IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR SHIRT STUDS, SLEEVE LINKS, SOLITAIRES, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF JEWELLERY AND DRESS, WHICH IMPROVEMENTS
Year: 1873

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to William Edward Wiley, of Birmingham, in
the County of Warwick, for the Invention of “IMPROVEMENTS IN
FASTENINGS FOR SHIRT STUDS, SLEEVE LINKS, SOLITAIRES, AND OTHER
ARTICLES OF JEWELLERY AND DRESS, WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO
Scaled the 20th February 1874, and dated the 17th November 1873.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said William Edward Wiley
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 17th November 1873.
I, WILLIAM EDWARD WILEY, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "In-
PROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR SHIRT STUDS, SLEEVE LINKS, SOLITAIRES, AND
OTHER ARTICLES OF JEWELLERY AND DRESS, WHICH IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO
APPLICABLE TO PENCIL CASES AND LEAD BOXES," to be as follows :—
The Invention relates to improvements upon an Invention for which
Letters Patent were granted to John Wall, dated the 12th July, 1871,
Number 1824, and has for its object the production of cheaper and
more secure fastenings for the two parts of the aforesaid articles.

page_text: For this purpose, instead of forming the tube or hollow pin and the
spring tongue in separate parts formed to the shape required and then
rivetted or otherwise connected together, I form the spring tongue and
the tube or hollow pin in one piece, stamped, cut, and shaped to the form
required, so that the spring tongue shall form a part of the tube or
hollow pin.
Or if desired the tube or hollow pin and the spring
tongue may be formed in two parts rivetted together, the spring tongue
in this case also forming a part of the hollow pin.
Another part of my Invention consists in the employment of two
such spring tongues instead of only one, whereby greater security is
obtained in the fastening than heretofore.
I also form on such spring tongue or tongues in one piece therewith a
projection or projections to be acted upon by the thumb and finger, to
enable such spring tongue or spring tongues to be pressed inwards to
release the two parts of the fastening from each other, or I employ
separate slides or a central sliding tube to act on the end or ends of the
spring tongue or spring tongues to press them together when required,
or one part of the fastening may be caused to revolve upon the other so
as in one position to allow the spring tongue or spring tongues to spring
outwards and thereby bring their ends under suitable flanges, catches, or
projections, and when turned into the other position to enable such
spring tongue or tongues to be readily released therefrom.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said William Edward Wiley in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 16th May 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, WILLIAM
EDWARD WILEY, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, send
greeting.
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WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of November, in the year 3
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the
thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said William Edward Wiley, Her
special license that I, the said William Edward Wiley, my executors,

page_text: administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said William
Edward Wiley, my executors, administrators, 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 "IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR SHIRT STUDS, SLEEVE LINKS,
SOLITAIRES, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF JEWELLERY AND DRESS, WHICH IMPROVEMENTS
ARE ALSO APPLICABLE TO PENCIL CASES AND LEAD BOXES," upon the condition
(amongst others) that I, the said William Edward Wiley, my executors
or administrators, 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 William Edward Wiley, 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 thereof, that is to say:―
The Invention relates to improvements upon an Invention for which
Letters Patent were granted to John Wall, dated the 12th July, 1871,
Number 1824, and has for its object the production of cheaper and more
secure fastenings for the two parts of the aforesaid articles.
For this purpose, instead of forming the tube or hollow pin and the
spring tongue in separate parts formed to the shape required, and then
rivetted or otherwise connected together, I form the spring tongue and
the tube or hollow pin in one piece, stamped, cut, and shaped to the
form required, so that the spring tongue shall form a part of the tube or
hollow pin. Or if desired the tube or hollow pin and the spring tongue
may be formed in two parts rivetted together, the spring tongue in this
case also forming a part of the hollow pin.
Another part of my Invention consists in the employment of two
such spring tongues instead of only one, whereby greater security is
obtained in the fastening than heretofore.
I also form on such spring tongue or tongues, in one piece therewith,
a projection or projections, to be acted upon by the thumb and finger. to

page_text: enable such spring tongue or spring tongues to be pressed inwards to
release the two parts of the fastening from each other, or I employ
separate slides or a central sliding tube to act on the end or ends of the
spring tongue or spring tongues to press them together when required,
or one part of the fastening may be caused to revolve upon the other, so
as in one position to allow the spring tongue or spring tongues to spring
outwards, and thereby bring their ends under suitable flanges, catches,
or projections, and when turned into the other position to enable such

page_text: jections & long enough to serve the purpose without the employment of
separate slides f.
At Figures 6 and 7 I have shown another stud, link, or solitaire, in
which the parts a, b, c, d, d³, and e are formed in a similar manner to the
above; but instead of employing slides to facilitate the releasing of one
part of the fastening from the other I in this case employ a central
sliding tube g, which by being pushed inwards acts upon the spring
tongues d to push them inwards.
At Figures 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 I have represented various views of
another stud, link, or solitaire, in which the spring tongues d are formed
in a separate piece from the pin c, and the pin c and socket e are of an
oval form instead of being formed circular.
Figures 8 and 9 are side views, and Figures 10 and 11 are edge views
of the two parts of the stud, link, or solitaire, and Figure 12 is a plan
of the socket e, whilst Figure 13 is a side view of the blank employed
to form the pin c, and Figure 14 is a section of wire from which the
blank is formed. In this case instead of employing a complete central
sliding tube g to facilitate the releasing of one part of the fastening
from the other I employ only portions of such tube g, as shown in
Figures 9 and 11.
At Figures 15, 16, 17, 18, and 19 I have represented various views of
a stud, link, or solitaire, in which the pin c and spring tongues d are
formed from one piece of metal of the shape shown at Figure 20, which
piece is doubled into the form shown at Figure 16 to act in connection
with an oval socket e as shown, whilst the two parts of the fastening
may be released from each other by the means shown, or by a central
sliding tube as shown at Figure 7, or by portions of a tube as shown at
Figures 9 and 11.
At Figures 21 and 22 I have represented two views of one part of a
stud, link, or solitaire, in which the tube or hollow pin o and the spring
tongues d are formed in one piece in a similar manner to that shown at
Figures 1, 4, 5, and 6, but a different mode of acting upon the spring
tongues d to release them from the socket e is employed. In this
arrangement I employ two levers h mounted in a bridge piece i and
acted upon by a central sliding piece a¹.
Figure 23 is a plan of the plate a separately, and Figure 24 is an
edge view of one of the levers h, and Figure 25 is a plan of a blank

page_text: employed to form a lever h; Figure 26 represents a plan of the blank
employed to form the bridge piece i, and Figure 27 shows an edge view
of the bridge piece i separately.
At Figures 28, 29, 30, 31, and 32 I have represented various views of
a stud, link, or solitaire formed according to my Invention, so that by
rotating one part of the fastening upon the other in one position the
spring tongues d will be allowed to spring outwards and thereby bring
their ends under flanges or projections e¹, and by rotating the parts in
the other position such spring tongues may be readily released there-
from. For this purpose I form the socket e of an oval form with a
circular hole in the end thereof, as shown more clearly at Figure 32, to
admit of the stud or hollow pin c and spring tongues d entering therein,
and to enable the parts of the fastening to be readily connected together
and released from each other as above described.
Figure 33 is a section of wire employed to form the pin c, and
Figure 34 is a section of the pin c.
I would here remark that although I have only described the appli-
cation of my Invention to studs, links, or solitaires, it is equally
applicable to other articles of jewellery requiring similar fastenings, and
to the covers of pencil cases and lead boxes.
In witness whereof, I, the said William Edward Wiley, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of May,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
seventy-four.