IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR BUTTONS, SHIRT STUDS, SOLITAIRES, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF JEWELLERY AND DRESS
Year: 1877

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Henry Bricknell, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Jeweller, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR
BUTTONS, SHIRT STUDS, SOLITAIRES, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF JEWELLERY AND
DRESS."
Sealed the 22nd January 1878, and dated the 25th July 1877.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Henry Bricknell
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 25th July 1877.
GEORGE HENRY BRICKNELL, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Jeweller.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR BUTTONS, SHIRT STUDS, SOLITAIRES, . AND
OTHER ARTICLES OF JEWELLERY AND DRESS."
My Invention consists of the improvements, herein-after described, in the con-
struction of buttons, shirt studs, solitaires, and other articles of jewellery and dress,
the chief feature of this my Invention being to dispense with the complication of
parts hitherto adopted in the actions or fastenings for the connecting or engaging
of the upper and lower parts of these articles, and this by means of an action
composed of the catch spring and pushers in an entire piece.
I will now describe my Invention as applied to a solitaire-I take an ordinary
metallic disc, steel by preference, and of any desired form, circular or semicircular,
and by means of tools I pierce or cut away the interior, leaving such as I may
require to form, yield, and act as a spring catch and pushers. By this means I
construct the action in one entire piece, not liable to disarrangement, more durable
and economical. This action is applied to the interior of the upper portion of the
solitaire, as hitherto.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said George Henry Bricknell in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 25th
January 1878.
GEORGE HENRY BRICKNELL, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Jeweller.
"IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR BUTTONS, SHIRT STUDS, SOLITAIRES, AND
OTHER ARTICLES OF JEWELLERY AND DRESS."
My Invention consists of the improvements, herein-after described, in the con-
struction of buttons, shirt studs, solitaires, and other articles of jewellery and dress,
the chief feature of this my Invention being to dispense with the complication
of parts hitherto adopted in the actions or fastenings for the connecting or engaging
of the upper and lower parts of these articles, and this by means of an action
composed of the catch spring and pushers in an entire piece.
I will now describe my Invention as applied to a solitaire:-I take an ordinary
metallic disc, steel by preference, and of any desired form, circular or semicircular,
and by means of tools I pierce or cut away the interior, leaving such as I may
require to form, yield, and act as a spring catch and pushers. By this means I
construct the action in one entire piece, not liable to disarrangement, more durable
and economical. This action is applied to the interior of the upper portion of the
solitaire, as hitherto.
But as my Invention will be best understood, aided by a reference to the
Drawings hereunto annexed, I will now proceed to describe the same, reference
being made to the figures and letters marked thereon (that is to say),-
Fig. 1 and Fig. 2 show respectively the component parts of a solitaire A,
shewing it in its entirety: B, the upper portion removed from C, the lower part;
D is my one piece action, answering the purpose of pusher, spring, and catch. In
Fig. 1 a is a shell circular in form; b is the projecting edge of d, in diameter
somewhat larger than a, and extending its periphery, the object of which is that
when the solitaire is engaged or connected, as shewn at A, a pressure being applied
to any part of b it will yield and the jams c, c, expand, and thus release c;
d is a circular disc, having an hole in its centre, through which is fed c when
desirous of engaging or connecting, as shewn at A.
Fig. 2 is identical in principle to Fig. 1, differing so far that the action is
actuated by means of the projections afterwards described; a is a shell into
which is placed D, my one piece action, the flange of the said shell limiting
the action of D, thereby preventing disarrangement; b, b, are projections or
pushers, viz., by applying an inward pressure to them, the jaws c, c, will expand
and release c, as before described; d is a circular disc, having an hole in its centre,
as in Fig. 1, adopted to secrete the action.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature and object of my
said Invention, I would observe in conclusion, that I do not restrict myself entirely
to the above description, as various modifications may be made without departing
from the features of my said Invention; but what I do claim and desire to be
secured to me by the herein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the improve-
ments in fastenings for buttons, shirt studs, solitaires, and other articles of jewellery
and dress, wherein the following is the important and peculiar feature:-The
making of the said fastenings, comprising the catch, spring, and pushers in an entire
piece, substantially similar to that herein-before described, but I do not limit myself
to any particular kind of form for the said fastener.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Henry Bricknell, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Twenty-third day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.
ARATRAN HARING