Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 8th Feb., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 18th Oct., 1888
Complete Specification Accepted, 23rd Nov., 1888
We WALTER BOLDING and ALAN HOWARD ELKINGTON trading as James Fenton
of No. 74 Great Hampton Street Birmingham in the County of Warwick Manu-
facturing Jewellers do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows :-
The said invention consists in constructing and combining the parts of combined
brooches and flower holders in the manner hereinafter described whereby a single
flower or a number of flowers may be firmly held in the same holder.
We make the body of the combined brooch and flower holder of wire the pin of the
brooch being made either in one piece with the said body or separately and jointed to
the body.
When the body of the brooch and flower holder and the pin of the brooch are made
of one piece of wire we form the wire body of two nearly parallel limbs of different
lengths the under and shorter limb being connected to the upper limb which constitutes
the front of the brooch by a circular spring made by coiling the wire after the manner
of the spring of a safety pin. The pin of the brooch is connected to the opposite end
of the upper limb of the body by a similar coiled spring the pointed end of the spring
pin being pressed into a catch on the underside of the spring of the lower limb. The
said lower spring limb constitutes a spring arm or gripper between which and the
upper limb the stem of the flower is gripped.
In order that the flower or flowers may be readily gripped by the holder and to
accommodate stems of different thicknesses an arch shaped bend or loop is made near
the free end of the spring limb or gripper and a nearly similar shaped bend or loop is
made in the middle of the upper limb opposite that in the spring limb or gripper.
The two bends or loops in the limbs described are bent in opposite directions so that
they cross one another and form between them an expansible eye for receiving the
flower or flowers. By lifting the free end of the spring limb or gripper its arch
shaped loop or bend may be separated from that in the upper limb and the size of the

page_text: eye may thus be increased to accomodate the thickness of the stem of the flower or
stems of the flowers to be held in the holder. On the summit of the arch shaped
loop on the gripping limb an ornamental plate may be soldered or the wire body of
the brooch and holder may be ornamented in any desired manner.
When the pin is made separate from and is jointed to the wire body the said body is
made with two spring gripping limbs under the upper limb the bends or loops of the
said gripping limbs being situated on opposite sides of the loop in the middle of the
upper limb. In this caso the pin of the brooch is jointed to the underside of the coil
or spring at one end of the wire body and the catch for receiving the point of the
pin is connected to the underside of the coil or spring at the other end of the
wire body.
Dated this Eighth day of February 1888
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Combined Brooches and Flower Holders.
We WALTER BOLDING and ALAN HOWARD ELKINGTON trading as James Fenton
of No. 74 Great Hampton Street Birmingham in the County of Warwick Manu-
facturing Jewellers 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 :-
:-
The said invention consists in constructing and combining the parts of combined
brooches and flower holders in the manner hereinafter described, whereby a single
flower or a number of flowers may be firmly held in the same holder.
We make the body of the combined brooch and flower holder of wire the pin of the
brooch being made either in one piece with the said body or separately and jointed to
the body.
When the body of the brooch and flower holder and the pin of the brooch are mado
of one piece of wire we form the wire body of two nearly parallel limbs of different
lengths the under and shorter limb being connected to the upper limb, which constitutes
the front of the brooch, by a circular spring made by coiling the wire after the manner
of the spring of a safety pin. The pin of the brooch is connected to the opposite end
of the upper limb of the body by a similar coiled spring, the pointed end of the spring
pin being pressed into a catch on the underside of the spring of the lower limb. The
said lower spring limb constitutes a spring arm or gripper between which and the
upper limb the stem of the flower is gripped.
In order that the flower or flowers may be readily gripped by the holder and to
accomodate stems of different thicknesses an arch shaped bend or loop is made near
the free end of the spring limb or gripper and a nearly similar shaped bend or loop is
made in the middle of the upper limb opposite that in the spring limb or gripper.
The two bends or loops in the limbs described are bent in opposite directions so that
they cross one another and form between them an expansible eye for receiving the
flower or flowers. By lifting the free end of the spring limb or gripper its arch
shaped loop or bend may be separated from that in the upper limb and the size of the
eye may thus he increased to accomodate the thickness of the stem of the flower or
stems of the flowers to be held in the holder. On the summit of the arch shaped
loop on the gripping limb an ornamental plate may be soldered; or the wire body of
the brooch and holder may be ornamented in any desired manner.
When the pin is made separate from and is jointed to the wire body the said body is
made with two spring gripping limbs under the upper limb, the bends or loops of the
said gripping limbs being situated on opposite sides of the loop in the middle of the
upper limb. In this case the pin of the brooch is jointed to the underside of the coil
or spring at one end of the wire body and the catch for receiving the point of the
pin connected to the underside of the coil or spring at the other end of the
wire body.

page_text: Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawing represents in front elevation and Figure 2
in side elevation, a combined brooch and Hower holder made of wire according to this
invention the pin of the brooch being made in one piece with the wire body;
Figure 3 represents the same view as Figure 2 with the spring gripping limb or
arm raised from the body of the holder for introducing the flower or flowers into the
holder.
The said Figures 1, 2 and 3 are drawn to a large scale for the purpose of the better
exhibiting the construction and action of the combined brooch and flower holder.
The holder may be used in the position represented in the Drawing, that is, it may
be secured to the dress by pressing the pin into the dress from right to left, or by
inverting the combined articlo the fastening of it to the dress may be offected by
pressing the pin into the dress from left to right.
In the latter case the spring limb or arm is underneath the other limb or body of
the article. The action of the spring gripping limb or arm is the same in both
casos.
Wo will describo the combined brooch and flower holder as represented in the
Drawing, that is, as being attached by pressing the pin into the dress from right to
left: a, are the two limbs of the combined article, a being the longer and lower
limb constituting the front of the brooch and b the upper shorter limb constituting
a spring arm or gripper, the said spring arm or gripper being connected to the end
of the limb or body a by the coiled or circular spring c; d is the pin of the brooch
or article connected to the opposite end of the limb or body a by a similar coiled or
circular spring e. On the said spring arm or gripper b and near its circular spring,
is a catch into which the pointed end of the pin is pressed to fuston the brooch to
the dress. The two limbs a, b of the combined article are secured together by the
loose ring g, the said ring permitting the spring limb or gripper 6 to take either of
the positions represented in Figures 2 and 3. The upper part of the spring arm or
gripper is provided with an arch shaped bend or half loop at 62 and a nearly
similar bend or half loop is made at a³ in the middle of the limb a and opposite the
bend in the spring arm or gripper b. It will be seen that the two bends or half
loops in the limbs a, b are turned in opposite directions so that when the spring arm
or gripper bis in its normal or closed position Figure 2 its bend crosses that in the
limb u.
An expansible eye or loop between the two limbs is thereby formed for
receiving the stom of the flower or the stems of the bunch of flowers to be held in the
holder.
When it is wishod to secure a flower or bunch of flowers in the holder of the
combined article, the spring arm or gripper b is pressed upwards by acting upon
it near the pin catch as represented in Figure 3. The arch shaped bend or half
loop of the said arm or gripper is thereby separated from that marked a² in the
limb a and the stom of the flower or the stems of the bunch of flowers may be
introduced between the two parts a², 6. By removing the pressure from the spring
arm or gripper 6 it closes upon the stem or stems of the flower or flowers and grips
it or them between the arched part or half loop 62 of the arm or gripper and the
arched part or half loop a² of the limb a as will be understood by an examination of
Figure 2 and the front elevation Figure 1 in which Figure 1 a bunch of flowers h is
represented held in the holder.
By separating the spring arm or gripper b, 63 more or less from the other arm or
limb a, a² the expansible eye or loop between the two parts may be made to
accomodate the thickness of the stem of the flower or the stems of the bunch of
flowers to be held in the holder.
An ornamental plate of any required shape may be soldered to the summit of the
arch shaped bend of the spring arm or gripper & as represented at i.
Figure 4 represents in front elevation and Figure 5 in side elevation, closed, and
Figure 6 in side elevation, open, a combined brooch and flower holder in which the
pin is made separately from and is jointed to the wire body and two spring gripping
arms or limbs are used.

page_text: a is the wire body having at its middle the arch shaped bend or half loop a³ and k, l
are the two gripping arms or limbs connected to the body a by the coiled or circular
springs m m at opposite ends of the wire body. The arch shaped ends of the two
gripping arms or limbs are marked p. The arch shaped parts p of the two gripping
arms or limbs are connected to the ornamental plate 9 by passing them through eyes
on the underside of the said plate; r is the separate pin of the brooch jointed atto
one of the circular springs m and s is the catch soldered to the other circular
spring m in which catch s the point of the jointed pin can be engaged as represented
in Figure 5.
In this modification the stem of the flower or the stems of the bunch of flowers is
or are gripped between the two arch shaped crossing bends p p of the gripping
arms kand the arch shaped bend a² in the body or limb a.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is to be porformed we declare that
we claim as the said invention of "Improvements in combined brooches and flower
holders
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First In a combined brooch and flower holder made together with the pin of the
same of one piece of wire-the combination of the spring arm or gripper 6, 62 made
and acting as described with the arch shaped bend or half loop a² in the body or
limb a for the purpose and substantially as herein before described and illustrated in
Figures 1, 2 and 3 of the accompanying Drawing.
Secondly In a combined brooch and flower holder in which the pin is made
separate from and jointed to the wire body, the combination of the wire body or
limb a a² with the two spring arms grippers or limbs k, l, p for the purpose and
substantially as hereinhefore described and illustrated in Figures 4, 5 and
accompanying Drawing.
Dated the 12th day of October 1888
of the