Iм- PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LOCKETS, WHICH SAID IMPROVEMENTS PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATIONSO APPLICABLE TO
Year: 1870

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Joseph Craddock and Charles Frederick Richards,
trading under the Firm of "Craddock and Richards," of Birmingham,.
in the County of Warwick, Goldsmiths, for the Invention of "Iм-
PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LOCKETS, WHICH SAID IMPROVEMENTS
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Joseph Craddock and
Charles Frederick Richards at the Office of the Commissioners of
Patents, with their Petition, on the 29th July 1870.
We, JOSEPH CRADDOCK and CHARLES FREDERICK RICHARDS, trading
under the Firm of "Craddock and Richards," of Birmingham, in the
County of Warwick, Goldsmiths, do hereby declare the nature of the
said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LOCKETS, WHICH
SAID IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE TO MINIATURE BROOCHES AND BRACELETS,"
to be as follows:-
The object of this Invention is to simplify the manufacture of lockets.
Hitherto the rim has been made of two parts, and has consisted of an

page_text: open blank which has constituted the flat rim upon which has been
afterwards soldered the inner rim. The box has been also made by the
soldering together of two rims in a similar manner.
According to our Invention the rim of the locket is stamped and
raised from a metal blank, and thus consists of one piece of metal &
only, instead of two pieces joined together by hand according to the old
method.
The box of the locket according to our Invention is also raised from.
a metal blank in a similar manner.
The advantages of our method are obvious, but it may be well to point 1
out that according to our improved method of manufacture as many
lockets can be made in a day as could be made according to the old
method in a week.
We propose to apply the same improvements in the manufacture of
miniature or box brooches and bracelets.
1
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of. the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Joseph Craddock and Charles Frederick Richards
in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 28th January 1871.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, we, JOSEPH
CRADDOCK and CHARLES FREDERICK RICHARDS, trading under the Firm
of "Craddock and Richards," of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Goldsmiths, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-ninth day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy, in the thirty-fourth
year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and
grant unto us, the said Joseph Craddock and Charles Frederick Richards,
Her special licence that we, the said Joseph Craddock and Charles
Frederick Richards, our executors, administrators, and assigns, or such
others as we, the said Joseph Craddock and Charles Frederick Richards,
our executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and

page_text: Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IM-
PROVEMENTS IN THE MANUFACTURE OF LOCKETS, WHICH SAID IMPROVEMENTS ARE
ALSO APPLICABLE TO MINIATURE BROOCHES AND BRACELETS," upon the condition
(amongst others) that we, the said Joseph Craddock and Charles
Frederick Richards, our executors or administrators, by an instrument
in writing under our, or their, or. one of their hands and seals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same
to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months
next and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that we, the said Joseph Craddock and Charles
Frederick Richards, do hereby declare the nature of our said Invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement (that is to
say) :-
The object of this Invention is to simplify the manufacture of lockets.
Hitherto the rim has been made in two parts, and has consisted of an
open blank which has constituted the flat rim upon which has been
afterwards soldered the inner rim. The box has been also made by the
soldering together of two rims in a similar manner.
But according to our Invention the rim of the locket is stamped and
raised from a metal blank, and thus consists of one piece of metal
only, instead of two pieces joined together by hand according to the old
method.
The box of the locket according to our Invention is also raised from
a metal blank in a similar manner.
The advantages of our method are obvious, but it may be well to point
out that according to our improved method of manufacture as many
lockets can be made in a day as could be made according to the old
method in a week.
We propose to apply the same improvements in the manufacture of
miniature or box brooches and bracelets.
That our Invention may be fully understood we have annexed Drawings
thereof, which we now proceed to describe.
Fig. 1 is an elevation, and Fig. 2 a section of the rim and box of a
locket made according to our, Invention.

page_text: a is the rim of the lacket stamped and raised from a metal blank, and
therefore consisting of one piece of metal only, instead of two pieces
joined together by hand according to the old method; is the box, of
the locket, and c the rim of the lid, both being also raised from metal
blanks in the same manner as the rim.
Having now described the nature of our said Invention, and the
manner in which the same is or may be performed, we desire it to be
understood that what we claim as the Invention to be protected by
the berein-before in part recited Letters Patent is, the improvements
herein-before set forth in the manufacture of lockets, and and which said
improvements are applicable also to miniature' brooches and bracelets,
and which consist substantially in stamping and raising the rim from a
metal blank (thus consisting of one piece of metal only), and also in
raising the box in a similar manner.
In witness whereof, we, the said Joseph Craddock and Charles
Frederick Richards, have hereunto set our hand and seals, this
Twenty-sixth day of January, in the year of our Lord 1871.
Witness,
G. R. HOLLAND,
JOSEPH CRADDOCK.
(L.S.)
CHARLES FREDERICK RICHARDS. (L.S.)
Patent Office,
Birmingham.