IMPROVEMENTS IN SOLITAIRES OR FASTENINGS FOR CUFFS COLLARS AND OTHER ARTICLES OF DRESS to be as follows:
Year: 1885

page_text: other Articles of Dress.
I WILLIAM WEST of N° 42 Caroline Street Birmingham in the County of
Warwick Manufacturing Jeweller do hereby declare the nature of the said
Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN SOLITAIRES OR FASTENINGS FOR CUFFS
COLLARS AND OTHER ARTICLES OF DRESS to be as follows:-
"
My invention has reference to an invention for which Letters Patent were
granted to me on the 13th day of September 1872 N° 2722.
In the specification of the said patent a solitaire or fastening was described and
claimed consisting of a tube on the back part of the solitaire taking upon a peg
on the front part of the solitaire the two parts of the solitaire being connected
together by means of spring sliding bolts or catches on the front part of the
solitaire engaging with or snapping upon a collar on the end of the tube of the
back part of the solitaire.
According to my present invention I substitute for the spring sliding bolts or
catches described lever bolts or catches constructed combined and acting sub-
stantially in the following manner I place the two lever bolts or catches in the
shell of the front part of the solitaire the said bolts being arranged on opposite
sides of the central opening and peg of the said front part the centre of each lever
bolt being situated nearly opposite the end of the long arm of the other lever bolt.
The long arm of each lever bolt constitutes the bolting or catching part and the
short arm of each lever bolt constitutes the pusher or releaser the said pushers
being situated in and slightly projecting from openings made at opposite points in
the edge of the front part of the solitaire. The bolting or long arms of the levers
or catches are acted upon by springs which press the said long arms towards the
central opening and peg of the front part of the solitaire.
When the peg on the front part of the solitaire is passed into the tube of the
back part the collar on the said tube pushes back the long or bolting arms of the
levers and on the front part being fully pushed home the said long or bolting
arms of the levers by the action of their springs snap upon or engage with the

page_text: collar on the said tube and the two parts of the solitaire are connected together
and the cuff or other article of dress is fastened. To disconnect the two parts of
the solitaire the short arms or pushers of the lever bolts are simultaneously
pressed inwards the long or bolting arms are thereby withdrawn from the collar
on the tube of the back part and the front part can be disconnected from the said
back part and the cuff or other article of dress thereby unfastened.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Solitaires or Fastenings for Cuffs, Collars, and
other Articles of Dress.
I WILLIAM WEST of N° 42 Caroline Street Birmingham in the County of
Warwick Manufacturing Jeweller 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:—
My invention has reference to an invention for which Letters Patent were
granted to me on the 13th day of September 1872 N° 2722.
In the specification of the said patent a solitaire or fastenin; was described and
claimed consisting of a tube on the back part of the solitaire taking upon a peg
on the front part of the solitaire, the two parts of the solitaire being connected
together by means of spring sliding bolts or catches on the front part of the
solitaire engaging with or snapping upon a collar on the end of the tube of the
back part of the solitaire.
According to my present invention I substitute for the spring sliding bolts or
catches described, lever bolt or catches constructed combined and acting sub-
stantially in the following manner. I place the two lever bolts or catches in the
shell of the front part of the solitaire, the said bolts being arranged on opposite
sides of the central opening and peg of the said front part, the centre of each lever
bolt being situated nearly opposite the end of the long arm of the other lever bolt.
The long arm of each lever bolt constitutes the bolting or catching part and the
short arin of each lever bolt constitutes the pusher or releaser, the said pushers
being situated in and slightly projecting from openings made at opposite points in
the edge of the front part of the solitaire. The bolting or long arms of the levers
or catches are acted upon by springs which press the said long arms towards the
central opening and peg of the front part of the solitaire.
When the peg on the front part of the solitaire is passed into the tube of the
back part the collar on the said tube pushes back the long or bolting arms of the

page_text: levers and on the front part being fully pushed home the said long or bolting arms
of the levers by the action of their springs snap upon or engage with the collar on
the said tube and the two parts of the solitaire are connected together and the
cuff or other article of dress is fastened. To disconnect the two parts of the
solitaire the short arms or pushers of the lever bolts are simultaneously pressed
inwards; the long or bolting arms are thereby withdrawn from the collar on the
tube of the back part and the front part can be disconnected from the said back
part and the cuff or other article of dress thereby unfastened.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents in elevation and Figure 2 in
plan a solitaire or fastening constructed according to my present invention';
Figures 8 and 4 represent the two parts of the solitaire detached; Figure 5
represents in section and Figure 6 in plan, with the front shell removed, the said
solitaire or fastening exhibiting the lever bolts or catches engaged with the collar
of the back part of the solitaire and Figures 7 and 8 represent the same views as
Figures 5 and 6 with the two parts of the solitaire unfastened and ready to be
separated.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several Figures of
the Drawing.
a is the back part of the solitaire carrying the tube 6 terminated by the large
collar c with which the lever bolts or catches engage and d is the front part of the
solitaire having a peg e upon it which takes into the tube b on the back part a of
the solitaire. f. f, ff are the two lever bolts or catches working in the shell of
the front part & the said bolts or catches turning on the centres g, g and being
arranged on opposite sides of the central opening h in the front part d of the
solitaire. The long arm ƒ of each lever bolt f, f constitutes the locking or
catching part and the short arm f' the pusher or releaser, the said pushers or
releasers being situated in and slightly projecting from openings i, i made at
opposite points in the edge of the shell of the front part of the solitaire. By
means of springs k, k the holding or long arms ff of the lever bolts or catches are
pressed towards the central opening hand peg e on the front part d of the
solitaire. It will be seen by an examination of Figures 6 and 8 that the centre g
of each lever bolt is situated nearly opposite the end of the long arm of the lever
bolt on which long arin the spring k acts.
In order to fasten the two parts a d of the solitaire together the collar c and
tube 6 of the back part a are passed through the hole or holes in the cuff or dress
and the peg e on the front part dis passed into the tube b. As the peg e passes into
the tube b the collar c pushes back the long or bolting arms f, f of the bolting
levers and on the front part. d of the solitaire being fully pushed home, the said
long or bolting arms f₁f by the action of their springs k, k snap upon or engage
under the collar c on the tube b as illustrated in Figures 5 and 6 and the two parts
of the solitaire are connected together and the cuff or other article is fastened. By
simultaneously pressing inwards the short arins or pushers f³, of the combined
lever bolts and pushers f, f, ff, the long or bolting arms f, fare withdrawn from
under the collar c on the back part a as illustrated in Figures 7 and 8 and the
front part d of the solitaire can be disconnected from the back part a and the cuff
or article of dress unfastened.
Instead of making the short arms of the bolting levers act as the pushers of the
said levers the short arms may be dispensed with and the extreme ends of the long
or bolting arms be made to constitute the pushers as illustrated in Figures 9 and 10,
Figure 9 representing the two levers in their boiting positions and Figure 10 the
same in their unbolting positions. In Figures 9 and 10 the bolting levers are
marked 1, and their extreme ends 12, 12 are jointed to the shell of the front part d:
13, 13 are the pusher ends of the levers 7, and 1, the springs by which they are
pressed into their bolting position. By pressing in opposite directions the pusher
ends 1, 13 of the two bolts l, l the latter are withdrawn from under the collar c of
the part a of the solitaire as illustrated in Figure 10.

page_text: Or the two bolting levers may be so arranged that their pusher ends are situated
at the same side of the part d of the solitaire instead of at opposite sides. This
modification is represented fastened in Figure 11 and unfastened in Figure 12 and
the parts are marked with the same letters of reference as corresponding parts in
Figures 9 and 10.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention
and the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that I claim as
my said Invention of "Improvements in solitaires or fastenings for cuffs collars
and other articles of dress":-
The combination with solitaires or fastenings consisting essentially of a back
part having a tube terminating in a collar and a front part carrying a peg which
takes into the tube of the back part, of combined lever bolts or catches and pushers
the said combined lever bolts or catches and pushers being constructed arranged
and acting substantially as herein before described and illustrated in the accom-
panying Drawing.