Improvements in Safety Fastenings for Scarf Pins, Ear Studs, Hair Ornaments, or other like Articles of Jewellery, to Protect them from being. Stolen whilst in Wear.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 5th Oct., 1892
Complete Specification Left, 13th July, 1893-Accepted, 19th Aug., 1893
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Safety Fastenings for Scarf Pins, Ear Studs, Hair
Ornaments, or other like Articles of Jewellery, to Protect them
from being. Stolen whilst in Wear.
I, ALFRED APPLEBY of 124, Vyse Street, Birmingham in the County of
Warwick, Diamond Mounter do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be
as follows:-
This invention has for its object a safety fastening for scarf pins, ear studs, hair
ornaments, or other like articles of jewellery, to protect them from being stolen
whilst in wear.
In carrying out my invention, as applied to scarf pins, I form my fastening of a
sleeve adapted to receive the pin, two springy arms or wings, and two small pro-
jecting tongues adapted to act as stops which, while enabling the device to be
slipped on to the pin, prevent it being slipped off, until the tongues are released
from their grip of the pin. The device may be formed from one piece of metal
and bent to the required shape, and the tongues formed in the wings aforesaid.
The mode of action is as follows:-
When the pin is in place in the scarf, the fastening device is slipped on to the
end which projects from the material. The tongues which touch the pin and lie
diagonally thereto, present no obstacle to the device being slipped on, but if any
attempt be made to pull the pin out of the scarf, these diagonal tongues grip the
pin or bind thereon, rendering any attempt to remove the pin futile."
remove the fastening from the pin, the wings are compressed, this having the effect
of withdrawing the tongues froin engagement with the pin.
Dated this 4th day of October 1892.
In order to
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of 6, Lord Street, Liverpool, Patent Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Safety Fastenings for Scarf Pins, Ear Studs, Hair
Ornaments, or other like Articles of Jewellery, to Protect them
from being Stolen whilst in Wear.
I ALFRED APPLEBY of 124 Vyse Street Birmingham in the County of
Warwick, Diamond Mounter 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 has for its object a safety fastening for scarf pins, ear studs, hair
ornaments and other like articles of jewellery to protect them from being stolen or
working out while in use.
The invention is best set forth by aid of the accompanying drawings in
which
Fig. 1 is a front view of a scarf with pin and my apparatus attached thereto.
Fig. 2 a back view of same.
Fig. 3 an elevation of the shank of the pin and safety appliance attached, the
latter in section and
Fig. 4 an elevation of the appliance.
Describing the invention first in relation to scarf pins and the drawings hereunto
annexed, I form my fastening of a sleeve A adapted to receive the pin, two springy
arms or wings B B, and two small projecting tongues CC adapted to act as stops
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page_text: which while enabling the device to be slipped on to the pin prevents it being slipped
off until the tongues are released from their grip of the pin which is done by
pressing on the wings.
The device may be formed from one piece of metal and bent and cut to the
required shape, the tongues being formed in the wings.
The mode of action is as follows:-
When the pin is in place in the scarf or after it has been put through the scarf
and is projecting out at the back, the device set forth in Fig. 4 is slipped on to the
projecting end, the tongues C each touch the pin and lie at an acute angle thereto
and present no obstacle to the device being slipped on, but if any attempt be made
to pull the pin out of the scarf and consequently out of its protecting device, the
wings are forced against the scarf straightening them out and thus bring a strain on
the tongues tending to force these into the pin and grip it fast. The fastening can
however be removed from the pin without difficulty by pressing the ends of the two
wings towards each other. This causes the wings and consequently the tongues to
stand at a more acute angle with the pin, and consequently the tongues are forced
away from the pin and allow the pin to be freely withdrawn.
Fig. 5 illustrates a modified form in which the safety fastening may be made.
As will be seen, in this variety of fastening, the two spring arms or wings BB
have small openings punched out in their ends, which, when the arms or wings BB
are bent round, encircle the sleeve A, CC are the two small projecting tongues
adapted to act as stops.
It is obvious that if desirable the point of the pin can be again pressed through
the scarf below the fastening. This appliance can be placed on the tongue of a
brooch or on any pin which is passed through an article.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The improvement in safety fastenings for scarf pins and other articles of
jewellery which consists in an arrangement of one or more blades or tongues held at
an acute angle with the pin in such manner that anyone drawing the pin out from the
article in which it is pinned will bring the tongue or an adjunct thereof against
the article to be pinned, straightening out the said tongue or otherwise changing
the angle of the tongue so as to cause it to grip the pin.
2. The arrangement of a gripping device placed on the end of the pin after it
has passed through the material, so arranged that as pressure comes on the front
of the gripping device it shall cause the device to grip the pin hard and thus
prevent its withdrawal.
3. The arrangement of safety device for the pins of articles of jewellery
substantially as herein described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 5th day of July 1893.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Of Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, and London, Patent Agents.