CERTAIN IMPROVE- MENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR SLEEVE LINKS, WHICH SAID IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE TO THE FASTENING OF BROOCH PIN POINTS, BELT AND OTHER CLASPS, GLOVES, STAY AND LEGGING BUSKS, AND OTHER DRESS AND JEWELLERY FASTENINGS
Year: 1868

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Ann Cox, of Birmingham, in the County of
Warwick, Executrix of John Cox, Electro-plater and Gilder, late
of Birmingham, aforesaid, for the Invention of "CERTAIN IMPROVE-
MENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR SLEEVE LINKS, WHICH SAID IMPROVEMENTS ARE
ALSO APPLICABLE TO THE FASTENING OF BROOCH PIN POINTS, BELT AND
OTHER CLASPS, GLOVES, STAY AND LEGGING BUSKS, AND OTHER DRESS AND
JEWELLERY FASTENINGS."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said John Cox at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on
the 3rd January 1868.
I, JOHN Cox, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Electro-
plater and Gilder, do hereby declare the nature of my said Invention
for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS FOR SLEEVE LINKS, WHICH SAID
IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE TO THE FASTENING OF BROOCH PIN POINTS,
BELT AND OTHER CLASPS, GLOVES, STAY AND LEGGING BUSKS, AND OTHER DRESS
AND.JEWELLERY FASTENINGS," to be as follows (that is to say):
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The essential feature of my improved detent or fastening consists
in making the same of a tubular form, and acting direct or from an

page_text: inner tubular detent working within the said tube, an opening being
formed at right angles to its lengthway to receive the end of the bar,
bolt, or catch with which it is required to engage.
In some instances I apply a spring, which may be flat or otherwise,
which operates on the nib or thumb bit of a projecting part of the
circular catch, so as to hold it by the force of the spring in contact
or engagement with the moveable part, such as the bar of a sleeve
link or other like article of jewellery or dress possessing or requiring
the quality of connecting two things or parts together.
SPECIFICATION filed in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters
Patent, and of an Order of the Lord Chancellor, by the said Ann
Cox in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 1st August 1868.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, ANN
Cox, of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, Executrix of JOHN
Cox, who departed this life on the Twenty-eighth day of February,
in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight,
send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters, bearing date the Third day of January, in the year of our
Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, in the thirty-
first year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give
and grant unto me, the said Ann Cox, Her special license, that
I, the said Ann Cox, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Ann Cox, my executors, administrators,
or 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 Ireland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man, an Invention for "CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS IN FASTENINGS
FOR SLEEVE LINKS, WHICH BAID IMPROVEMENTS ARE ALSO APPLICABLE TO THE
FASTENING OF BROOCH PIN POINTS, BELT AND OTHER CLASPS, GLOVES, STAY
AND LEGGING BUSKS, AND OTHER DRESS AND JEWELLERY FASTENINGS,". upon
the condition (amongst others) that I, the said Ann Cox, my executors

page_text: or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my hand and
seal, or under the hand and seal of one of them, 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 seven calendar months next
and immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Ann Cox, do hereby declare
the nature of the 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 essential feature of the improved detent or fastening consists
in making the same of a tubular form, and acting direct or from an
inner or middle tubular detent working on an axis within the said
tube, an opening being formed at right angles to its lengthway to receive
the end of the bar, bolt, or catch with which it is required to engage
by a projection formed on or with the inner or middle tube, with
which is also formed the means of relieving the same.
In some instances a spring may be applied, which may be flat or
otherwise, which operates on a thumb bit or projecting part of the
circular catch, so as to hold it by the force of the spring in contact
or engagement with a notch or slot formed on or at the end of the
moveable part, such as the connecting part of the bar of a sleeve link
or other like article of jewellery or dress possessing or requiring the
quality of connecting two things or parts together, such as the wrist
parts of gloves, cuffs of shirts, or dress fronts, belt ends, or other like
detachable parts of dress.
With a view of assisting description and the mode of giving effect
to this Invention I will describe the same by aid of the Drawings
hereunto annexed, in connection with the manufacture of sleeve links
or other like connectors.
Fig. 1 is a back view of a sleeve link, the mode of connecting
and retaining the bar A being effected as hereafter described; Fig. 2 is
a side view of Figure 1, and Fig. 3 a front view of the detent as

page_text: exhibited at C, Figure 1, B, in each case merely representing the front
of the sleeve link, which in all cases may be varied in shape, material,
and design as taste, use, or purpose may require. Fig. 4 is a detached
side and end view of the bar A, which works on an axis a, and is
retained in position by a detent passing through the hole b, and
which detent is represented detached in a top and end view at Fig. 5,
and may be described as forming a circular bar if formed solid, or
of a tube formed from sheet metal as here exhibited; but being round
on its exterior forms an axis to its own motion by working within
tubular ears or clips formed at the end of the plate or base D,
corresponding with the parts that engage the axis on which the bar A
works. On the top part of the detent, Figure 5, a projection is shown
marked e, which must be soldered or otherwise fastened on after it
is put into position, as shown at Figures 1, 2, and 3, and the end of
the bar A marked w, Figure 4, being pressed upon the part of the
tubular detent cut away, as shown in the section, Figure 5, the said
tube is turned within the tubular ears G, G, exhibited at Figures 1,
2, and 3, until the detent n has entered the slot hole 6, Figure 4, of
the bar A; the relative position of the detent with the bar A will be
as represented at Figure 2, but to relieve the detent the projection e
has to be turned down at right angles with the bar A, when the
detent will be withdrawn from the slot hole b, and the separation
effected. The part marked D represented in flat view at Figure 1
and edge view at Figure 2 may be made readily from sheet metal cut
out as exhibited in the flat at Fig. 6, and bent into form by suitable
tools with a hand press or other equivalent means, as shown in a
flat and edge view at Fig. 7, or this part may be formed as represented
in the edge view at Fig. 8, the extreme ends that turn in being secured
in position by solder.
As a modification of the plan last described I prefer using a solid
axis for the detent to work on, instead of making the detent the axis
of its own action, as it may be made from sheet metal bent into form
with the projection formed out of the same, as at e, Fig. 9, and in top
view at Fig. 14, which Figure corresponds in detail to Figure 2, with
the exception of working the detent on an axis, as before mentioned,
which axis is represented at h passing through the circular ears m, m,
formed in the plate D, as at Figure 7, and through the detent which
lies between the ears m, m. The detent in this case is formed by

page_text: cutting out a piece of metal, as exhibited at Fig. 10, and bending the
same in the form represented in a top and end view at Fig. 11, the
smaller portion i forming the detent i, Figure 11; the next portion k,
Figure 10, forming the projection marked e, Figures 9 and 11, and
the portion marked forming the tubular body that surrounds the
axis, but the angular opening at p permits that portion of the
extreme end of the bar A, as at Fig. 12, marked 8, to come in contact
with it, that by pressing the free end of the bar the detent partially
revolves on its axis, and the projection i on the detent, Figure 11, snaps
into position in the slot at the end of the bar, as exhibited at Figure 9.
In order to effect this without reducing the thickness of the bar a
small portion of the axis is removed in a perpendicular direction, as
shown at Fig. 13, which simply represents the axis h detached in the
same relative position it would assume as at Figure 9; but if the
tubular portion is bulged at the part that comes in contact with the
ends of the bar, Figure 12, there will be no necessity to cut away
the axis as at Figure 13.
From this description it will be seen that the front ornament or detail
may be diversified, as before stated, whether made from metal, jet, shell,
pearl, precious stones, or other material or compound suitable for the
article desired to be made in combination with the means of
applying and removing at pleasure, or of forming, as before stated,
detachable links or parts for connecting ornaments to chains or such
like articles or parts of jewellery or dress, in which case the axis on
which the bar A works may be otherwise arranged or formed without
affecting the principle or construction of the detent; or the parts may
be so constructed as to be capable of being applied, that when brought
together they will be secured as in the case of applying this Invention
to stay or other busks.
Having thus given a description of the Invention, and the manner
in which the same may be carried into effect, and how by suitable
alteration or modification in size and shape, and disposition of minor
parts the same may be adapted according to purpose, I wish it
understood that what I claim under these the in part recited Letters
Patent is,―
Firstly. The detent or its equivalent herein described and exhibited;
the said detent forming an axis of itself at right angles to and with
the engaging part or parts, as exhibited at Figures 1 to 8.

page_text: Secondly. I claim the modified form of tubular detent working on an
axis, that is to say, as exhibited at Figures 9 to 14.
In witness whereof, I, the said Ann Cox, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Twenty-seventh day of July, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight.
Witness,
W. COTTRELL,
Solicitor,
Birmingham.
ANN COX. (L.S.)