Improvements in Necklaces, Bracelets, Anklets, Waistbands, and other like Articles and Ornamental Fringes.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Feb., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 14th Oct., 1890-Accepted, 13th Dec., 1890
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Necklaces, Bracelets, Anklets, Waistbands, and
other like Articles and Ornamental Fringes.
I VICTOR MILWARD, Director of Henry Milward & Sons Limited of Washford
Mills, Redditch, in the County of Worcester, Needle and Fish Hook Manufacturers,
do bereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
:-
My invention consists essentially in making necklaces, bracelets, anklets waist-
bands and other like articles and ornamental fringes in the manner hereinafter
described.
I will describe my invention in connection with a necklace.
In making a necklace according to my invention I take a series of highly polished
steel wires or shafts each having an eye or hole at one end. The said wires or shafts
resemble needles without points.
I thread the said shafts upon a flexible metallic wire or upon a strong thread of
silk or other non-metallic material the said shafts constituting a flexible nearly con-
tinuous bright metallic surface and in consequence of its flexibility giving a
brilliant play of light, especially in artificially lighted rooms, on the motion of the
wearer.
Instead of making the shafts or wires with an eye at one end only they may be
made with two (or more) eyes for threading upon the silk or other thread, the said
eyes being either situated in close proximity to each other or at the ends or extremities
of the steel shafts or wires or at intermediate positions.
The said steel shafts or wires may either be all of the same length or their lengths
may be varied so as to give to the lower edge of the necklace an undulating
vandyked or other figure. The lengths of the said steel shafts may be so arranged
that the depth of the necklace may be least at its ends and at a maximum at its
middle.
Besides the said steel shafts beads or other ornaments may be threaded at intervals
on the metallic or other flexible thread of the necklace or when thread is used knots
may be tied in it at intervals to separate different groups of the steel shafts from each
other.
Besides being used as a necklace, steel shafts or wires threaded or strung on wire
or other flexible support may be used as a bracelet, anklet waistband or other like
article and as an ornamental fringe to articles of dress curtains and other articles.
Dated this 24th day of February 1890.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Necklaces, Bracelets, Anklets, Waistbands, and
other like Articles and Ornamental Fringes.
I VICTOR MILWARD, Director of Henry Milward and Sons Limited, of Washford
Mills, Redditch, in the County of Worcester, Needle and Fish Hook Manufacturers,
do hereby declare the nature of my invention and the manner in which the same is
to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
My invention consists essentially in making necklaces, bracelets, anklets,
waistbands and other like articles and ornamental fringes in the manner hereinafter

page_text: I will describe my invention in connection with a necklace. In making a necklace
according to my invention I take a series of highly polished steel wires or shafts
each having an eye or hole at one end. The said wires or shafts resemble needles
without points.
I thread the said shafts upon a flexible metallic wire or upon a strong thread of
silk or other non-metallic material, the said shafts constituting a flexible nearly
continuous bright metallic surface and in consequence of its flexibility giving a
brilliant play of light especially in artificially lighted rooms on the motion of the
wearer.
Instead of making the shafts or wires with an eye at one end only they may be
made with two (or more) eyes for threading upon the silk or other thread, the said
eyes being either situated in close proximity to each other or at the ends or extremities
of the steel shafts or wires or at intermediate positions.
The said steel shafts or wires may either be all of the same length or their lengths
may be varied so as to give to the lower edge of the necklace an undulating
vandyked or other figure. The lengths of the said steel shafts may be so arranged
that the depth of the necklace may be least at its ends and at a maximum at its
middle.
Besides the said steel shafts beads or other ornaments may be threaded at intervals
on the metallic or other flexible thread of the necklace; or when thread is used knots
may be tied in it at intervals to separate different groups of the steel shafts from each
other.
Besides being used as a necklace steel shafts or wires threaded or strung on wire or
other flexible support may be used as a bracelet, anklet waistband or other like article
and as an ornamental fringe to articles of dress, curtains and other articles as herein-
after explained.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents a necklace made according to
my invention, the said necklace being composed of a series of highly polished steel
wires or shafts a a resembling needles without points, each wire or shaft having two
eyes, near that end which forms the inner end in the necklace as best seen in the
separate view Figure 2 of one of the steel wires or shafts. The double eyed steel
wires or shafts a, a are strung or threaded upon two flexible metallic wires or strong
threads of silk cc or other flexible support or material, the ends of the supporting
wires or threads being joined together by an ordinary necklace snap d or other
fastening. When the steel shafts or wires a, a are threaded or strung upon the
flexible supporting wires or threads c c a nearly continuous bright metallic surface is
produced which by its flexibility gives a brilliant play of light especially when worn
in an artificially lighted room by the motion of the wearer.
Various ornamental
patterns may be formed by using steel shafts or wires a, a of different lengths and
grouping and arranging them in various ways. In Figure 1 the necklace has some-
what of a vandyked figure at its edge, the said necklace being made by using different
lengths of shafts or wires and arranging them in groups in the manner represented,
each group being separated from those on either side of it by beads or other ornaments
as at e e; or the groups when the wires or shafts are strung upon flexible threads
may be separated by knots made in the said threads. Or the groups of steel shafts or
wires of different lengths may be arranged on the supporting wires or threads in the
manner represented in Figure 3, the edges of one group overlapping the edges of the
adjacent group.
Or groups of steel shafts or wires of the same lengths may be
arranged on the supporting wires or threads cc in the manner represented in Figure 4,
the edges of one group overlapping the edges of the adjacent group; and instead of
using two eyes in one end of each steel shaft or wire a single eye or two or more
eyes at each end of the shaft or wire may be used as herein before pointed out.
top or inner edge of the grouped steel shafts or wires a, a where they are threaded or
strung upon the flexible threads or supports may be covered by a running or flexible
border or edging g as represented in Figure 5 so as to give a finish to the said top or
inner edge, but the said flexible border or edging need not be used.
The
The patterns of necklaces which I have shown are only given as examples of the

page_text: manner in which different ornamental designs may be produced by using steel shafts
or wires of the same or of different lengths and it must be understood that I do not
limit myself to any particular way of grouping or arranging the shafts or wires upon
the flexible metallic or non-metallic threads or supports to produce the necklace (or
other like article) as the manner of grouping or arranging the steel shafts or wires
upon the supporting threads will depend generally upon the kind of ornamenta!
design or pattern it is desired to produce in the necklace or other article ; and
the steel shafts or wires may be gilt or otherwise ornamented either wholly or
in part.
Figure 6 represents a neckband and Figure 7 a bracelet made according to my
invention and Figure 8 represents one of the steel shafts or wires separately. The
neck band and bracelet represented in Figures 6 and 7 are composed of a series of
parallel steel shafts or wires a a having an eye b at each end the said shafts being
strung or threaded by the said eyes b, b upon the flexible wires or flexible cords c, c the
ends of which wires cords or threads are connected to end fastenings or buckles,
of any desired kind.
The series of parallel steel shafts or wires a, a forming the neckband or bracelet
may be mounted upon a backing or support of velvet or other fabric; but the said
backing or support may be omitted. The edges of the neckband or bracelet composed
of the steel shafts or wires may have any desired ornamental figure given to them by
using shafts of different lengths and grouping them in any desired manner and the
whole or portions of the steel shafts may be gilded or otherwise ornamented. The
top and bottom edges of the neckband or bracelet represented or other like articles
may be provided with a flexible metallic border or edging of any desired pattern as
illustrated with respect to the necklace Figure 5.
Besides being used as a necklace, neckband or bracelet as represented in the
drawings steel shafts or wires threaded or strung upon flexible wire or wires or
flexible threads or supports may be used as anklets waistbands and other like articles
and as an ornamental fringe to articles of dress, curtains and other articles such for
example as hair combs and hair pins.
Figure 9 represents the grouped steel shafts or wires a a applied to the ornamenting
of the head of a hair comb. In applying the fringe to this article the strung
steel shafts or wires are fixed between metal strips which are rivetted to the
hair comb.
Figure 10 represents the fringe applied to the making of the star heads of hair pins.
In this case the groups of steel shafts or wires a, a are arranged radially at the edge
of a metal disc to which the wires on which the steel shafts are threaded are
secured.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that I claim
as my invention :-
The improvements in necklaces, bracelets, neckbands, anklets waistbands and other
like articles and ornamental fringes hereinbefore described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings; that is to say, making the said bracelets and other articles
and ornamental fringes for various purposes of a series or groups of steel shafts or
wires resembling needles without points of the same or of different lengths, threaded
or strung upon a flexible metallic wire or wires or a strong thread or threads of silk
or other flexible support each of the said steel shafts or wires being provided with an
eye at one end only or with an eye at each end or with two or more eyes situated in
close proximity to each other at one or at each end or at intermediate positions
substantially as herein described and illustrated.
Dated the 8th day of October 1890.
VICTOR MILWARD,