Improvement in Catch to be Adjusted to all Kinds of Brooches and Badges.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 16th June, 1899
Complete Specification Left 13th Dec. 1899 Accented 17th Mar
1900
Date of Application, 16th June, 1899
Complete Specification Left 13th Dec. 1899 Accepted 17th Mar 1900.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in Catch to be Adjusted to all Kinds of Brooches and
Badges.
We, FREDERICK ARTHUR WHITCOMB and ERNEST AUGUSTUS WHITCOMB, both
of No. 71, Vyse Street, in the City of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Engravers and Chasers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
Consists of an arrangement of three tubes with inside spring.
The first tube is soldered on to the article and contains the spring.
The second tube forms a cover for the spring and has a head or tongue
attached which being forced upwards by the spring closes the opening in the
catch.
The third tube is made so as to form a solid catch at the top and a tube at the
bottom, which tube closes in the movement.
By pressing the pin of the brooch or badge against the head or tongue attached
to the second tube, the head or tongue is pressed down admitting the pin and on
the pressure being withdrawn it automatically closes the opening between the
head or tongue and the catch making it impossible for the pin to slip or spring
out of the catch and the articles become loose and get lost thereby.
To be manufactured in steel, gold, silver, or metal.
Dated this Wifteenth day of Lune 1890
FREDERICK ARTHUR WHITCOMB,
ERNEST AUGUSTUS WHITCOMB.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvement in Catch to be Adjusted to all Kinds of Brooches and
Badges.
We, FREDERICK ARTHUR WHITCOMB and ERNEST AUGUSTUS WHITCOMB, both
of No. 71, Vyse Street, in the City of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick,
Engravers and Chasers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in
what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascer-
tained in and by the following statement:-
Our invention will be fully understood by reference to the accompanying
sheet of drawings which are to be taken as part of this specification and read
therewith.
Figure 1 is a representation of our improved lock catch when the pin has been
inserted and the catch closed.

page_text: Figure 2 is a representation of the same catch at the moment when the lock
has been opened in the act of inserting the pin.
Like figures of reference denote, the corresponding parts of each figure.
Referring to the said Figures 1 and 2:-
Our said invention consists of a combination of two metal tubes with an inside
spring.
The first tube (which is fixed to the article by soldering or otherwise) is made
with a continuation strip of metal bent so as to form a common catch to receive
the pin of the brooch or badge (A and Aª.) The first tube contains a spiral
spring (D).
The second tube. (B) is made with a flat closed end in which a small slot is
cut to enable the catch (forming part of the first tube) to be passed through same
and so adjust the second tube that it partly covers the first tube (A) and fits down
on the spring inserted therein (D). The second tube thus riding on the spring
is forced upward closing the opening between it and the catch (A³).
When the pin (C) of the brooch or badge is pressed against the upper closed
end of the second and outer tube, the spring inside the first tube is forced down
sufficiently to admit the said pin into the catch and immediately the pin has
passed the opening so created the spring again forces the second tube upwards
till it touches the catch. The space between the end of the second tube and the
catch being thus automatically closed and kept closed by the action of the spring
it is impossible for the article to become loose and get lost in consequence of the
pin slipping or springing out of the catch and the pin can only be released at
the will of the person wearing the brooch or badge by pressing it outwards-
again forcing down the spring.
To be made in gold silver brass steel.or other suitable metal or metals.
It is to be understood that the invention is not confined to the exact ariange-
ment shewn on the drawings nor to the materials mentioned for their construc-
tion but any other suitable ones may be used as modifications can be made
without departing from the nature of the invention. .
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is:-
.
For brooches badges and other similar articles of use or ornament the com-
bination of two metal tubes spring and catch as described and set forth in the
drawings annexed.
Tated thin lanth day of Danamon 1800
FREDERICK ARTHUR WHITCOMB,
ERNEST AUGUSTUS WHITCOMB.