Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Nov., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 23rd Jan., 1895-Accepted, 4th May, 1895
GEORGE PAXTON and WILLIAM CURRY both of 195 Great Portland Street in
the County of London trading as Curry & Paxton, Opticians do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our aim in inventing our new double-action spring pin e-nez, is to obtain a nose
nipper that will be perfectly rigid and may be made to grasp the nose firmly with
the use of one hand only.
Our horizontal pince-nez serves all purposes so far as astigmatism is concerned.
It can be correctly centred and, as its movement is only in the horizontal plane,
the axes of the cylindrical lenses are always constant. Both hands must be used
when fixing on the nose, and to some people this is inconvenient, more especially to
those who only require the pince-nez for reading, and who require to remove it
when looking at distant objects.
Our invention consists of a double action spring placket attached to a rigid
spectacle front. This we obtain by fixing a bow spring to the bridge of the rigid
frame and bending the terminals of the spring upwards and inwards. We then fix
a piece of shell, cork, or any other substance, on the inner faces of, or around the
spring where it should rest on the nose. By this means we obtain a double action
movement of the spring. The first movement is where the bent in shell, cork, (or
other substance) lined parts touch the nose, and the second movement is that of the
spring itself, which is attached at its central point (or on either or both sides of the
central point) to the bridge of the solid front. The result of this double action is
that when the nipper is put on the nose each placket is displaced to an equal
extent and the nearest approach to a parallel movement is obtained.
The double action spring movement is made preferably of one piece of metal,
but the placket may be attached to the bow spring by a circular spring, screws,
rivets, or any method that will give the double action as described.
We claim any spring that shall be fixed above the central or horizontal plane of
the pince-nez that will give a double action movement as described by us.
Dated this Nineteenth day November 1894.
GEORGE PAXTON.
WILLIAM CURRY.
GEORGE PAXTON, and WILLIAM CURRY, both of 195 Great Portland Street,
in the County of London, trading as Curry & Paxton, Opticians, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manuer the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
For the drawings illustrating our invention, we refer to those left with the
1 Provisional Specification.

page_text: Our aim in inventing our new double-action spring pince-nez is to obtain a nose
nipper that will be perfectly rigid, and may be made to grasp the nose firmly, with
the use of one hand only.
The horizontal pince-nez described in the Specification of Letters Patent
No. 8953, A.D. 1885, serves all purposes so far as astigmatism is concerned. It
can be correctly centred, and as its movement is only in the horizontal plane, the
axes of the cylindrical lenses are always constant. Both hands must be used when
fixing on the nose, and to some people this is inconvenient, more especially to those
who only require the pince-nez for reading, and who require to remove it when
looking at distant objects.
Our invention consists of a double action spring & placket, A. A attached to a
rigid spectacle front, B. B. This we obtain by fixing a bow spring, C. C., to the
bridge (D) of the rigid frame, B B, and bending the terminals of the spring
upwards and inwards, EE. By this means we obtain a double action movement
of the spring. We then fix a piece of shell, cork, or any other substance, on the
inner faces of, or around the spring where it should rest on the nose.
The first
movement is where the bent-in parts, lined with shell, cork, or other substance,
touch the nose, and the second movement is that of the spring itself, which is
attached at its central point, or on either or both sides of its central point (FF) to
the bridge of the rigid front. The result of this double action is that when the
nipper is put on the nose, each placket is displaced to an equal extent, and the
nearest approach to a parallel movement is obtained.
The double-action spring & placket is made preferably of one piece of metal,
but the placket may be attached to the bow spring by a circular spring, screws,
rivets, or any method that will give the double action as described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we
claim is :
The double-action bow spring and plackets fixed above the central or horizontal
plane of the pince-nez, as described above, and illustrated by the drawing
accompanying the Provisional Specification.
Dated this 22nd day of January 1895.
GEORGE PAXTON.
WILLIAM CURRY.