A NEW OR IMPROVED MODE OR MEANS OF PRODUCING ORNAMENTAL DESIGNS IN COLOUR UPON BROOCHES, EARRINGS, PINS, BRACELETS, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF ORNAMENT AND UTILITY MADE IN METAL OR ALLOYS OF METAL
Year: 1879

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Arthur Willmore Pennington, of Saint Martin's Place,
Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Jeweller, for the Invention of "A
NEW OR IMPROVED MODE OR MEANS OF PRODUCING ORNAMENTAL DESIGNS
IN COLOUR UPON BROOCHES, EARRINGS, PINS, BRACELETS, AND OTHER ARTICLES
OF ORNAMENT AND UTILITY MADE IN METAL OR ALLOYS OF METAL"
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Arthur Willmore Pennington
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 2nd May 1879.
ARTHUR WILLMORE PENNINGTON, of Saint Martin's Place, Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Jeweller. "A NEW OR IMPROVED MODE OR MEANS OF PRO-
DUCING ORNAMENTAL DESIGNS IN COLOUR UPON BROOCHES, EARRINGS, PINS,
BRACELETS, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF ORNAMENT AND UTILITY MADE IN METAL
OR ALLOYS OF METAL."
This Invention relates to an improved method and means of producing ornamental
designs in various coloured metals upon brooches, earrings, pins, bracelets, and other
articles of jewellery or of ornament and utility made of metal or alloys of metal,
the object being to produce various designs, such as flowers, leaves, and birds, varied
in tint and color, and other similar ornamental designs, in different colored metals,
such as gold, silver, and platinum, on a flat surface or on the ordinary shapes in
which jewellery is made in a quick and effective manner.
The improved method and means by which I produce such designs in such
articles are very simple and allow of the desired result being attained very
economically and expeditiously.
In carrying my Invention into practice I take the piece of metal requiring to be
ornamented and I cut or pierce the whole of the required design therein by suitable
tools and by means of a press or other convenient apparatus.
As above described the design may be of any required pattern, but for the
purpose of illustrating my Invention let it be supposed to consist of a picturesque
representation of leaves, flowers, and birds, each being in a different colored metal.
The whole of the design having been cut or pierced out of the jewellery or other
piece requiring to be ornamented, as above described, I separate the tools (if the
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page_text: design was cut out entire at one operation) and use them separately in cutting out
the same design partially; that is, I take the tools by which (say) the leaves were
cut out (in cutting out the entire design), and I use the same tools in cutting out
the same design, but only so far as the leaves are concerned, in the metal of which
they are intended to be composed.
I proceed likewise in cutting out the flowers and birds from different colored
metals; that is, I take the tools by which-these parts of the entire design were cut
out and use them separately in cutting out their respective designs in flowers and
birds from the different colored metals of which they are intended to be composed.
Having by such means cut out the entire design from the piece requiring to be
ornamented and by the same tools cut out an exact facsimile of such design in
parts in various colored metals I lay the piece requiring to be ornamented face
downwards, that is, with the burr or roughened edges of the cut out design upwards,
and then lay the separate pieces cut out of the various colored metals over the
correspondingly shaped parts of the cut out piece, and then with a small or light
hammer I tap them gently down into the correspondingly cut out parts so as all to
form one level piece. I then wet the back of all the parts with alcohol or spirits
of wine, and while wet I also coat the back of all the parts with borax, and then
similarly charge with solder and solder all the parts firmly together.
Should still more variation of color or intricacy of design be required the above
described ornamented piece can then be pierced again across the same places and
similarly filled up, as above described.
When the ornamenting is completed as far as is desired I back the ornamented
piece up by soldering to it a similarly shaped piece, after which I make the orna-
mented piece into any desired article of jewellery, ornament, or utility, which when
finished may be lapped or colored and subsequently engraved, when the effect will
be at once apparent.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Arthur Willmore Pennington in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
29th September 1879.
ARTHUR WILLMORE PENNINGTON, of Saint Martin's Place, Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Jeweller. A NEW OR IMPROVED MODE OR MEANS OF PRO-
DUCING ORNAMENTAL DESIGNS IN COLOUR UPON BROOCHES, EARRINGS, PINS,
BRACELETS, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF ORNAMENT AND UTILITY MADE IN METAL,
OR ALLOYS OF METAL."
This Invention relates to an improved method and means of producing ornamental
designs in various colored metals upon brooches, earrings, pins, bracelets, and other
articles of jewellery, or of ornament and utility, made of metal or alloys of metal,
the object being to produce various designs, such as flowers, leaves, and birds, varied
in tint and color, and other similar ornamental designs in different colored metals,
such as gold, silver, and platinum, on a flat surface or on the ordinary shapes in
which jewellery is made in a quick and effective manner.
The improved method and means by which I produce such designs in such
articles are very simple and allow of the desired result being attained very
economically and expeditiously.
Such being the nature and object of my said Invention I will now proceed to
describe more in detail the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed
or carried into practical effect.
In carrying my Invention into practice I take the piece of metal requiring to be
ornamented and I cut or pierce the whole of the required design therein by suitable
tools and by means of a press or other convenient apparatus.
As above described the design may be of any required pattern, but for the purpose
of illustrating my Invention let it be supposed to consist of a picturesque representa-
tion of birds, leaves, and flowers, each being in a different colored metal.
The whole of the design having been cut or pierced out of the jewellery or other
piece requiring to be ornamented, as above described, I separate the tools (if the
design was cut out entire at one operation) and use them separately in cutting out
the same design partially; that is, I take the tools by which (say) the leaves were
cut out (in cutting out the entire design) and I use the same tools in cutting out
the same design, but only so far as the leaves are concerned, in the metal of which
they are intended to be composed.
I proceed likewise in cutting out the flowers and birds from different colored
metals, that is, I take the tools by which those parts of the entire design were cut
out and use them separately in cutting out their respective designs in flowers and
birds from the different colored metals of which they are intended to be composed.
Having by such means cut out the entire design from the piece requiring to be
ornamented, and with the same tools cut out an exact fac-simile of such design in
parts in different colored metals, I lay the piece requiring to be ornamented face
upwards, that is, with the burr or roughened edges of the cut out design down-
wards, and then lay the separate pieces cut out of the different colored metals with
the burr upwards over the correspondingly shaped parts of the cut out piece, and
then with a small or light hammer I tap them gently down into the correspondingly
cut out parts so as all to form one level piece; I then wet the back of all the parts
with alcohol or spirits of wine, and while wet I also coat the back of all the parts
with, borax, and then similarly charge with solder and solder all the parts firmly
together.
Should still more variation of color or intricacy of design be required the above
described ornamented piece can then be pierced again across the same places and
similarly filled up, as above described.
When the ornamenting is completed as far as is desirable the ornamented piece
may, if required, be backed up by soldering to it a similarly shaped piece, after

page_text: which I make the ornamental piece into any desired article of jewellery, ornament,
or utility, which when finished may be lapped or coloured, and subsequently
engraved, when the effect will be at once apparent, but I do not in all cases thus
back up the ornamented piece, as in some kinds of stamping it is not needed, such
as brooches, earrings, bracelets, lockets, pins, scarf slides, rings, general jewellery, cap-
vases, watch cases, dishes, and other articles which are or may be similarly
manufactured.
Having now described the nature and object of my said Invention, together with
the manner in which the same is to be or may be performed or carried into practical
effect, I would remark in conclusion that I claim as my Invention,-
The above described improved method and means of producing ornamental designs
in different colored metals, and the manufacture from the ornamental material of
various articles of jewellery, or ornament, or utility, substantially as described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Arthur Willmore Pennington, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Tenth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy nine.
ARTHUR WILLMORE PENNINGTON. (L.S.)
Witness,
JOHN KENDRICK,