A New or Improved Solitaire or Fastening for Gloves, Cuffs, Boots and Shoes, and other Articles of Dress and Jewellery.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Nov., 1886.
Complete Left, 16th July, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 16th Aug., 1887,
DECE
A New or Improved Solitaire or Fastening for Gloves, Cuffs, Boots
and Shoes, and other Articles of Dress and Jewellery.
I WILLIAM STARLEY, of the firm of Starley Brothers of Saint John's Works in
the City of Coventry Manufacturers do hereby declare the nature of this Invention
to be as follows:-
My invention consists of a solitaire or fastening for articles of dress and jewellery
constructed and used in the manner herein after described.
The base of the said solitaire consists of a disc in the centre of which and at right
angles thereto is a stem having a length somewhat greater than the thickness of the
part or parts of the dress or article with which it is to be used. The said stem is
nearly flat in figure its sides and edges being slightly rounded. At the summit of the
said stem is a pointed tongue or head extending in one direction somewhat beyond the
margin of the base of the solitaire but only slightly extending in the opposite direction
beyond the said stem. The said tongue or head is of an elongated pear shape in plan
its broad end being situated at the stem and its longer direction is coincident with the
longer direction of the stem.
The several parts described are made by preference in one piece but they may be
made of separate parts and joined together.
In using the solitaire or fastening it is introduced underneath or at the back of the
part or parts of the dress to be fastened together or the article to which it is to be
attached. The pointed end of the tongue or head is passed through the hole or holes
in the article of dress which are expanded during its passage through them. After
the tongue or head has passed through the hole or holes it is turned half round when
the holes collapse underneath the said tongue or head and upon the nearly flat stem.
The fastening is then secure.
When the solitaire or fastening is employed for the purpose of connecting an article
of jewellery to the dress it may be used in an inverted position that is the disc which
I have called the base may have an ornamental face and may constitute the front or
exposed part of the solitaire.
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W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: and Shoes, and other Articles of Dress and Jewellery.
I WILLIAM STARLEY of the firm of Starley Brothers of Saint John's Works in
the City of Coventry, Manufacturers do hereby declare the nature of my Invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My invention consists of a solitaire or fastening for articles of dress and jewellery
constructed and used in the manner herein after described.
The base of the said solitaire consists of a disc in the centre of which and at right
angles thereto is a stem having a length somewhat greater than the thickness of the
part or parts of the dress or article with which it is to be used. The said stem is nearly
flat in figure its sides and edges being slightly rounded. At the summit of the said
stem is a pointed tongue or head extending in one direction somewhat beyond the
margin of the base of the solitaire but only slightly extending in the opposite direction
beyond the said stem. The said tongue or head is of an elongated pear shape in plan
its broad end being situated at the stem and its longer direction is coincident with the
longer direction of the stem.
The several parts described are made by preference in one piece but they may be
made of separate parts and joined together.
In using the solitaire or fastening it is introduced underneath or at the back of the
part or parts of the dress to be fastened together or the article to which it is to be
attached. The pointed end of the tongue or head is passed through the hole or holes
in the article of dress which are expanded during its passage through them. After
the tongue or head has passed through the hole or holes it is turned half round when
the holes collapse underneath the said tongue or head and upon the nearly flat stem.
The fastening is then secure.
Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying Drawing represent elevations taken at right
angles to one another of my new or improved solitaire or fastening; Figure 3
represents a plan of the same and Figure 4 a section of the same taken through the
nearly flat stem.
Figures 5 and 6 represent the solitaire drawn to a smaller scale applied to a cuff,
Figure 5 exhibiting the solitaire in the act of being applied to the cuff and Figure 6
the same after the cuff has been fastened by the solitaire.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several Figures of the
Drawing.
a is the disc or base of the solitaire and 6 the nearly flat stem of the same situated
at right angles to the said disc. The sides and edge of the stem bare slightly rounded
as seen in the section Figure 4; c is the pointed tongue or head the said tongue or
head having an elongated pear shape in plan. The broad end of the tongue or head c
is situated at the summit of the stem b and the longer direction of the tongue or head
coincides with the longer direction of the stem b. It will be seen by an examination

page_text: of the drawing that the pointed tongue or head c extends in one direction a little
beyond the margin of the disc or base a and only slightly in the opposite direction.
The base a, stem b and pointed tongue or head c are made in one piece but they may
be made of separate parts joined together.
In fastening the cuff (or other article of dress) by the use of my improved solitaire
it is placed at the back of the two edges of the cuff and the pointed end of the tongue
or head c is passed through the holes d in the cuff with the point end of the tongue or
head turned away from the edge of the cuff as represented in Figure 5. The tongue
or head e having been passed through the holes d in the cuff in the position Figure 5
the solitaire is turned through a semi circle or into the position represented in Figure 6.
On the solitaire being turned into the position Figure 6 the expanded holes d in the
cuff collapse underneath the head or tongue c and upon the nearly flat stem b and
the fastening of the cuff is complete. In order to unfasten the cuff the head c of the
solitaire is turned into the position Figure 5 when it may readily be withdrawn from
the cuff.
Although I prefer to make the stem of the solitaire flat or nearly flat as represented
in the drawing yet a stem of other figure may be employed.
When the solitaire or fastening is employed for the purpose of connecting an article
of jewellery to the dress it may be used in an inverted position that is, the disc a which
I have called the base may have an ornamental face and may constitute the front or
exposed part of the solitaire, the pointed tongue or head e being situated on the
underside of the dress.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my invention and
the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that I claim as my invention
of "A new or improved solitaire or fastening for gloves cuffs boots and shoes and
other articles of dress and jewellery";-
A solitaire or fastening consisting of a disc (which may either form the base or front
of the solitaire or fastening) having in its centre and at right angles thereto a stem
preferably nearly flat and the latter having at its summit a pointed tongue or head
taper or pear shaped in plan, the said pointed tongue or head being arranged with
respect to the stem and used substantially as herein before described and illustrated in
the accompanying Drawing.
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