IMPROVEMENTS IN DRESS FASTENINGS AND ORNAMENTS
Year: 1866

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John George Taylor at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 21st April
1866.
I, JOHN GEORGE TAYLOR, of 29, Boulevart St. Martin, Paris, in the Empire
of France, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "IMPROVEMENTS IN DRESS FASTENINGS AND ORNAMENTS," to be as
follows:-
My improvements relate, first, to the manufacture of clasps for buckles
without joints or rivets. They may be made of all kinds of materials, but
preferably of hard india-rubber, horn, shell, or aluminium.
The Invention relates, secondly, to the employment of metals in combination
with the above materials. The buckle frame is composed of hard india-
rubber ornamented with a metal chain surrounding the buckle, the clasps of
which are also of metal.
Thirdly, I may make buckles entirely of metal, in one or more parts,
baving a plate substituted for the clasp, also of metal, for covering the opening
in said buckle.
The Invention relates, fourthly, to chains used for ornamenting ladies' hats
and otherwise, which chains are composed partly of leather, or hard india-
rubber combined with steel or other metal. The rings or links may be of any
form and dimensions suitable for attachment to thicker links of mother-of-
pearl or leather. The leather links may be cut of a piece in the following
manner-I take tubes of leather sewn by machinery, and then pass them

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die to give them the desired form, afterwards cutting them into
rings or links of the desired size and connecting them together.
Fifthly, the Invention relates to pins for shawls, bats, or for the hair, to
which I attach knobs, buttons, or other accessories connected by means of a
hooked pin passing through the eye of such knobs or studs.
The sixth part of the Invention relates to a method of stamping up
hollow
ornaments in imitation of cameos, birds, and other similar objects. These
have hitherto been produced in metal, instead of which I use silk, alpaca, and
other textile materials suitable for the purpose, and in order to produce the
necessary relief surface I paste at the back a piece of linen, cotton, or other
material.
These improvements are illustrated in the accompanying Drawings, Fig. 1
of which shows the frame of a buckle, and Fig. 2, the clasp of the same in
plan and edge view, while Fig. 3 shows the two parts connected together;
Fig. 4 shows a double-buckle frame, and Fig. 5 a similar view with its
clasps, while Fig. 6 shows. a section on line 1, 2, Fig. 5; Fig. 7 represents
a buckle of hardened india-rubber surrounded with a metal chain, and fur-
nished with two clasps; Fig. 8 shows the frame of a brass buckle; Fig. 9 a
plate forming the clasp, serving to cover the opening in the buckle, and also
as an ornament, while Fig. 10 shows a back view of the buckle and clasp con-
nected together; Fig. 11 shows a double buckle having two clasps ornamented
with lizards, while Fig. 12 shows one of the clasps detached; any suitable
ornament may be substituted for the lizard; Fig. 13 represents another kind
of double buckle connected by a plate at the centre, the same kind of clasp
being used as at Fig. 12; Fig. 13 shows an openwork buckle, the slits of
which are cut out of the metal, afterwards serving to make the chains before
mentioned. The openings by which the ribbon or belt is attached are also
stamped out, in this manner a very cheap article may be produced. Fig. 14
shows the links of hardened india-rubber mounted on alternate rings or
links g of metal or other material; Fig. 15 represents the material from
which the links are to be made of the desired thickness; Figs. 16 and 17
show the pins mounted in different ways; Fig. 18, the head of a pin having a
conical form of connection, while Fig. 19 shows a hooked connection;
Figs. 20, 21, 22, 23, and 24 represent pin heads having various methods of
attachment; lastly, Fig. 25 shows a pin head, the pin of which is simply
passed through the head, the end being simply turned down at the top or
secured in other suitable manner. The letters of reference apply to all the
Figures.
a, buckle frame of any suitable form and dimensions having a slit 6, by

page_text: which the ribbon or waist belt is attached; c, clasps ornamented in various
ways, and provided with a slit d, by which the other end of the ribbon or belt
is attached; e, Fig. 13, connection of double bockle; f, leather link, made in
the manner before described, and connected to rings or links of metal or other
material; h, pins, the heads of which are connected to the stems by hooks or
otherwise.