IMPROVEMENTS IN LOCKETS, WHICH IMPROVEMENTS MAY ALSO BE APPLIED TO BROOCHES, BRACELETS, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF JEWELLERY AND DRESS.
Year: 1866

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Francesco Tubino, of No. 7, Leather Lane, in the
City of London, Jeweller, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN LOCKETS,
WHICH IMPROVEMENTS MAY ALSO BE APPLIED TO BROOCHES, BRACELETS, AND
OTHER ARTICLES OF JEWELLERY AND DRESS.".
Sealed the 12th April 1867, and dated the 29th October 1866.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Francesco Tubino at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 29th
***October 1866.
J
.I, FRANCESCO TUBINO, of No. 7, Leather Lane, in the City of London,
Jeweller, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN LOCKETS, WHICH IMPROVEMENTS MAY ALSO BE APPLIED TO BROOCHES,.
BRACELETS, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF JEWELLERY AND DRESS," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists of the improvements, herein-after described, in con-
structing the inner or moveable frames or cases of lockets, in which said frames
or cases portraits or other articles are contained, whereby on giving motion to
one of the said frames or cases the other of the said frames or cases is
similarly moved, but in an opposite direction, so that the two frames or cases
are simultaneously drawn from out the fixed case, and the portraits-or-other
articles contained in them exposed to view, or the said frames or cases. are

page_text: simultaneously drawn within the fixed case. My Invention may also be applied
to brooches, bracelets, pins, and other articles of jewellery and dress.
I will describe my Invention as applied to a locket. I make the outer
case in which the sliding or moveable frames or cases are enclosed of a rectan-
gular figure open at both ends, or the said outer case may be made of any
desired ornamental figure. The said moveable frames or cases containing the
portraits or other articles are of a figure proper to slide into and out of the
To the inner end of each of the said frames or cases a thin plate
nearly half the width of the frame or case is affixed, and the inner longitudinal
edges of the said thin plates are made into racks. In the middle of the fixed
case of the locket is a pinion, the teeth of which are in gear with the racks
described affixed to the frames or cases; the outer end of one of the said
frames or cases is provided with- a ring or ornamental projection or handle.
The sliding frames or cases of the locket may be divided into two or more
compartments, in each of which a portrait or ornament may be placed.
On pulling or drawing one of the frames or cases outwards by its ring or
handle the rack attached to the said frame or case gives motion to the pinion
described, which latter gives motion to the other of the said frames or cases,
but in an opposite direction to that which is moved by the hand; the two
frames or cases are thus simultaneously moved from out the fixed case, and the
portraits contained therein exposed to view. On pushing one of the frames
or cases into the fixed case the other of the said frames or cases is also simul-
taneously drawn inwards by the action of the pinion.
The arrangements of parts of the inner sliding frames or cases are applied
to brooches, bracelets, and other articles of jewellery and dress essentially in
the manner described with respect to lockets, the shape only of the parts
being varied to adapt them to the particular article to which they are to be
applied.