AN IMPROVED SAFETY FA
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Arthur Ebenezer Parkes and Frederick Westwood,
trading as Parkes and Westwood, both of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, for on Invention of " AN IMPROVED SAFETY FASTENING FOR
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trading as Parkes and westwood, Down of Birmingham,
Warwick, for on
"AN IMPROVED SAFETY FASTENING FOR
Invention of
BRACELETS AND OTHER ARTICLES OF
JEWELLERY, AND DRESS BAGS AND
BRACELETS AND OTHER ARTICLES
OF
JEWELLERY, AND DRESS DAGS
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Arthur Ebenezer Parkes
and Frederick Westwood at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on
the 2nd July 1881.
ARTHUR EBENEZER PARKES and FREDERICK WESTWOOD, trading as Parkes and
"AN IMPROVED
Westwood, both of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick.
SAFETY FASTENING FOR BRACELETS AND OTHER ARTICLES OF JEWELLERY, AND
DRESS BAGS AND PURSES."
Our Invention consists in constructing and arranging the parts of the said
safety fastening in the manner herein after described, whereby a simple but secure
and durable fastening is obtained; the two ends or parts of the article to which
this our Invention may be applied can be connected and disconnected with great
facility.
We will describe our Invention as arranged for a bracelet. Each end is
angular, and provided with a slot crosswise; one end is constructed with two
levers in form approaching an angle, one of the ends of each projecting through
each side of the bracelet, while the other ends pass through the slot above named,
both being inclined upon the exterior edge, and having an aperture at the line
of slot. These levers are held to the surface by pins, upon which they move, a
lamina spring somewhat bowed compressing near to the said pins keeping them
in position.
To connect or fasten the ends the one with slot is compressed against the inclined
part of levers, when the spring will yield until reaching the apertures; the fastenings
being then effected and further held by a projecting pin or stud on the one side
entering a depression on the other.
To unfasten pressure is applied to the ends of levers projecting the side.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Arthur Ebenezer Parkes and Frederick Westwood in the Great
Seal Patent Office on the 2nd January 1882.
ARTHUR EBENEZER PARKES and FREDERICK WESTWOOD, trading as Parkes and
Westwood, both of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick. "AN IMPROVED
SAFETY FASTENING FOR BRACELETS AND OTHER ARTICLES OF JEWELLERY, AND
DRESS BAGS AND PURSES."
Our Invention consists in constructing and arranging the parts of the said
safety fastening in the manner herein after described, whereby a simple but secure
and durable fastening is obtained; the two ends or parts of the article to which
this our Invention may be applied can be connected and disconnected with great
facility.
We will describe our Invention as arranged for a bracelet. Each end is
angular, and provided with a slot crosswise; one end is constructed with two
levers in form approaching an angle, one of the ends of cach projecting through
each side of the bracelet, while the other ends pass through the slot above named,
both being inclined upon the exterior edge, and having an aperture at the line of
slot. These levers are held to the surface by pins, upon which they move, a
laminar spring somewhat bowed compressing near to the said pins keeping them
in position.
To connect or fasten the ends the one with slot is compressed against the inclined
part of levers, when the spring will yield until reaching the apertures, the fastening
being then effected and further held by a projecting pin or stud on the one side
entering a depression on the other.
To unfasten pressure is applied to the ends of levers projecting the side.
But as our Invention will be best understood aided by a reference to the
Drawings hereunto annexed, we will proceed to describe the same, reference being
made to the figures and letters marked thereon (that is to say).
Fig. 1 is a view in elevation of a bracelet with our improved fastening applied
thereto.

page_text: that the mode that may be pursued according to the skill, taste, or appliances of
the artisan engaged in their production, the same may be extensively varied
according to their individual caprice, without affecting the character of our
Invention, which in this description we have sought rather to simplify than to
elaborate.
What we claim as new and original and desire to be secured to us by the herein
before in part recited Letters Patent for "An Improved Safety Fastening for
Bracelets and other Articles of Jewellery, and Dress Bags and Purses," is,-
The general construction, combination, and arrangement of parts, substantially
as and for the purposes herein before set forth and described or any mere
modification.
In witness whereof, we, the said Arthur Ebenezer Parkes and Frederick
Westwood, have hereunto set our hands and seals, this Thirty first day
of December, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and
nichter ana
Witness,
THOMAS KENDRICK.
ARTHUR EBENEZER PARKES. (L.S.)
FREDERICK WESTWOOD.
(L.S.)