An Improved Safety Pin Attachment for Brooches, or other Jewellery, Ornaments, and the like.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Oct., 189O
Complete Specification Left, 19th June, 1897-Accepted, 31st July, 1897
Date of Application, on OCL., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 19th June, 1897-Accepted, 31st July, 1897
An Improved Safety Pin Attachment for Brooches, or other
Jewellery, Ornaments, and the like.
I WILLIAM ANDERSON LAIT, of 12 Prospect Street, Hull, in the County of
Yorkshire, Goldsmith, do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as
follows:--
The object of my invention, is to dispense with the ordinary catch joint, and loose
pin, usually employed in connection with brooches, and in place of it to employ a
bent or turned pin, which, when .in, tíse will be secure, and cannot come undone,
without being released by the wearer or other person.
My invention consists in employing a bent pointed piece of metal, or other suitable
naterial, attached by any suitable means, to the back of the brooch, or the like, and
being bent round, square, oval, oblong, or any desired shape, one end of the bent
piece being attached to the brooch or the like, and the other forming the point for
passing into the material, to which the brooch or ornament is being pinned.
Dated his Thirteenth day of October 1906
JOHN E. WALSH,
Savile Street, Hull, and Crossley Street, Halifax,
Patent Agent for the Applicant.
An Improved Safety Pin Attachment for Brooches, or other
Jewellery, Ornaments, and the like.
I WILLIAM ANDERSON LAIT, of 12 Prospect Street, Hull, in the County of
Yorkshire, Goldsmith, 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 object of my invention is to dispense with the ordinary catch joint, and loose
pin, usually employed in connection with brooches or other jewellery, ornaments, or
the like, and in place of it, to employ a bent or turned pin, which, when in use will
be secure, and cannot come undone without being released by the wearer or other
person.

page_text: Fig. 2 is front view of a brooch showing safety pin attachment in dotted lines.
Fig. 3 shows side view of brooch and pin.
Fig. 4 is a view of back of one form of flower holder, with my safety pin
attachment.
Fig. 5 shows a piece of material with brooch fixed thereto by means of my
improved safety pin attachment, the dotted lines showing the brooch and pin behind
such material, and the full lines the pin where it is passed through the material.
My invention consists in employing a bent pointed piece of metal or other suitable
material A, attached by any suitable ineans, but preferably to a projection B, at or to
the back of the brooch C, or the like, and being bent round, square, oval, oblong or
any desired shape, in such a way that it extends nearly all the way round the brooch
or the like to which it is attached, one end of the bent piece being attached to the
brooch or the like, and the other forming the point A¹, for passing into the material
to which the brooch or ornament is being pinned.
The pin may be made to be wider towards its point, and the said pin may also be
bent in an upward direction as shown at Fig. 3.
This improved safety pin attachment is applicable to brooches, scarf pins, flower
holders, watch brooches, and other articles of jewellery or ornaments, which require
to be pinned or fastened to garments or other kinds of wearing apparel.
If desired the pin may be zig-zag or have indentations in it to cause it to be
more secure when in use, see Fig. 1.
When placing the brooch or the like in position, the point end A¹ of the pin A, is
iuserted into the dress, cravat or the like D, Fig. 5, to which it is required to be
fixed, and is pushed a little way in and then out again, in the manner of an ordinary
brooch pin, a small portion of the material being taken up, the brooch or the like is
then turned round and pushed right up to the stud B, that is, it is pushed into the
material until such material touches the stud B, then the point of the pin is again.
inserted into the material and the brooch is drawn into position, it being desirable to
insert the point of the pin twice in the material as shown at Fig. 5, by this means it
cannot come undone of its own accord, and requires taking out by the wearer or other
person.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the
the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that
what I claim is :--
A safety pin attachment connected to brooches and other kinds of jewellery
ornaments or the like, bent and pointed in the manner and for the purposes
substantially as shown and described.
Dated this Frightoonth day of In1007
JOHN E. WALSH,
Savile Street, Hull, and Waterhouse Chambers, Crossley Street, Halifax,
Patent Agent for the Applicant.