A WATCH SNATCHING PREVENTER
Year: 1884

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
I, THOMAS DOBBIE, of 51 Adelphi Street Glasgow, in the County of Lanark,
North Britain, Watch and Clock Maker do hereby declare the nature of the said
invention for A WATCH SNATCHING PREVENTER to be as follows:-
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This Invention, which relates to a watch snatching preventer, consists of a metal
ring secured with free motion at one part of its circumference within a metal band.
This attachment, it is intended should be stitched or otherwise secured preferably
at the corner of the pocket within which the watch is located.-The ring is of such
diameter that the watch is unable to pass therethrough, while the chain to which
the said watch is attached, passes freely through the said ring, and is secured by
the "bar" of the chain, within a hole formed for the purpose in the waistcoat or
other garment or in other convenient manner.
It will be readily seen, upon any attempt being made to snatch a watch protected
by the Preventer constituting this Invention, that such attempt is frustrated by
reason of the watch being unable to pass through the ring in the direction in which
it is drawn upon the snatching at tho chain, which is the usual procedure of watch
snatching. It will be further seen, if the "bar" be released from the hole in
which it is secured and upon a snatch then being made at the watch that the
valuables are still secure, by reason of the bar coming diametrically against the said
ring.
Upon the wearer wishing to take the watch from his pocket, he effects this by
holding it at a part beyond the ring and is thereby enabled to draw the chain, to
any required extent, through the said ring.
Dated this Seventeenth day of November 1884.
J. H. JOHNSON, DAY & JOHNSON,
Petitioner's Agents,
115, St. Vincent Street, Glasgow.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
J, THOMAS DOBBIE of 51 Adelphi Street, Glasgow, in the County of Lanark,
North Britain, Watch and Clock Maker, do hereby declare the nature of my
invention for A WATCH SNATCHING PREVENTER and in what manner the same
is to be perforined, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :—
This Invention, which relates to a watch snatching Preventer, consists of a metal
ring secured with free motion at one part of its circumference within a metal band.
This attachment, it is intended should be stitched or otherwise secured preferably
at the corner of the pocket within which the watch is located. The ring is of
such diameter that the watch is unable to pass therethrough, while the chain to
which the said watch is attached, passes freely through the said ring, and is secured
by the "bar" of the chain, within a hole formed for the purpose in the waistcoat
or other garment or in other convenient manner.
Upon any attempt being made to snatch a watch protected by the Preventer
constituting this Invention, such attempt is frustrated by reason of the watch
being unable to pass through the ring in the direction in which it is drawn, upon
the snatching at the chain. It will be further seen, if the "bar" be released from
the hole in which it is secured and upon' a snatch then being made at the watch,
that the valuables are still secure, by reason of the bar coming diametrically across
and against the said ring.
Upon the wearer wishing to take the watch from his pocket, he effects this by
holding it at a part beyond the ring and is thereby enabled to draw the chain to
any required extent, through the said ring.
In order that my said Invention may be most fully understood and readily
carried into effect, I will proceed to describe the Drawings hereunto annexed.
Figures 1 and 2, are front elevations respectively of the metal ring, and of the
metal band in its extended condition, both of which constitute parts of my present
Invention.
Figures 3, and 4, are respectively a side elevation and a front elevation of a
watch snatching Preventer constructed according to and constituting any present
Invention.
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In carrying my present Invention into practice, a metal ring.a, which may be of
truly circular form as represented at Figure 1, or with a portion of its circunference
straight, is passed over the metal band b, which may be of the shape represented
at Figure 2, or of any shape analogous thereto. The metal band b, is then bent
over the ring, and when such is provided, over the straight portion of the said
ring, and is then pressed or otherwise brought preferably into the form represented
at Figures 3 and 4, of the annexed Drawings; or the said metal band may be bent
in such manner that the two contiguous or meeting faces thereof are situated
centrally beneath the ring a.
The holes c, may be formed in the band b, when the said band is being stainped
or otherwise shaped; or the said holes c, inay be formed when the band b, has
been bent over the ring a, or at any other convenient stage.

page_text: It is intended that the watch-snatching Preventer as represented at Figures 3
and 4, of the annexed drawings, should be stitched or otherwise equivalently
secured, for example by rivets passed through the holes c, to the lining alone, or
to the lining and adjacent cloth, of the pocket in which the watch is carried. The
metal ring a, and band b, being approximately in the same plane and the whole
arrangement being secured at the corner of the pocket, very slight hindrance, if
any, is presented to the using of such pocket.
In the employment of a watch-snatching Preventer such as I have hereinbefore
described and shewn upon the aunexed Drawings, the wearer's chain secured at
its one end by the "bar" or its equivalent, is passed at its other end through the
ring a, and fastened to the watch in the ordinary manner; or the swivel by which
the watch is secured to the chain, besides embracing the "bow" of such watch may
also embrace the ring a
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is
A watch-snatching preventer consisting of a metal ring a, and metal band b,
provided with holos c, for stitching, riveting or otherwise equivalently securing
such preventer into the pocket in which the watch is carried, all substantially
as and for the purposes herein before set forth with reference to the annexed
drawings.