An Improvement in Serviette Rings,
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improvement in Serviette Rings,
We, ARTHUR WALTER CROSBEE and WILLIAM BANKS, trading together as
A. W. Crosbee & Co., of 7, Vyse Street, in the City of Birmingham, Jewellers
Factors, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists of the herein described improvement in serviette rings
and is designed to enable a serviette ring to be readily marked with the name or
initials or other distinguishing mark of the user and to enable such name
initials or mark to be readily changed, as when the serviette ring is to be used
by another person. My invention is particularly applicable to serviette rings
which are used in hotels restaurants and other places when the name initial or
other distinguishing mark has often to be changed.
In carrying out this invention we combine with the serviette ring an ivory or
other writing tablet which is let into the outside of the face of the ring and is
of convenient size and shape for the person's name or initials or other distin-
guishing mark to be written upon with an ordinary lead pencil. The said writing
tablet may be fixed to the serviette rings in various ways as for instance the
said tablet may be fixed by cement or other means in a recess or depression.
formed in the outside face of the serviette ring, or the said serviette ring may
be pierced with a hole corresponding with the size and shape of the writing
tablet and the latter secured in said hole (so as to be about flush with the
periphery of the serviette ring) by a sheet metal mount like a brooch mount
which fits in the, hole or recess in the ring and embraces the edges of the tablet.
As any distinguishing name initial or mark can readily be written by an
ordinary lead pencil on the writing tablet part of the serviette ring, and as the
said name initial or mark can readily be rubbed off the tablet and another name
initial or mark written thereon, the serviette ring is more convenient for use
than are those serviette rings which bear no mark or which bear a permanent
letter monograph or mark.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.
An Improvement in Serviette Rings.
We, ARTHUR WALTER CROSBEE and WILLIAM BANKS, trading together as
A. W. Crosbee & Co., of 7, Vyse Street, in the City of Birmingham, Jewellery
Factors, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the
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page_text: same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement:-
This invention consists of the herein described improvement in serviette rings
and is designed to enable a serviette.ring to be readily marked with the name or
initials or other distinguishing mark of the user and to enable such name
initials or mark to be readily changed, as when the serviette ring is to be used
by another person. My invention is particularly applicable to serviette rings
which are used in hotels restaurants and other places when the name initial or
other distinguishing mark has often to be changed.
We will describe this invention by referring to the accompanying drawing on
which Fig. 1 is a front elevation, Fig. 2 is a plan and Fig. 3 is a sectional
elevation of a serviette ring with our invention applied; Fig. 4 is a sectional
elevation and Fig. 5 is a front elevation of a serviette ring illustrating another
method of carrying out our invention; and Figs. 6 and 7 are sectional elevations
of a serviette ring illustrating a further modification of this invention.
The same letters of reference indicate the same or corresponding parts in all
the figures.
In carrying out this invention we combine with the serviette ring A an ivory
or other writing tablet which is fixed to the outside face of the ring and is curved
to correspond therewith and of a convenient size and shape for the person's name
or initials or other distinguishing mark to be written upon by an ordinary lead
pencil. The writing table B may be fixed to the serviette ring in various ways
as for instance the said tablet may, as in the arrangement shewn by Figs. 4 and 5,
be fixed by cement or the like in a recess or depression a¹ formed in the outside
face of the serviette ring of the proper size and shape to receive, the tablet B.
Or another method of fixing the writing table B to the serviette ring A is by a
sheet metal mount C (see Figs. 1, 2 and 3) like a brooch mount which is curved
and soldered or otherwise permanently fixed to the outside of the serviette ring A
and is made with claws round its outside edge which after the mount C has
been soldered to the ring A are bent down over the writing tablet B so as to
secure the same in place.
In another arrangement of this invention illustrated by Figs. 6 and 7, the
sheet metal mount D is fixed in a hole a³ of a shape corresponding with the said
mount and is there secured by soldering or the like and when the writing
tablet B has been laid in place in the mount D, the edges of the latter are as
shown in Fig. 7 closed down round the edges of the writing, tablet B thus
effectually securing the latter in place.
As any distinguishing name initial or mark can readily be written by an
ordinary lead pencil on the writing tablet B part of the serviette ring, and as the
said name initial or mark can readily be rubbed off the tablet and another name
initial or mark written thereon, the serviette ring is more convenient for use
than are those serviette rings which bear no mark or which bear a permanent
letter monograph or mark.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is:-
The combination with a serviette ring of an ivory or other writing tablet
curved to the shape of the ring and fixed thereto in any of the several ways
substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by the accompanying
drawing.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicants.