Improvement in Metallic Articles of Ornament for Personal Wear.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Apr., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 24th Nov., 1890-Accepted, 24th Jan., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION,
Improvement in Metallic Articles of Ornament for Personal Wear.
We, LOUISE DREWS, Widow, trading under the name of the firm of H. Drews, and
RUDOLF SENNER, Manager of the said firm, both residing at Pforzheim, Grand Duchy
of Baden, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Our invention, relates to metallic articles of ornament for personal wear, such as
bracelets, brooches and the like, and its object is to provide means for facilitating the
putting on and taking off of such articles."
For this purpose we construct the said articles of two or more tubular parts engaging
into, and capable of sliding in respect to, each other, and we connect these parts
together pairwise by short chains placed inside thereof, and by spiral springs
surrounding the chains, the said chains serving to prevent the parts from becoming
disengaged, while the springs tend to draw them together and to produce a contrac-
tion whereby the articles are held on the body or on the garments of the person
wearing them.
Thus for instance a bracelet carried out according to our invention consists in one or
more rows of curved conical tubes, each tube being inserted with its narrow end into the
wide end of the succeeding tube, and the tubes of one or of each row being connected
together as stated. If a peripheral pull is exercised on such bracelet it will expand as
far as the chains permit, whereas on being released it will return to its normal state.
If the invention is to be applied to a brooch, the latter is made with two tubes
sliding within each other and having pins turned with the points towards each other so
as to be capable of entering into the dress to which the brooch is to be attached.
Dated the Talfth day of s 1800
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicants.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in Metallic Articles of Ornament for Personal Wear.
We, LOUISE DREWS, Widow, trading under the firm of H. Drews, and RUDOLF
SENNER, Manager of the said firm, both residing at Pforzheim, Grand Duchy of Baden,
do hereby 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 :-
Our invention relates to metallic articles of ornament for personal wear, such as
bracelets, brooches and the like, and its object is to provide means for facilitating the
putting on and taking off of such articles.
For this purpose we construct the said articles of two or more tubular parts engaging
into, and capable of sliding in respect to, each other and we connect these parts
together pairwise by short chains placed inside thereof, and by spiral springs
surrounding the chains, the said chains serving to prevent the parts from becoming
disengaged, while the springs tend to draw them together and to produce a contrac-
tion whereby the articles are held on the body or on the garments of the person
wearing them.
In the annexed drawing are represented a bracelet and a brooch carried out according
to our invention.
Fig. 1 is an outside view of the bracelet in normal or contracted state, while
Fig. 2 shows the same expanded.
Figs. 3 and are respectively sections of a portion of the contracted and the
expanded bracelet drawn to a larger scale."

page_text: Figs. 5 and 6 show modified arrangements of the bracelet.
Fig. 7 is a sectional view of the brooch.
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The bracelet is composed of the curved conical tubes a, each inserted with its narrow
end into the wide end of the succeeding tube. These tubes are connected together
pairwise by chains having each three comparatively long links be b², the terminal ones
whereof are secured by pins e to the narrow ends of the tubes. With each chain is
combined a spiral spring g, slipped over the same and attached with its ends to stays f
provided for in the links b¹. When under these conditions a peripheral pull is
exercised on the bracelet, it will expand within the limit determined by the chains, so
that it may be slipped over the hand, whereas on being released again it will return
to its contracted or normal state in which it fits on the arm.
Instead of making the bracelet of one row of tubes, two or more such rows may
be combined as represented by Figs. 5 and 6, the juxtaposed tubes of the individual
rows being connected together by stays b.
The brooch shown by Fig. 7, consists of the two cylindrical tubes a¹ a² sliding
within each other, the chain &c b¹ connected with its ends to the tubes, and the spring 9
arranged as in the described bracelet. On the outside the tubes a¹ a² are provided
with the pins turned with their points towards each other.
If the tube a² is drawn
out as far as the chain permits and the brooch is applied in this state to the part of
the dress to which it is to be attached and is thereupon released, the pins will enter
into the dress and keep the brooch in its place.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what
we claim is :
1. In a metallic article of ornament for personal wear, the combination of two or
more tubular parts engaging into each other, and chains and springs placed inside of
the tubes and connecting them together pairwise, substantially as described.
2. In a metallic article of ornament for personal wear, such as a brooch, the com-
bination of two tubular parts engaging into each other and chains and springs placed
inside of one or of both tubes and connecting them together, the said tubes being
provided on the outside with pins directed with their points towards each other,
substantially as specified.
Dated the 21th 1
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1800
WM. BROOKES & SON,
55 & 56, Chancery Lane, London, Agents for the Applicants.