US496796A

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Publication number: US496796A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1893-05-02
Anticipated expiration: 1910-05-02

Description

5o setting.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN L. REMLINGER, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGN OR TO POTTER & BUFFINGTON, OF SAME PLACE.

JEWELRY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 496,796, dated May 2, 1893. Application filed March 29,1889. Serial No. 305,233. (No model.)

T0 on whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN L. REMLINGER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Jewelry and in the Manufacture Thereof, of which the following is a specification.

My improvement relates to that class of j ewelry known as settings, and constitutes a cluster or assemblage of settings, and is herein termed a cluster setting.

My invention consists in part in a base member adapted to receive a plurality of stones or other ornaments arranged around a center, said base member containing a num ber of partial individual settings integral with each other, and having integral setting points, each partial setting to be completed bythe addition of another member to be cen-.

trally located with reference to the surrounding partial settings; and furtherv in a centering or locating piece or yoke applied in the central portion of the base member by which a supplementary setting is located relatively to the surrounding setting and by which the arrangement of parts or members is effected; and still further in the method of constructing and combining the several portions of the complete setting.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a plan and also a vertical section on line 1; 0, of a piece of stock with a cup countersunk therein, which cup is to form the main setting. Fig. 2 shows a plan, and also a vertical section on line to w, of the main setting after being cut from such piece of stock. Fig. 3 represents a plan, and also a side View of the main setting with the prongs thereof turned upward. Fig. 4 shows a plan, and also a perspective view of the central setting. Fig. 5 represents a plan, and also a central section on line a: 00, of the plate employed for definitely locating the central setting relatively to the main setting. Fig. 6 shows in plan the central setting placed in the openingin said plate. Fig. 7 represents said plate and setting located in the main setting. Fig. 8 shows in plan the outer stones set in the main Fig. 9 represents two transverse sections on line y y, the lower view showing a modification hereinafter described. Fig. 10 shows a plan of the settings fully furnished with stones. Fig.11 represents a face View and a transverse section on line 22, of the tool employed for closing down the outer row of prongs upon the stones, in the operation of securing them in place in the main setting.

The material of the setting may be gold, silver, rolled plate, or other metal, and the form or design thereof may be any that is preferred.

The first step in the production of the main or. principal setting A, is to countersink, by

means of proper and well known tools, a cup in a plate or strip A of sheet metal, as shown in Fig. 1.- The next step is to cut or punch such cup from the piece of stock in such a manner as to afford integral prongs or points a, projecting from the periphery of the cup, as shown in Fig. 2, which prongs are afterward to be bent or turned upward as shown in Fig.3.

The inner or central setting B is produced by cutting it from a plate of metal and turning up the prongs 17 around its periphery as shown in Fig. 4. The means employed for centering the setting B in the setting A, or defining the positions of the two settings relatively to each other, consists of a plate 0, Fig. 5, having an opening 0 therein. This opening in the plate 0 receives the setting B, and the plate is preferably finished with points a which enter and fill between the prongs of the setting B, as shown in Fig. 6. The plate 0, as shown in the drawings, is intended to fit the interior of the cup or main setting A, as indicated in Fig. 7, so as to locate and hold the setting B in a central or definite relation to the setting A after the two are combined, although, as will be readily understood, such a relation will be secured and maintained if only two opposite portions, as p, p, of themelted to secure the setting B to the setting A, as shown in the lower sectional view at Fig.9. The setting B having been placed in the plate 0, as shown in Fig.6, said plate and setting are then placed in the setting A, as shown in Fig. 7, and the setting points of the central setting, are thereby definitely located with reference to the setting points on the base section, so that the several central setting points co-operate with appropriate setting points on the base section, for confining the outer stones in position. Paper, or other suitable packing D, Fig. 9, is then placed on the plate to raisethe stones E to the proper height, and said stones are placed in the setting A, between the prongs a and b. The first step in securing the stones E in position is the bending inward and downward of the points a. This is accomplished quickly and economically by the employment of a tool T, shown in Fig. 11, the face of which is indented or cupped in a shape corresponding with the shape of the setting A, such cupped portion being beveled or curved upward, as

shown at If, so as to bend the points a down upon the, stones E. The central portion of the tool T has a cavity T for receiving the prongs b and preventing them from interfering. with the descent of the tool. The points a having been bent down, the points I) are now bent outward over thestones E and also extend upward, as shown in Fig. 9. The centralstone F is now placed within these points and they are then bent down upon the stone F, completing the setting, as shown in Fig. 10.' It will be observed that the points I) are first bent outward against the stones E and the upper extremities afterward brought back inward upon the central stone, the lower pora central or interior setting, provided with setting points which not only serve to confine a central stone, but also co-operate with the outer integral setting points for securing the severalout'er stones,

3. The method or process herein described for making a cluster setting, namely, first cupping a metal plate, second cutting the pointsout of the flat metal surrounding the top of the cup, third turning up the points, fourth, locating the interior parts in the base member, fifth, putting the stones in position, and sixth, closing the exterior pointsof the base member uponthe stones by means of the tools described.

JOHN L. REMLINGER;

Witnesses:

JOHN W. HO AN, OSCAR LAPHAM.