Improvements in the Pins of Brooches or similar Articles, and in Means for Securing same in Dresses or the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Oct., 1894-Accepted, 1st Dec., 1894
CUMI ULIV
Improvements in the Pins of Brooches or similar Articles, and in
Means for Securing same in Dresses or the like.
I JOHN BARCLAY STEWART, Physician and Surgeon, of 5 Whitevale Street
Denristown Glasgow 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 relates to improvements in the pins of brooches or similar articles,
and in means for securing same in dresses or the like, and has for its object to
provide means whereby such brooches or similar articles, can be fastened into
dresses or the like, in a perfectly secure manner, so as to obviate the risk of the pins
of such brooches or the like becoming detached from the articles into which they
are inserted, even though such pins should become unclasped from their retaining
clasps or catches.
And in order that the said invention may be the more readily understood,
reference is hereby made to the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings,
wherein :-
Fig. 1 is a view of part of the back of a brooch with my improved pin hinged
thereto.
Fig. 2 being a similar view shewing the means 1 employ for securing the pin in a
dress or the like, while Fig. 3 shows the pin fastened into a piece of material.
Referring to the drawings, a is the pin hinged at a' to an ordinary brooch 6 in
any well known and suitable manner, such pin a being provided at suitable distances
apart, with eyes or openings a³, through which a doubled or other cord or thread o
is passed.
The said thread or cord is first threaded through one of the eyes or openings a
and then passed through the other one from the opposite side, as shewn more
particularly in Fig. 2, the pin a then being inserted into the material of the dress or
the like d in the usual manner.
Alter the pin a has been inserted into the material d, the ends of the thread or
cord care passed or wound under and over the pin in the form of a horizontal
figure B, such ends then being joined by tying or in any other suitable manner, and
the forward extremity of the pin clasped to the brooch or the like by a catch or
clasp of any suitable form, by these means providing for such brooch being held
securely in position, without any risk of the pin being accidentally or otherwise
removed from the dress or the like, until the ends of the thread or cord are
dis-united and the said thread or cord unwound from the pin.
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 [
claim is :-
1. In the pins of brooches or the like, eyes or openings formed therein at
suitable intervals, substantially as and for the purpose described, and as
illustrated.
2. In combination with pius of the above class, having eyes or openings, the
employment of doubled or other cords or threads in manner substantially as and
for the purpose specified and as illustrated by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 27th day of October 1894.
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23, Coleman Street, London, Agents for the Applicant