Improvements in Cases for Jewellery, Watches, and the like.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 9th Mar., 1891-Accepted. 18th Apr., 1891
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION
Improvements in Cases for Jewellery, Watches, and the like.
I, OTTO TIETZE, of Biel, in the Confederation of Switzerland, Manufacturer,
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 :-
My invention relates to a new article of manufacture consisting in a jewel-box
having arranged on the inside of the cover (or the bottom) appliances for grasping
the watch or jewels firmly to the same.
The many injuries that have happened to watches, jewels and the like by dropping
out of their box have led to the idea of providing some effectual means for sus-
pending articles of that kind in cases in such a manner, that while turning the same
when open the contents may not drop out.
The casing hereinafter fully described is provided with the mechanism forming
the object of my invention, whereupon articles of different sizes may be hung and
held firmly in position thereby. It is evident therefore that a great saving may take
place in this way, that for a great number of articles, the same box may be used,
while each case of the old pattern had to be adapted to the exact size and shape of
one article alone.
Having thus pointed out the advantage of my new invention I refer to the
accompanying drawing, in which
Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation of the box in an open state and of natural size.
Fig. is a plan of the same.
The lid of the box is provided in the inside with a rest a in shape of an arc and
at some distance above the same, there is a hook s, which may slide in and project
through the slot o from the visible covering of the lid. This hook may have the
shape of a fork, as will be seen in Fig. 2, and being provided with a spring tending
to draw the same nearer to the rest a, is mounted on a slide p, which corresponds in
shape with the guide ». The spring as well as the slide p are not visible to sight,
the hooks alone projecting through the covering of the lid.
Having to fix a watch into the box, I insert the same in this way, that the knob
of the watch is hung upon the fork and then push the same so far upward, that the
watch slips in between the forks and the rest a, in this position it is held firmly by
the elastic force of the spring f. The size of the watch may vary according to the
length of the slot o and the tension of the spring will permit. The larger the
watch, the greater the elastic force of the spring, therefore a watch of greater size
and weight will be more firmly held than a watch of smaller weight.
In a similar manner jewellery and other small articles may be bedded into the box.
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
In a box for watches, jewellery, and the like:
1. The combination of the slide (p), elastically held in place, the guide (r) and
the rest (a), substantially as described.
2. The combination of the guide ("), the slide (p), elastically held in place and
connected thereto the projecting fork-like hook (s), and the rest (a), substantially
as described.
3. The combination of the guide (r), the slide (p) elastically held in place by the
spring (f), and connected to the projecting fork-like hook (s) and the rest (a),
substantially as described.

page_text: 4. The combination of the guide (r), the slide (p) elastically held in place by the
spring (f) and connected to the projecting fork-like hook (s) and the rest (a),
having the shape of an arc, substantially as described.
Dated this 4th day of March 1891.
FREDERICK WALKER,
11, Furnival Street, Holborn, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.