Improvements in Pockets or Receptacles for Watches or the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pockets or Receptacles for Watches or the like.
I, IRWIN CLARKE WALLAS, of 37, Torbay Road, Brondesbury, N.W., Civil
Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:
This invention relates to an improved construction of vest or other pocket or
receptacle worn as part of dress or garment to be used for the reception of a
watch or other article attached by a chain or guard for securing greater pro-
tection for and the preventing of such watch or other article from being snatched
or pulled out of such pocket or receptacle through the medium of the exposed
chain or guard while it admits of the wearer readily lifting the watch or other
article attached to the chain or guard from the pocket or receptacle for examina-
tion without unnecessary risk or exposure.
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In the accompanying drawing is an illustration of this improved pocket or
receptacle. The firm lines representing an outside view, the broken lines an
inside sectional elevation as made and fitted to a vest, an aperture is formed in
direct communication from the outside to inside of such pocket or receptacle
through which may be passed a chain or guard communicating with a watch or
other article placed inside pocket or receptacle.
The lower circle in broken lines shows the position of a watch in a normal
position attached to a chain or guard, the upper circle in broken lines shows the
position of a watch secure during an attempt to snatch or remove it from the
pocket or receptacle through the medium of the exposed chain or guard.
Dated 7th day of September 1898
IRWIN CLARKE WALLAS,
Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pockets or Receptacles for Watches or the like.
I, IRWIN CLARKE WALLAS, of 23, Darwin Avenue, Buxton, in the County of
Derbyshire (formerly of 37, Torbay Road, Brondesbury, N.W., in the County
of London), Civil Engineer, 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: —
This invention relates to an improved way of making a pocket or receptacle
and is especially applicable to vest pockets used for carrying watches, sovereign
purses or other articles attached to a chain or guard.
With such pockets as usually made a watch or other article can be easily
removed surreptitiously or snatched by a thief.

page_text: This invention is designed to prevent such watch or other article being
snatched or pulled out of the pocket through the medium of the exposed chain or
guard, whilst allowing the wearer to readily lift the watch or other article
attached to the chain or guard from the pocket for examination or use without
unnecessary risk or exposure and without inconvenience.
And in order that my said invention may be better understood I will now pro-
ceed to describe the same with reference to the drawings accompanying this
specification.
a shews
Fig. 1 shews one side of a vest provided with my improved pocket: Fig. 2 is a
similar view shewing the form of pocket in dotted lines: Fig. 3 shews a similar
view to Fig. 2 and the normal position assumed by a watch and also the position
it would assume when an attempt was made to abstract it through the medium
of the chain. The same letters denote the same parts in all the views.
the pocket, in dotted lines, which extends beyond the welt b, I prefer to make
the welt curved upwards as shewn. c is an aperture extending into the pocket a
through which the chain or guard / passes. e shews a watch in its normal position
in the pocket a and e¹ its position when the chain is pulled from the outside.
This is also
It will be seen from the position of the aperture c that the watch or other.
article can be readily raised by the wearer for examination or use.
facilitated by reason of the welt extending upwards.
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:
1. Making pockets in vests and other garments in such a way that the pocket
extends beyond the welt and combining with such pocket an aperture, beyond
the welt, extending from the inside of the pocket to the outside of the garment,
for the purposes set forth.
2. Making pockets in vests and other garments in such a way that the pocket
extends beyond an upwardly curved welt, and combining with such pocket an
aperture outside the welt, such aperture extending from the inside of the pocket
to the outside of the garment for the purposes set forth.
Dated this 7th day of June 1899.
Dated this 7111 dav of June 1899.
BROWNE & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant,
9, Warwick Court, Gray's Inn, London, W.C.