AN IMPROVED FASTENER FOR EARRINGS
Year: 1884

page_text: I EDWARD HEMMING of Bk. 114 Steward Street Birmingham in the County of
Warwick Jeweller do hereby declare the nature of my invention for AN IMPROVED
FASTENER FOR EARRINGS to be as follows:
My invention consists of an improved and simple arrangement for preventing the
loss of earrings when in use, of the kind commonly called in commerce stud
earrings which improvement is also applicable to earrings having drops attached to
them.
I will describe my invention as applied to stud earrings.
I take a peice of straight wire a quarter of an inch in length or thereabouts and
of suitable thickness, in which I make a gap about two thirds the length of the
said wire, leaving the amount of material each side the said gap about equal.
I now make a bar of steel, or of any suitable metal, the width and thickness of
the said bar to correspond with the gap and the wire, and the length of the said
bar, to be almost double the length of the gap in the said wire.
One half of the bar is now inserted in the gap, and secured by means of a pin
or rivet passed through a hole drilled near the end of the wire and the centre of
the bar, allowing the said bar to be placed in any position.
The plain end of the wire is now soldered or otherwise attached to article to be
used as carring.
To attach the earring to the ear; the bar is placed in a straight line with tho
wire and passed through the peirced hole in the lobe of the ear. The earring and
the lobe of the ear are now gently pressed together the pressure making the lobe of
the ear thinner and allowing the bar to be placed across the peirced hole at the
back of the ear. The lobe of the ear when released will return to its natural
thickness and the said bar will be no longer capable of turning and the wire and
bar are incapable of being withdrawn from the ear.
In order to remove the carring; the carring and the lobe of the ear are pressed.
together as before stated, and the bar is placed in a straight line with the wire and
may be withdrawn.
Dated thin 10th 1004

page_text: I, EDWARD HEMMING. of, Bk. 114 Steward Street, Birmingham. in the County of
Warwick. Jeweller. do hereby declare the nature of my invention for AN IMPROVED
FASTENER FOR EAR-RINGS and in what manner the same is to be performed, to bo
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My invention consists of an improved and simple arrangement for preventing the
loss of ear-rings when in uso, of the kind commonly called in commerce stud
ear-rings, which improvement is also applicable to ear-rings having drops attached
to them.
I will describe my invention as applied to stud ear-rings.
I take a peice of straight wire a quarter of an inch in length or thereabouts and
of suitable thickness, in which I make a gap about two thirds the length of the
said wire, leaving the amount of material cach side the said gap about equal.
I now make a bar of steel or of any suitable metal the width and thickness of
the said bar to correspond with the gap and the wire and the length of the said
bar to be almost double the length of the gap in the said wire.
One half of the bar is now inserted in the gap and secured by means of a pin or
rivet passed through a hole drilled near the end of the wire and the centro of the
bar allowing the said bar to be placed in any position.
The plain end of the wire is now soldered or other-wise attached to article to be
used as ear-ring.
To attach thio-car-ring to-the ear the bar is placed in a straight line with the wire
and passed through the peirced hole in the lobe of the ear the ear-ring and tho
lobe of the car are now gently pressed together the pressure making the lobe of
the car thinner and allowing the said bar to be placed across the peirced hole at
the back of the ear the lobe of the car when released will return to its natural
thickness the said bar will be no longer capable of turning and the said wire and
bar are incapable of being withdrawn from the ear.
In order to remove the car-ring the ear-ring and the lobe of the car are pressed
together as before stated the bar is placed in a straight line with the wire and may
be withdrawn.
I will now describe with reference to the accompanying drawings the manner in
which my invention may be performed:
1
Figure 1, d, represents a stud ear-ring drawn on a large scale provided with a
fastener constructed according to my invention, the said fastener being represented
in the position to be placed in the ear. a, is the bar, b, is the wire in which the
said bar moves and which is attached to the said ear-ring, d.
Figure, 2, represents the fastener with the bar, a, placed accross the peirced hole
at the back of the ear; the ear-ring and the lobe of the car are pressed together
sufficiently to allow the said bar, a, to occupy the position represented; the lobe of
the car when released will occupy the length of wire from, b, to, c, the said wire
will be made in various lengths to suit an ear of any size, the said bar remaining
the original length.
Figures, 3, and, 4, represent the parts of the fastener.
Figure, 3, represents the bar, with one part, a, round and pointed, and the other
part, b, flat, with a hole drilled through the centre.
Figure, 4, represents the wire with the gap down the middle, and a hole drilled
near the end.
These parts figures, 3, and, 4, are joined together by means of a pin, or rivet,
passed through the drilled holes, they then occupy the respective positions, a,
and, b, as represented in figure, 1.

page_text: In order to remove tho car-ring, the car-ring and the lobe of the car are pressed
together, till the lobe of the ear occupies the space from, b, to, e, as represented in
figure, 2, the bar, a, is placed in the position represented in Figure 1, and may be
withdrawn.
The improvement described and illustrated may be applied to ear-rings having
drops attached to them, as well as to stud ear-rings, as represented in the drawings.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is the improvement herein-before described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings; that is to say, the jointed combination of the bar and
wire, which is attached to the ear-ring, and the arrangement for securing tho
car-ring from loss, when in use, substantially as described and illustrated.
Dated this fourth, day of March 1884.