Year: 1885

page_text: We GEORGE MALTBY HATHAWAY residing at 10, West, 23d Street, in the City
of New York, in the County and State of New York, and CHARLES DE BERARD
SHEPARD residing at same place, all in the United States of America, gentlemen, 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:
This, invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in the manner of
suspending the drop or jewel of an earring from the sustaining loop.
It is equally applicable however to other articles of jewelry having similar
pendants, and where it is desirable to sustain the latter upon a support permitting
their free oscillation or vibration with the slightest movement of the wearer,
thereby, especially when the drop is a diamond or other jewel increasing its
capacity for reflecting or flashing light rays, and correspondingly heightening its
value as an object of ornamentation.
The means by which the invention is carried into practical effect are illustrated
in the accompanying drawing forming a part of this application and wherein like
letters of reference indicate like parts.
Fig. 1 is a vertical central section of the ear-ring, showing one form of the
invention.
Fig. 2 represents detailed views of the same.
Fig. 3 is a vertical central section of a modification of the form shown in
Fige. 1 & 2.
Fig. 4 represents detail views of the modification shown in Fig. 3.
Fig. 5 represents a vertical central section of the earring showing the preferred
form of my invention and
Fig. 6 a detail view thereof showing the shape of the elongated socket or groove.
A indicates an ear-loop of vertical form having a ring attachment B, from which
the pendant or drop C is suspended. In the form illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 the
attachment B is provided with an inverted cup shaped socket G of hardened steel
or like material having a conical tapering bottom. The setting D of the pendant
or drop has a ring attachment F, and a downwardly projecting pin or stud E having
preferably, a point of hardened steel, iridium or like metal capable of resisting
frictional wear. The point of the pin, in this instance rests in the conical tapering
bottom of the socket in the ring B.

page_text: This pivotal connection permits of a free movement of the drop or pendant with
In the modifi-
respect to the ear-loop the hard bearing effectually resisting wear.
cation shown in Figs. 3 and 4, the setting attachment bears the socket and the ear-
loop attachment has a corresponding stud having a pivotal bearing in the same.
In the form illustrated in Figs. 5 and 6, the socket G is elongated to form a
groove, preferably V shaped in cross-section.
This elongated socket extends half way round the inner surface of the ring
attachments, in an inward and outward direction as the head of the wearer is
inclined to the right or to the left.
In inserting the pendant or drop it is merely necessary to open the ring' attach-
ment B. at its point of division M place the point of the pin within the groove or
socket, or groove or socket over the pin as the case may be, and after close the ring.
Within either of these pivotal connections the pendant is delicately poised and
free to partially rotate or vibrate, and in the grooved form to travel as above
described presenting constantly its surface to the light source and producing a
continuous series of flashes or reflections with each slight movement of the wearer.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is
1. In pendant jewelry, a pin and elongated socket connection for suspending the
drop or jewel substantially as described.
2. In pendant jewelry, the combination with the split ring attached to the ear
loop, and provided with an elongated socket and the ring attached to the drop or
pendant and provided with a pin or stud.