IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO BRACELETS, ARMLETS, AND OTHER LIKE ARTICLES OF ORNAMENT FOR THE PERSON
Year: 1885

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
I, WILLIAM PENNEY of, 10, Gransden Avenue, London Lane, Hackney,
Middlesex, Watchmaker, /, Day, Davies & Hunt, Patent Agents, 321, High
Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of my
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN OR APPLICABLE TO BRACELETS, ARMLETS, AND
OTHER LIKE ARTICLES OF ORNAMENT FOR THE PERSON," and in what manner the
same is to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:-
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This Invention relates to certain improvements in or applicable to bracelets,
armlets and other like articles of ornament for the person,
A great disadvantage attendant upon the use of such articles as hitherto made
consists in their liability to shift around the arm or part to which they are applied
in such a manner that the more ornamental part which the wearer desires should
be outwardly exposed gets turned towards the body and is hid. As at present
made this inconvenience can only be avoided by forcibly compressing the bracelet
up to a larger part of the arm when it is not in the desired position for wear and
moreover causes physical discomfort injury and pain.
The especial object of this Invention is to manufacture such ornamental articles
in such a manner as that they will retain their desired positions upon any part of
the arm or part of the person where they are desired to be worn, and so that they
will not shift their position either around the part to which they are applied or in
the direction of its length or otherwise, and which will permit of the article being
with very great facility placed in any desired position and retained there.
To this end the Invention consists in the application to or combination with a
bracelet armlet or like article of ornament for the person, of springs, spring plates
or like means controlled by or under the operation of springs, in such a manner as
that such springs, plates or like means operated thereby, will exert a gentle but
sufficient inward pressure upon the arm or part and at the part around which
the article is desired to the worn as to retain such article in the position desired.
The Invention is illustrated on the accompanying drawings in several
modifications of its application.
In Figs; 1, and, 2, which respectively illustrate a side view of a bracelet, open,
and partly in section, and a plan view of the back half thereof, the bracelet being

page_text: of ordinary construction, being hinged at, 1, and fastened at, 2, the improved
means is shown as consisting of a curved spring, 3, of a light formation with the
ends curved outwardly, and which is soldered or otherwise suitably secured in
place at, 4, to the inside of the bracelet 1.
In the modification illustrated in Fig 6. a like arrangement of spring 3 is
secured to or mounted upon a bow spring, 7 which is slotted at its ends 8. and has
a limited endway movement guided and controlled by adjacent projections or
parts 9 of the back of the bracelet.
In the plan view, Fig; 3, two springs, 3, of like formation are illustrated as
applied in a like manner.
In the sectional view, Fig; 4, two springs, 3, are shown as hinged or jointed
at, 5, and as being pressed inwards and towards each other by small wire springs, 6,
or by springs, 6, of any other suitable shape, located between the springs, 3, and
the adjacent sides of the bracelet.
And in the sectional side view, Fig; 5, a spring or yielding plate, 3, (one or
more of which may be used) is shown as applied and operated upon by the
springs, 6.
These Figures are merely illustrative of the principle of the present improvements,
and are not intended to be exhaustive of the various ways in which such springs
and spring plates or like means can be applied.
The springs or spring plates may be made of any suitable metal or material, and
may be applied to the bracelets in any suitable manner, and it is obvious that
different formations of such articles would require different arrangements of the
springs or like means used, and therefore the precise arrangement thereof is not
material to the present Invention.
The present improvements can be applied to bracelets of any ordinary formation
at a trifling cost, and irrespective of the formation of the bracelet will be found to
attain the object of the Invention.
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 combination with a bracelet, armlet or like article of ornament for the
person, of springs, spring plates, or like means actuated by or under the control.of
springs, in such a manner as that such springs or spring plates will exert or be
caused to exert a gentle and inward pressure, against the arm or part on which the
article is worn, the parts being so arranged as that such inward pressure shall be
operative when the article is in wear in causing the article to be retained in the
position desired, and upon any part of the arm or part on which the article is
desired to be worn, substantially as hereinbefore described.
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