CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING SPURS AND OTHER METAL PORTIONS OF SADDLERY AND HARNESS FURNITURE, AND WHICH SAID IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE FOR ORNAMENTING OTHER FANCY ARTICLES MADE OF WROUGHT OR CAST METAL
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Catherine Sheldon, of Saint George's Place, Great
Hampton Row, Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Spur Manu-
facturer, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN ORNAMENTING
SPURS AND OTHER METAL PORTIONS OF SADDLERY AND HARNESS FURNITURE,
AND WHICH SAID IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE FOR ORNAMENTING OTHER
FANCY ARTICLES MADE OF WROUGHT OR CAST METAL."
Sealed the 3rd September 1860, and dated the 9th March 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Catherine Sheldon at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with her Petition, on the
9th March 1860.
I, CATHERINE SHELDON, of Saint George's Place, Great Hampton Row,
Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Spur Manufacturer, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN
ORNAMENTING SPURS AND OTHER METAL PORTIONS OF SADDLERY AND HARNESS
FURNITURE, AND WHICH SAID IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE FOR ORNAMENTING
OTHER FANCY ARTICLES MADE OF WROUGHT OR CAST METAL," to be as follows
(that is to say) :-
My Invention consists, first, in ornamenting spurs, stirrups, bits, and other
metal parts of harness and saddlery by the application of real or artificial
precious stones or gems, and although such mode or description of ornaments*
Price 8d.1

page_text: would not generally be appreciated in this country, nevertheless, I believe
that in some descriptions of foreign markets, such as South America and
other countries, the application of precious stones to the description of
articles above named will be appreciated.
And, secondly, my Invention relates to the mode of applying such stones, and
which said mode is also applicable to applying precious stones orimitation gems
to other descriptions of articles that are usually finished with florid ornaments,
such as gas fittings, chandeliers, lock furniture, and bell levers, and a variety
of other articles; and which said mode consists of so forming a tool to work
in a lathe or other similar mechanical appliance, that by applying the face or
part of the article intended to be ornamented to the working part of the tool,
a cavity will be turned out for holding the gem, and an annular ring or rim
formed around it, and the articles thus treated has only to have the stone
dropped in the cavity so prepared for it, when the ring before referred to may
be gathered in around it, so as to perfectly hold and secure it; and this setting
or fixing I purpose effecting also by a tool, which may also be worked in a
lathe, or put in rapid motion by any other suitable mechanism. This mode
not only sets and fixes the gem, but also burnishes the rim that surrounds it.
By the means herein-before described gems may be applied with great rapidity
and security, the tedious process of fitting, soldering, and polishing being
entirely avoided.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Catherine Sheldon in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
8th September 1860.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CATHERINE
SHELDON, of Saint George's Place, Great Hampton Row, Birmingham, in
the County of Warwick, Spur Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Ninth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-third year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Catherine Sheldon, Her special licence that I, the said Catherine Sheldon, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Catherine
Sheldon, my executors, adininistrators, 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,

page_text: and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS}
IN ORNAMENTING SPURS AND OTHER METAL PORTIONS OF SADDLERY AND HARNESS
FURNITURE, AND WHICH SAID IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE FOR, ORNAMENTING
OTHER FANCY ARTICLES MADE OF WROUGHT OR CAST METAL," upon the condition:
(amongst others) that I, the said Catherine Sheldon, my executors or adminis
trators, 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 Catherine Sheldon, do hereby declare
the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the sine is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by. the
following statement :-
My Invention consists in an improved method and means of ornamenting
certain portions of various industrial and artistic objects, that is to say, it
consists in an improved method of setting, iinbedding, or inlaying artificial or
natural gems, or other similar matters of ornamentation in the aforesaid;
industrial or artistic objects, and I effect this in the following mannor
make use of a tool, which, when a motion of rotation is given to it, and the!
surface of an object is brought into contact with it, will form in the object'a'
recess or indentation, or cup, round the outside of which is a groove tor
necking, consequently leaving a wall or circumference in the inner recess
standing as a vertica' rin; if, therefore, force be applied either to the outer or
inner face of the wall or rim, so as to push it out of the vertical plane, it will
either increase or decrease the circumference of the mouth of the cup. The
size of the face of the tool forming this latter is proportioned to the gem or
article to be inserted. The tool having been applied to the article to be orna-
mented, and the recess or cup formed, the gem is inserted, and all that remains
is simply to contract the circumference of the mouth of the cup, so as to cause
the wall or rim to grasp the upper or outer portion of the gem; of course this
can be effected in many ways, but that which I adopt and claim as part of iny
Invention is the following:-The first-mentioned tool is reinoved and another
substituted, the form of which is this, the interior of the face is hollowed-out
so as to resemble a conc, the base of which is at the face of the tool; the
diameter of this base is equal to or rather greater than the diameter of the
recess and its rim or wall; if a motion of rotation be given to: this tool, and
the article be again brought to its face, the recessed face of the tool covers the

page_text: gem and the rim of the setting; by simply pressing the article against the
tool the rim is contracted by the action of the hollow coned tool, and thus
surface of the gen.
grasps the upper
In order more clearly to illustrate the nature of foregoing Invention, and
this description of it, I have appended to this Specification the accompanying
Drawings, which are intended to shew the general form of the tools by which
I effect my system of setting, and also to exhibit the application of that
system to the ornamentation of some articles, it being understood, however,
that so long as the main principles of form and construction are retained,
the outline may be modified, and the size increased or diminished.
Figure 1 is a portion of a finger plate ornamented; Figure 2 is a small
chandelier pendant similarly ornamented; Figure 3 is a section of Figure 1
on line a, y, drawn to twice the scale, in order to shew clearly the process of
setting; Figure 4 is a sectional elevation of the tool No. 1 which I first nse
for making the recess or cup; Figure 5 is a similar elevation of tool No. 2,
which I use for closing the setting and fixing the gem.
The tool No. 1 being fixed in a lathe or brace, or bow, or any other
revolving instrument, and a quick motion of rotation being given to it, the
plate, as in Figure 1, is brought up to the face of the tool, and the indentation
marked in Figure 3 is made. The gem is now inserted, as shewn in b,
Figure 3, and tool No. 3 being now substituted for No. 1, the plate is again
brought under the face of the tool, and the rim is caused to contract and grasp
the gem, as shewn at c in Figure 3, from which it cannot fall out or be
extracted without pushing back the rim; it also burnishes as well as forms the
setting. It will be clearly seen that the setting may be as large or as small
as wished by varying the size of the tools.
gems
By means of my process and apparatus I am enabled to effect the setting of
of any kind, or other siniilar matters, not only in a much quicker time,
but in a far more substantial and elegant manner than by any other ordinary
mode of manipulation. It will also be easily seen that my method includes
either the Roman or cup setting, that is to say, the cup or indent may have
any depth, or therim alone may be formed without any cup; also a cup may
be formed without being visible on the surface, so as to produce a most perfect
Roman setting. From the rapidity with which the setting can be performed,
I anticipate not only the setting of real or imitation gems in the more
expensive metals, but also to many other articles, such as the metal portions
of saddlery. harness, and locksmith's furniture, gun fittings, chandeliers, and
brass work generally, plated ware, cuttlery, mouldings, and cabinet furniture;
in short, all kinds of articles and fancy manufactures when wrought or cast

page_text: metals are to be ornamented by setting or inlaying. I would here also remark,
that although I have stated that I apply my process of setting to all cast and
wrought metals, at the same time it can also be applied to other materials,
such as bone horn, some kinds of wood, and compositions of various kinds
used in the manufacture of articles to be ornamented.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and how the same is
effected and applied, I wish it understood that what I want secured to me by
the before in part recited Letters Patent, is, the mode of setting, imbedding,
or inlaying gems, or other such like objects, for the purpose of ornamenting
articles composed wholly or partially of any cast or wrought motals, or of other
materials upon which tho said mode can be applied,substantially as set forth
in this Specification, and illustrated generally in the Drawings appended
hereto.
In wittness whereof, I, the said Catherine Sheldon, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Sixth day of September, One thousand eight
hundred and sixty.
CATHERINE SHELDON. (L.s.)
Witness,
PHILLIP VAUGHTON,
No. 8, Saint George's Place.