A New or Improved Compound Article of Jewellery Applicable both as a Brooch and as a Collar Fastener, and in Part Available as Ornamental Attachments for Hair Pins and other Ornaments.
Year: 1886

page_text: A New or Improved Compound Article of Jewellery Applicable
both as a Brooch and as a Collar Fastener, and in Part
Available as Ornamental Attachments for Hair Pins and
other Ornaments.
I WILHELM ROHDE of Chalgrove Cottage, Thurleigh Road, Nightingale Lane,
Clapham in the County of Surrey, Jeweller, 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 consists of a compound article of jewellery so constructed and
arranged as to comprise within itself a brooch a collar fastener and removeable
ornamental attachments suitable for fitting into hair pins and other ornaments the
whole or parts of the said article being adapted to be worn as separate articles of
jewellery.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings is a front elevation (drawn to an
enlarged scale) of my new or improved compound article of jewellery complete.
Figure 2 is a corresponding plan of the same looking down upon the edge of the
article.
The said article consists of the following combination of parts namely, a bar a
of any shape in transverse section according to taste, made either solid or hollow,
but by preference hollow or of a trough section for lightness. Into either or both
ends of this bar there is fitted a removeable spring snap 6 of any well known or
suitable construction which will ensure its engaging securely with the bar when
pressed fully home whilst at the same time admitting of its ready removal or
detachment when required by pressing upon a projection o attached to the outer
end of the spring or yielding portion 6 of the tongue of the suap as is well under-
stood. The particular construction of the snap does not constitute an essential
part of my invention. If desired one end of the bar a may be provided with an
enlargement or head d fixed or formed thereon and set with gems or otherwise
ornamented the removeable spring snap at the opposite end being provided with
a corresponding enlargement or head by preference of ornamental character_or
design according to taste as shown clearly in my drawings but I prefer to employ
two such ornamental heads and snaps, one at each end of the bar so that both of
their may be removed and worn as separate ornaments when desired as herein-
after explained.
In Figures 1 and 2 I have for greater clearness represented one of the snaps and
ita ornamental enlargement or head as detached or withdrawn from the bar a. In
order that the complete article may be used as a brooch I provide it with the
usual hinged brooch pin e made readily detachable by being jointed to a short pin

page_text: screwed into a socket f secured to the back of one of the ornamental heads d as
shown clearly in Figure 2. The corresponding head d at the opposite end of the
bar carries the engaging hook g of the brooch pin which hook I prefer to mount
on a hinge as is well understood in order to admit of its being folded down out of
the way when not in use also shown clearly in Figure 2. It will thus be seen
that the complete article when the snap or snaps is or are inserted home and
secured in position will constitute an ornamental brooch secured to the dress by the
pin e in the usual manner. On detaching the brooch pin e the bar a with its
ornamental heads d d may be worn as a fastener for collars such as are now made
of velvet or other material to match the dress this application being shown in
figure 3 the outline of the collar with its eyelet holes for the passage of the bar a
being shown in dotted lines. In using the collar fastener the snap b with its
enlarged head d at one end of the bar a is removed the bar is then passed through
the eyelet holes in the collar as shown in Figure 3 and the spring snap replaced
and pressed home into the protruding end of the bar.
The aforesaid spring snaps b with their ornamental heads d may if desired be
transferred from the bar a to corresponding sockets h formed on or secured to the
ends of hair pins i for example (as shown in Figures 4 and 5) or to other
ornamental articles thus permitting of their being worn in the hair or otherwise
when separate and detached from the brooch or collar fastener as the case may be.
The bar a of the brooch or collar fastener even when divested of its snaps and
ornamental ends or heads d (see figure 6) may be readily converted into a separate
brooch by fitting onto each end thereof a cap or socket (see figure 7) either plain
or of a more or less ornamental design, according to taste said caps or sockets
having each an arm attached thereto and passing behind the bar a so as to meet
and overlap each other in the centre where their adjoining ends are secured
together by a pin or screw m inserted into corresponding holes in the ends of the
said arms as shown clearly in Figure 7. In this arrangement the brooch pin n
will be jointed to the back of one of the said arms and its retaining hook o fitted
to the back of the opposite arm or socket. One of the caps or sockets k with its
corresponding arm 7 is shown in Figure 7 as withdrawn slightly from the end of
the bar a. If preferred the arms and securing pin m may be dispensed with and
the caps or sockets secured to the ends of the bar a by spring or other catches
attached thereto and engaging into holes or notches in the bar as will be readily
understood.
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:-
1. A compound article of jewellery comprising a brooch, a collar fastener and
one or a pair of detachable enlarged heads or ends mounted on spring snaps
available for attachment to hair pins and other ornaments as specified.
2. The use in combination with the bar a of the said compound article of
jewellery, of removeable caps or sockets fitting the ends of the said bar and carrying
respectively a brooch pin and hook provision being made for securing the said caps
or sockets in position on the bar substantially as specified.
Dated this 11th day of June 1886.