improved safety Attachment for marrings;
Year: 1885

page_text: improved safety Attachment for marrings; 'Drovones, Dearr
Spectacles, Hair Ornaments, and like Articles.
We JOSEPH SHELDON WHITTEN, 21 Spencer Street, Birmingham Jeweller and
HENRY GRIFFIN PLANT, Bristol Road Fentham Road, Erdington, Commercial
Traveller do hereby declare the nature of our said invention for IMPROVED
SAFETY ATTACHMENT FOR EARRINGS, BROOCHES, SCARF PINS HAIR ORNAMENTS
AND LIKE ARTICLES, to be as follows:-.
Our invention consists of a simple arrangement for preventing the loss of
earrings, brooches scarfpins, spectacles, and like articles when in use.
The said attachment consists of a circular disc of India-rubber wood, cork,
cardboard, or any similar substance enclosed in a case or shell of metal, having
a hole each side to allow a pin to be pushed through the said shell or case.
The attachment is used by pushing it on the ear-wire, scarf-pin or brooch tongue
and may be applied to any kind of hair or other dress ornament having a wire or
pin to attach them to the wearer.
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In using the attachment for Spectacles we prefer mounting the shell or case
containing the India-rubber &c on a wire the said attachment is pushed on the
wings of the spectacles, the said wire fitting round the back of the ear of the
wearer which prevents the spectacles falling off.

page_text: Spectacles, Hair Ornaments, and like Articles.
We JOSEPH SHELDON WHITTEN of 21 Spencer Street, Birmingham Jeweller and
HENRY GRIFFIN PLANT, Bristol Road Erdington, Commercial Traveller do hereby
declare the nature of our invention for AN IMPROVED SAFETY ATTACHMENT FOR
EARRINGS, BROOCHES, SCARF-PINS HAIR ORNAMENTS AND LIKE ARTICLES and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and
ascertained in and by the following statement:-
Our Invention has for its object the prevention from loss, when in use, of
Earrings, Brooches, Scarf-pins, Spectacles, Hair Ornaments, and like articles of
dress having a wire, wing, pin or tongue to attach them to the person or a garment
of the wearer; and it consists of a simple attachment to be applied to the said
wire, wing, pin or tongue of such articles.
:
Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawing show respectively a side view and
a section of our safety attachment applied to the wire, wing, pin or tongue of one
of the said articles.
Figures 3 and 4 show respectively a side view and a section of the said safety
attachment when it is desired to apply it to the end only of the wire, wing, pin or
tongue.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in Figures 1, 2, 3 and 4.
a is a case or shell, preferably of metal; b is the wire, wing, pin or tongue of the
article to which the attachment is applied; c is a body of india rubber, wood, cork,
cardboard or similar substance enclosed within the said case or shell a. In using
the attachment the wire, wing, pin or tongue b is passed through the body c
(holes d, d² being made in the case or shell a for that purpose), and the friction,
between the surfaces in contact of the body c and the pin b, prevents the attach-
ment from being moved from the position in which it has been placed without the
exercise of a slight force; and the article to which the said attachment is applied is
thereby rendered secure from loss.
In applying our Invention to Spectacles we prefer to mount the shell or case
upon a wire in such a manner, that, when the safety attachment is applied to each
of the wings of a pair of spectacles, the said wire shall pass behind an ear of the
wearer and secure the spectacles in position.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is
The improved safety attachment to be applied to Earrings, Brooches, Scarf-pins,
Spectacles, Hair Ornaments and like articles of dress having a wire, wing, pin, or

page_text: tongue to attach them to the person or a garment of the wearer herein before
described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing; that is to say, an attach-
ment for the purpose described consisting essentially of a body of india-rubber,
wood, cork, cardboard or similar substance enclosed within a case or shell and
applied to the wire, wing, pin or tongue of such articles for the purpose and
substantially as described and illustrated.