An Improved Device for Holding Keys, the Loops of, or Strings Round, Parcels, or the like.
Year: 1897

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Feb., 1897-Accepted, 27th Mar., 1897
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Device for Holding Keys, the Loops of, or Strings
Round, Parcels, or the like.
1, ALFRED EDWARD WILLDIGG, of Granton House, Queens Road, Coventry,
in the County of Warwick, Engineer, 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 has for its object to provide a simple device for holding keys, the
loops of, or strings round, parcels, or the like, in which device when used as a key
ring the keys can be readily placed therein and as readily withdrawn therefrom
without danger of their becoming detached accidentally.
When used for carrying parcels, or the like it holds the parcel without any
danger of its becoming detached.
The device according to my invention consists of a strip of spring metal which
is bent into any suitable general figure; such, for example, as that of a heart,
or of a crown, or any other desired device, its ends being curved and projecting
inwards, so that they protrude within the figure formed by the strip, the spring of
the metal forcing these projecting ends together, and the curved portion by which
they approach each other presenting a kind of funnel-shaped passage for the easy
introduction of the loop of the key, string of the parcel, or the like, to be passed
therethrough; whilst as the ends normally press close against each other, the loop
of the article cannot be accidentally passed back between the said ends; whilst, in
the case of a key-loop, or the like, the key or the like, can be readily detached by
passing the reverse side of the loop also through between the said ends just as the
other side was passed through in inserting the key.
The accompanying drawing represents as examples two forms of device according
to my invention.
Figure 1 represents a heart shaped device and Figure 2 a device in the form of
a crown.
The spring metal forming the device is curved over at a a and the ends b b
project inwards as shewn, and the spring of the metal presses them together. By
inserting the key-loop, or the like, or the string of the parcel, or the like, in
between the funnel-shaped part at a a, the ends bb are forced apart until the loop
passes the opening between them when they come together again and the key, or
the string of the parcel, or the like, is held by the said device.
In Figure 2 I have shewn a recess at c to receive the string when the device
is used for carrying parcels. In the case of a key ring this may, or may not,
be used.
It will be understood that the body part of the metal may be bent to a shape
to represent any article besides those shewn in the drawing.
The device may be ornamented in any desired way and may be provided with
any desired information or inscription marked thereon.
.
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
A device for holding keys, the loops of, or strings round, parcels, or the like,

page_text: consisting of a strip of spring metal with its ends curved over and projecting
inwards and held in contact with each other by the spring of the metal, as
herein before described and illustrated by the examples shewn in the accom-
panying drawing.
Dated this 25th day of February 1897.
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.