An Improved Device for Securing Wallets and other articles in a Pocket.
Year: 1892

page_text: ate of Application, 31st Oct., 1892--Accepted, 14th Jan., 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Device for Securing Wallets and other articles in a
Pocket.
I, JOHN ARVID SAMUEL BOHLIN of 4 Vasagatan, Stockholm in the Kingdom
of Sweden Bookkeeper, 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 the present invention is to provide a device by means of which
such an article as a wallet, book, pocket book purse or case may be secured in a
pocket of the clothing of any person so that the said article cannot fall out or be
abstracted by a thief.
The improved protector is designed to be simple and cheap in construction,
effectual in use, simple in operation and easily to be attached to or detached from
the pocket.
The improved protector is shown in the annexed drawing in which Fig. 1 is a
front elevation, Fig. 2 a side elevation and Fig. 3 a plan view.
I adopt for the basis of the invention that form of fastener in which a curved
plate is hinged at one end to the end of another, preferably flat, plate a; the
same being used to hold closed a wallet, book, purse, or other conveniently shaped
object introduced between the two plates as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2; and
in which a spring d acts upon a projecting butt on one of the plates near the hinge c
to hold the plates pressed together.
According to the present invention I provide on the plate a a flat spring f which
is caused to extend along the plate a parallel thereto but at a slight distance from
the outer surface. This spring is provided near the end or elsewhere along its
length with a number of points g (two only being shown in the drawing) directed
towards the face of the plate a which is provided with an equal number of corre-
sponding holes into which the points g may enter. The lower extremity of the
spring may be turned slightly outward.
The spring may be made, as shown, out of one piece of metal with the spring d
and secured with rivets at ee to the plate a, or it may be formed and attached
separately from the spring d.
The protector is inserted into the pocket so that the material of the pocket is
held between the spring and the plate a; the points 9 passing through the
material and preventing the protector from being drawn out unless specially
intended to be released by raising the spring. The book or other object is kept
in the pocket by the plate b which is bent up as in dotted lines Fig. 2 when the
book is to be drawn out of the pocket and again turned down after the book has
been replaced.
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 securing wallets and other articles in a pocket, comprising hinged
plates ab operating as described, in combination with a spring having points g
thereon adapted to enter holes in one of the said plates and to secure the device
in the pocket substantially as before described.
Dated this 21st day of Datobar 1802
HERBERT & Co.,
Agents to Applicant.