A NEW OR IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF BRACELETS AND OTHER DRESS ORNAMENTS, AND ORNAMENTAL DRESS FASTENINGS
Year: 1855

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Thomas Henry Ryland, of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "A NEW OR
IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF BRACELETS AND OTHER DRESS ORNAMENTS, AND
ORNAMENTAL DRESS FASTENINGS."
Sealed the 1st April 1856, and dated the 4th October 1855.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Thomas Henry Ryland at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 4th
October 1855.
I, THOMAS HENRY RYLAND, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the Invention for "A NEW
OR IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF BRACELETS AND OTHER DRESS ORNAMENTS, AND
ORNAMENTAL DRESS FASTENINGS," to be as follows:-
My said Invention consists in the manufacture of such bracelets and other
dress ornaments and ornamental dress fastenings as are usually made of jet in
the following manner, that is to say:-I make the parts of such ornaments or
fastenings as are usually made of jet, of horn or hoof, or such other animal
substances as are usually employed in the manufacture of articles commonly
called horn. I stain the said horn black, or I dye it of any desired colour by
the well-known staining and dyeing processes, and I afterwards soften the said
horn by heat, and press it in dies to the required form. When afterwards
polished, articles made according to my Invention have a close resemblance to
Jet if the horn has been stained black; or the said articles may be made to

page_text: resemble tortoiseshell or other substance by being stained of other suitable
colour. The articles to which my Invention is especially applicable are beads
or detached ornaments to be strung on elastic or other threads for the forma-
tion of bracelets, necklaces, or other similarly made dress ornaments; also the
droppers of ear-rings, and the ornamental parts of brooches, and dress fastenings
generally
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters-Patent, filed
by the said Thomas Henry Ryland in the Great Seal Patent Office on
the 2nd April 1856.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THOMAS
HENRY RYLAND, of Birmingham, in-the-County of Warwick, Manufacturer,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria; by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Fourth day of October, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, in the nineteenth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me.
the said Thomas Henry Ryland, Her special licence that I, the said Thomas
Henry Ryland, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others
as I, the said Thomas Henry Ryland, 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 Inven-
tion for "A NEW OR IMPROVED MANUFACTURE OF BRACELETS AND OTHER DRESS
ORNAMENTS, AND ORNAMENTAL DRESS FASTENINGS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Thomas Henry Ryland, 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 Inven-
tion, 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 Thomas Henry Ryland, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say:-
My Invention consists in the manufacture of such bracelets and other dress
ornaments and ornamental dress fastenings as are, usually inade of jet in the

page_text: following manner, that is to say -I make the parts of such ornaments or fasten-
ings as are usually made of jet, of horn or hoof, or such other animal substances
as are usually employed in the manufacture of articles commonly called horn.
I stain the said horn black, or I dye it of any desired colour by the well-known
staining and dyeing processes, and I afterwards soften the said horn by heat,
and press it in dies to the required form. When afterwards polished, articles
made according to my Invention have a close resemblance to jet if the horn
has been stained black; or the said articles may be made to resemble tortoise-
shell or other substance by being stained of other suitable color. The articles
to which my Invention is especially applicable are detached ornaments to be
strung on elastic or other threads for the formation of bracelets, necklaces, or
other similarly made dress ornaments; also crosses, the droppers of ear-rings,
and the ornamental parts of brooches, and dress fastenings generally. As the
method of treating and working the horn for the manufacture of the articles
enumerated, as well as the methods of dyeing and staining the same, do not
differ from the processes whereby horn is fashioned and stained for other
purposes, and as the said processes are well known and commonly practised,
and constitute no part of my Invention, I do not think it necessary to describe
the same.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the manner of
carrying the same into effect, I wish it to be understood that I do not limit
myself to the precise details herein described, as the same may be varied
without departing from the nature of my said Invention; but I claim as my
Invention the new or improved manufacture of bracelets and other dress
ornaments and ornamental dress fastenings herein described, that is to say,
manufacturing the same of horn, hoof, or such other animal substances as
are usually employed in the manufacture of articles commonly called horn,
and staining or dyeing the same, as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Thomas Henry Ryland, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Twenty-ninth day of March, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-six.
Witness,
CHARLES COLE.
T. H. RYLAND. (L.B.)