An Improved Ring and Finger Gauge.
Year: 1891

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Ring and Finger Gauge.
TEA
I, HENRY ROBERT WILLIAM LAWSON, Manufacturing Jeweller, of Hatton
Garden, in the County of London, do hereby declare the nature of the said invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to an improved ring and finger gauge for the use of jewellers
and others. The improved device is constructed of an oblong form, of celluloid or
other suitable material which, with ordinary treatment, will stand long continued
use without liability of distortion or of enlargement or variation of size of the gauge
holes or openings formed therein, in leaf-like sections, in the series of which the
gauge holes or openings are stamped, cut or otherwise made in series of any suitable
number and (preferably, but not necessarily) in regularly progressive order as
regards size from the smallest to the largest, in sizes agreeing with those of the
Wheatsheaf" pillar ring gauge or with those of any other required standard
finger or ring gauge. Such sections are eyeletted or otherwise equivalently connected
together at one corner, preferably with one or between two similar but unperforated
covering plates, in such manner as to allow of the perforated sections being spread
open in a fan-like manner, or of their being separately opened out for gauging the
finger or ring, and cf their being all closed together for protection of the gauge holes
or openings and insertion in the pocket.
The improved device is illustrated on the accompanying drawings, in which
Figs. 1, to 3, represent the same in front elevation, Fig. 1, representing the leaf-like
sections closed together as for placing in the pocket, Fig. 2, representing the
same opened out in a fan-like manner to display the several sections, and Fig. 3,
representing one of the sections opened out in position for use. Fig. 4, represents a
side elevation of the device.
5, represents the leaf-like sections, in the series of which the gauge holes or
openings 6, are made, such being, if required, numbered, lettered or otherwise
marked in their order of progression. 7, represents the outer cover or covers,
which, being unperforated and plain, afford protection to the perforated sections 5,
preventing liability of the latter being injured by the ordinary miscellaneous
contents of a pocket, if placed therein, and offer a specially advantageous facility
for advertisement by the jeweller or other tradesman issuing the same, and being
also serviceable for other advertisements. The covers may be made in one piece
together with a connecting back as indicated by the dotted lines a, in Fig. 3.
8, represents the eyelets or like fastenings by which the series of leaf-like
sections 5, are connected together at one corner thereof so as to permit of those
formed with the gauge holes or openings being opened out for use and closed
together as aforesaid.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim
as my invention :-
A finger and ring gauge consisting of a series of celluloid or other suitable
leaf-like sections in which or in some of which gauge holes or openings are made in
the order preferred the series of sections being so connected together as to allow of
any thereof being opened out from the series for its intended purpose of utility,
substantially as hereinbefore described.
DAY, DAVIES & HUNT,
321, High Holborn, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.