A MORE CONVENIENT AND EFFECTUAL METHOD OF ATTACHING AND SECURING BROOCHES, AND SUCH LIKE ARTICLES, AND FOR IMPROVED FASTENINGS. TO BE USED THEREWITH AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES
Year: 1860

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Fulford Brown and Walter
Jeffery, at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with their Petition
on the 27th September 1860.
We, WILLIAM FULFORD BROWN, of Westgate Street, Gloucester, and
WALTER JEFFERY, of Eastgate Street, Gloucester, do hereby declare the nature
of the said. Invention for "A MORE CONVENIENT AND EFFECTUAL METHOD OF
ATTACHING AND SECURING BROOCHES, AND SUCH LIKE ARTICLES, AND FOR
IMPROVED FASTENINGS. TO BE USED THEREWITH AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES," to be
as follows:-
First, as applied to brooches and such like articles, it consists in the
employment of a detached pin with an improved fastening, to which the brooch
or other article is to be attached in the after-mentioned manner. The brooch
or such like article is to be provided with two loops, staples, or studs in lieu
of the attached "pin and joint," and catch as at present used, and the detached
pin having been inserted in the required position, one loop, staple, or stud is
passed over the point of the pin, the other loop, staple, or stud is to be secured
to the head of the pin, which must be formed with some such contrivance as
the following:-The head of the pin may be formed into a loop, as at a,
Fig. 1; over which is attached a sliding case, Fig. 2; secured by a rivet c,
Figs. 1, 2, 3; thus forming a fastening represented in Figs. 3 and 4, shut in
Fig. 3, and open in Fig. 4. The sliding case b, Figs. 2 and 3, is kept shut as
in Fig. 3 by a spring within it. Or the head of the pin may consist of a tube,
as at a, Fig. 5, 6, 7, 8, enclosing a concentric circular disc or ring, as b, Figs.

page_text: 5, 6, 7, 8. The pin may be fixed to either of these parts a or b, Figs. 5, 6,
7, 8, the other part being made to revolve. Through both of these parts
an opening is made for the admission of the loop, staple, or stud, as at c,
Figs. 5, 7, and the loop, staple, or stud is then secured by the circular motion
of a or b, as in Figs. 6 and 8.
Figs. 10 and 11 represent a slightly different form in which the exterior is
made with a projecting chamber c into which the loop, staple, or stud is
secured by the revolution of a.
Figs. 12 and 13 represent another form in which an interior projection d
forms part of the exterior tube a. The interior disc has a part cut away suffi-
cient to allow of the entrance of the loop, staple, or stud through the passage c,
Fig. 12, by a revolution of a this passage is closed, and the loop, staple or stud
falls into the enclosed part c, Fig. 13, where it prevents the return of d and
the re-opening of c.
The parts of this Invention which are claimed as being new are,-
First, the method of attaching brooches, and such like articles to a detached
pin by means of two simple loops, staples, or studs.
Secondly, the arrangements above described for fastening the brooch or such
like article to the pin.
Thirdly, the application of these fastenings or any fastening constructed on
these principles to the heads of pins for brooches and such like articles, and
their use as fastenings for lockets, necklets, bracelets, and other articles to
which they may be applicable.
We do not confine ourselves solely to these particular constructions of our
Invention, as the same may be made with various modifications; and we
purpose to apply it to the fastenings of a variety of small articles.