IMPROVEMENTS IN BROOCHES, DRESS ORNAMENTS, NECK Bow FASTENINGS, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF JEWELLERY
Year: 1871

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Joseph Hart at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the 8th April
1871.
I, JOSEPH HART, of Handsworth, in the County of Stafford, Dyer,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN
BROOCHES, DRESS ORNAMENTS, NECK Bow FASTENINGS, AND OTHER ARTICLES OF
JEWELLERY," to be as follows :-
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My Invention consists of the improvements hercin-after described in
constructing brooches, dress ornaments, neck bow fastenings, and other
articles of jewellery, the object of my improvements being principally
to effect the attachment of the said articles to the dress in a simple and
efficient manner.
In constructing a brooch, dress ornament, neck bow fastening, or
other similar article according to my Invention I secure to the back of
the article, or form in one piece therewith, a spring or elastic arm
or tongue piece situated parallel or nearly so to the back of the article.
The said arm or tongue piece may be forked or otherwise, and be either
formed in one piece with the brooch or article, or be made separately
therefrom, and connected thereto by a joint. When the spring arm or

page_text: tongue piece is connected by a joint to the back of the brooch or article
I arrange the parts as follows:-To the back of the brooch or article
I secure a plate provided with eyes, in which eyes an axis is fixed. The
upper end of the arm or tongue piece has knuckles or joint pieces made
upon it, which turn upon the axis described. A spring is coiled upon
the axis, the free ends of the said spring bearing upon the arm or
tongue piece and tending to press it into contact with the back of the
brooch or the coiled spring may act upon a short arm or lever affixed
to the axis. When the jointed arm or tongue picce is lifted the spring|
is coiled upon the axis, the tendency of the spring to uncoil itself
causing the jointed arm or tongue piece to be pressed towards the brooch
with considerable force. When the clastic arm or tongue piece is made
in one piece with the frame of the brooch, dress ornament, or neck bow
fastening, the said arm or tongue piece is bent into a plane parallel or
nearly so with the frame of the article.
The brooch, dress ornament, or neck bow fastening is secured to the
dress by the said dress being clipped or held between the jointed or
clastic arm or tongue piece and the back of the brooch, dress ornament,
or neck bow fastening. In order to facilitate the attaching of the said
articles to the collar the jointed or clastic arm or tongue piece is forked,
as before described, the fork being made to embrace the shank of the
collar stud or button. The neck bow fastenings may either be attached
to the neck bow by sewing, or by making the front of the bow fastening
in the form of an clastic frame or loop, through which frame or loop
the bow is passed and gripped. In this case the ornamental front plate
of the bow fastening is exposed at the middle of the bow. A pendant
ornament may be suspended to the bottom of the frame or loop of the
bow fastening.
In order to secure the brooch, dress ornament, or other article of
jewellery more securely to the dress the back plate of the said brooch
or article may be provided with pins, and the jointed or clastic arm or
tongue picce with cups or depressions, into which cups or depressions
the points of the pins after passing through the dress take.