A NEW OR IMPROVED FASTENING FOR BROOCHES AND OTHER ARTICLES OF JEWELLERY AND DRESS
Year: 1853

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Benjamin Quinton, of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Manufacturer, for the Invention of "A NEW
OR IMPROVED FASTENING FOR BROOCHES AND OTHER ARTICLES OF
JEWELLERY AND DRESS."
Sealed the 9th April 1858, and dated the 22nd January 1853.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Benjamin Quinton
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,
on the 22nd January 1853.
I, BENJAMIN QUINTON, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for
"A NEW OR IMPROVED FASTENING FOR BROOCHES AND OTHER ARTICLES OF
JEWELLERY AND DRESS" to be as follows:-
The Drawing represents my Invention in vertical section as applied
to an ordinary brooch. a, is the stone or jewel, and 6, the framing in
which it is set. c, is the pin which passes through that portion of
the article of dress d, to which the brooch is attached, and by which

page_text: the said brooch is fastened to the said article of dress. e, is the head of
the said pin, which may either be plain or ornamented, or contain a
jewel; a portion of the said pin f, below the said head is furnished with
a screw which takes into a concave screw in the plate g, connected with
the setting b, and the lower pointed end c¹ of the said pin c, passes
through a hole in the plate h, connected with the lower part of the
setting b. In order to affix the brooch to the article of dress d, the said
brooch without the pin c, is placed with its back against the dress, and
the point of the pin c first passed through the plate g, and next
through the dress d; the said point c' is finally passed through the hole
in the plate h; the screwed part f, of the said pin now entering the
screwed hole in the plate g, the head of the pin e, is turned until the
said screwed part f, has entered as far as it can be made to enter
the plate g, when the fastening is completed. By unscrewing the pin c,
it may be withdrawn from the plates g, h, and the brooch detached from
the dress d; the pin c, may be used alone as an ordinary ornamental
pin.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Benjamin Quinton in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 20th July 1858.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I,
BENJAMIN QUINTON, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Manufacturer, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-second day of January, in the
year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, in the
sixteenth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said Benjamin Quinton, Her special
licence that I, the said Benjamin Quinton, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Benjamin Quinton, my exe-
cutors, 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 "A NEW OR IMPROVED
FASTENING FOR BROOCHES AND OTHER ARTICLES OF JEWELLERY AND DRESS,"
upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Benjamin Quinton,
by an instrument in writing under my hand and seal, 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.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Benjamin Quinton, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
was to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and
by the following statement thereof (that is to say):
Figure 1, represents in plan the back of a brooch the fastening of
which is constructed according to my Invention; and Figure 2, represents
a section of the same taken through the line a, Figure 1. Figure 8,
represents a detached portion of the same. v, is the stone or jewel, and
the frame or setting in which the said stone or jewel is fixed. d, is the.

page_text: pin which passes through that portion of the article of dress to which
the brooch is attached. e, is the head of the said pin, which said head
'may either be plain, as represented, or ornamented, or contain a stone
or jewel; that portion of the pin which is situated immediately below
the head of the said pin is formed into a screw f, which takes into a
concave screw formed in the plate g, which said plate is fixed at the
back of the brooch on the top of the setting c; the lower pointed end of
the pin d passes through a hole in the plate h, which said plate is fixed
at the back of the brooch and at the bottom of the setting c. In order
to attach the brooch to an article of dress the said brooch, without the
pin d, is placed with its back against the said article of dress, and the
point of the pin d' is first passed through the plate g, afterwards through
the said article of dress, and finally through the hole in the plate h; the
screwed part f, of the said pin is thus brought to the plate g, and on
turning the head e, of the pin the said screwed part f, takes into the
screw in the plate g; when the said screwed part f, has been made to
enter the plate g, until the head e, abuts against the plate y, the fasten-
ing is complete. By unscrewing the pin d, it may be withdrawn from the
plates g, h, and the brooch detached from the article of dress. The pin
d, (shewn separately in Figure 3,) may be used as an ordinary dress pin.
Figures 4, 5, and 6, represent my Invention applied to a dress pin. i, is
the jewel or ornament constituting the head of the pin k; immediately
below the said head the pin k, is furnished with a screw l, which takes
into a concave screw in the plate m; the said screwed portion 1, is pre-
vented from being withdrawn from the plate m, by the shoulder n (or,
where preferred, the shoulder n, may be omitted, so that the pin k, may
be detached from the plate m); the said plate m, is connected by means
of a chain o, or otherwise with the tube p, the length of the said chain
or other connection being such that when the screwed portion l, of the
pin is withdrawn from the plate m, as shewn in Figure 4, the point of
the pin shall be free of the tube p, and that when the said screwed
part 1, has advanced in the plate m, as shewn in Figures 5, and 6, the
point of the pin A (having been presented to the open end of the tube
p, before turning the head of the pin) shall be engaged in the said tube
p, as shewn in the section, Figure 6. In using this fastening the parts

page_text: 1. m, are first brought into the positions represented in Figure 4, and
the point of the pin passed through the article of dress to which it is
wished to attach the said pin; as the point of the pin emerges the tube p
is presented thereto, and the head of the pin turned until the parts l, m,
assume the positions represented in Figures 5, and 6, when the fastening
is completed. My said Invention is capable of being applied as a
fastening to other articles of jewelry, whether the same be used as orna-
ments or dress fastenings, but I do not consider it necessary to describe
such applications, as I believe the nature of my said Invention will be
fully understood by the applications of it herein described, and repre-
sented in the accompanying Drawing.
Having now described the nature of my said Invention, and the man-
ner in which the same is to be performed, I wish it to be understood that
I do not limit myself to the precise method of carrying my Invention into
effect herein described and represented in the accompanying Drawing, as
the same may be varied without departing from the nature of my said
Invention. But I claim as of Invention the construction of a fastening
for brooches and other articles of jewelry and dress, in which the fasten-
ing is effected by means of a male or convex screw on one part of the
said fastening taking into a female or concave screw in the other part
of the same.
In witness whercof, I, the said Benjamin Quinton, have hereunto
set my hand seal, this Nineteenth day of July, in the year
Lord One thousand eight hundred and fifty-three.
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Witness,
GEORGE SHAW.
BENJAMIN QUINTON. (L.S.)