US761867A

US761867A - Construction of jewelry.

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Publication number: US761867A
Application number: US18696203A
Authority: US
Inventors: Albert Artopoens
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1903-12-29
Filing date: 1903-12-29
Publication date: 1904-06-07
Anticipated expiration: 1921-06-07

Description

No. 761,867. PATENTED JUNE 7 1904.

A. ARTOPOENS. CONSTRUCTION OF JEWELRY.

APPLIOATION FILED DEG. 29 1903.

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UNITED STATES Patented June 7, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT ARTOPOENS, OF PFQRZHEIM, GERMANY.

CONSTRUCTION OF JEWELRY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 761,867, dated June 7, 1904. Application filed December 29, i903. Serial No. 186,962. (NomodeL) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known'that I, ALBERT ARToPonNs, manufacturer, a citizen of the German Empire, residing at Lindenstrasse 36, in the town of Pforzheim, in the Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Construction of Jewelry, entitled Bijouterie-Link for Construction of Necklaces,Bracelets,Fretwork, and the Like, of which the followingis a specification.

The present invention relates to the construction of linked chains and fretwork in jewelry.

Hitherto for the secure fixing of connected links or parts lying close together in necklaces, bracelets, and the like a most wearisome manipulation has been necessary. Such parts must singly have provision of pins and eyes and slits, one fitting into the other to form needed means of junction. Then separate solderings must be made preliminary to a general soldering of the whole together in any certain desired design. Thus production is replete with difficulties, more especially with regard to the collets or sockets for the setting of precious stones in the aforementioned articles of jewelry.

With the improved link constituting this invention after connection of the separate empty or open links a collet can be soldered on. Such soldering on of the same is here greatly facilitated by having said collets topped or sheathed previously with solder. Thus they are simply placed one alongside another on the connected links and may all at one time be soldered on in. quantities.

In the eight figures of the accompanying sheet of drawings this new bijouterie-link is shown separately and also as forming parts in the construction of articles of jewelry com- 'posedof chains and fretwork.

Figures 1 to 5 display this new link in different stages of its formation and from vari' ous aspects, with resulting shapes and means of connection. Fig. 6 gives an lllustration of the construction of fretwork, network, and the like in articles of jewelry.

The first operation in the production of this new bijouterie-link is the punching out, by means of special tools, from sheet metal of an oblong preparatory plate having at each side small rectangular wings or shoulders of greater or lesser width. The wider of such shoulders are perforated by this same operation, receiving a circular aperture thereafter to be used as an eye a. The narrower unperforated shoulders are utilized to serve as pins or hooks 0 In related articles of jewelry needing broader construction there may be such greater number provided and such varied arrangement of the foregoing hooks a and eyes a on each link as will best promote the manufacture of the intended article. For example, one link may have four eyes a and its complementary link four hooks or pins (6, or, as with examples given in Fig. 8, each link may have two eyes and two hooks; but whatever number of eyes and hooks or pins may be required they are all stamped out with the preparatory plate by this first operation. The simplest form of the preparatory plate, having one eye and one hook only, is exhibited in Fig. 1. Then such preparatory plate is operated upon in a circular'mold or die prepared for the purpose by means of asuitably-shaped stamp. Thereby the pan or capsule a is pressed or plunged out of the central portion of said plate, the sides a and a and the hook part a are simply raised, and the eye part a is brought up so as to lay out horizontally about one thickness of the sheet metal higher or above the floor of the pan. This accomplished, the bijouterie-link is then ready for use. The collets b, Fig. 7 are constructed in a precisely analogous manner. Their outer edges are set firmly in knees at the outer width of the capsule a and there soldered fast. g

The coupling or attachment together as elements in articles of jewelry of these bijouterie-links by their eyes and hooks is effected as more particularly displayed in Fig. 6.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent. -is

A bijouteriedink stamped in one piece out IOO of sheet metal, which link has integral hinge to this specification in the presence oi twosuhmembers a a for uniting link With link as scribing witnesses. forming elements in certain articles of ew- I r y 1 elry, and which link has also eollets Z) soldered ALBIL R1 A hl OI 014mb 5 thereto as settings for precious stones, :ill Vitnesses:

substantially as set forth. GUSTAV Soiiwmss,

In testimony whereof I have signed my name ELMA CiiAM immii N.