New or Improved Apparatus or Device for Securing Portemonnaies and the like in Pockets and other Receptacles.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Feb., 1898--Accepted, 16th Apr., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Apparatus or Device for Securing Portemonnaies
and the like in Pockets and other Receptacles.
I, RICHARD MEYER, of 172, Adolphstrasse, Altona-on-the Elbe, in the German
Empire, Merchant, 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 apparatus or device for securing portemonnaies and
the like in the pockets of garments and other receptacles, whereby they are pro-
tected against theft or loss without such device being in any way inconvenient.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings, Figure 1 is a back view of a portemonnaie
with my invention applied thereto, Figure 2 a side view, partly in section of same
and Figures 3 and 4 show a modified arrangement of the locking mechanism.
The apparatus or device consists essentially of two parts, namely of a carriage A
fixed to the inside of the pockets or to the lining thereof, and of a peculiar locking
mechanism attached to the back of the portemonnaie.
Two guide bars b are secured to the back of the portemonnaie and serve to guide
two flat bars or bolts c, which meet together at or about the middle of the length
of the portemonnaie, and are provided at their adjacent ends with notches forming
an oval opening e. At the end of each guide bar bis fixed a pin f on which is
pivotted a lever h jointed or hinged by a pin g to an extension of the bar or bolt c.
The pins g and the bars or bolts c are so acted on by springs d that the said bars
or bolts c normally meet together as shown in Figure 1. Immediately behind
the point of meeting of the bars or bolts is a spring k (Figure 2) which presses
outwards the plate fixed to its end, and which plate corresponds to the shape
of the head of the pin a fixed in the carriage A.
After the portemonnaie has been placed in the carriage A fixed in the pocket,
the pin a at the upper end of the said carriage A is pressed into the oval opening e
between the bars or bolts c, whereby the latter are pressed apart against the action
of the springs d so as to allow the head of the pin a to pass between them after
which the bars or bolts are forced back by the springs & behind the head of the
pin a, thereby locking the portemonnaie to the carriage A.
In order to release the portemonnaie both levers h must be pressed inwards with
the hand, whereby the bars or bolts c are drawn apart, so as to release the head
of the pin a, and the latter is then forced outwards by the spring k and plate k¹.
In order to make the portemonnaie still more secure, two plates C, Figures 3 and
4, placed one over the other, may be fixed on the bars b. Each of the discs C being
furnished with a stop lever m, so pivotted on a pin m³ that it can lock the pin a by
means of its notch o, and thereby produce a second means of locking the porte-
monnaie to the carriage A.
The release of this second locking device is effected by moving the levers m away
from one another as shown by dotted lines in Figure 3

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:-
First. An apparatus or device for securing portemonnaies and the like in
pockets and other receptacles, which consists of a carriage A fixed in the pocket or
other receptacle, and carrying a locking pin a, spring-actuated sliding bars or bolts c
carried by the portemonnaie, and levers h connected to the sliding bars or
bolts c, combined arranged and operating, substantially as described.
Second. In connection with an apparatus or device of the kind forming the
subject matter of the first claiming clause hereof, the locking device consisting
of two discs G placed one over the other, and each provided with a locking lever m
adapted to engage with the locking pin a on the bow A, substantially as described.
Deted the 19th 1.
1000
Per M. E. Beck,
R. MEYER,
115, Cannon Street, London, E.C., Agent.