IMPROVEMENTS IN BROOCHES AND OTHER DRESS FASTENINGS, WITH THE TOOLS FOR MAKING THE SAME."
Year: 1881

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by William Henry Taylor at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 17th May 1881.
WILLIAM HENRY TAYLOR, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick.
IMPROVEMENTS IN BROOCHES AND OTHER DRESS FASTENINGS, WITH THE TOOLS
FOR MAKING THE SAME."
My Invention has for its object improvements in brooches and other dress
fastenings with the tools for making the same, by which I am enabled to produce
a more simple fastening which is also stronger in its parts and less liable to break
or to become useless by hard wear, and it has the advantage of not being so liable
to catch the dress. I will describe my Invention as applied to the back of a
brooch. To the back of a brooch I attach a small bracket, which is usually bent
forwards towards the point of the pin, the end of the bracket being formed
round with flats on each side; or it may be almost or entirely a small sphere;
may be in the shape of a ring fastened by a bracket foot to the back of the brooch ;
or the ring may be fastened directly on to the back of the brooch; but in either
case it forms a kind of pivot to the brooch pin, which while it allows perfect
freedom to the pin has the effect of controlling its inovement, as may be desired in
various brooches or other fastenings.
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The pin itself is flattened down at its back end in a plute, and then turned up
to embrace the head of the bracket or the ring or projection, and by the aid of
special tools similar in appearance to pliers, which are formed to pass over the
pin and to embrace the projecting head of the pin, I am enabled to close the head
of the pin over the projecting head of the bracket in the neatest way, so as to
form a beautiful joint, or the head of the pin may be joined to the shank by
soldering or otherwise.
In some cases where the ring joint is used one of my tools is formed to force
the sides of the metal at the base of the piu into the interior part of the ring,
which gives to the joint greater security; indeed, it is firmer as a pivot, and
equivalent to a loose hinge pin in the ordinary hinge joint without the danger of
loosing the hinge pin, which frequently occurs in the old joints. Then in the case
of the bracket or projecting piece having its head a sphere, or nearly a sphere, my
special tool embraces the pin and the flattened part, and closes it around the head

page_text: of the bracket, so as in some cases to give it the freedom of a ball joint. In other
cases where a complete sphere is used I should control its general action by
forming a slot in the plate at the base of the pin, which would work over the
neck of the bracket or other projection to control its movement, or the head of the
bracket may be slotted to control its movement.
This mode of making pins not only gives to me the advantages named, but I
am enabled to make the pins stronger at the root, or to avoid the strain being
brought upon them at the weakest part. The dies may be increased in size where
the root of the pin is formed, so as to strengthen the pin by increasing its section
at the root while the head is being formed, and thus that part of the pin which
bas been the weakest part may, by the peculiar construction of my new joints, be
the strongest part. I can also obtain the necessary spring for the pin from the
bracket itself for the purpose of securing its point in the guard.
Sometimes I prefer to make the guards of my brooches to match the bracket or
other part at the pivot end of the brooch, which is easily accomplished with my
new device to form the pivot. The solid end of the bracket is made hollow, and a
vertical, horizontal, or curved slot formed to receive the point of the pin, which is
perfectly protected against catching anything. This bracket or shield may be
made to liberate the point by a spring.
I also form joints with a pin having a forked base, and pivoted to a cross bar
or T bracket on the back of the brooch, which effectively prevents the accident
before mentioned of the centre pin coming out.