*Improvements in Breast-pins, Cuff Studs or Links, and the like.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 22nd Mar., 1893
Complete Specification Left; 22nd. Dec., 1893-Accepted, 27th Jan., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by AUGUST FERDINAND RICHTER, trading under
the Firm of Aug. F. Richter, of 13, Bachstrasse, Hamburg, in the Empire of
Germany, Manufacturer.]
*Improvements in Breast-pins, Cuff Studs or Links, and the like.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the Firm of Haseltine Lake & Co., Patent
Agents, 45 Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby.
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to breast-pins, cuff studs or links and the like.
It consists in connecting a head plate with the shaft of a breast pin, the shank of
a stud, link or the like in such a manner that this plate is not only capable of
turning upon the part united with it but can also in certain positions be folded
against the same. Such a connection of the head plate with a rigid shank is
particularly applicable to cuff links. For this purpose a ball pivot is arranged at
the end of the pin or shank of the article, this pivot being supported in the head
plate in the customary manner. A raised part of the latter is provided with radiali
incisions or slots so that the pin or shank may be put in one or the other of these
incisions or slots and the head plate folded against the shank, thereby greatly
facilitating the insertion of the head plate into the button hole. In order that the
head plate may be kept fixed relatively to the pin or shank in the terminal
positions it is expedient to arrange in the interior of the plate a spring adapted to
press against the head of the ball pivot, this head being preferably flattened at
the end.
Dated this gund den of March 1902
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Breast-pins, Cuff Studs or Links, and the like.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE of the Firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent
Agents, 45 Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, 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 :-
The present invention relates to breast-pins, cuff-studs or links. In consists in
connecting a head plate with the shaft of a breast-pin, the shank of a stud,
link or the like in such a manner that this plate is not only capable of turning
upon the part united with it but can also in certain positions be folded against the
same.
Such a connection of the head plate with a rigid shank is particularly applicable
to cuff links. In order that my invention may be more fully understood I have
illustrated the same in the accompanying drawing, in which,
Figure 1 is a rear side view of a breast pin constructed according to my
invention.
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Figure 2 is a sectional side elevation of a head plate, showing my improved
means of connecting the latter with the shaft of a breast pin.

page_text: Figures 3 and 4 represent cuff links, the head plates of which are shewn in
section and in different positions relatively to the shank.
Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several
views.
At the end or the ends of the pin or shanks A of the respective article is arranged
a ball pivot a ; this pivot being supported in the head plate d in the usual manner.
The raised part c of the latter is provided with radial incisions or slots c' so that the
pin or shank A, may be put in one or the other of these incisions or slots c' and the
head plate d folded against the shank thereby greatly facilitating the insertion of
the head plate into the button hole. In order that the head plate d may be kept in
the relative terminal positions to the pin or shank it is advisable to arrange in the
interior of the head plate da suitable spring b adapted to press against the head of
the ball pivot a, this ball pivot being preferably flattened at the end.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :-
1. In breast-pins, cuff links, or studs the combination of the head plate provided
with radial incisions or slots, with a rigid pin or shank having at its end a ball
pivot, to be supported in the said head plate, substantially as described and for the
purpose specified.
2. The combination in a breast pin, cuff link or stud of a head plate provided
with radial incisions or slots, a rigid pin or shank having a ball pivot, and a spring
in the interior of the head plate adapted to press against the head of the ball pivot,
substantially as and for the purpose set forth.
Dated this 22nd day of December 1893
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.