Improved Safety Attachment for Preventing the Withdrawal of Watches, Purses, or other Articles from the Pocket.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Sept., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 8th June, 1897-Accepted, 24th July, 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECI
ATION.
Improved Safety Attachment for Preventing the Withdrawal of
Watches, Purses, or other Articles from the Pocket.
I ROBERT GRIMMER of 36 Lynn Road Wisbech, in the County of Cambridge, Hay
and Straw Merchant do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This Invention is to protect watch, purse or other articles against loss by thieves;
also against loss or damage when stooping, it being impossible for the article to be
removed from the pocket without wearers knowledge.
The invention consists of a suitably shaped flap made of light woven wire,
cardboard, or other material hinged and fixed inside the pocket. A lever rivetted to
the flap with an aperture therein to pass the watch chain through. The lever being
fitted with ajustable coil spring with knob on small wheel on the end next the body
of wearer. To remove the watch or other article from the pocket, the wearer places
the finger and thumb under the flap and by raising it the garment is extended and
the lever pressed against the body of the wearer and when the flap is in a vertical
position it will remain there to enable the wearer to remove the article should an
attempt be made to remove the article by the chain or other means the lever the
wearer to remove the article.
Should an attempt be made to remove the article by the chain or other means the
lever is thereby pressed against the body of the wearer giving him timely warning of
the attempted theft and the whole arrangement must be torn away to get possession
of the article.
Improved Safety Attachment for Preventing the Withdrawal of
Watches, Purses, or other Articles from the Pocket.
I ROBERT GRIMMER of 36, Lynn Road, Wisbech, in the County of Cambridge, Hay
and Straw Merchant, 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 relates to a device for attachment within a waistcoat or other
pocket for the purpose of preventing the theft of a watch or other article from
said pocket, a further object being to prevent a watch or the like accidentally

page_text: dropping from the pocket of a garment when the wearer is in a stooping or
similar position, the peculiar construction of the device rendering it impossible
for a watch or the like to leave the pocket without the wearer's knowledge.
And in order that this my said invention may be the more readily understood and
carried into practical effect, reference is hereby made to the accompanying sheet of
illustrative drawings, wherein :-
Fig. 1 is a side elevational view of the attachment shewn closed, the position it
assumes when in operation being shewn by dotted lines, and
Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the attachment in actual use.
Referring to the drawing, in which like letters of reference indicate corresponding
parts throughout, a is a plate of any suitable material, whether metal or otherwise,
to which is hinged at a a flap b, which has fixed to, or formed integral with
same, a depending lever c, having a knob c¹ (or it may conveniently be a small
wheel) at its free end.
If desirable this lever may be formed in two parts to slide telescopically one
within the other and a suitable coil spring may be interposed between such parts.
An aperture d is provided in the flap b, (a corresponding opening also being
formed in the rear part of the lever c when the latter is formed separate from
the said flap a and fixed thereto) through which aperture d the watch chain e
is passed.
In operation the plate a is secured to the back of the waistcoat or other pocket f
(Fig. 2) by means of the fasteners g, which consist of metal spikes. These said
fasteners are forced through the back of the pocket and then bent over with the aid of
pliers or the like so as to securely hold the plate a against the material composing the
back of the pocket, an aperture being formed through the back of the latter to enable
the lever c to be partially inserted through same. The watch h is placed in the
pocket with the chain h¹ passing through the aperture d in the flap b, so that when
an effort is made to extract such watch h, the pull upon the chain hi will cause the
flap b to be raised to a horizontal position thereby also bringing the lever c to a
corresponding position and, by the pressure thus brought to bear by the said lever,
upon the body of the wearer, apprising the latter of the attempt that is being made to
extract the watch.
When the wearer wishes to remove the watch from the pocket, he (or she) places
the finger and thumb beneath the flap b and raises same, which action distends the
pocket and allows the watch to be readily removed therefrom.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said Invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I claim
is:-
1. The improved safety attachment for preventing the withdrawal of a watch,
purse, or the like from a pocket, substantially as described and shewn.
2. In a device for preventing the loss by theft or otherwise of a watch or the like
from the pocket, the attaching plate having a flap hinged thereto provided with a
lever and an aperture, operating substantially as specified and illustrated.
Dated this 7th day of June, 1897.
HUGHES, SON & CO.,
38, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.