US270296A

US270296A - Theodore w

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Publication number: US270296A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1883-01-09
Anticipated expiration: 1900-01-09

Description

T. W. FOSTER.

(No'ModeL) LOGKET.

Patented Jan. 9, 1883.

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U ITED STATES 'ATENT OFFICE,

THEODOREW. FOSTER, OF PROVIDENCE, RHUDE ISLAND.

I LOCKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 270,296, dated January 9, 1883.

Application filed November 4, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, THEODORE W. FOSTER, of Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, have invented an Improvement in Lockets, of which the following is a specifiration.

The nature of my invention consists in the improved combination of a picture-box with a magnifying-lens and an ornamented plate, as hereinafter fully set forth.

' Figure 1 is a plan view of my improvementas applied to a locket-pin. Fig. 2is a longitudinal section taken in the line W W of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan view, showing the locket opened. Fig. 4 is a perspective view.

In the drawings, A is the front plate of a pin; B, the rim, 0 is the pivoted pit rtongue,

and D the hook for holding the point of the tongue G. The central portion ofthe plate A is provided with an engraved, stamped, or otherwise constructed ornamental design, E, and to the plate A, at one side of thedesign E, is hinged the box F, made smaller than the plate A and adapted to receive the picture G, which may be removably held by means of the spring-fingers 0 c. Thepin 0., attached to the outer end of the pieture box F, enters the hole bill the plate A when the box F is closed down upon the plate A.

At the side of the design E, oppositeto the picture-box F, is hinged the perforated frame H, provided with the magnifying-lens I, and the frame H and lens I may be automatically elevated by means of a spring at the hinge d upon raising the picture-box F from the plate A to its elevated position shown in Figs. 3 and 4. In closing the locket the frame H, carrying the lens 1, is first folded down over the design E, and the box F then brought down so as to completely inclose the lens-frame H and design E, the pin a, attached to the rim of the box F, entering; the hole b with snffieientspringfriction to hold the whole in its folded condition, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

\Vhen the locket is opened the previouslyeovered ornamental design preserves the finish of the locket, so that Whether in an open or closed condition it will present a highlyornamental appearance.

The drawings represent alocket adapted to be Worn as a pin; but a ring may be secured to the same for attachmenmto a chain, as in ordinary lockets.

I claim as myinvention- 1. In a locket, the combination of the picture-box, hinged to a plate extending on opposite sides beyond the edge of the picturebox, with a lens-frame hinged to the same side of the plate and inclosed ,by the rim of the picture-box in'tlteclosed condition of the locket, substantially as described.

2. In a locker, the combination of the ornamented plate,with thepictnre-box madesmaller than the ornamented plate. and hinged to the said plate atone side of a central ornamental design, with the lens-frame hinged to the same side of the plate, at the opposite side of the ornamental design, and inclosed by the rim of the picture-box in the closed condition of the locket, substantially as described.

THEOD ORE FOSTER.

Witnesses:

HARMON S. BABCOCK, SOCRATES SUHOLFIELD.