IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR PROTECTING WATCHES IN THE POCKET
Year: 1867

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Benjamin Jackson Smith, of Tangier Place, Eton,
for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR PROTECTING WATCHES
IN THE POCKET."
Sealed the 13th September 1867, and dated the 20th March 1867.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Benjamin Jackson Smith
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
20th March 1867.
I, BENJAMIN JACKSON SMITH, of Tangier Place, Eton, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN APPARATUS FOR PROTECTING
WATCHES IN THE POCKET," to be as follows:-
This Invention has for its object improvements in apparatus for protecting
watches in the pocket. For this purpose I employ a metal plate with screw
stems projecting from it at the back, and at the front of the plate is attached
a ring in such manner that it can turn or swivel. I form eyelet holes in the
fabric of the pocket and pass the screw stems on the metal plate through them.
A covering plate is then put on over the metal stems on the other side of the
fabric, and the parts are then firmly secured by nuts screwed on to the stems.
When the apparatus is in use the chain is passed through the ring and the
swivel of the chain is afterwards attached to the pen lant of the watch; then

page_text: should any attempt be made to take the watch by pulling on the chain the
watch is brought up to the ring and is there firmly held. The length of the
watch chain will be sufficient to allow the watch to be taken from the pocket
when the watch itself is taken hold of, a length of the chain then drawing
through the ring in the pocket.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Benjamin Jackson Smith in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 19th September 1867.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, BENJAMIN
JACKSON SMITH, of Tangier Place, Eton, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Twentieth day of March, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven, in the thirtieth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the -said
Benjamin Jackson Smith, Her special licence that I, the said Benjamin
Jackson Smith, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as
I, the said Benjamin Jackson Smith, my executors, administrators, and assigns,
should at any time agree with, and no others, from time to time and at all
times thereafter during the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might
make, use, exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "IMPROVE-
MENTS IN APPARATUS FOR PROTECTING WATCHES IN THE POCKET," upon the
condition (amongst others) that I, the said Benjamin Jackson Smith,
my executors or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my,
or their, or one of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and
ascertain the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same
was to be performed, and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent
Office within six calendar months next and immediately after the date of the
said Letters Patent..
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Benjamin Jackson Smith, do hereby
declare the nature of my said 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 and purpose of my Invention is to protect watches in the pocket
so that the same may be prevented from being withdrawn from the pocket

page_text: by means of pulling at the chain; and with the object and purpose above-
mentioned I employ a front or face plate with screw stems projecting from its
back, such plate having at the front a ring so attached and fitted that it can turn
or swivel. I form eyelet holes in the fabric of the pocket and pass the screw
stems that are on the front plate through such eyelet holes. A covering or
back plate is then applied to the other side of the fabric; this covering or
back plate having orifices, through which the said screw stems pass, and both
plates being thus firmly secured to the fabric and together by milled nuts
screwed on to these stems. In use the chain or guard of the watch is passed
through the ring which is inside the pocket, and the swivel of the chain can
afterwards be attached to the pendent of the watch; and then should any
attempt be made to take the watch by pulling the chain the watch is brought
up to the ring and is thereby stopped from being withdrawn from the pocket.
The length of the watch chain will be sufficient to allow the watch itself to be
taken from the pocket to be looked at upon being bodily removed by handling
the same instead of handling the chain, a sufficient portion of the chain then
slipping through the ring to permit this.
Having thus particularly described the nature of the said Invention I will
now proceed to particularly describe and ascertain in what manner the same
is to be performed or put in practice, which I shall do by the aid of the
accompanying Drawings and the following description thereof, reference being
had to the said Drawings by the words, figures, and letters herein-after set
forth and appearing in the Drawings aforesaid.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 is a view of the front plate or that which has the before-mentioned
ring attached to it, the same being placed within the pocket; Fig. 2 is a view
of the covering or back plate, the back of the ring being also seen in this
Figure; Fig. 3 is an edge view of the whole apparatus.
In the said Drawings A, A, denote the front plate; B the ring; B* (in
dotted lines) the ring shewn pulled out as when the chain is pulled at; D the
screw stems and milled nuts; E the swivel knob, by which the ring is secured
to the front plate; H, H, the back plate.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
Invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I hereby declare
that I claim the Invention, the nature and character whereof is set forth in
the outset of this Specification by the words preceeding the words "having
thus described the nature of the said Invention"; it being understood that I

page_text: do not claim the constituent parts of the apparatus herein described, except
when adopted and used as herein described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Benjamin Jackson Smith, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this
day of September, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.
BENJ. J. SMITH. (L.B.)
Witness,
J. W. McGAULBY,
Managing Director of the Inventors*
Patent Right Association (Limited),
21, Cockspur Street,
Charing Cross.