IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR ARTICLES OF DRESS AND ORNAMENTS, AND IN LOCKET AND ORNAMENT SUSPENDERS." ORNAMENTS, AND IN LOCKET AND ORNAMENT SUSPENDERS
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Franziscus Xaver Ferdinandus Heilborn, of
Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Jeweller, for the In-
vention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR ARTICLES OF DRESS AND
ORNAMENTS, AND IN LOCKET AND ORNAMENT SUSPENDERS."
ORNAMENTS, AND IN LOCKET AND ORNAMENT SUSPENDERS."
Sealed the 11th February 1876, and dated the 24th August 1875.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Franziscus Xaver
Ferdinandus Heilborn at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with his Petition, on the 24th August 1875.
I, FRANZISCUS XAVER FERDINANDUS HEILBORN, of Birmingham, in
the County of Warwick, Jeweller, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR ARTICLES OF DRESS
AND ORNAMENTS, AND IN LOCKET AND ORNAMENT SUSPENDERS," to be as
follows:-
My Invention consists of the improvements herein-after described
in fastenings for articles of dress and ornaments, and in locket and
ornament suspenders.

page_text: I will first describe a fastening constructed according to my In-
vention. I form the front of the fastening of a semi-elliptical ring,
having any desired ornamental shape, and to the back of the said semi-
ring a curved band is jointed at bottom. When the jointed band is
closed upon the ornamental front its upper end which is hooked takes
into a socket at the top of the said front, and the ornamental front and
jointed band form a complete ring having the general figure of an
ellipse.
When the jointed band is opened from the front part the fastening
may be passed around a bow, scarf, or other article of dress it is wished
to ornament; or its hooked end may be passed through eyelet or other
holes in any part of the dress it is wished to fasten. By closing the
jointed band upon the front part of the fastening the fastening, is
secured to the bow, scarf, or other like article of dress; or the two parts
of the dress are secured together by the fastening.
The two parts of the fastening are firmly held in their open and
closed positions respectively by the following parts:-Within the inner
or concave side of the ornamental front of the fastening is a curved
spring, the free end of which projects over the jointed end of the band.
The jointed end of the band is provided with a heel, a pin, or stud, on
which works during the motion of the band in a slot in the projecting
part of the free end of the spring. By the pressure of the spring upon
the heel of the jointed band the two parts of the fastening are held
securely in their closed and open positions respectively.
I combine with the fastening described a pendant chain for sus-
pending a locket or ornament. For this purpose I connect to the
bottom of the ornamental front part a loop which carries the locket or
ornament chain, the locket or ornament being connected to the bottom
of the chain by a spring ring, which permits the locket or ornament to be
readily connected to or disconnected from the chain.
The fastening herein first described may be used with or without the

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Franziscus Xaver Ferdinandus Heilborn in the
Great Seal Patent Office on the 17th February 1876.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, FRANZISCUS
XAVER FERDINANDUS HEILBORN, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Jeweller, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of August, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five,
in the thirty-ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs,
and successors, give and grant unto me, the said Franziscus Xaver
Ferdinandus Heilborn, Her special license that I, the said Franziscus
Xaver Ferdinandus Heilborn, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Franziscus Xaver Ferdinandus Heilborn,
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
"IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR ARTICLES OF DRESS, AND ORNAMENTS, AND
IN LOCKET AND ORNAMENT SUSPENDERS," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Franziscus Xaver Ferdinandus Heilborn, 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 Scal Patent Office within six calendar months next and imme-
diately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Franziscus Xaver Ferdinandus
Heilborn, 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 :-

page_text: _in_fastenings for articles of-dress-and-ornaments,-and-in-locket-and-
ornament suspenders.
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I will first describe a fastening constructed according to my In-
vention. I form the front of the fastening of a semi-elliptical ring,
having any desired ornamental shape, and to the back of the said semi-
ring a curved band is jointed at bottom. When the jointed band is
closed upon the ornamental front its upper end which is hooked takes
into a socket at the top of the said front, and the ornamental front and
jointed band form a complete ring having the general figure of an
ellipse.
When the jointed band is opened from the front part the fastening
may be passed around a bow, scarf, or other article of dress it is wished
to ornament; or its hooked end may be passed through eyelet or other
holes in any part of the dress it is wished to fasten. By closing the
jointed band upon the front part of the fastening, the fastening is
secured to the bow, scarf, or other like article of dress; or the two parts
of the dress are secured together by the fastening.
The two parts of the fastening are firmly held in their open and
closed positions respectively by the following parts:--Within the inner
or concave side of the ornamental part of the fastening is a curved
spring, the free end of which projects over the jointed end of the band.
The jointed end of the band is provided with a heel, a pin, or stud, on
which works during the motion of the band in a slot in the projecting
part of the free end of the spring. By the pressure of the spring upon
the heel of the jointed band the two parts of the fastening are held
securely in their closed and open positions respectively.
I combine with the fastening described a pendent chain for sus-
pending a locket or ornament. For this purpose I connect to the
bottom of the ornamental front part a loop which carries the locket or
ornament chain, the locket or ornament being connected to the bottom
of the chain by a spring ring which permits the locket or ornament to
be readily connected to or disconnected from the chain; or the spring
or split ring carrying the locket or ornament may be passed on to the
fastening to connect the locket or ornament thereto.
The fastening herein first described may be used with or without the
locket suspender.

page_text: Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents in front elevation,
and Figure 2 in side elevation, a fastening and locket or. ornament
suspender constructed according to my Invention suitable for use in
combination with a lady's bow; but the said fastening may also be used
with other articles of dress; Figure 3 represents the fastening open, the
locket being omitted; Figure 4 represents a back elevation of the same
suspender constructed according to my Invention suitable for use in
combination with a lady's bow; but the said fastening may also be used
5 with other articles of dress; Figure 3 represents the fastening open, the
locket being omitted; Figure 4 represents a back elevation of the same
closed; and Figure 5 represents a top view of the same open.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in Figures
1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.
a is the semi-elliptical ring constituting the front part of the
fastening, the said semi-ring a being ornamented in any desired
manner; is the curved band at the back of the part a, the said
band being jointed at c to the bottom of the semi-ring a. The free
upper end of the band b is hooked at 62, and the upper or free end of
the semi-ring a has a socket & in it. When the jointed band b is closed
upon the ornamental front or semi-ring a the hooked end of the
band takes into the socket d of the said semi-ring a, and forms with
the said semi-ring a complete elliptical ring, as seen in Figure 2.
Within the inner or concave side of the ornamental front a of the
fastening is a curved spring e, the free end of which projects over the
part 3 of the band b, the said part 6s being prolonged beyond the joint c
and constituting a heel, as represented in Figure 3. The heel ³ is
furnished with or made at its end into a stud or pin b', which stud, on
the motion of the band b, works in a slot f in the free end of the spring e
(see Figure 3). By the pressure of the spring e on the heel ³ of the
band the two parts a, b, of the fastening are held securely in their
closed and open positions respectively.
In using the fastening the band is opened from the front part a,
as illustrated in Figures 3 and 5, and the fastening is passed around
the bow or article of dress. The band is then closed upon the front
part a, and the two parts a, b, are thus made to clip firmly by the action
of the spring e the bow or article of dress between them.
In fastening a bow the hooked end b² of the band b may for
greater security be passed through a loop formed in the knot part
of the bow.

page_text: When the fastening is to be used for fastening together two parts of
the dress, eyelet or other holes are made in the parts of the dress to be
fastened together. The hooked end 6° of the band after being passed
through the said holes is closed upon the front part a, and the two parts.
of the dress are thereby fastened together.
In Figures 1 and 2 a locket is represented combined with the
fastening. The said locket g is connected to the split or spring ring 1,
and the latter is connected to the fastening by being passed over the
open band b.
By closing the band 6 upon the front part a the locket g
is connected to the fastening. By this means a locket or other pendent
ornament may be readily connected to or disconnected from the
fastening; or a fixed pendent chain or projecting portion of the
front ornamental part of the fastening may carry the locket or pendent
ornament. In this case the bottom of the chain or front part a carries
a split or spring ring to which the locket or ornament may be readily
connected, or from which it may be disconnected.
Figure 6 represents in front elevation; Figure 7 in back elevation;
Figure 8 in side elevation; and Figure 9 in side elevation open, a
fastening for a scarf or tic constructed according to my Invention. The
said fastening is constructed in the manner herein-before described,
excepting that it is made smaller, and corresponding parts are marked
with the same letters of reference.
In using the scarf fastening, Figures 6, 7, 8, and 9, it is placed
in a horizontal or cross position on the scarf instead of the vertical
position represented with respect to the bow fastening shown in Figures
1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.
Having now described the nature of my Invention, and the manner
in which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that
I do not limit myself to the precise details herein described and illus-
trated, as the same may be varied without departing from the nature
of my Invention; but I claim as my Invention, the improvements in
fastenings for articles of dress, and ornaments, and in locket and
ornament suspenders, herein-before described and illustrated in the
accompanying Drawing, that is to say, the combination or arrangement
of the front ornamental part or semi-ring a and the curved back band 6,
the said parts a and b being jointed together and held in their closed

page_text: and open positions respectively, substantially as described and illus-
trated; also the combination with the fastening of a pendent locket
or ornament, substantially as described and illustrated.
In witness whereof, I, the said Franziscus Xaver Ferdinandus
Heilborn, have hereunto set my hand and scal, this Sixteenth
day of February, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight
hundred and seventy-six.
FRANZISCUS XAVER FERDINANDUS HEILBORN. (L.S.)
Witness,
GEORGE SHAW.