IMPROVEMENTS IN STUDS, AND SOLITAIRES, AND SUCH LIKE ARTICLES
Year: 1884

page_text: I JOHN COMPTON WEEKS JEFFERYS, of 19, Hargrave Park Road, Holloway, in
the County of Middlesex, Manufacturing Jeweller, do hereby declare the nature of
my Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN STUDS, AND SOLITAIRES, AND SUCH LIKE
ARTICLES to be as follows:
:-
My Invention relates to and consists of an improvement in connextion with an
invention for which I obtained Letters Patent bearing date the 13th day of
December 1876, and numbered 4811.
To describe my Invention, I fix a pillar to a Stud or Solitaire, preferably flat or
oval, at the bottom of which I place a circular, oval, or simelar formed plate, the
pillar being soldered or otherwise attached near edge of the circumference of same
plate, that part of plate being the exact width of said flat pillar.
Thereby one side of the pillar will have nearly a circular or oval plate, and the
other side only a small lip or part of the same plate, extending from one side of
pillar to the other.
This arrangement allows by its simplicity the large plate side of pillar to be
inserted into button bole first, then permitting the lip or small side of pillar to be
easily forced at pleasure, in or out of button hole, somewhat after the same style,
(only in an improved way) of my former Patent 4811, added to which I now
annex a mode of locking and unlocking the Stud when in position, for extra
security, to accomplish this I place a facimile plate underneath bottom plate of
Stud, being movable by rotating from Top, by means of a connecting wire pillar
passing through center of above mentioned flat pillar, the wire pillar being fixed to
top of Stud and underneath plate.
It will be easily seen that the pillar being flat it keeps the ends of hole extended,
so that only force on the lip side can remove it, allowing it to remain in position
till locked or unlocked by turning the top of Stud to the right or left, having a
stop plate to regulate same motion.
The combination of small lip to one side of pillar coupled with the stop locking
and unlocking arrangement makes the desired improvement of Stud or Solitaire.
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I JOHN COMPTON WEEKS JEFFERYS of 19 Hargrave Park Road, Holloway in
the County of Middlesex, Manufacturing Jeweller do hereby declare the nature of
my Invention for IMPROVEMENTS IN STUDS AND SOLITAIRES AND SUCH LIKE
ARTICLES and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My invention relates to, and consists of an improvement in connection with an
invention for which I have obtained letters patent, bearing date the thirteenth day
of December eighteen hundred and seventy six and numbered 4811, the specification
whereof directs to fix a pillar to a stud or solitaire, preferably flat or oval at
bottom of which is placed a circular, oval, or similarly formed plate, the pillar
being soldered or otherwise attached, near edge of circumference of same plate,
that part of plate being the exact width of said flat pillar.
Thereby one side of the pillar, will have nearly a circular or oval plate, and the
other side only a small lip or heel, or part of the same plate, extending out on the
opposite side of pillar thereat, on which the plate stands.
This arrangement allows by its simplicity of the larger side plate to be inserted
into buttonhole first, then permitting the lip, heel or smaller side plate, to be easily
forced at pleasure in or out of buttonhole.
In carrying my invention into practise I stamp the parts which are to work in
relation and combination with one another, in such wise that they will correspond
with each other, so as to be readily fitted without further manipulation, (after
having brought the parts together) than will suffice to rivet or solder the connected
parts, and such rivetings or solderings are from the character of the parts employed,
very few and simple, but a very complex combination, but a simple movement is
arrived at in the finished stud, solitaire, button, brooch or other fastening or
ornamental device.
According to this present invention, I place a facimile plate, round oval or other-
wise, underneath bottom plate of the stud, the same being moveable by rotating
the top of the stud, by means of a connecting wire pillar, passing centraly through
the parts of the above mentioned flat pillar, the wire pillar being fixed to top of
stud and to the underneath B plate.
The pillar being flat, it leaves ends of buttonhole extended, so that only force on
the lip or heel side of the plate can remove it, and secures that it will remain in
position till locked or unlocked, by turning the top of stud to the right or left,
there being a stop spring plate to regulate same motion, and said spring plate is
affixed by two ears stamped out of the bottom head plate, which said ears pass
through slots in the spring plate, and working in combination with this spring
plate, is another plate to which the flat pillar is riveted, thus the flat pillar and its
plate are moveable around the wire pillar except when arrested by the spring.

page_text: Now when the flat pillar is within the buttonhole it cannot turn, but the head of
button the spring plate and its wire pillar, and its lower plate are riveted together,
by the riveting of the wire pillar above or below, therefore when the button
head is turned around, the lower plate or arm will be moved around so as to
occupy a position opposite to the lower plate or arm on the flat pillar, so locking
the stud in position.
A dwell or stop is provided in the top plate of the flat pillar, into which
the spring will engage, so that the head of solitaire, may not be turned too
far, and an indication will be given by click of spring, shewing when fastened
and unfastened, this stop can be made inside or outside of plate at pleasure, by
arranging for same.
Be it understood the spring itself is no novelty, except so far as used for, and
applied to the invention here claimed.
The pillar of solitaire being flat or oval every design whether square form or
otherwise, or the device for ornament for the top of solitaire can be always normal
in its position.
In order that my invention may be readily understood, I have annexed hereto
a sheet of drawings, shewing the parts and construction.
Fig. 1. represents the solitaire or stud ready for insertion into buttonhole.
Fig. 2. shews the solitaire fastened, after the arms A B have been opened, by
rotating the stud or solitaire from top.
Fig. 3. is a plan of inside of head plate of solitaire (the ornamental portion
removed) and shews the spring plate, and spring fingers "a" as also where the
connecting wire pillar is riveted at centre E.
Fig. 4 shews the spring plate removed "a1" being stamped up domes in the ends
of the spring fingers a and b. b. are slots to receive the ears of headplate fig. 6.
Fig. 5 shews the underneath view of solitaire with lip or heel G to the lower
plate or bottom arm B.
Fig. 6. represents the head plate of solitaire, with its ears 61 which are to fit
into slots b of fig. 4 and are then turned down as in fig. 3 so as to fasten spring
plate fig. 4 to the head plate fig. 6.
Figs. 7 & 7 represent the flat pillar plate S and figure 8 the form of the flat
pillar H and arm A and the heel G all stamped in a piece before the posts N
are bent up to form the pillar H¹ the extremeties H2 of the posts are formed in the
same operation of stamping, and pass into holes provided in plate S fig. 7a There is
a central hole formed in plate S and also in the piece fig. 8 through which the wire
pillar K fig. 9. passes and works The Holes H³ in plate S fig. 7a receive the
domes "a" of the spring fingers a when the button has been turned either into
its normal open position figs. 1 & 3 or into its locked position fig. 2.
Fig. 9 shews in plan and side views the wire pillar K with the arm B riveted
thereto. In further fitting the parts together, the wire pillar K is pressed up
through the central holes of the piece fig. 7 and 7a and into the central hole E of
fig. 4. and is there riveted as is shewn in fig. 3.
The action of locking and unlocking the parts A. & B is performed by rotating
the top of stud to right or left.
It will be seen from the foregoing description, and drawings, that should the
plate B by accident or violence become displaced, the parts are still held together
by the riveting ends of H2 of the flat pillar, and arm B to pillar plate S, and the
riveting at E, and all the securing parts are so disposed that they cannot be
accidentally interefered with, and they support each other.
The forcing into or out of the buttonhole of the lip or heel G will be readily
effected without damage or creasing the buttonhole and if even it be neglected to
lock the solitaire, stud or fastening, the same will be retained in the buttonhole by
reason of said lip or heel G in combination with the arm or arms A B laying under
the material,

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
In a solitaire, stud or such like article the combination of lip or heel G with the
arm or plate A of the flat pillar, and B of the centre pillar, combined with a
stopped spring locking and unlocking device of moveable or shifting plate S as
herein set forth.
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