Safety Grip for Tie or scari Fins, Brooches, and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Safety Grip for Tie or scari Fins, Brooches, and the like.
WILLIAM JOHN FOOT, Jeweller, 16, Camden Passage, Upper Street, Islington,
N. London, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in and connected with fastenings for
tic or scarf pins, brooches and the like and has for its object to provide a simple
and efficient means of holding the pin or brooch in position and to prevent its
removal without the knowledge of the wearer.
According to my invention I form a small metal box or shell of any desired
shape or pattern having a small hole in the centre of top and bottom in the box
or shell I press a piece of prepared indiarubber or other suitable material in
which the point of scarf pin or brooch is inserted after being placed in position
desired by the wearer.
The object of the rubber disc is to form an easy recipticle for any ordinary
scarf or brooch pin without the possibility of doing the slightest harm or injury
to the pin or brooch and at the same time to have sufficient grip to prevent it
from falling out or being removed without the knowledge of the wearer.
Dated this 22nd day of August 1898.
WILLIAM JOHN FOOT.
Safety Grip for Tie or Scarf Fins, Brooches, and the like.
I, WILLIAM JOHN Foor, of 16, Camden Passage, Upper Street, Islington, in
the County of Middlesex, 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:·
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This invention relates to improvements in and connected with fastenings for
tie or scarf pins, brooches and the like, and has for its object to provide a simple
and efficient means of holding the pin in position and to prevent its removal with-
out the knowledge of the wearer.
According to my invention I form a small metal box or shell of any desired
shape or pattern having a small hole in the centre of top and bottom. In the
box or shell I press a piece of prepared indiarubber, celluloid or other suitable
material in which the point of scarf pin or brooch is inserted, after being placed
in position desired by the wearer.
It will be seen that my invention consists essentially of an indiarubber, cellu-
loid or other similar pad or cushion in the centre of which the point of the pin

page_text: can be inserted and the pad pushed a short distance up from the point. The
metal box shell or casing which eucloses the rubber pad serves to press the
latter more firmly on the pin, and also enables a neat appearance of the article
to be secured.
In order that my invention may be fully understood and ascertained I append
drawings in which;-
Fig. 1 is a front view of a pin shewing the pad or grip in position.
Fig. 2 is a section of the pad or grip shewing the rubber enclosed by the metal
shell.
Fig. 3 is a face view of same.
In Fig. 1, the pin is indicated by the letter X, and the pad or cushion by the
letter A. The point of the pin has been inserted in the centre of the pad or
cushion and this has been thrust upon it as far as the position shewn.
The construction of the pad or cushion is shewn in Figs. 2, and 3, which are
exaggerated in size for the purpose of clearly illustrating the parts. The india-
rubber, celluloid or other pad or cushion is indicated by the letter a, and is
encased by two metallic discs or plates a¹ and a², the edges of which are so shaped
as to be capable of interlocking and forming a joint; thus a metal box, shell or
casing is formed which encloses and covers the rubber or other pad or cushion a,
except at the centres of the discs both of which are perforated at a³ thus allowing
the scarf pin to be passed through the rubber centre.
In some cases I dispense with the metal casing and form the pad or cushion
of some material which is capable of being treated in such manner that its peri-
phery is hard and rigid while the centre is softened to such an extent that the
pin can be easily passed through it.
The function of either the hardened rim or the metal casing is the same, it
serving to press the centre softer part against the pin.
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. A safety grip for tie or scarf pins which consists of a rigid edge or casing,
surrounding or enclosing a centre of softer material, such as indiarubber, cellu-
loid, or the like, through which the pin can be passed, substantially as shewn
and described.
2. A safety grip for tie or scarf pins consisting essentially of a metallic or other
rigid casing having a perforated centre and an interior part of indiarubber or
the like, through which the pin can be passed, substantially as shewn and described.
3. A safety grip for tie or scarf pins substantially as shewn and described with
reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 20th day of Now 1800
WILLIAM J. MUNDEN.
75, Chancery Lane, Agent for the Applicant.