An Improved Attachment for the Pins and Catches of Brooches, Shawl-pins, and the like.
Year: 1888

page_text: An Improved Attachment for the Pins and Catches of Brooches,
Shawl-pins, and the like.
I, MARK CROSS of 3 High Street, in the city and county of Bristol, Watchmaker,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
According to this invention a socket is provided at the back of the brooch, shawl-
pin or the like, which socket is flanged on two sides and one end, the flanges being
turned inwards over the sides and end of the socket. The heel of the pin which is
formed with a cross bar at right angles to the pin is contained in the socket.
Into the socket and over the heel of the pin is passed a cover which is overlapped
by the flanges of the socket. This cover is turned or bent at one end, and the part so
turned or bent extends from one end of the socket to the other. When the cover has
been pushed "home" in the socket the outer part of the cover is pressed down
thereon and is clasped thereto by a clip formed on that end of the outer part of the
cover which is opposite to the bend. The clip passes over one end of the socket and
engages therewith. The inner and outer parts of the cover are pierced to permit the
pin to move freely on the cross bar as required.
To remove the pin the clip is raised and released from engagement with the end of
the socket and the cover is then free to be withdrawn from the socket.
The catch into which the pin takes at or near the point is formed on a plate which
takes into a socket similar to that provided for the heel and is clasped to the heel in a
similar manner.
Dated this 24th day of March 1888
NICHOLAS WATTS,
Applicant's Agent.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Attachment for the Pins and Catches of Brooches,
Shawl Pins, and the like.
I, MARK CROSS of 5 High Street, in the city and county of Bristol, Watchmaker,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
According to this invention a socket is provided at the back of the brooch, shawl-
pin or the like, which socket is flanged on two sides and at one end the side flanges
being turned inwards and the end flange upwards. The heel of the pin, which is
formed with a cross-bar at right angles to the pin, is contained in the socket.
Into the socket and over the heel of the pin is passed a cover which is overlapped
by the flanges of the socket. This cover is turned or bent at one end, and the part
so turned or bent extends from one end of the socket to the other. When the cover
has been pushed "home" in the socket the outer part of the cover is pressed down
thereon and is clasped thereto by a clip formed on that end of the outer part of the
cover which is opposite to the bend. The clip passes over one end of the socket and
engages therewith. The inner and outer parts of the cover are pierced to permit the
pin to move freely on the cross-bar as required.
Fig. 1 on the accompanying drawing, executed at an exaggerated scale, represents
a front view of the socket which is shown detached from the back of the brooch or the
plate of a shawl-pin or the like. Fig. 2 is a side view, and Fig. 3 a front view of the
cover, and Fig. 4 is a side view of the socket and cover with a pin fitted therein.
Fig. 5 is a view of the pin.
The socket a is, flanged at both sides and at the lower end, as shown. The flanges
overlap the cover b at the sides, and the lower end of the cover rests upon the flange
at the lower end of the socket. The cover b is turned or bent over at the upper end,
the outer limb terminating in a clip. Both limbs. of the cover are pierced for the
passage of the pin d and to permit the same to move freely. The heel of the pin d is
in the form of a short bar extending at right angles on both sides of the pin. The
heel of the pin is under the inner limb of the cover after the cover has been slid into
the socket and pushed "home" therein, the outer limb of the cover b is pressed
down upon the socket and is clasped thereto by the clip c which passes over and.
engages with the lower end of the socket. To remove the pin, the clip c is raised and
released from engagement with the socket from which the cover is then free to be
withdrawn.
Broken or bent pins are readily removed and fresh pins substituted without
requiring skilled labour.
The invention applies equally to the catches which receive the pins at or near the
points thereof. The catches are furnished with a limb which closes on and is clasped
to the socket in the same manner as the outer limb of the cover b closes upon and is
clasped to the socket a.
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page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I .
claim is :-
:-
1. The use in a brooch, shawl-pin and the like, of an attachment for the pins
thereof consisting of a flanged socket such as a, a cover such as 6 so bent as to have
two limbs one of which fits into the flanged socket, the other terminating in a clip or
clasp which closes upon and is clasped to the socket, substantially as described.
2. The use in a brooch, shawl-pin and the like, of a catch to receive the pointed end
of the pin, such catch consisting of an eye or loop secured to or formed upon a plate
bent in the same manner as the cover b and clasped to a socket similar to the socket a
fixed upon the back of the brooch, shawl-pin or the like, substantially as described.
Dated this 18th day of December 1888.
NICHOLAS WATTS,
Applicant's Agent.