IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LOCKETS, AND OF. A NEW APPLICATION OF PARKESINE AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR GLASS IN THE CON- ' STRUCTION OF LOCKETS AND OTHER ARTICLES OF JEWELLERY
Year: 1862

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Carter Haseler, of No. 19, Vittoria Street,
Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Manufacturing Jeweller, for,
the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LOCKETS, AND OF.
A NEW APPLICATION OF PARKESINE AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR GLASS IN THE CON-
'
STRUCTION OF LOCKETS AND OTHER ARTICLES OF JEWELLERY."
Sealed the 31st October 1862, and dated the 10th May 1862.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Carter Haseler at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
10th May 1862.
I, GEORGE CARTER HASELER, of No, 19, Vittoria Street, Birmingham, in
the County of Warwick, Manufacturing Jeweller, do hereby declare the nature
of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LOCKETS, AND
OF A NEW APPLICATION OF PARKESINE AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR GLASS IN THE CONSTRUC-
TION OF LOCKETS AND OTHER ARTICLES OF JEWELLERY," to be as follows:-
My improvements in articles of jewelry called lockets consist in making
the frames or boxes containing portraits or other designs separate from the
locket in which they are placed, and unconnected with the ring by which they
are suspended, so that such frame or box may be taken out for inspection
without removing the locket from the chain when worn as an ornament.
Also, for an improved leaf or frame by forming the same with recesses, one
or more on each side of such leaf or frame for the reception of portraits or

page_text: other designs, and in perforating or roughing the back or division between the
recesses, so as to cause the portraits to adhere firmly in their place. And in
the use of transparent "parkesine" as a substitute for glass in the construction
of lockets and other articles of jewelry.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said George Carter Haseler, in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 7th November 1862.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
CARTER HASELER, of No. 19, Vittoria Street, Birmingham, in the County of
Middlesex, Manufacturing Jeweller, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Tenth day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, in the twenty-fifth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
George Carter Haseler, Her special licence that I, the said George Carter
Haseler, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the
said George Carter Haseler, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should
at any time agree with and no others, from time to time and at all times
thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make,
use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LOCKETS, AND OF A NEW APPLICATION OF PARKESINE
AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR GLASS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF LOCKETS AND OTHER ARTICLES
OF JEWELLERY," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said George
Carter Haseler, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing
under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe
and ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the
same was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great
Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and immediately after
the date of the said Letters Patent.
• NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Carter Haseler, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:-
My improvements in articles of jewellery called lockets consist in making
the frames or boxes containing portraits or other designs loose or separate

page_text: from the outer case or body of the locket in which they are placed, and uncon-
nected with the ring or loop by which the locket or outer case is suspended,
so that such loose frames or boxes may be taken out of the locket or outer
case for inspection without removing the locket or outer case from the chain
when worn as an ornament, which is the particular object I have in view in
Invention.
this part of my
Also, for an improved leaf or frame for book lockets, by forming the same
with recesses, one or more on each side of the leaf or frame, and in perforating
or forming a rough surface at the back or division plate, and in fixing the
portraits or other designs in leaves or frames so constructed by means of
cement.
My Invention also consists in the use of a material known as "parkesine,"
as a substitute for glass when used either wholly or in part in the construction
of articles of jewellery. I sometimes give the portraits or other designs a
coating of transparent "parkesine" after they are cemented in the leaves or
frames, or I cement the portraits or other designs on to pieces of "parkesine
before putting them into lockets, brooches, or other articles of jewellery.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim,―
Firstly, making lockets of two loose and unconnected parts as described
under the first head of my Invention.
Secondly, forming a recess or recesses on each side of a leaf or frame with
perforated or roughened backs, and securing or fixing the portraits or other
designs thereon by means of cement as herein-before described.
And, lastly, I claim the application of a material known as "parkesine" as
a substitute for glass in the manufacture of articles of jewellery.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Carter Haseler, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Sixth day of November, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two.
Witness,
JOSH. LAW.
GEORGE CARTER HASELER. (L.S.)