Improvements in and in the manufacture of SiGOVO LIMAS.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 26th Sept., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 5th Mar., 1900-Accepted, 7th Apr., 1900
Improvements in and in the manufacture of SiGOVO LIMAS.
I, WILLIAM ERNEST PATTERSON, trading as W. E. Patterson and Company, of
Warstone Lane, in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturing Jeweller, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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This invention has relation principally to solid-gold-topped sleeve links and
has for one object, to dispense with soldering in assembling the several com-
ponent parts of a link, and for another object, to provide for the reinforce-
ment of slender top shells or fronts and to relieve them from pulling strains
such as occur when the link is being threaded through the button-holes of a
cuff or being otherwise used; whilst a third object is to construct a link with
an open back so as to display the whole of the precious metal employed in
making up the front.
In carrying out one form of my invention, I take a solid gold front consist-
ing of a shell, which may have its edges rolled over from front to back, and
underneath the rolled-over edges, the terminations of a cruciform bar or frame
having a solid eye or shank at its middle, are secured, so that the strains set
up in use are borne and distributed over the said bar or frame instead of upon
the shell, which is apt to become distorted in figure when the said shell is
directly attached to it. The cruciform bar may be stamped out solid from
sheet gold, or from an imitation thereof, with the shank or lug to form the eye
standing away from the middle of the outer side and being formed integral with
the bar. The shank or lug is then pierced to form an eye for the connection
of the fetter or link.
Instead of employing a connection frame of a cruciform figure, I may use
a three-armed frame, or a diametrally crossing bar with cross or head ends
secured by the rolled over edges of the shell constituting the front, although
it may be secured in any other suitable ways.
Instead of stamping out the frame or bar from sheet metal, it may be formed
from suitably fashioned wire.
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page_text: declare the nature of this invention, and in what manner the same is to be
performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:
This invention has relation principally to solid-gold-topped sleeve links in
which the tops or fronts are made of thin metal and has for one object, to dis-
pense with soldering in assembling the several component parts of a link, and
for another object, to provide for the reinforcement of the thin or slender top
shells or fronts and to relieve them from pulling strains such as occur when
the link is being threaded through the button-holes of a cuff or being other-
wise used whilst a third object is to construct a link with an open back so
as to display the whole of the precious metal employed in making up the
front.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents an underside plan of a
solid-gold-topped or thin gold fronted sleeve link head or button constructed,
arranged and made up in accordance with one form of my improvements.
Figure 2 is a top side plan of the said head, whilst Figure 3 shows a longi-
tudinal section of the same, taken upon the dotted line, Figure 1.
Figure 4 is another view showing only the top shell or front in section.
Figure 5 represents a plan of the cruciform bar or frame which forms the
support to the open-backed shell or link and also carries the eye or shank to
which the joining up link or fetter is connected.
Figure 6 represents a plan of a complete pair of links made according to my
improvements in which the heads are joined together by a chain connector.
Figure 7 is a plan of another complete pair of links having my improved
heads, but which, in this form, are joined together by a fetter bar.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the said
Figures 1 to 7.
In carrying out this form of my invention, I take a thin solid gold or other
precious metal front a, consisting of a shell, which has its edge a¹, rolled over
from front to back, and underneath the rolled-over edges, the terminations of
a cruciform bar or frame b, having a solid eye or shank at its middle, are closed
and secured, so that the strains set up in use are borne by and distributed over
the said bar or frame instead of coming upon the shell, which is apt to become
distorted in figure when the said shank is directly attached to it, which shanks
when soldered on, also mark or show through the fronts when made from thin
metal. The cruciform bar may be stamped out solid from sheet gold, or from
an imitation thereof, with the shank or leg to form the eye standing away
from the middle of the outer side and being formed integral with the bar. The
shank or lug is then pierced to form an eye for the connection of the fetter or
chain links d.
Instead of employing a connection and reinforcing frame of a cruciform
figure, I may use a three-armed frame such as represented in Figure 8, and
marked b, or a diametrally crossing bar (see Figure 9) with (or without) cross
or head ends 61, the frame or bar being secured in each case by the rolled over
edges of the shell constituting the front, although it may be secured in any
other suitable ways.
Instead of stamping out the frame or bar with integral shank from sheet
metal, it may be formed from suitably fashioned wire or the frame or bar may
be separately formed in any suitable way with the eye or shank being attached
by soldering, rivetting or otherwise.
I wish it to be understood that although my invention is particularly applic-
able to sleeve links having open-backed fronts made from thin gold or other
precious metal, yet the same is equally applicable to sleeve links made in
imitations of precious metal.
It is obvious that my invention is applicable to sleeve connectors having
stems instead of shanks.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:-
First In sleeve links and analogous connectors, forming the heads, tops
or fronts with open backs reinforced by a supplementary frame or bar carrying
the shank or stem and connected to the said fronts substantially as and for
the purpose herein described, and also as set forth in the accompanying drawings.
Secondly In sleeve links having open-backed heads, tops or fronts made
from thin gold or other metal, the employment of a supplementary reinforcing
and shank-carrying bar or frame, located behind and secured to the front,
whereby the strains set up when the link is in use are borne by and distributed
over the said bar instead of coming upon the thin metal of the front substan-
tially as herein described and also as set forth in the accompanying drawings.
Thirdly: In sleeve links having open-backed heads, tops or fronts made
from thin gold or other metal, the employment of a supplementary reinforcing
or shank-carrying bar or frame, secured to the back of the head top or front,
without soldering, by turning or closing the metal at the edges of the head
over or onto the ends of the bar or frame, substantially as herein described and
also as set forth in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 3rd day of Havah 1000
WILLIAM ERNEST PATTERSON.
By Henry Skerrett, .
24, Temple Row, Birmingham,
Agent for Applicant.
WILLIAM ERNEST PATTERSON.
By Henry Skerrett,
24, Temple Row, Birmingham,
Agent for Applicant.