An Improved Safety Appliance or Guard for Watches.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Sept., 1892-Accepted, 14th Sept., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Safety Appliance or Guard for Watches.
1, GEORG TREIBS of Oberstein in the Empire of Germany, 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:
The following invention has for its object an anchor with movable arms
intended for the carrying fastening and securing of watch chains in substitution for
the hooks rings et cetera hitherto in use and has generally the form of the ordinary
ship's anchor.
The safety appliance or as I term it the anchor consists of a hollow anchor
shank which is closed at one end by means of a pin c which carries the anchor
ring d. The pin c and the shank bare both bored through and are held firmly
connected by the cross-bar or anchor stock a by the latter passing transversely
through them both.
Fig. 1 is an external view of the anchor while Figs. 2 and 3 are part sectional
views thereof.
At the bottom part of the shank ba hinge pin or axis z for the arms is fixed
across said shank and inside the latter a spiral spring f is mounted and presses
see Figs. 2 and 3
against a movable pin 9 having a forked end thereto
the object of this pressure being to keep the anchor arms x extended as in
Figs. and 3.
This spring permits the pressing back of the arms a so as to lic close to the
anchor shank as in Fig. 2 while the normal tendency of this spring fand forked
ping is to keep said anchor arms extended as in Figs. 1 and 3.
The operation is as follows
:-
This anchor (watch guard or protector) is connected to the watch or watch chain
by means of the ring and is inserted into the pocket by pressing back the arms
into the position shown in Fig. 2 and on releasing the said arms from the pressure
of the fingers the said arms will be caused to be extended as before explained by
the pressure of the spring and thereby will give a firm hold against the interior
of the pocket and any attempt to withdraw same by means of a pull or jerk or
other strain on d will the more firmly force outward said arms into the material
forming the pocket and thereby prevent this anchor from being drawn out of the
or chain attached from being
pocket and consequently prevent the watch
withdrawn.
The user however can easily withdraw the watch by inserting the fingers and
pulling out the watch without disturbing the anchor or by pressing up the arms a
into the position Fig. 2 the anchor itself can be readily withdrawn from the pocket
when required.
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 :-
A watch fastener or protector consisting of an anchor with movable arms and
having a forked arm or pin arranged movably in a hollow shank one end of which
forked pin is pressed outwardly by a spiral spring and the other end is forked and

page_text: acts upon the arms of the anchor and keeps the same extended substantially in the
manner and for the purposes hereinbefore set forth.
Dated this 14th day of September 1892.
TONGUE & BIRKBECK,
34, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.