AN IMBRAVED ASTENING FOR [ewellery AND ÅRTICLES or Derss
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to John Compton Weeks Jefferys, of Tottenham
Court Road, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of
AN IMBRAVED ASTENING FOR [ewellery AND ÅRTICLES or Derss "
AN IMPROVED Fastening for Jewellery and ÅRTICLES OF Derss
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PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Compton Weeks
Jefferys at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his
Petition, on the 24th July 1874.
I, JOHN COMPTON WEEKS JEFFERYS, of Tottenham Court Road, in
the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the nature of the said Inven-
tion for "AN IMPROVED FASTENING FOR JEWELLERY AND ARTICLES OF DRESS," to
be as follows :-
. My Invention relates to an improved fastener for jewellery and
articles of dress.
I will describe the Invention as applied to a stud or solitaire button,
but it will be readily understood that it is applicable with slight modifi-
cation for securing bracelets and necklaces.

page_text: The head and back of the solitaire are both larger than will
pass through the button hole, and in order that it may be readily
inserted the head is made detachable from the pillar, and the Invention
consists in connecting the two parts together as follows, so that they
may be readily attached or detached, and yet be perfectly secure when in
wear.
The pillar of the stud or solitairo is preferably flat or oval, and has a
kind of cross head formed of two lugs projecting in opposite directions.
One lug is fixed whilst the other forms part of a small bolt fitted to
slide in the pillar and pressed outwards by a spring.
The head of the solitaire has a slot at back, of such size that it can
only be connected to the pillar by first inserting and forcing back the
spring lug in order that the other lug may be inserted, also whereupon
the spring lug being released, both will be securely retained in the
head.
As a modification of the foregoing I may dispense with the back to
the solitaire by making the head in one with the pillar, which is pro-
vided with a fixed and a spring lug, the latter being passed through the
button hole in the same way as before described in respect of the slot.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, 2
filed by the said John Compton Wecks Jefferys in the Great Seal
Patent Office on the 23rd January 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, JOHN
COMPTON WEEKS JEFFERYS, of Tottenham Court Road, in the County
of Middlesex, send grooting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of July, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-eighth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said John Compton Weeks Jefferys,
Her special licence, that I, the said John Compton Weeks Jefferys,
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said
John Compton Wecks Jefferys, executors, administrators, and assigns,

page_text: should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and
at all times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and
lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle
of Man, an Invenion for "AN IMPROVED FASTENING FOR JEWELLERY AND
OTHER ARTICLES OF DRESS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I,
the said John Compton Weeks Jefferys, my executors or administrators,
by an instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands
and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the
said Invention, and in what manner the same was to be performed,
and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within
six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the said
Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said John Compton Weeks Jefferys, do
hereby declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner
the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer
tained in and by the following statement, reference being had to the
accompanying Sheet of Drawings, and to the letters and figures marked
thereon (that is to say) :-
My Invention relates to an improved fastener for jewellery and
articles of dress.
I will describe the Invention as applied to a stud or solitaire button,
but it will be readily understood that it is applicable with slight altera-
tion for securing bracelets and necklaces.
5 In order that my Invention may be more readily understood, I have
illustrated in the accompanying Drawing several modifications of solitaire
buttons and shirt studs, all constructed upon the same principle, viz.,
the one part being provided with projecting lugs and made contractible
for insertion in a slot in the other part (or in the button hole, as the case
0 may be) and expansible by means of a spring, so that when inserted it
cannot be accidently withdrawn.
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Figure 1 of the Drawing shows an under side plan and section of the
head or front part of the solitaire, and Figure 2 a section and plan of
the back, while Figure 3 shows the head and back connected together.
a is the head of the solitaire, provided with a hollow back in which is
formed a slot b; c is the back of the solitaire; and d is the pillar or
stem.

page_text: The lead a and back c of the solitairo are both too large to pass
through the button hole, and in order that it may be readily detachable,.
the head a is made to separate from the pillar or stem d, and the Inven-
tion consists in connecting the two parts together as horeafter moro
fully described, so that they may be readily attached and detached, and
yet be perfectly secure when in wear.
The pillar or stem d of the stud or solitaire is preferably flattened or
oval in cross section, to retain it in one position when inserted in the
button hole, and it has a kind of cross head formed of two nibs or
lugs e, f, projecting in opposite directions. The one lug e is formed in
one with the pillar or stem d, and is therefore a fixture; but the othor
lugf forms part of a small bolt g fitted to slide within the pillar d,
which is hollow, and constantly pressed outwards by a spring h, which
may be either of spiral form as shown in Figure 2, or flat as in
Figure 4.
made of such length that to
must first be inserted in the
The slot 6 on the head of the solitaire is
admit the pillar & therein the nib or lug
slot 6 in order, that by pressing the bolt g against the end of slot b, the
bolt may be forced back so as to allow of the fixed nib or lug c being
passed through the slot, whereupon the pressure on the spring bolt is
relieved, and the spring expanding forces out the spring bolt until the
two lugs take behind the back of the head a, thus connecting the two
parts together in such a manner that they cannot be accidently separated,
it being only possible to detach the head a by purposely applying
pressuro in such a direction as to compress the spring and force back
the bolt.
Figure 5 shows the back and pillar of a solitaire, in which no bolt is
used, the spring and movable nib being in one, the spring being a flat
spring rivetted to a solid pillar. The head is provided with a slot in
which the movable and fixed nibs e, f, are inserted as before.
Figure 6 shows a solitaire with the pillar formed in two parts, the one
being fixed and carrying the lug e, while the other is formed on the
spring bolt and carries tho lug f¹.
Figure 7 shows a section of another arrangement, in which the pillar
is tubular to contain the spring, and the spring catch or lugfis pivoted a
to the end of the said pillar or stem d, the spring bearing under the

page_text: tail end of said catch or lug f to force the same outwards; e is a fixed
lug or nib on the pillar d, which takes into an oblong slot 6, in back of
head a as before.
Figure 8 shows views of a shirt stud, which constitutes yet another
modification. In this case no back proper is employed, and the pillar is
not detachable from the head of the stud. The stud is however secured
to the shirt and retained in the stud hole in the same way that the pillar
is inserted in the slot in the head of the solitaire as before described.
For greater security the spring lug fis enlarged or provided with a plate,
which forms a kind of back to the stud and assists in retaining it in the
hole.
Having described the nature of the Invention, and the manner of
performing the same, I declare that what I claim as my Invention to
be protected by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is,―
1st. In a solitaire button having the front part detachable from the
back, I claim the several arrangements for attaching the two parts
together by a fixed and a movable projection (or it may be two movable
projections) on the one part capable of being withdrawn or contracted
for insertion through a slot in the other part, and expanded by means of
a spring after passing through the slot, substantially as herein described
and shown in the Drawings.
2ndly. I claim the application of the said means of attachment for
securing studs in a shirt front, the stud being constructed substantially
as herein described and shown in Figure 7 of the Drawings.
3rdly. I claim the application of the said means of attachment for
connecting the ends of bracelets and necklaces as herein specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said John Compton Weeks Jefferys, have
hereunto set my hand and seal, this Twenty-second day of
January, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred
and seventy-five.
JOHN COMPTON WEEKS JEFFERYS.
(L.S.)