IMPROVEMENTS IN BROOCHES AND OTHER DRESS FASTENINGS
Year: 1851

page_text: KOSMANN'S SPECIFICATION.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, THEODORE
KOSMANN, of 16, Cranbourne Street, in the County of Middlesex, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her present most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Royal Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, bearing date at Westminster, the Fourth day of November,
in the fifteenth year of Her Majesty's reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs
and successors, give and grant to the said Theodore Kosmann, his exors,
adñiors, and assigns, Her especial license, full power, sole privilege, and
authority, that I, the said Theodore Kosmann, my exors, adiñiors, and assigns,
or such others as I, the said Theodore Kosmann, my exors, adñiors, and assigns.
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times during the term of years therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within England, Wales, and the Town of
Berwick-upon-Tweed, and the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark,
and Man, and also in all Her said Majesty's Colonies and Plantations abroad,
my Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN BROOCHES AND OTHER DRESS FASTENINGS;" in
which said Letters Patent there is contained a proviso, that I, the said Theodore
Kosmann, shall cause a particular description of the nature of my said Inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, by an instrument in

page_text: writing under my hand and seal, to be enrolled in Her said Majesty's High
Court of Chancery within six calendar months next and immediately after the
date of the said in part recited Letters Patent, as in and by the same, reference
being thereunto had, will more fully and at large appear.
NOW KNOW YE, that in compliance with the said promise, I, the said
Theodore Kosmann, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention,
and the manner in which the same is to be performed, are particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement thereof, reference
being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, and to the figures and letters
marked thereon, that is to say :-
My Inventions consist of different improved modes of securing dress orna-
ments and other loose articles carried about the person, such as watches,
purses, and like other articles.
The Drawings annexed to this Specification, together with the description
of them herein contained, show the several different modes I have imagined
for fastening with great security the above-mentioned articles; but I do not of
course limit the application of these improved modes of fastenings to the
articles illustrated in the Drawings.
Figure 1 is a view of the serpent pin; a is the body of the pin; b is a
spring, lodged and fixed in the interior of the body a; at its opposite
extremity it has a hook o fixed to any ornament, a fish for instance; when the
pin is entered into the dress, the fish is hooked on the same part of the dress
at the distance limited by the length of the india-rubber spring.
Figure 2, pin with hook hand. The means of security is obtained by the
land situated at the extremity of the chain, which is shorter than the pin.
The underneath part of the hand is made somewhat like a dress hook, the pin
being thrust into the stuff; the hand is made to clasp the visible part of the
pin; 2 is an interior view of the hook hand.
Figure 3, pin with hook. A small hook g at the top or bottom of the head
of the pin serves to fix the chain, which has a small ring at the extremity;
after having passed between the dress and the visible part of the said pin, is
fastened by the small hook with the small ring h.
other is also
Figure 4 represents a spring brooch. The brooch consists of the body k,
and of two hooks l, connected by the spring r, fixed at the centre of the
brooch. When one of these hooks is entered into the dress, the
thrust in at the distance allowed by the length of the spring.
may be made without the spring, and be fastened only by
Figure 4 is a side view of the same, shewing the hooks 1.
The brooch
the hooks 7.

page_text: Figure 5, stud, with nut.-The stud is composed of two parts, one of which
has a small screw a at the end of its column; the column of the other part is
hollow, so as it may receive the screw. The screw at the end is larger than
the column; when it is entered into the hollow column, the edges of the latter
are pressed so as to prevent the screw coming out again, and thus fastening
both parts together. To make use of the stud, the screw is loosened, and the
stud then entered into the shirt or garment; after which the screw is tightened
so as the knobs of the stud may catch hold firmly of the stuff' between them.
Figure 5 is a variation of the stud, Figure 5, still it is on the same prin-
ciple, only in this stud both columns of the knobs are hollow; but in one
of the columns made rather larger than the other, there is fixed at the bottom
a screw b, being nearly of the length of the column; the column of the other
knob has a screw way which fits on to the screw in the first column. The
edges of this second column are slightly turned out, so that the edges of the
first column being turned over, the two parts of the stud become attached.
Figure 6 is a mode of fastening car-rings; it is on the same principle as
the pin with hook shown in Figure 3.
Figure 7.-Ordinary dress pin, but has a small hook in the direction shewn
in the Drawing. The pin is first thrust in the stuff, then brought back in the
contrary direction till the hook enters the dress.
Figure 8. Same system as in Figure 2, only pin has at the end of its
chain a swivel hook, of the shape seen in the Drawing, Figure 8; with a
little pressure the pin is entered into the swivel hook.
Figure 9. Same system as in Figure 2; the pin enters the clasp a, which
has a sliding ring b; this tightens the two parts of the clasp, making it hold
the pin.
Figure 10. Same system as in Figure 3, only the hook is placed at the end
of the chain and the ring soldered to the head of the pin.
Figure 11 shows the interior of a clasp that can be made in the shape of an
animal's head, which has two jaws, made moveable by means of a spring in the
interior; a pressure on the back part of the jaws causes them to fly open, so
as to allow the pin to enter; the pressure removed, the jaws close and hold
the pin.
Figure 12. Same system as in Figure 2, only the under part of the hand,
instead of being made like a dress hook, has a curved piece a rivetted under the
wrist of the small hand; between this piece and the upper part of the hand is
a flatish spring f, which keeps out the piece d, and makes its extremity touch
the end of the fingers of the hand. The pin being thrust into the stuff by

page_text: pressing the spring f, the hand opens and allow it to clasp the visible part of
the pin; a similar pressure is sufficient to disengage the clasp from the pin.
Figure 13 is a means of security by a kind of hook, in the shape of a boot
hook. The hook n is fastened to a ring attached to the head of the pin.
When the said pin has passed a fold of the garment not so long as the length
of the hook, the said hook is passed between the garment and the pin.
Figure 14. Same system as in Figure 3, only the ring at the extremity of
the chain or string is made larger than the head of the pin, so as to be able to
pass over it; thus the hook in Figure 3 is dispensed with.
Figure 15. The chain being passed between the pin and the garment, the
hook c is entered into the ring o.
Figure 16. Same system as in Figure 1, only still more simple.
Figure 17 represents a clasp, which may be used instead of the dress hook
clasp, represented in Figure 2. This clasp is made of two parts, rivetted
together, and of elastic metal; the pin with a slight pressure is entered in the
small hollow in the clasp.
Figure 18 represents a pin, having a chain, at the end of which is a small
ring, which, after the pin is entered into the stuff, is made to slide up the
visible part of the pin till it reaches the hook, which is seen at c; the hook is
then passed into the ring.
Figure 19. The chain is terminated by a small bitch t, which after having
passed between the pin and the garment enters an opening made for it in the
head of the pin at r.
Figure 20 is a similar arrangement as in Figure 19, only there is a double
chain attached to the bottom of the head of the pin; one end of one of the
chains has a hitch, and the end of the other chain has a clasp, into which the
hitch enters after having passed the pin in a fold of the garment.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my
improvements in dress fastenings, I repeat that I do not limit them applica-
tion to the articles illustrated in the Sheet of Drawings; but I claim the
adaptation to all kinds of dress ornaments of the herein described modes of
securing or fastening such articles.
In witness whereof, I, the said Theodore Kosmann, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Third day of May, in the year of our Lord One
thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.
THEODORE (L.S.) KOSMANN.

page_text: AND BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the Third day of May, in the
year of our Lord 1852, the aforesaid Theodore Kosmann came before our
said Lady the Queen in Her Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification
aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form
above written. And also the Specification aforesaid was stamped according
to the tenor of the Statute made for that purpose.
Enrolled the Fourth day of May, in the year of our Lord One thousand
eight hundred and fifty-two.