USRE9526E - Bracelet - Google Patents

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A. VESTER. Bracelet.

No. 9,526.v Reissued Jan, 4, I881.

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ADOLPH VESTER, OF NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS.

BRACELET.

part of Reissued Letters Patent No. 9,526, dated January 4, 1881.

SPECIFICATION forming plication for reissue filed October 29, 1880.

Original No. 228,425, dated June 1, 1880. A9

To all whom it may concern: I extends into the part B, whereby it is held Be it known that I, ADOLPH VEsTER, of securely from turning. It may, however, be North Attleborough, in the county of Bristol held in other ways, though this is the more and State of Massachusetts, have invented a convenient.

new and useful Improvement in Bracelets; The spring extends from one side to near and I do hereby declare that the following the middle of the bracelet, and the inner end is a full, clear, and exact description of the is extended through a slit or notch in the same. parts 0 c, and when the parts are in place My invention relates to bracelets of that passes into a hole, g, in the part A.

10 class in which the bracelet is composed of A pin, it, passes through the bosses at the two wings, hinged to open so as to be placed center and through the spring in the tubular upon or he removed from the wrist, and held part of B, thus securing the two parts together in place by a spring. by a hinged connection.

The object is to simplify the construction The parts 0 a may be strengthened by short 1 and improve the appearance of the bracelet. sections '5 i of tube, which fit snugly therein. The bosses serve as ornaments as well as to The invention consists, principally, of a spring held in atubular portion or bent flange support and cover the hinged connection. of the end of one part of the bracelet, adapted The bracelet may be ornamented in any to hold the body of said spring and to fit the suitable manner. 20 opposite end of the other part of the bracelet, The joint-conuectionis simple and the spring to which it is hinged, the end of the spring is perfectly concealed. also entering said opposite part. The bosses may be modified in shape, and

In the drawings, Figure 1 shows a side elemay be of any desired size. vation of my improved bracelet; Fig. 2, a Having thus described my invention, I

2 section lengthwise through the bracelet, and claim- Fig. 3 a top view of the hinge, with the outer 1. The combination,in a two-part bracelet,of

part broken away to show the construction atransverse tubular or flanged end of one part and arrangement of the spring. adapted to the opposite end of the other part, 7 5

In these drawings, A represents one-half of and forming a hinge therewith, and of a spring a bracelet, on which, at that end which is inclosedin said tubular or flanged end, and

hinged to the other part, a lip is formed in the having its end projecting into the said oppo shape of a (JUIX'Ed flange extending across the site part of the bracelet, substantially as dewidth of the bracelet, as shown at a. This scribed.

flange forms a part of the hinge on which the 2. In a two-part bracelet, the combination 35 movable part is held. At each end of this of the spring inclosed in the tube or flanges flange is a boss, I), the center of these bosses c c, and adapted to extend into the other part being concentric with the curve of the flange. of the bracelet, with the flange a, adapted to The movable part B of the bracelet is proreceive the said tubular part, and with a pin, 85 vided at the hinged end with two curved h, as set forth.

4o flanges, c c, or a tubular portion placed across 3. The combination of the flange a, bosses the end of' the part B and adapted to tit into I) b, flanges or tubes 0 c, and spring d, as and the curved flange a 5111i between the bosses I). for the purposes set forth.

The flanges c 0 may be formed of a single piece of metal, bent so as to nearly meet, and ADOLPH VESTEB' 5 soldered to the end of the part B. Within Witnesses:

this tubular portion a coiled spring. (1, is placed. E. A. CRAWFORD,

F. M. BEEBE.

One end, 0, of this spring is prolonged and

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