Improvements in Brooches, Safety-pins, and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Oct., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 16th July, 1896-Accepted, 3rd Oct., 1896
Improvements in Brooches, Safety-pins, and the like.
I, JOHN HENRY WHENMAN, of 20 Myddelton Street, Clerkenwell, in the
County of London, Manufacturing Jeweller, do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
"
This invention relates to brooches, safety-pins and the like, and is intended to
facilitate the repairing of broken pins and also to prevent the breaking of
the pins.
In a safety-pin as ordinarily constructed the wire of which it is made is coiled
round to form the spring, and if this formation be adopted in a brooch, and the
pin or spring breaks the whole brooch is damaged, or perhaps irretrievably spoiled,
inore especially in the case of the little wire brooches bearing an initial, which are
commonly used as presents for bridesmaids.
In carrying out my present invention instead of employing the coil of wire as
hitherto, I form the brooch or pin in two distinct pieces, the one which carries the
point protector, which I will call the body, being formed with a circular tube
gapped to receive the pin or tongue the end of which is formed into a circle or
ring, so that the latter can work within the former as upon a pivot forming the
centre of the circle, all the advantages of the ordinary pin being thus obtained
without their drawbacks. The segmental recess may be so formed that the pin
cannot quite reach the point protector and has to be sprung a slight distance so as
to make it hold firmly in the protector or shield, and the extent to which the pin
can open may be controlled in a similar manner.
I may make a double point protector having a shield or guard at each side of
the pin so that to which ever side the pin may be pressed it would still find a
protector ready for it.
Modifications in detail may be made without departing from the spirit of this
invention.
D: 20th dow of October 1805
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Brooches, Safety-pins, and the like.
JOHN HENRY WHENMAN 20 Myddelton Street Clerkenwell, London E.C.
Manufacturing Jeweller 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:-
That this invention consists of improvements in safety pins & brooches,
manufactured in gold silver or metal.
The patent is contained in the joint, insomuch as the tongue or pin A is bent
into a perfect circle at one end, which is then introduced through an aperture into
a circular tube B attached to the end of what may be called the body of the safety
pin or brooch C.

page_text: The circular bent end of tongue or pin is then soldered, at the place of union D.
Therefore, the circular end of tongue or pin a. partially revolves within the circular
tube b, & the tongue opens as far as the aperture in will permit.
Having now particularly described & ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, & in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is.
1. The tongue will open freely without
rendering it almost unbreakable.
upon the wire, thereby
any strain
2. The tongue or pin being soldered & revolving within a soldered tube, it is
absolutely impossible for the tongue or pin to become detached.
3. In cases of breakage the tongue or pin can be readily & inexpensively
repaired or replaced, whereas an ordinary safety pin when broken cannot be
repaired so as to be serviceable. This is an important feature where jewels &
other ornaments are mounted on safety pins or brooches.
Dated this Sixteenth day of July 1896.
JOHN HENRY WHENMAN.