US483949A

US483949A - Watch-charm

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Publication number: US483949A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1892-10-04
Anticipated expiration: 1909-10-04

Description

UNITED STATES PATENT OF ICE.

DANIEL A. SMITH AND CHARLES E. GRAPEVINE, OF KOKOMO, INDIANA.

WATCH-CHARM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 483,949, dated October 4, 1892. Application filed March 17,1892. Serial No. 425,350. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, DANIEL A. SMITH and CHARLES E. GRAPEWINE, citizens of the United States, residing at Kokomo, in the county of Howard and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful WVatch-Charm, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to a certain novel construction and arrangement of two pieces of plate-glass held together by a metallic band in such a way as to form a cube to be worn as a pendant to watch chains and fobs, the pieces of glass to inclose between them any picture, device, legend, or print and form a mounting for the same.

The object of our invention is to supply an attractive and novel mounting, as above indicated, for either a picture, legend, or device, or all of them, to suit the taste of the wearer, such picture, legend, or device being thoroughly protected from exposure to the air or moisture by the tablets of glass and yet being fully exposed to view in divers and curious ways. The prismatic effect of the glass and the arrangement of picture, print, or device within serve to apparently change the position of the latter according to the point of view, and with each turn of the cube different views or effects are produced pleasing and startling, according to the variety of the matter therein. We attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

Figures 1 and 2 are tablets of plate-glass perfectly clear and having six smooth polished sides. Fig. 3 represents a band either of gold, brass, tin, or other metal. Fig. 4: represents the complete device, showing the tablets of glass properly adjusted and held in position by the metallic band.

The tablets represented by Figs. 1 and 2 are brought together upon their sides a b c d in each figure so that the edges g e and e f in each will be precisely parallel. Between the two tablets are to be placed, facing outward both ways, the picture, legend, device, or print it is desired to mount. Upon the four edges of each tablet, facing inward, very near the edges brought together may be arranged various words or legends in small type. The two tablets are then bound together with the band illustrated by Fig. 3, which is wide enough to conceal the fine print on the four sides of each tablet mentioned above. By this means eight distinct names, legends, or inscriptions may be incased, besides the two facing outward, none of which is observed except by looking inward at the edge of the tablet immediately above the band, and not more than one of which can be seen at any one time, making eight distinct views, depending upon the position in which the cube is held. A very curious illusion is also produced upon the views held between the tablets by looking from the edges, the effectbeing to lift them to the outward surface of the glass.

The complete device is represented by Fig. 4. a b c d and I J K represent the outward surfaces of the two tablets. e g f h is the band surrounding the same and holding them in position with a perforated shank e, by which the whole is attached to the chain or guard.

WVhat we claim as our invention, and upon which we desire to secure Letters Patent, is-

1. A watch-charm comprising in its construction two pieces of plate-glass and a narrow metallic band uniting said pieces and concealing their point of juncture, substantially as described.

2. A watch-charm comprising in its construction two pieces of plate-glass laid face to face and forming a cube, and a narrow metallic band surrounding and concealing the point of juncture of the two pieces and uniting the said pieces, all whereby two front faces and eight edge faces of glass are presented, through which may be seen oppositely or nearly oppositely locatedpictures or in- 90 scriptions, substantially as. described.

DANIEL A. SMITH. CHARLES E. GRAPEWINE.

Witnesses:

CASSIUS O. SHIRLEY, JAMES C. BLAGKLIDGE.