Improvements in Safety Pins, Brooches, and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 10th Feb., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 9th Dec., 1896-Accepted, 9th Jan., 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Safety Pins, Brooches, and the like.
JOSEPH BOYD Adelaide House Kingstown Medical Doctor. I do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
An improved safety pin.
The various forms of safety pin now in use, are found to be weak, unreliable,
and liable to loosen..
When they are used for attaching jewellery-watches, diamond ornaments
badges &c.-it very often happens, that the latter are lost or become an easy prey
to the thief. A safety pin has long been wanted, which, will not become loose,
which will stand a violeut wrench or tug, and thus prevent articles being lost or
stolen, or prevent garments from loosening.
This improved safety pin fulfills these requirements.
The general features resemble the ordinary safety pin, but the special feature, is
the addition of a hook, which supports the middle of the penetrating portion of the
pin, thus preventing it from bending, at the place where strain occurs, and making
it impossible for the pin to unloose, without such violence, as would first be likely
to break the wire. Now this hook is faced in an opposite direction, to the hook or
catch, which supports the point of the pin, so the pin cannot by any chance become
loose, unless it is detached seperately from each hook.
The hook may be formed on the upper or non-penetrating portion of safety-pin,
by bending down the wire at right angles about its centre, and the loop thus
formed is tightened and bent to the proper hook required. The hook may also be
formed of a seperate piece of wire, and soldered or tightened to the middle of
non penetrating portion of safety-pin.
It is obvious the same invention or a slight modification can be used for attaching
brooches, or any ornament attached by a pin and catch, thus preventing valuable
articles from being lost, and making them quite secure. To attach the pin-the
penetrating portion is made to dip twice into the material to which it is to be
attached, exposing some of the centre portion of the pin, and thus enabling the
hook to be readily passed round it. The end of the pin is then attached in the
usual way to the end hook, which later however is faced in an opposite direction
to the hook just described.
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Safety Pins, Brooches, and the like.
I, JOSEPH BOYD, of Adelaide House, Kingstown, County Dublin, Ireland,
Medical Doctor, 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:-
The various forms of safety pins now in use, are all found to be unreliable, weak,
and liable to loosen.
When they are used for attaching jewellry, watches, diamond ornaments,
badges &c., it frequently happens that such articles are lost, or become an easy
prey to the thief.

page_text: A safety pin has long been wanted which will not become loose, and which will
resist a violent wrench or tug, and thus prevent articles being lost, or stolen, and
also prevent garments from loosening.
My improved safety pin as presently described fulfils these requirements.
The general features resemble the ordinary safety pin, but the special feature,
is the use of an additional hook which supports the middle of the penetrating
portion or shank of the pin, thus preventing it (the shauk) bending when strain
occurs, and rendering it impossible for the pin to unloose, without such violence as
would first be likely to break the wire.
This additional hook may be turned in an opposite direction to the hook which
supports the point of the shank, so that the article cannot by any chance, or
accident, become loose.
The additional hook may be formed solidly on the upper or non penetrating
portion of the device, by bending down the wire at right angles, or it may be
formed by a separate piece of wire, soldered or clipped on the said non penetrating
portion.
The nature and application of my said invention will be more readily understood
on reference to the accompanying drawings in which,
Fig. 1 is an elevation of my improved safety pin complete, shewing the two
hooks a, and b, turned in the same direction.
Fig. 2 is a similar view shewing the hooks reversed, and
Fig. 3 shews its application as a means for protecting watches.
In Figs. 1, and 2, b is the additional hook which as already stated may be
formed of the solid wire constituting the general pin, or may be detachable, and
may be turned in the same direction as the original book, or reversed according to
requirements-the reversed position affording a stronger grip when in use.
The said book may be formed of a simple bend as shewn in Fig. 1 or may
be provided with one or more twists as shewn in Figs. 2 and 3 for additional
strength.
In using my improved safety pin, the penetrating portion, or shank is dipped
twice in the material to which it is to be applied taking care to expose a portion of
the centre of same on to which the additional hook is looped while the end hook a
engages the free end of the sbank.
It is obvious my invention, or a slight modification thereof may be readily used
for attaching scarf-pins, brooches, or such like ornaments.
In Fig. 3, its use as a watch protector is illustrated.
Here the pin is affixed to the inner shell of the pocket of an ordinary vest with
the coiled end uppermost, through which is passed the watch chain or guard as
shewn.
By this arrangement any attempt to drag the chain or guard is arrested by the
presence of the pin, while the ordinary.use of the watch is not interfered with.
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 1
claim is :-
First. In the construction of safety pins, the use and application of the additiona
hook 6 arranged and operating in the manner and for the purpose substantially as
.herein specified.
Second. The use and application of a safety pin provided with and additiona
hook 6 in combination with the ordinary hook a, in the manner and for the purpose
substantially as herein described and set forth.
Dated this 7th day of December 1896.
J. K. FAHIE & SON,
9 Westland Row, Dublin, Agents for Applicant.