A New or Improved Coin Mount for Personal Ornaments.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 30th Oct., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 26th June, 1889-Accepted, 27th July, 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Coin Mount for Personal Ornaments.
We WILLIAM LIGHT, and JOHN HENRY WITCOMB, both of Augusta Street
Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Manufacturing Jewellers, do bereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
Our invention has for its object, the holding and securing of coins, within their
mounts, when the said coins are used as personal ornaments.
The mount and fastening consists of a circular frame like holder, provided with
a rearly jointed cross bar, whose fore part, or free end, is secured by a catch or other
fastener.
We will first describe our invention, in connection with a brooch mount.
We take a circular frame like holder, with a recessed back, of which the sunken
part is of an inside diameter, equal to the diameter of a coin to be held.
Directed across the back of the coin, in the direction of its diameter, is a bar,
jointed at one end to the side of the frame, and at the other and free end, to the
other side of the said frame, by a loop or catch fastener, preferably like that of
an ordinary brooch. The joint end of the bar, and the catch fastener part, are
preferably secured to, or carried by, or employed in connection with the joint and
catch fastener part, of the ordinary tongue of a brooch; so that the coin securing
bar and tongue, lie coincident one under the other.
The obverse or back of the coin, preferably lies in the same plane as the back
rim of the mount, while the affixing cross bar is slightly bowed inwardly, so as to
ensure its perfect bearing upon the coin held.
To secure a coin, place the same within the holder from the back thereof, when
the cross bar and tongue are vertical, then turn downwardly the bar upon its joint,
and secure its free end by the catch; and when in this position, the coin is secured
within the said mount, and can be used as a personal ornament.
The fastening bar, instead of being jointed to move vertically, may be jointed to
move horizontally; or the bar may be made to slide and pull out.
In applying our invention to ear-rings, charms, and other fixed and pendent articles
of jewellry, the coin mount is suspended or connected in a manner, consistent with-
the article to which it is applied.
By using coin mounts as described, the obverse or reverse side of a coin can be
changed, or a new one substituted, as the taste of the wearer may direct.
Dated this Twenty seventh day of October 1888.
WILLIAM LIGHT.
JOHN HENRY WITCOMB.
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Coin Mount for Personal Ornaments.
We, WILLIAM LIGHT and JOHN HENRY WITCOMB both of Augusta Street,
Birmingham in the County of Warwick, Manufacturing Jewellers, 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:
Our invention has for its object, the holding and securing of coins within their
mounts, when the said coins are used as personal ornaments.

page_text: The mount and fastening, consists of a circular frame-like holder, provided with a
rearly jointed cross bar, whose fore part or free end, is secured by a catch or other
fastener.
We will first describe our invention in connection with a brooch mount.
We take a circular frame-like bolder, with a recessed' back, of which the sunken part
is of an inside diameter, equal to the diameter of a coin to be held.
Directed across the back of the coin, in the direction of its diameter, is a bar, joined
at one end to the side of the frame, and at the other and free end, to the other side of
the said frame, by a loop or catch fastener, preferably like that of an ordinary
brooch The joint end of the bar, and the catch fastener part are preferably secured
to, or carried by, or employed in connection with the joint, and catch fastener part,
of the ordinary tongue of a brooch; so that the coin securing bar and tongue, lie
coincident one under the other.
The obverse or back of the coin preferably lies in the same plane as the back
rim of the mount, while the affixing cross bar is slightly bowed inwardly, so as to
ensure its perfect bearing upon the coin held.
To secure a coin, place the same within the holder from the back thereof, when the
cross bar and tongue are vertical, then turn downwardly the bar upon its joint, and
secure its free end by the catch, and when in this position, the coin is secured within
the said mount, and can be used as a personal ornament.
The fastening bar, instead of being jointed to move vertically, may be jointed to
move horizontally, or the bar may be made to slide and pull-out.
In applying our invention to car-rings, charms, and other fixed and pendent
articles of jewellery, the coin mount is suspended or connected in a manner con-
sistent with the article to which it is applied.
By using coin mounts as described, the obverse or reverse side of a coin can be
changed, or a new one substituted, as the taste of the wearer may direct.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents in back clevation, a personal
ornament coin mount, made according to our said invention.
Figure 2 represents a like view as figure 1, but with the tongue or pin for securing
the mount to an article of dress, unfastened and turned into a nearly vertical position.
Figure 3 represents partly in vertical section, and partly in elevation, the said
coin-mount, taken upon the dotted lines A B figure 1.
Figure 4 represents a section and elevation like that of figure 3, but with the coin
clamping bar, and affixing tongue, unfastened and turned outwardly upon their
respective joint centres.
Figure 5 represents a cross section of the said mount, upon the dotted lines CD
figure 1, whilst figure 6 represents a cross section on the dotted lines E F of the same
figure.
Figure 7 represents a top side view of the bar, with the tongue, or the frame of the
brooch-frame, shown in section.
Figure 8 represents the bar, directed at right angles to the frame-tongue, as in the
preceding figures, whilst figure 9 represents a double bar, with or without a frame-
tongue; and when no frame-tongue is employed, the mount may be employed as an
ordinary pendent article of jewellery.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.
a is a circular frame, rabated or sunken flanged on its inner edge, of an inside
diameter equal to the outside diameter of a coin to be held and displayed as a personal
ornament, either in the form of a brooch, or in the form of a pendent article.
When employed as a brooch coin-mount, the frame is provided with a tongue b
jointed at 2, to one edge of the frame a, and a bar jointed at c, and disposed under
and parallel with, the said tongue-The said bar is directed across the back of the
and with its free end, engaging with a catch-hole d², of a catch bracket d
common to both bar and tongue b.
coin
e,
The point b engages with the upper catch of the bracket d. Thus, it will be seen
that the coin-affixing bar and tongue or pin of the frame, are jointed approximate t
each other, and affixed by a catch bracket common to them both.

page_text: In figure 8, a is the frame, 6 the affixing tongue, with joint b³, and end 63, fastened
by an independent catch bracket d, while c is a coin-affixing bar, c³ the joint
connected to the frame a, and its free end, secured by an independent catch
fastener d.
Although we have described coins secured within the mounts, yet devices, equivalents
to coins may be substituted therefor.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is-
First. Securing coins or devices, within their mounts or frames, by a single and
jointed cross bar, as described and set forth.
Secondly.--Securing or holding coins or devices within their mounts or frames, by
a single cross bar, directed under, and paralled to, a fastening tongue; and which
said bar and tongue, are secured or fastened by a single bracket-catch, common to
them both, substantially as described and set forth.
Thirdly Fastening the free ends of combined frame tongues and securing bars,
of coin or device mounts, by a single catch-fastener, or fastener, bracket, substantially
as set forth.
Fourthly Fastening coins within their mounts, and securing mounts to the
person, by directing the tongue and bar at right angles, or at an angle to each other,
as set forth in figure 8.
Lastly. In a coin or device mount, making the socuring bar double, and with the
joint ends thereof, taking into knuckles or bearing holes carried by the frame,
substantially.as described and set forth.
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1000
WILLIAM LIGHT.
JOHN HENRY WITCOMB.
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicants.