A Solitaire or Fastening for Dresses, Cuffs, Boots, Gloves, and other like Articles.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 9th June, 1886.
Complete Left, 9th Apr., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 10th May, 1887.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A Solitaire or Fastening for Dresses, Cuffs, Boots, Gloves, and other
like Articles.
CHARLES ANTONIO MCCALLA Die Sinker & Tool Maker 15 Great Hampton
Street, Birmingham do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists of an entirely new and improved solitaire and is constructed
as follows. Fig. A is plan. Fig. B side elevation. Figs. C. D shows the solitaire
open realy for attachment to cuff. Fig. E shows internal working parts of solitaire
Fig. F shows section of solitaire when closed. The disc G. is inserted into the button
hole of one side of cuff the other button hole is brought over the smaller disc H. The
top part of the solitaire is attached to discs G & H. by means of a small arm and
hinge I. The top part of solitaire is provided with an indentation J on the under side
made to receive disc H & when pressed down is fastened by means of catch K.
Catch K. is held in position by spring L. & released when the solitaire is required to
be opened by pressing the projecting part of catch K. and by these means no part of
solitaire is detachable or liable to loss.
1000

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A Solitaire or Fastening for Dresses, Cuffs, Boots, Gloves, and other
like Articles.
I, CHARLES ANTONIO MCCALLA, 15 Great Hampton Street, Birmingham, Die Sinker
and Tool Maker, 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 in a new or improved solitaire which is constructed sub-
stantially as herein described the chief object being to provide a solitaire in which no
part has to be detached and thereby rendered liable to be lost in unfastening.
On the accompanying drawing Fig. 1 is a plan, Fig. 2 a side clevation and Fig. 3
an inverted plan of a solitaire constructed according to my invention; Fig. 4 is an
inverted plan and Fig. 5 a side elevation of the solitaire open ready for attachment to
a cuff, boot, glove or other article of dress having button holes and requiring to be
fastened; Fig. 6 is a sectional plan and Fig. 7 a sectional elevation of the same
solitaire on an enlarged scale shewing its internal working parts; Fig. 8 represents
separately in sectional elevation and plan a catch forming part of the same as herein-
after described Figs. 9 and 10 represent the solitaire applied for fastening a cuff and
Fig. 11 represents in elevation and plan a slightly modified form of the solitaire
illustrated in the preceeding Figures.
Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several Figures.
Referring firstly more particularly to Figs. 1 to 10, both inclusive, A. is the top
part of the solitaire which in front appears similar to an ordinary solitaire but has at
the back a small arm B hinged thereto at I. The free end of the arm B is provided
with a projecting stem having at its extremity a knob or disc H. The arm B can
be turned on its hinge I and opened out from the top part A (see Figs. 4 and 5) or
brought parallel thereto (see Figs. 2 and 3). In the underside of the top part A of
the solitaire is an indentation J made to receive the knob or disc H and partly inside
the solitaire is a spring catch K. (shewn separately by Fig. 8) which is pressed
outwardly by spring L, its extremity projecting beyond the rim of the solitaire.
When in its normal position the spring catch K partly covers the indentation J so
that when the free end of the arm B is pressed against the front part A the knob or
disc H will enter the indentation J and forcing back the catch K will pass it when the
latter will be forced forwards again by the spring L into its normal position and thus
secure the free end of the arm B to the front part A. The free end of the arm B can
be released from the front part by first pressing back the projecting end of the spring
catch K. On the arm B, at the opposite side thereof to the knob or disc H, is a
second disc or knob G which is carried from the arm by a short stem g.
In using the solitaire for fastening for instance a cuff C (see elevation Fig. 9 and
plan Fig. 10) the knob or disc G is first inserted in the button hole c¹ of one side of
the cuff (see Fig. 9) the solitaire being open, the other button hole is then drawn

page_text: over the smaller knob or disc H (see Fig. 10) and when the front part A of the
solitaire has been closed down on to the knob or disc H so as to engage the latter with
the spring catch K the solitaire will be secured to the cuff. To unfasten the cuff the
projecting part of the catch K is pressed inwards thus releasing the knob or disc H
and leaving the front part A free to be turned on its hinge I when the button hole c³
can readily be withdrawn from the stem leaving the solitaire in the other button
hole c¹ thus no part of the solitaire is detachable from itself and liable to be lost.
In the modification illustrated by Fig. 11 the stems and are in the same line and
the knob or disc H is dispensed with, a notch m being provided near the outer end of
the stem for the spring catch K to engage in.
In conclusion I wish it to he understood that I do not limit myself to the precise
details herein described and illustrated in the attached drawings as the same may be
varied without departing from the nature of my invention, as for instance the spring
catch may be constructed in many different ways and yet serve the purposes herein
described, and the shapes of the knobs or discs G and H may be varied as they may
be oval or of other shape.
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:
1st. The combination with the front part of a solitaire or fastening for dresses cuffs
boots gloves and other like articles, of an arm hinged at the back thereof and provided
with two projecting stems for the purposes and substantially as described, the arm and
the front part being so constructed that they may be fixed together when required,
substantially as described and illustrated.
2nd. A solitaire or fastening for dresses, cuffs, boots, gloves and other like articles
constructed substantially as herein before described with reference to and shewn in
Figs. 1 to 10 and in Fig. 11 of the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 7th day of April 1887.
CHARLES ANTONIO MCCALLA.