Improvements in Safety Pins, Brooches, and the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Apr.,
1897
Complete Specification Left, 8th Apr.. 1897-Accepted, 29th May, 1897
Improvements in Safety Pins, Brooches, and the like.
I, WILLIAM GREGORY ATTREE, of Picardy House, Belvedere, in the County
of Kent, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be us
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in safety pins, brooches and the like, and
is designed to provide a form of pin or brooch which shall be more suitable for the
attachment of articles, such as bowe, favours, ornaments or flowers, to the garment
of the wearer, than are the safety pins or brooches at present in use.
The principal feature of the said invention consists in forming or providing the
safety pin or brooch with a pair of points, tongues, or pins, one of which
oau be inserted in the bow, favour or other article before the same is applied to
the garment, while the other serves for the actual attachment to the garment.
My improved safety pins, brooches or the like thus obviate the difficulty that
exists with such devices as at presont constructed owing to the article to be
attached to the garment having to be held thereon with one hand while the pin is
passed through it and the garment with the other. The invention can morcover be
advantageously applied to skirt fasteners and fastoners for use in underclothing, as
well as to curtain hooks.
Que construction of safety piu according to this invention is formed from a
single piece of wire, and comprises a central portion or bar, at each end of which
the wire is twisted to form a loop or guard, such as usual in safety pins, and a
spring from which one of the two points oxtonds, such points being parallel or
practically so with the central portion or bar. The loop or guard and the spring
are situated on opposite sides of the central bar and the arrangement at one end of
the safety pin is the reverse of that at the other, the guards being situated on
opposite sides and at opposite ends thereof, while the points are also oppositoly
directed the oue to the other.
A similar arrangement to the foregoing may be applied to a brooch, in which
case the central bar may be secured to the back of the body of the brooch.
Obviously however the two points or pina may if desired be formed of separate
pieces of motal and be secured to the brocch in any convenient manner.
Dated this 1st day of April 1897.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.
I, WILLIAM GREGORY, ATTREE, of Picardy House, Belvedere, in the County
of Kent, Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what
manuer the same is to be performed, be particularly described and ascertained
in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to improvements in safety pins, brooches and the like, its
| object being to provide a device of this kind which shall be specially suitable for

page_text: the attachment of such articles as bows, favours, ornaments, or flowers, to the
garment of the wearer.
The principal feature of the invention consists in forming or providing the said
device with two independent points, tongues or pins, one of which can be inserted
in the bow, favour or other article that is to be applied to the garment, while the
other serves for the actual attachment of tho device to the garment.
My improved safety pine, brooches or the like thus obviate the difficulty that
exists with such devices as at present constructed, owing to the article to be
attached to the garment having to be held thereon with one hand, while the pin is
passed through it and the garment with the other.
And in order that my invention may be clearly understood and readily carried
into effect I will proceed to describe the same by aid of the accompanying drawings
in which :-
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Figures 1 and 2 are views showing the opposite sides of one form of safety pin
constructed according to this invention.
Figure 3 is an edge view thereof, and
Figures 4 and 5 are vertical sections on the line of Figure 1 looking
respectively to the right and the loft of the said figure.
Figures 6 and 7 are rear views of two different arrangements of brooch made in
accordance with my invention.
Referring more particularly to Figures 1 to 5 the safety pin shown therein is
formed from a single piece of wire, a al being the two points thereof, which extend
in opposite directions. b is a central portion or har at the ends of which the
wire is bent to form loops or guards o o such as are usual in safety pins, and
also twisted to form coiled springs d from each of which one of the points b
extends towards the loop or guard at the opposite end of the safety pin. It
will be seen that the loops or guards and the corresponding springs dor d'
as the case may be, are situated on opposite sides of the central bar, and the
relative arrangement of the guard and spring at one end of the safety pin is
the reverse of that at the other end.
The two points a, a, being entirely independent of one another, permit of the
safety pin or device being separately attached to each of the articles which are
to be connected together and thus obviate the difficulty before referred to, of
having to hold both the articles while securing them together.
Referring now to the application of my invention to a brooch, the fastening
device of the latter may as shown in Figure 6 be of similar construction to the
safety pin before described, the central bar b of the safety pin being secured to the
back of the brooch e by solder or otherwise.
In this figure the various letters of reference indicate parts corresponding to those
in the preceding figures.
In the arrangement shown in Figure 7 however the brooch is provided with two
pins a a', formed of soparate pieces of metal. These pins are similar to ordinary
brooch pins and cach is secured to the brooch in the ordinary manner. In the
construction shown they are arranged to point in opposite directions after the
manner of the corresponding parts in the safety pin above described. The said
pins may however be arranged to point in the same direction if desired. Obviously
skirt fasteners and fasteners for use in underclothing, as well as curtain hooks, may
be constructed with a pair of independent points or pins aftor the manner
described, thus offering considerable advantages over such devices as ordinarily
constructed.
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 I
claim is :-
1. A safety pin, broooh or the like having two independent points, tongues or
pins, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

page_text: tongues or pins arranged on opposite sides of a central portion or bar, substantially
as described.
3. My improvements in safety pins, brooches and the like, substantially as
hereinbefore described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 8th day of April 1897.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
46 Southampton Buildings, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.