IMPROVEMENTS IN LOCKETS
Year: 1871

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Carter Hascler, of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Jeweller, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS
IN LOCKETS."
Scaled the 25th July 1871, and dated the 23rd March 1871.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Carter Haseler
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 23rd March 1871.
I, GEORGE CARTER HASELER, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Jeweller, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN LOCKETS," to be as follows:-
This Invention relates to those kinds of lockets where the cases are
not hinged together, but are hung upon a pin or axis common to both,
and upon which they revolve in the same plane; and my improvements
consist substantially in providing one or both of the said case or
cases with a swivel, so that when one of the said cases is opened
sufficiently to be free of the other it may be reversed at pleasure. In
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page_text: this manner the interior or exterior of lockets made in accordance with
my improvements may be seen without difficulty, as desired.
As a modification of my Invention the said cases may contain between
them one or more middle parts, all being hung upon the same pin or
axis, but each of such parts being provided with a separate swivel or
swivels, so that any one or more parts being opened sufficiently to be
free from the other or others of them may by means of the said swivel
or swivels be reversed at pleasure.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Carter Haseler in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 22nd September 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
CARTER HASELER, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Jeweller,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-third day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, in the thirty-
fourth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said George Carter Haseler, Her special
licence that I, the said George Carter Haseler, my executors, adminis-
trators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said George Carter Haseler,
my executors, administrators, and assigns, 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 Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN LOCKETS," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the
said George Carter Haseler, 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.

page_text: NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said George Carter Haseler, do hereby
declare the nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement (that is to say) :-
This Invention relates to those kinds of lockets where the cases are
not hinged together but are hung upon a pin or axis common to both,
and upon which they revolve in the same plane, and my improvements
consist substantially in providing one or both of the said case or cases
with a swivel, so that when one of the said cases is opened sufficiently
to be free of the other it may be reversed at pleasure. In this manner
the interior or exterior of lockets made in accordance with my improve-
ments may be seen without difficulty as desired.
As a modification of my Invention the said cases may contain
between them one or more middle parts, all being hung upon the same
pin or axis, but each of such parts being provided with a separate
swivel or swivels, so that any one or more parts being opened sufficiently
to be free from the other or others of them, may by means of the said
swivel or swivels be reversed at pleasure.
That my Invention may be fully understood I have annexed Drawings
thereof which I now proceed to describe, and which will illustrate my
method of carrying my said Invention into effect,-
Figure 1 shows a front view, and Figure 2 a sectional edge view of
one of my improved lockets in which a is a suspending loop; b, the
joint or hinge of the locket; c is the locket case, and d the swivel joint;
Figure 3 is another view of the same locket opened in readiness for the
side or half case c (on which the swivel joint d is placed) to be turned
partially or half round so as to exhibit the inside of that half of the
locket case also, and which when so turned is shewn in Figure 4.
Figures 5, 6, and 7, represent a further application of my improve-
ments in lockets; Figure 5 shows a front view; Figure 6 a sectional
edge view, and Figure 7 represents the locket opened. In this instance
the locket represented in Figures 5, 6, and 7, is in three parts, each part
being made to revolve or turn by means of the swivel joints d, d, d.
Figures 8 and 9 represent another modification of my improvements
in lockets, Figure 8 is a front view, and Figure 9 is a view of the same
locket opened, and the revolving side or half case turned half round

page_text: shewing the inside of both sides or cases of the locket. In this instance
the swivel joint d is placed outside the locket case, and in the centre of
the ornament e.
In Figures 4, 7, and 9, I have represented the swivel joints as being
visible, but this is only to make the mode of manufacture clear, for it
will be understood that such swivel joints are not really visible when
the lockets are finished. In Figures 4 and 7 the swivel joints are
hidden under the frames which surround the glasses inside the locket
cases, and in Figure 9 the swivel joint is placed inside the outer
ornament e. Similar letters of reference are used to indicate similar or
analagous parts in all the Figures.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention and the
manner in which the same is or may be performed, I desire it to be
understood that what I claim as the Invention to be protected by the
herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the improvements in
those kinds of lockets where the cases or middle parts are not hinged
together but are hung upon a pin or axis common to both of such cases,
or middle parts, and upon which they revolve or move in the same
plane as herein-before specified, and which said improvements consist
in providing one or both of the said case or cases or middle parts with
a swivel, so that when one or more of the said cases or middle parts is
or are opened sufficiently to be free of the other or others of them, it or
they may be reversed at pleasure substantially as herein-before described
and illustrated in the Drawings hereunto annexed.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Carter Haseler, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, the Twentieth day of September, in
the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
GEORGE CARTER HASELER. (L.S.)
Witness,
G. R. HOLLAND,
Patent Office,
Birmingham.