEORGE CARTER HASELER and JOHN BUSH HASELER, both of Bir-
mingham, in the County of Warwick, Jewellers, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
BROOCHES, PART OF WHICH SAID IMPROVEMENTS ARE APPLICABLE TO THE MANUFACTURE
OF LOCKETS," to be as follows:-
Our Invention consists of two parts, first, in making the bodies for brooches
without seam from one piece of metal (instead of from two or more pieces of
metal, as is now customary) by raising the same from flat metal blanks and
curling over the edges until the part which was the outside of the blank is
turned in so as to form the inner frame or recess for the reception of an
ordinary box and glass. This first part of our Invention we consider to be
particularly applicable to the manufacture of the bodies of lockets.
Secondly, our Invention consists in the application of a rod or shaft, on
which the body or centre part of a brooch may turn or revolve in manner

page_text: following:-We take a body or centre part, made as described in the first
part of this Invention, and make two holes opposite each other, one on each
side of the said body or centre part. Through these two holes we insert a
rod or shaft, and to each outer end of the rol or shaft we attach a metal
ornament at right angles to the said rod or shaft. On one side of such metal
ornaments we fix an ordinary brooch joint and tongue, and on the metal
ornament at the other end of the rod or shaft we fix an ordinary catch ring.
By such an arrangement either side of the body or centre part can be
turned to the front.
A modification of this part of our Invention may be effected by making
the two metal ornaments on which the joint and catch are fixed to revolve
separately on separate pivots, which pivots are either fixed to the side of
the body or centre part of the brooch, or else fixed to the metal ornaments,
from thence going through the rod or shaft holes, and are afterwards secured
inside the body or centre part, thus doing away with that part of the rod or
shaft which runs through or across the interior of the body or centre part of
the brooch. This part of our Invention is applicable to the centres or body
parts of brooches made in the ordinary way.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Carter Haseler and John Bush Haseler in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 5th August 1865.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, GEORGE
CARTER HASELER and JOHN BUSH HASELER, both of Birmingham, in the County
of Warwick, Jewellers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Eleventh day of February, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-eighth year
of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant
unto us, the said George Carter Haseler and John Bush Haseler, Her
special licence that we, the said George Carter Haseler and John Bush
Haseler, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others, as we, the
said George Carter Haseler and John Bush Haseler, our executors, adminis-
trators, 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 "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BROOCHES, PART

page_text: OF WHICH SAID IMPROVEMENTS ARE APPLICABLE TO THE MANUFACTURE OF LOCKETS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said George Carter Haseler
and John Bush Haseler, our executors or administrators, by an instrument in
writing under our, 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 we, the said George Carter Haseler and John
Bush 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 (that is to say)
:-
Our Invention consists of two parts, first, in making the bodies for brooches
without seam from one piece of metal (instead of from two or more pieces of
metal as is now customary), by raising the same from flat metal blanks and
curling over the edges until the part which was the outside of the blank is
turned in so as to form the inner frame or recess for the reception of an
ordinary box and glass. This first part of our Invention we consider to be
particularly applicable to the manufacture of the bodies of lockets.
Secondly, our Invention consists in the application of a rod or shaft on which
the body or centre part of a brooch may turn or revolve in manner following:-
We take a body or centre part made as described in the first part of this
Invention, and make two holes opposite each other, one on each side of the
said body or centre part; through these two holes we insert a rod or shaft,
and to each outer end of the rod or shaft we attach a metal ornament at
right angles to the said rod or shaft. On one side of such metal ornaments
we fix an ordinary brooch joint and tongue; and on the metal ornament at
the other end of the rod or shaft we fix an ordinary catch ring. By such
an arrangement either side of the body or centre part can be turned to the
front.
A modification of this part of our Invention may be effected by making
the two metal ornaments on which the joint and catch are fixed to revolve
separately on separate pivots, which pivots are either fixed to the side of the
body or centre part of the brooch, or else fixed to the metal ornament, from
thence going through the rod or shaft holes, and are afterwards secured inside
the body or centre part; thus doing away with that part of the rod or shaft
which runs through or across the interior of the body or centre part of the
brooch. This part of our Invention is applicable to the centres or body parts
of brooches made in the ordinary way,

page_text: Having described the nature of our Invention we will proceed to show, by
aid of the accompanying Drawings, the manner in which the same is to be
performed. Fig. 1 represents a section of a metal blank with the sides raised,
the edges being slightly curled over; Fig. 2 represents a section of the
same blank with the sides brought down to the position shown in the Drawing;
Fig. 3 represents a section of the same with the edges completely curled in.
When we desire to make the bodies of brooches or lockets from very
thin gold, we use a lining of base metal (iron or copper may be employed)
as shown in Fig. 4, which represents a section of a brooch or locket body
made by using a lining; d is the gold blank; b is the lining. The use of
this lining is to prevent the gold from becoming uneven in the part curled in
or turned over. We find from our experience that very thin metals cannot
be curled over or turned in as described in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, without more or
less "puckering," if unsupported by a more solid basis than the thin metal
alone would give. To prevent this we put a metal lining (of the same shape
as the blank) into the blank or body when in the shape represented by Fig. 1,
and this lining remains in during the whole process of curling over or turning
in the edges or sides, the process being the same when we use a blank made
of thick gold. When required, we remove the base metal lining by dissolving
the same in acids. The process by which we effect this peculiar form of
curled-in edges of a flat blank will be readily understood by button makers
and other workers in metals with press tools. The use of these seamless
bodies or boxes for the manufacture of brooches or lockets of the shape
described in the sectional drawing as shown in Fig. 3, forms the first part of
our Invention.
Fig. 5 is a front view of a brooch made according to the second part of our
Invention, with the recess for the box and glass left open to show the rod or
shaft on which the body of the brooch revolves; Fig. 6 is a back view of the
same brooch; c is the body of a brooch made according to the first part of our
Invention; d is the rod or shaft on which the body of the brooch revolves;
e, e, the two ornaments attached to the rod or shaft, at the back of one of
which said ornaments the joint f of the brooch tongue is fixed, and at the back
of the other said ornament the catch ring g is fixed.
Fig. 7 is a front view of a brooch, being a modification of the second part
of our Invention as shewn in Figs. 5 and 6; h, h, are two ornaments (on
which the joint and catch ring are fixed as shewn in Fig. 6) revolving
separately on separate pivots i, i, fixed one on each side of the body of the.
brooch and going through holes in the ornaments h, h, which ornaments are
secured by means of screw nuts j, j, or by soldering or otherwise.

page_text: Fig. 8 represents a further modification of this part of our Invention, the
pivots k, k, are fixed one on each of the ornaments 1, 7, thence passing
through the rod or shaft hole, and are secured by means of screw nuts m, m,
or by soldering, or otherwise. Each ornament revolves separately as in Fig. 7.
This second part of our Invention is applicable to the centre or body parts
of brooches made in the ordinary way, and of different materials; Fig. 9 is a
brooch, the body or centre part of which is made of jet, with a recess for a
box and glass, the recess is left open to shew the rod or shaft on which the
centre part revolves as in Fig. 5; n, n, is the body of a brooch; o is the rod
or shaft; p, p, are the two ornaments fixed on the end of the rod or shaft o,
and at the back of which the joint and the catch ring are fixed as shewn in
Fig. 6.
Having now described the nature of our Invention, and the manner in
which the same is to be performed, we wish it to be understood that we do
not limit ourselves to the precise details herein-before described and illustrated
in the Drawings, as the same may be varied without departing from the
nature of our said Invention, but we desire to claim as our Invention:-
Firstly, the use of the seamless body or box as described and illustrated in
Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4, for the manufacture of brooches and lockets.
Secondly, the use of a lining in making the seamless body or box from thin
metal as herein-before described and illustrated in Fig. 4.
Thirdly, the improvements in revolving brooches as herein-before described
and illustrated in Figs. 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9.
In witness whereof, we, the said George Carter Haseler and John Bush
Haseler have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Third day of
August, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
GEORGE CARTER HASELER. (L.S.)
JOHN BUSH HASELER.
(L.S.)
Witness,
G. R. HOLLAND,
Patent Office,
Birmingham.

page_text: Filed 23rd December 1865.
In the Matter of Letters Patent granted to George Carter Haseler
and John Bush Haseler, both of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Jewellers, for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE
OF BROOCHES, PART OF WHICH SAID IMPROVEMENTS ARE APPLICABLE TO THE
MANUFACTURE OF LOCKETS," bearing date the 11th day of February
1865 (No. 385).
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, GEORGE
CARTER HASELER and JOHN BUSH HASELER, both of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Jewellers, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters Patent, under
the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, bearing
date the Eleventh day of February, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and sixty-five, granted unto us, the said George Carter Haseler
and John Bush Haseler, the sole privilege to make, use, exercise, and vend
our Invention therein entitled "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF
BROOCHES, PART OF WHICH SAID IMPROVEMENTS ARE APPLICABLE TO THE MANUFACTURE
OP LOCKETS," within the said United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland,
the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, during the term of fourteen years
thence next ensuing, upon the condition (amongst others) that we, the said
George Carter Haseler and John Bush Haseler, should by an instrument in
writing under our hands and seals, particularly describe and ascertain the
nature of our said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed,

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and cause the same instrument to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office
within six calendar months next after the date of the said Letters Patent:
And whereas in pursuance of the said condition we did, by a Specification
under our hands and seals, bearing date the Third day of August, One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, particularly describe and ascertain
the nature of our said Invention, in what manner it is to be performed,
and did cause the same Specification to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within the time and in manner prescribed by the said condition
and Letters Patent: And whereas since the filing of the said Specification
we have been advised that some of the improvements described and claimed
in the said Specification are not new, and we are therefore desirous of
amending the said Specification by disclaiming such old parts.
NOW KNOW YE, that for the reasons aforesaid we do hereby disclaim
all that part or those parts of our Invention which relates or relate to
making the two metal ornaments on which the joint and catch are fixed to
revolve separately on separate pivots, and which are illustrated in Figs. 7 and 8
and described in our said Specification as follows:-
"A modification of this part of our Invention may be effected by making
"the two metal ornaments on which the joint and catch are fixed to revolve
"separately on separate pivots, which pivots are either fixed to the side of the
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body or centre part of the brooch, or else fixed to the metal ornament from
"thence going through the rod or shaft holes, and are afterwards secured
"inside the body or centre part, thus doing away with that part of the rod or
"shaft which runs through or across the interior of the body or centre part of
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the brooch. This part of our Invention is applicable to the centres or
body parts of brooches made in the ordinary way," being lines thirty-one
to thirty-nine inclusive of page three in the printed copy of the Specification
as printed by Her Majesty's Printers and published at the Great Seal
Patent Office.
And further on
"Fig. 7 is a front view of a brooch, being a modification of the second part
"of our Invention as shewn in Figs. 5 and 6. hh are two ornaments Con

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or by soldering or otherwise. Each ornament revolves separately as in.
"Fig. 7. This second part of our Invention is applicable to the centre or
"body parts of brooches made in the ordinary way, and of different materials,"
being lines thirty-four to thirty-nine inclusive of page four, and lines one to five
inclusive, and the following eleven words of page five, of said printed copy of the.
Specification both of which paragraphs we desire to strike out; we also desire.
to strike out the Figures "7, 8," on the concluding paragraph of our Specifica-.
tion, the same being in line twenty-three of page five of the said printed copy of
the Specification.
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And we disclaim all parts of the description of our said Invention con-
tained in our said Specification which are not contained in the said description.
as hereby altered, and we do hereby alter such description, and that the same.
shall henceforth describe the undisclaimed parts of the said Invention in these
words (that is to say) :-
"Our Invention consists of two parts, first, in making the bodies for brooches
"without seam from one piece of metal (instead of from two or more pieces
"of metal as is now customary) by raising the same from flat metal blanks,
"and curling over the edges until the part which was the outside of the blank
"is turned in so as to form the inner frame or recess for the reception of an
"ordinary box and glass. This part of our Invention we consider to be par-
"ticularly applicable to the manufacture of the bodies of lockets. Secondly,
"our Invention consists in the application of a rod or shaft on which the body
"or centre part of a brooch may turn or revolve in manner following:-
"We take a body or centre part made as described in the first part of this
"Invention and make two holes opposite each other, one on each side of the.
"said body or centre part; through these two holes we insert a rod or shaft, and
"to each outer end of the rod or shaft we attach a metal ornament at right
"angles to the said rod or shaft. On one side of such metal ornaments we.fix
"an ordinary brooch joint and tongue, and on the metal ornament at the other
"end of the rod or shaft we fix an ordinary catch ring. By such an arrange-
"ment either side of the body or centre part can be turned to the front."
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Having described the nature of our Invention we will proceed to show
by aid of the accompanying Drawings the manner in which the same is to
"be performed. Fig. 1 represents a section of a metal blank with the sides
"raised, the edges being slightly curled over; Fig. 2 represents a section of
"the same blank with the sides brought down to the position shown in the
Drawing; Fig. 3 represents a section of the same with the edges completely
" curled in."
"
"When we desire to make the bodies of brooches or lockets from very thin

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gold we use a lining of base metal (iron or copper may be employed) as
"shewn in Fig. 4, which represents a section of a brooch or locket body made
"
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by using a lining. d is the gold blank; 6 is the lining; the use of this lining
"is to prevent the gold from becoming uneven in the part curled in or turned
over. We find from our experience that very thin metals cannot be curled
"over or turned in, as described in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, without more or less
puckering if unsupported by a more solid basis than the thin metal alone
"would give; to prevent this we put a metal lining (of the same shape as
"the blank) into the blank or body when in the shape represented by Fig. 1,
"and this lining remains in during the whole process of curling over.or
"turning in the edges or sides, the process being the same when we use
"a blank made of thick gold. When required we remove the base metal
"lining by dissolving the same in acids."
"The process by which we effect this peculiar form of curled-in edges of a
"flat blank will be readily understood by button makers and other workers in
"metals with press tools."
"
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"The use of these seamless bodies or boxes for the manufacture of brooches
or lockets of the shape described in the sectional Drawing, as shown in
Fig. 3, forms the first part of our Invention."
"Fig. 5 is a front view of a brooch made according to the second part of
"our Invention, with the recess for the box and glass left open to shew the
"rod or shaft on which the body of the brooch revolves; Fig. 6 is a back view
"of the same brooch; c is the body of a brooch made according to the first
part of our Invention. d is the rod or shaft on which the body of the brooch
"revolves; e, e, the two ornaments attached to the rod or shaft, at the back s
"of one of which said ornaments the joint f of the brooch tongue is fixed,
"and at the back of the other said ornament the catch ring g is fixed.
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Fig. 9 is a brooch, the body or centre part of which is made of jet with a
"recess for a box and glass, the recess is left open to shew the rod or shaft
"
on which the centre part revolves, as in Fig. 5; n, n, is the body of a brooch.
" is the rod or shaft; p, p, are the two ornaments fixed on the end of the
" rod or shaft o, and at the back of which the joint and the catch ring are
fixed, as shown in Fig. 6."
"Having now described the nature of our Invention, and the manner
"in which the same is to be performed, we wish it to be understood that we
" do not limit ourselves to the precise details herein-before described and
"illustrated in the Drawings, as the same may be varied without departing
"from the nature of our said Invention; but we desire to claim as our
Invention,
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Firstly, the use of the seamless body or box, as described and illustrated
in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4, for the manufacture of brooches and lockets."
"Secondly, the use of a lining in making the seamless body or box from
"thin metal as herein-before described and illustrated in Fig. 4."
Thirdly, the improvements in revolving brooches as herein-before described
"and illustrated in Figs. 5, 6, and 9."
And we the said George Carter Haseler, and John Bush Haseler, do further
declare that the above-written Disclaimer is not nor is any part thereof intended
to extend the exclusive right granted by the said Letters Patent, and that these
Presents shall not extend the said exclusive right in any way whatsoever.
In witness whereof, we, the said George Carter Haseler and John Bush
Haseler, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Eighteenth day
of November 1865.
I hereby grant my fiat, giving leave to the above-named George Carter
Haseler and John Bush Haseler, to file in the Great Seal Patent Office, with
the Specification to which the same relates, the above-written Disclaimer as
amended in red ink.