AN IMPROVED CATCH OR CLASP APPLICABLE AS A FASTENING FOR SOLITAIRES, BOOKS, PURSES, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF A LIKE OR SIMILAR NATURE
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Yarndley, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Manufacturing Jeweller, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVED CATCH
OR CLASP APPLICABLE AS A FASTENING FOR SOLITAIRES, BOOKS, PURSES, AND
OTHER ARTICLES OF A LIKE OR SIMILAR NATURE."
Sealed the 10th November 1876, and dated the 13th May 1876.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Yarndley at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 13th May 1876.
HENRY YARNDLEY, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturing
Jeweller. "AN IMPROVED CATCH OR CLASP APPLICABLE AS A FASTENING FOR
SOLITAIRES, BOOKS, PURSES, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF A LIKE OR SIMILAR
NATURE"
The object of this Invention is sufficiently specified in the title.
The Invention consists substantially in providing a bolt similar to that known as
a "Tower" bolt, except that according to my Invention the bolt proper does not
come beyond its frame and take in a staple, but when pushed forward it reaches to
the end of the said frame. The bolt and frame so constructed are then mounted
(when the Invention is intended to be applied as a solitaire fastening) on any
suitably shaped plate of metal, and an arm being binged at the back thereof and
having its other or free end provided with a loop, a slot is cut through the said plate
of metal and through the frame of the bolt, so that the said loop nay come through
both; and the said loop now forming, as it were, one of the staples which hold the
bolt upon its frame, the nose of the bolt is passed through it, and the said bolt
being then turned round and its handle or thumb piece resting in one of the notches
of the frame (after the manner of Tower bolts) the fastening is complete.
When my Invention is applied to books and purses, and other similar articles, for

page_text: the sake of connecting and holding together two separate parts, the plate of metal
herein-before mentioned may be dispensed with, and in these cases the Tower bolt
and the hinged arm or joint together constituto the fastening.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Henry Yarndley in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 10th
November 1876.
" AN
HENRY YARNDLEY, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Jeweller.
IMPROVED CATCH OR CLASP APPLICABLE AS A FASTENING FOR SOLITAIRES, BOOKS,
PURSES, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF A LIKE OR SIMILAR NATURE."
The object of this Invention is sufficiently specified in the title.
The Invention consists substantially in providing a bolt similar to that known as
રી "Tower" bolt, except that according to my Invention the bolt proper does not
come beyond its frame and take in a staple, but when pushed forward it reaches to
the end of the said frame. The bolt and frame so constructed are then mounted
(when the Invention is intended to be applied as a solitaire fastening) on any
suitable shaped plate of metal, and an arm being hinged at the back thereof and
having its other or free end provided with a loop, a slot is cut through the said
plate of metal and through the frame of the bolt, so that the said loop may come
through both; and the said loop now forming, as it were, one of the staples which
hold the bolt upon its frame, the nose of the bolt is passed through it, and the said
bolt being then turned round and its handle or thumb piece resting in onc
of the notches of the frame (after the manner of Tower bolts) the fastening is
complete.
When my Invention is applied to books and purses, and other similar articles, for
the sake of connecting and holding together two separate parts, the plate of metal
herein-before mentioned may be dispensed with, and in these cases the Tower bolt
and the hinged ann or joint together constitute the fastening.
That my Invention may be better understood I have annexed Drawings thereof,
which I now proceed to describe.
Fig. I is a front elevation, Fig. 2 an edge view, and Fig. 3 a section along the
centro line of the bolt of a solitaire constructed according to my Invention.
a is the frame of a "Tower" bolt which is secured by the screws b, or by other
similar means, to the plate c of the solitaire; d is the sliding bolt, the nose e of
which does not extend beyond the end of the frame a; ff, are the loops or staples
in which the bolt & slides; g is an arm hinged at h to the back of the solitaire, and
having an opening i at its free end , into which the nose c of the bolt a shoots
when the hinged arm has been closed, as shewn in Fig. 3.
In Fig. 1 is seen the free end of the hinged arm g passing upwards through a
slot in the frame a and engaged by the nose e of the bolt d. In Fig. 1 the handle m of
the bolt has been turned into one of the notches n of the loops f, of which 0, 0,
are the portions remaining after the said notches have been cut, the said remaining
portions o, o, serving to prevent the bolt d from accidental withdrawal.
In Figs. 2 and 3 the handle m is shewn turned into a vertical position, when the
bolt d can be withdrawn, as in Fig. 2, or shot home, as in Fig. 3.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner in
which the same is or may be carried into effect, I desire it to be under-
stood that what I claim as the Invention to be protected by the hercin-before in
part recited Letters Patent is, the combination of a Tower bolt (of which the nose
of the sliding bolt never passes beyond the frame) with a hinged arm for the

page_text: purpose of securing solitaires, books, purses, and other similar articles, substantially
as herein-before described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Henry Yarndley, have hereunto set my hand
and seal, this Sixth day of November, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and seventy-six.
Witness,
P. EMERY DAVIES,
Clerk to Mr. G. R. Holland,
Birmingham.
HENRY YARNDLEY. (L.S.)