AN IMPROVED APPARATUS, ATTACHMENT, OR FASTENING FOR PROTECTING WATCHES, PURSES, AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES FROM BEING STOLEN FROM THE PERSON
Year: 1877

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by James Leftwich Warner at the Office
of the Commissioners of Patents on the 7th February 1877
JAMES LEFTWICH WARNER, of 40, Tulse Hill, in the County of Surrey, Gentle-
man "AN IMPROVED APPARATUS, ATTACHMENT, OR FASTENING FOR PROTECTING
WATCHES, PURSES, AND OTHER SIMILAR ARTICLES FROM BEING STOLEN FROM THE
PERSON"
This Invention has for its object protecting watches, purses, and other similar
articles from being stolen from the person, either when in a crowd or otherwise
And in order that this my Invention may be thoroughly understood, I will
proceed to describe the same, referring to the annexed Diawings
Figure 1 is a view, partly in perspective, of my safety watch protector The
arrangement adopted in this case for the protection of a watch or any similar
article from being stolen from the person consists in the first part of an eye or
loop a fixed in a disc or collai b, and having claws or prongs c projecting on the
under side of the disc b so that the loop a can be readily and securely attached to
a garment by simply passing the claws or prongs c through the body of the material
of the garment and clenching or bending down the portions of the claws that pro-
Ject on the under side of the garment The arrangement consists, secondly, of a
hook, the hook proper d of the same is bent at right angles to its stem
when a ring, stud of a watch, or other similar article, is placed in the hook the
watch lies in the same direction or in a line with the stem of the hook At the
other end of the stem e of the hook (to that end which has the hook proper therein)
a loop f, which is linked into the loop a of the disc b, by which means the watch
is securely attached to the garment of the person
so that
Figure 2 is an end view of the hook proper d, and more fully illustrates the night
angle position in which it is placed with respect to the stem
Figure 3 shews a modification of the airangements shewn in Figure 1, this
modification consists, firstly, of the disc b and loop a, which is attached to the
garment and the stem e, hook d carrying the article, being secured by a chain con-
necting them, so that though the loop f of the hook may be detached from the eye
or loop a they are still securely connected together by the chain g And, secondly,
the hook carrying the watch is attached and detached at pleasure to the eye or
loop a fixed to the garment in the following manner.-One side of the eye or

page_text: loop a is cut through, and so constructed that it can be pressed in towards the
other side of loop, so as to allow the loop f of the hook to be placed in the loop a of
the disc b The piece of the loop a pressed in 18 restored to its normal position by
its own elasticity or by a spring placed beneath it in the usual and well known
manner of such contrivances To this Figure an alternative arrangement of
fastening of the loop and disc attached to the gaiment is shewn In place of the
claw fastening, a screw h and milled head nut 2 is used
Figure 4 is a frame view of the disc b
Figure 5 is a perspective view of the safety pocket hand portmonic protector,
in this arrangement there are two loops and discs of similar construction to those
already described in Figure 1 On loop a is fixed to the garment of the person,
and the other loop a¹ to the portmonic or other similar article (in the same manner
as before described in Figure 1), and a ring 1 connects the two, so that they can
be attached and detached at pleasure, as in the manner already described, from
either loops When the ring, is detached from the loop a¹ the article is altogether
liberated from the person, but when detached only from the loop a the article is
still secured by the chain k connecting the ring, and that loop The 1ing is made
of a suitable size to be slipped upon the finger of the person if desired
Figure 6 is a modification of the an angement of the attachment to the portmonic
or other similar article, that when it is desired not to pierce the portmonic for
attaching the loop and disc to the same In this alternation of attachment the
loop a¹ is fixed to a sping band l, the latter clasping the body of the article and
adjusting itself to the size of the same by the contracting tendency of the spring
band There is a small thumb screw m to secure the ends of the band together
after the band has adapted itself in size to the size of the article One end of the
band has a slot n in it to allow the screw m to move in the samo and adapt itself
to the contracting on expanding of the band