Improvements in or relating to Means or Apparatus for Fastening or Attaching Brooches, Jewellery, and the like to Dresses or other Articles of Wearing Apparel.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd Jan., 1894-Accepted, 10th Mar., 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or relating to Means or Apparatus for Fastening
or Attaching Brooches, Jewellery, and the like to Dresses or
other Articles of Wearing Apparel.
A communication from abroad by THOMAS GRAINGER, of 7, Garden Crescent,
Hobart, in the Colony of Tasmania, Watchmaker.
1, SAMUEL SLATER WHITFIELD, of High Street, Wetherby in the County of
York, Boot and Shoemaker, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to a new or improved means or method of attaching and
fastening brooches, jewellery and the like ornaments to dresses and other articles of
wearing apparel such as, cloaks, mantles, bonnets strings, collars and the like, all
of which are hereafter termed dresses, and it may also be employed for pinning or
fastening portions of such garments together. Hitherto in brooches as at present
constructed the pin or fastening device is hinged at one end to the back of the
brooch, whilst the opposite and pointed end of the pin is made to pass through the
garment and it is held by a catch or hook. This method of fastening and attaching
the brooch to the garment is very liable to get out of order by the pin becoming
strained or broken off at the hinge, thereby rendering the brooch useless, until a
new pin is attached thereunto. According to this invention the pin for fastening
the brooch or other piece of jewellery or ornament, hereafter termed brooch, is
made so as to be detachable from the main portion of the brooch. It consists of a
straight pin provided with a head, and armed with a fixed collet or collar arranged
at a suitable distance from the head of the pin. Between the fixed collet and head
of the pin is mounted on the pin a sliding bolt, preferably though not necessarily so,
of two diameters, arranged to engage with a hooked and slotted bracket fixed to the
back of the brooch for connecting and fastening the two pieces, that is brooch and pin
together. The sliding bolt is retained in connection with the slotted and hooked
bracket by means of a helical spring. The pointed end of the pin is arranged to
be passed into and held by a second slotted bracket which forms a catch.
In the drawings hereunto annexed
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Fig. 1, is an elevation. Fig. 2 an end elevation and Fig. 3 a plan of the pin and
means for attaching and fastening it to the brooch constructed according to this
invention.
Fig. 4 an enlarged part sectional elevation and Fig. 5 an end elevation of
detachable pin.
Fig. 6, 7 and 8 are respectively, a sectional elevation and back and front
elevations of the hooked slotted bracket.
Fig. 9 an enlarged elevation of bracket for receiving the pointed portion of
detachable pin.
Fig. 10 shows the application of the slotted brackets directly to the back of a
brooch.
A is the detachable pin which may consist of a piece of steel or other wire
pointed at the end a and provided with head a' and armed with a collet or collar B
(hereafter termed collet) fixed at a suitable distance from the head of the pin. On
the pin A is mounted, between the head a¹ and the collet B a sliding bolt C. The
periphery of the bolt C is preferably made of three diameters, not necessarily
so, C, c c' as shown at Fig. 4. The bolt C is bored with a hole of two diameters c³ ³
to form a recess and a shoulder for receiving the end of a helical spring D, which

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is mounted on the pin between the head and the internal shoulder portion of the
bolt C. The smaller diameter e² of the hole in the bolt is of such a size as to slide
freely upon the pin A. E is the slotted bracket for receiving the reduced end c¹ of
of the bolt C. The bracket E is provided with a hook e projecting from its frout
portion as shown a Fig. 6 for receiving the collet B as shown at Fig. 1.
bracket E is formed a hole of two diameters e¹ e², the larger one of which is arranged
to pass from the back of the bracket to near its front portion as shown at Fig. 6.
The hole el forms a recess for receiving the reduced end of the sliding bolt C,
whilst the diameter of the hole e² is such that the pin A may freely pass into it.
The bracket E is also slotted as shown at e (Fig. 7 and 8) for allowing the pin A
to be readily passed into or withdrawn from the bracket E. When the bracket E
is formed, say out of a solid piece of brass or other metal, the following process of
manufacture may be adopted, but I wish it to be distinctly understood that I do not
limit myself to this or any other particular method of producing the said brackets.
A hole such as e is first drilled to admit the pin A, this is then enlarged to form
the recess or countersunk portion e'. The top edge may then be filed or otherwise
removed to form the inclined plane e³ and the slot et may then be cut. The hook e
may either be formed on or attached to the bracket E as desired, and the shape of
the bracket may be arranged to suit the fancy of the manufacturer or wearer.
the bracket for receiving the pointed end of the pin A, and it is provided at its
upper end with a hole f, suitable to receive the pointed end of the said pin A, and
a slot. The slot is of such a size at the point at which it joins the hole that
only the pointed portion of the pin will pass through it. By this means a catch is
formed for the small end of the pin. The brackets E and F may either be fixed
directly to the back of the brooch as shown at Fig. 10 or they may be cast on or
fixed to a backing piece or stretcher G as shown at Figs. 1 to 3.
Fis
The mode of attaching the brooch to a dress or other article of wearing apparel
is as follows;
The pin A is first detached from the brooch and is then passed through the
dress or portions thereof into the position in which it is to be worn. The pointed
end a of the pin is then inserted within the hole f of the catch bracket F until the
collet B is in a position to be passed down the front edge of the bracket E for
engaging with the hook e. The sliding bolt C is then withdrawn in the direction
of arrow, from the position shown at Fig. 4 and in so doing its reduced end c' slides
upon the inclined surface e³ of bracket E. When the sliding bolt C has been with:-
drawn sufficiently far to permit of the outer end of the reduced part c¹ to be clear
of the bracket, the pin A can then be pressed down slot e to the position shown
at Fig. 1. After which on the sliding bolt C being released it will be returned by
the expansion of spring D until the reduced end e passes within the recess e¹ of
bracket E for firmly attaching the pin and brooch together and for fastening the
latter in position. To unfasten the brooch and disconnect it from the pin may be
readily accomplished by withdrawing the reduced end c' of the sliding bolt C from
its engagement with the bracket E.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :
1. The improvements in means or apparatus for fastening or attaching brooches,
jewellery and the like to dresses and other articles of wearing apparel substantially
as herein described, which improvements consist in making the pin detachable from
the main portion of the brooch and connecting and holding the two parts together
by slotted and perforated brackets, and a sliding bolt mounted on said pin
substantially as herein described and illustrated.
2. In brooches or other articles of jewellery substantially such as herein described,
a pointed pin such as A armed with a head such as a¹ and collet such as B, and
having a sliding bolt such as C, and spring such as D mounted on said pin as and
for the purposes set forth.

page_text: 3. In brooches and other articles of jewellery the combination of a detachable
pin armed with a head a' and a collet B, and having a sliding head C' and
spring D mounted thereon, with the main portion of the brooch provided with
brackets E, and F fixed to its back substantially as and for the purposes herein set
forth
Dated the Nineteenth day of January 1894.
SAMUEL SLATER WHITFIELD.