Improvements in Spring Pins applicable to or as Safety Pins, Brooches, and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Oct., 1897
Complete Specification Left, 8th Nov., 1897--Accepted, 11th Dec., 1897
PROVISIONAL DIECIFICATION.
Improvements in Spring Pins applicable to or as Safety Pins,
Brooches, and the like.
I, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS WILSHERE, of 15 Booth Street, Piccadilly, Manchester,
in the County of Lancaster, Manufacturers' Agent, do hereby declare the nature
of this invention to be as follows;
This invention relates to spring pins known as safety pins, such as are employed
for securing articles of dress as blouses.
The object of this invention is to combine with a safety pin as ordinarily con-
structed, an ornamentation that will form a part of and conceal the pin when
in use so that said pin will have the appearance of a brooch or a buckle, or the like,
and may be used either as a safety pin or as a brooch.
In the accompanying drawings two views of a spring pin such as herein before
named are shown, Fig. 1 representing the pin as fastened and Fig. 2 the same
pin is shown unfastened; the design of the ornamentation to which reference has
been made and as hereinafter described is not confined however to that which is
shown on the drawing.
In this invention I attach to the front or unpointed portion 6 of any ordinary
safety nursery car blouse pin as a either a piece of open metallic work as c or other
preferred ornamentation such as is employed in brooches and the like. If an open
metallic or other attachment is employed I insert therein a piece of leather, cloth,
or other material as d of any colour that may be preferred.
In applying my invention the pointed portione of the pin is inserted in the
article and fastened in the ordinary manner; When the pin is fastened the
ornamentation that is attached to the front or unpointed portion of said pin
effectually conceals the pin.
By these means ornament and not disfigurement is the result, and when em-
ployed as a brooch, a more secure fastening is obtained than by the ordinary form
of fastening.
THOMAS PRESCOTT
53 Arcade Chambers, St. Mary's Gate, Manchester.
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Spring Pins applicable to or as Safety Pins,
Brooches, and the like.
I, FREDERICK AUGUSTUS WILSHERE, of 15 Booth Street, Piccadilly, Manchester,
in the County of Lancaster Manufacturer's Agent do hereby declare the nature
of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particu-
larly described and ascertained in and by the following statement; -
This invention relates to spring Pins known as safety pins, such as are employed
for securing articles of dress as blouses: The object of this invention is to combine
with a safety pin as ordinarily constructed an ornamentation that will form a part
of, and conceal the pin when in use and cause the ornament to fit closer to the

page_text: garment, so that said pin will have the appearance of a buckle or
like, and may be used either as a safety pin or as a brooch.
brooch, or the
I atthin this object by the means hereinafter described reference being made
to the accompanying sheet of drawings in which Fig. 1, shows one side, and Fig. 2
the reverse or flat side of an ordinary safety pin. Figs. 3 and 4 represent the same
pin with a piece of open metallic work attached; Fig. 5 shows the combination
therewith of an insertion of leather, cloth, or other material, the pin being closed;
Fig. 6 shows the same as Fig. 5 but with the pin open. Fig. 7 illustrates an alterna-
tive design. Fig. 8 shows a safety pin with ornamentation fitted on the edge of
the pin in the manner hitherto employed. In these views similar letters refer to
similar parts.
In safety pins that are at present employed for securing articles of dress, the
frame of the pin is exposed to view and detracts from the neat appearance of the
attire Attempts have been made to counteract this defect by an ornamentation
such as is represented by Fig. 8 placed on the edge of the pin, but the pin remains
in view, and when the pin lies flat against the apparel the ornament falls forward
more or less, and the whole of the pin is exposed to view; the ordinary form of
brooch is also inapplicable.
In this invention I attach to the flat side of the front or unpointed portion b
or that side shown in Fig. 2 which is on the reverse side to the hook of any ordinary
form of nursery or blouse safety pin as Figs. 1 and 2, either a piece of open
metallic work as c shown in Fig. 3, or in combination therewith an insertion as d
of leather, cloth, cr other material, of my preferred colour and design in the
manner shown in Figs. 5 and 7. Any other preferred ornamental design may in
like manner be affixed to the flat side shown in Fig. 2 of the front or unpointed
portion of an ordinary form of safety pin.
In applying my invention, the pointed portion e of the pin is inserted in the
article and fastened in the ordinary manner. When the pin is fastened the
ornamentiem that is attached to the front or unpointed portion of said pin fits
close to the garment and the pin is effectually concealed. By these means,
ornament and not disfigurement is the result.
Said pin may be employed as a brooch, a more secure and closer fitting fastening
being obtained than by the ordinary form of fastening.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
1st. The combination with a nursery or blouse safety pin of a metallic or other
ornament affixed as shown in Figs. 3 and 4 on the accompanying drawing to the
flat side as Fig. 2 of the front or unpointed portion of said pin, or that side which
is on the reverse side to the hook, thereby completely concealing said pin and
causing the ornament to fit. close to the garment, but leaving the pointed partion
free for insertion in the material or article to be secured, in the manner substan-
tially as and for the purpose herein before described.
2nd. The combination with a nursery or blouse safety pin to which an open
metallic ornament is affixed on the flat side of the front or unpointed portion of
said pin or that side which is on the reverse side to the hook, of an insertion of
leather, cloth or other material of any preferred design or pattern, as shown in
Figs. 5 and 7 substantially as and for the purpose herein before described.
Dated this 6th day of November 1897
THOMAS PRESCOTT,
53 Arcade Chambers, St Mary's Gate Manchester
Agent for the Applicant