IMPROVEMENTS IN STUDS AND SOLITAIRES
Year: 1876

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Pearce, of Huddersfield, in the County of York,
Jeweller, and William Henry Douglas, of Stourbridge, in the County of
Worcester, Jeweller, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN STUDS AND
SOLITAIRES."
Sealed the 26th January 1877, and dated the 4th August 1876
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION loft by the said Henry Pearce and William
Henry Douglas at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 4th
August 1876.
HENRY PEARCE, of Huddersfield, in the County of York, Jeweller, and WILLIAM
"IM-
HENRY DOUGLAS, of Stourbridge, in the County of Worcester, Jeweller.
PROVEMENTS IN STUDS AND SOLITAIRES."
Our Invention consists in forming solitaires with double back plates or two back
flanges, so that the solitaire when unclasped still holds the front plate in the cuff or
other article to which it is attached, thus preventing all risk of losing the front
plate, the most valuable part of the article. Our Invention also comprises forming
collar, wrist, or glove studs as double solitaires, with one face plate, and in such
manner that when unclasped the solitaire remains attached to one side of the
meeting parts of the glove or other article to which it is attached.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Henry Pearce and William Henry Douglas in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 3rd February 1877.
HENRY PEARCE, of Huddersfield, in the County of York, Jeweller, and WILLIAM
"IM-
HENRY DOUGLAS, of Stourbridge, in the County of Worcester, Jeweller.
PROVEMENTS IN STUDS AND SOLITAIRES."
Our Invention consists in forming solitaires with double back plates or two back
flanges, so that the solitaire when unclasped still holds the front plate in the cuff or
other article to which it is attached.

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Our Invention will be more readily understood by referring to the Drawings
hereunto annexed and to the letters and figures marked thereon. A, Figure 1,
shews the stud in a fixed or clasped position, and B a view of the front plate
detached, and C a view of the back plate. The front plate has at its rear a flange
(a), which when passed through the cuff or other article will remain therein, as will
an ordinary plain stud, the back plate (b) being passed through the other end of the
cuff or article to be attached may then be passed into the front plate B behind the
flange (a) where it is secured by a spring bearing on to a collar, thus one portion of
the cuff or other article is held upon the front plate B between the flange and the
face plate, and the other portion is held between the back plate C and the flange (a).
Our Invention also comprises forming collar, wrist, or glove studs as double solitaires
with one face plate, and in such manner that when unclasped the solitaire remains
attached to one side of the meeting parts of the glove or other article to which it
is attached. D, Figure 2, shews a collar, wrist, or glove stud in a fixed or clasped
position;
E is a view of the front plate detached, and F a view of the back plate.
To secure the collar, cuff, or glove, one of the projecting pins (c, c,) is passed through
the one portion of the collar, cuff, or glove, and the other through the other portion
required to be attached thereto; the front plate E is then placed upon the pins (c, c,)
so as to allow them to pass through holes in the back thereof and be secured by
springs bearing on to catches formed upon the pins.
S
In some cases we may prefer to attach the front and back plates of these studs or
splitaires by means of a chain (d), as shewn in Figure 3, passing the chain (d)
through the back plate so as to allow of the back plate being removed to and from
the front plate without being entirely separated therefrom.
Having thus described the object and nature of our said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is to be carried into effect, we claim, without limiting
ourselves to these precise details the several improvements in studs and solitaires, as
herein more fully set forth and specified.
In witness whereof, we, the said Henry Pearce and William Henry Douglas,
have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Thirty-first day of January, a
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven.
TTENDY DEADOW