IMPROVEMENTS IN SAFETY DEVICES OR PROTECTORS FOR WATCHES, PURSES, AND OTHER VALUABLES WORN OR CARRIED ON THE PERSON."
Year: 1881

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Alfred Henry Turner, commonly called Alfred Henry
Firman, of Munster Square, in the County of Middlesex, for the Invention of
"IMPROVEMENTS IN SAFETY DEVICES OR PROTECTORS FOR WATCHES, PURSES,
AND OTHER VALUABLES WORN OR CARRIED ON THE PERSON."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Alfred Henry Turner,
commonly called Alfred Henry Firman, at the Office of the Commissioners
of Patents on the 15th September 1881.
ALFRED HENRY TURNER, commonly called ALFRED HENRY FIRMAN, of Munster
Square, in the County of Middlesex. "IMPROVEMENTS IN SAFETY DEVICES OR
PROTECTORS FOR WATCHES, PURSES, AND OTHER VALUABLES WORN OR CARRIED
ON THE PERSON."
My Invention relates to an improved safety device to be adapted to the pocket,
for the purpose of securing and preventing the fraudulent abstraction therefrom of
watches, purses, and other valuables, and it consists of a frame which may be
attached inside the pocket by a pin or otherwise, and is provided with a lever acted
upon by a spring, and arranged in such a manner that when the lever is in one
position the ring of the watch, or the stud of a purse, or the projecting portion of
any other valuable may be inserted in a recess in the frame, whilst by moving the
lever into the other position the watch, purse, or other valuable is securely locked
and held in its place, the spring retaining the lever in either position.
By this arrangement of parts the action of the thumb or finger simultaneously
with the action of the hand in laying hold of the article by the wearer is sufficient
to instantly open the device and liberate the article, whilst at the same time security
is afforded against its fraudulent abstraction from the pocket.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Alfred Henry Turner, commonly called Alfred Henry Firman, in
the Great Seal Patent Office on the 14th March 1882.
ALFRED HENRY TURNER, commonly called ALFRED HENRY FIRMAN, of Munster
Square, in the County of Middlesex. "IMPROVEMENTS IN SAFETY DEVICES OR
PROTECTORS FOR WATCHES, PURSES, AND OTHER VALUABLES WORN OR CARRIED
ON THE PERSON."
My Invention relates to an improved safety device to be adapted to the pocket,
for the purpose of securing and preventing the fraudulent abstraction therefrom of
watches, purses, and other valuables, and it consists of a frame which may be
attached inside the pocket by a pin or otherwise, and is provided with a lever
acted upon by a spring, and arranged in such a manner that when the lever is in
one position the ring of the watch or a loop, ring, or stud attached to a pocket-
book or purse, or other suitable attachment to any other valuable may be inserted
in a recess in the frame, whilst by moving the lever into the other position the
watch, purse, or other valuable is securely locked and held in its place, the spring
retaining the lever in either position.
And in order that my said Invention may be fully understood I shall now
proceed more particularly to describe the same, and for that purpose shall refer to
the several Figures on the annexed Sheet of Drawings, the same letters of reference
indicating correspondence parts in all the Figures.
Figure 1 represents, in elevation, and Figure 2 in plan, a safety device or
protector constructed according to my Invention. It consists of a frame a having
a recess b therein for the reception of the loop of the watch or a convenient.loop or
protection from the article to be secured. A lever c is centred between the parts
of the frame a by a pin at d, the said lever when in its position for securing the
article having one end c² crossing or obstructing the outlet from the recess b, and
preventing the withdrawal-of-the-article-from-the-said-recess. The other end-of-
the said lever consists of a projecting handle or piece so situated as to be con-
veniently operated by the hand of the wearer for turning the lever into the
position shewn in Figure 3 for the purpose of withdrawing the article from the
recess b.
The spring bearing against the projection retains the lever.in the position to
which it is brought. The device or protector may be secured in the pocket by any
suitable or convenient means. In Figure 3 holes e are shewn as being made in the
frame a for enabling the protector to be sewn to the pocket. In Figure 2 it is
shewn as being formed with perforated lugs f,- through which and through the
pocket a ping may be passed to secure the protector to the pocket.
By this arrangement of parts the action of the thumb or finger simultaneously
with the action of the hand in laying hold of the article by the wearer is sufficient
to instantly operate the lever and open the device, and allow the article to be
liberated therefrom, whilst at the same time security is afforded against its fraudulent
abstraction from the pocket.
The body of the device or protector and also the lever may be of any convenient
and suitable form, and may be covered, or coated, or ornamented in any desired
way.
Having now described and particularly ascertained the nature of my said
Invention, and the manner in which the same is or may be used or carried into
effect, I would observe in conclusion that what I consider to be novel and original,

page_text: and therefore claim as the Invention secured to me by the herein before in part
recited Letters Patent, is,-
The safety device or protector for watches, purses, and other articles, constructed
substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Alfred Henry Turner (commonly called Alfred
Henry Firman), have to this my Specification set my hand and seal, this
Thirteenth day of March, One thousand eight hundred and eighty two.
ALFRED H TURNER