Slide Pin Safety-fastening for Ladies' Brooches.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 13th May, 1891
Complete Specification Left, 15th Feb., 1892-Accepted, 9th Apr., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Slide Pin Safety-fastening for Ladies' Brooches.
FREDERICK FITT 181 The Grove Hammersmith W. Inventor do hereby declare
the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
My invention consists of an improved contrivance for the secure fastening of
ladies brooches, instead of the old-fashioned catch, and pin worked by a hinge.
My object is to make a secure fastening for the brooch, as ladies' brooches are so
frequently lost through the bending of the pin or catch, or the breaking of the
hinge.
My mode of fastening the brooch is by means of a double pin A & B,.
sliding in tubes; these two pins are attached to one head, C, and both pins run
parallel (one behind the other) through tubes D. E. F, there being sufficient space
between the pins for the dress or other material.
The front pin A slides through a tube D which is placed straight across the
middle of the back of the brooch, its entire length; the pin B slides through a
short tube E, then secures the dress, or other garment, (as required) and afterwards
enters another short tube F; this prevents the pin getting bent, or strained out
of place.
The pins A & B are drawn out, or pushed in by taking hold of the
head C; it will be seen that only the pin B goes through the garment, the pin A
acts as a guide and check it is also a preventative against drawing the pins A & B.
entirely out of the tubes, by the action of a spring catch, which prevents the pin B.
receding beyond the short tube E.
The spring catch will have this effect whether placed on end of pin A or on
tube D; although the double pin A & B can be instantaneously withdrawn from.
the brooch by any jeweller, if necessary. This system ensures the safety of the
brooch, as when the pin is pushed quite home by the head C, it cannot loosen itself;
and as well as this, to ensure absolute safety to valuable brooches, the spring catch
can be made to lock, causing it to be quite impossible for the pins to recede, unless..
released by the finger.
Dated this 11th dox of Max 1901
FREDERICK FITT.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Slide Pin Safety-fastening for Ladies' Brooches.
I, FREDERICK FITT, of 181 The Grove, Hammersmith, in the County of London,,
Inventor, 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:-
My invention consists of a slide pin safety-fastening for ladies' brooches,.
constructed in a way that renders it adaptable either to scarf-pins, or brooches of
different designs.
And in order that my invention may be thoroughly understood, I now proceed
to describe the accompanying drawings thereof. reference being had to letters and
figures marked thereon.
Figure 1 represents the back of the brooch H, and the tubes or supports E, and F,
with the pin B, the head C, and the catch G, in their normal position.
Figure 2 gives the same view of the brooch, with pins A, and B, drawn out by
the head C, after being released from the catch G; which for the great security
of the brooch is made to lock at the end of the long tube D, this catch G, is at the

page_text: left end of the brooch, and must be pressed by the finger and thumb of the left
hand, while, at the same time the pins A and B, must be drawn out by the right
hand taking hold of head C; the said catch G, is on the end of the slide-piece or
pin A, and locks into the niche I, situated in the long tube D, effectually preventing
the pin B, being entirely withdrawn from the brooch, except in the case of repairs,
when the pins A, and B, can at once be released, if required by pressure on the
catch in the niche; it will be seen that the pin A, can be in the shape of a round
pin, or as a flat slide-piece, the action is precisely the same, as shewn in Fig. 4; it
is necessary that the tube or receptacle F, should have a large mouth entrance, in
case the point of the pin B, gets strained out of the straight line.
Figure 3, shows the double pin disconnected from the brooch.
Figure 4 explains the slide-piece that telescopes through the body of the brooch
in place of the tube D, and the pin A. It is understood that the pin-head C. can
be shaped to form a part of the design of the brooch, or it can be quite independent,
if so desired also that this contrivance is equally effective, either in a horizontal
or perpendicular position, therefore applicable to either brooches, or scarf pins, as
shewn in Figs. 5, and 6.
Figure 5 represents a scarf pin.
Figure 6 gives the same view with the pin drawn out ready for use.
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. The combination of the supports E and F, with the long tube D, substantially
as herein described and according to the accompanying drawings.
2. The double pin A, and B, the lock catch G, with its action in the tube D,
and in the niche I, and the pin head C, substantially as herein described and
according to the accompanying drawings.
3. The combination of the slide piece A, in substitution of the round pin A,
where the design of the brooch makes it desirable.
4. The combination of the same action and device, designed as a scarf pin,
substantially as herein described and according to Figs. 5, and 6, of the accom-
panying drawings.
Dated this 15th February 1869
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, W., Agent for the Applicant.