A Safety Clip or Carrier for Watches and other Articles of a Similar Kind Kept or Worn in or on Garments.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 30th July, 1897--Accepted, 18th Sept., 1897
COMPUDIM DI MULTICATION.
A Safety Clip or Carrier for Watches and other Articles of a Similar
Kind Kept or Worn in or on Garments.
I, AUGUST KIEHINLE, Jeweller, of Pforzheim, in the Empire of Germany, 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, designed to prevent watches and other
articles of a similar kind such as compasses, pedometers and the like, kept or worn
in or upon garments, from, being lost or stolen. For this purpose a kind of clip
is employed, one part of which is constructed so as to allow of its being connected
with the watch or like article, whilst the other part is designed to overlap the
edge of the respective garment or auxiliary part thereof (a pocket, belt etc.) and
to secure itself thereon. This second part is preferably made in ornamental shape,
its dimensions being so chosen as to conceal the rearward or inner part, as the
case may be, so that it is not noticeable from outside that a watch or the like is
connected to the partly exposed fastening medium.
In the accompanying drawing several constructional forms of a safety carrier
or clip of this kind are represented.
According to the arrangement shown in Figs. 1 to 3 this carrier consists of the
shield shape front plate 6 to the rear of which the part a for receiving a watch to
be suspended therefrom is connected. Between a and b the leaf spring c is
inserted or otherwise fastened by which the plate b is held in place in the open
position (Figs. 1 and 2) as well as in the closed (Fig. 3). In this constructional
form the plate b is provided at its bottom with a thorn shaped projection which
may however be omitted as shown in Fig. 4; it is likewise not absolutely
necessary that a spring he provided, which case is represented in the construc-
tional example Fig. 5. It is however preferable that the safety carrier be
furnished with a spring, which may receive the shape of a spiral spring, if
desired, as illustrated in Figs. 6 and 7, where the two projecting ends of the spiral
spring cl are distinctly shown. According to one of these constructional forms
(Fig. 6) the plate is in like manner as in Fig. 5 provided with a thorn shaped
projection, whilst in the other constructional example (Fig. 7) a plate of the kind
shown in Fig. 4 is arranged.
Instead of receiving, but one thorn & the plate b may be provided with several.
The part a of this safety carrier may if so desired be directly connected with
the respective article to be guarded or worn, or form an integral part of such
article as is exemplified in Figs. 8, 9 and 10 with regard to a watch.
In all cases, before the respective article is inserted into or secured to the
device and before its being removed therefrom, the part 6 is 'brought into the
horizontal opening position (Fig. 3) whereas during the time in which the article
rests in the pocket (belt etc.) the plate occupies the position represented in the
other figures, that is to say overlaps the edge of the pocket (belt or the like)
outwardly and simultaneously secures the watch or the like in its place.

page_text: The safety carrier may also be so constructed that the portion b is located in the
interior of the pocket (belt or the like) whilst the watch or the like is carried so
as to be visible outside.
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. A safety carrier or fastening medium for watches and other like articles of
use kept or worn in or on garments, consisting of two hinged or pivotally connected
parts one of which is constructed so as to be connected with the respective article
to be worn, whilst the other is designed so as to overlap the edge of the garment
or other part thereof serving to receive the article to be kept or worn, in such a
manner that the safety carrier or clip when in its closing position secures itself
to the garment or auxiliary part thereof, and thus holds the respective article
connected therewith in its place.
Dated this 30th day of July 1897
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40 Chancery Lane London W.C., Agents.