Improvements in Holders for Time Pieces.
Year: 1897

page_text: Improvements in Holders for Time Pieces.
We, ROBERT HAWLEY INGERSOLL and CHARLES HENRY INGERSOLL, of No. 65, Cort-
landt Street, New York, in the State of New York, and in the United States of
America, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
Our invention relates to time movement supports or holders, as for example
bicycle attachments adapted for use primarily in holding time pieces.
We provide a preferably spring arm or bracket having an adjustable clamp, as
a vertical plate, horizontally located screws and wing nuts located at or adjacent
to one end of the same. The other extremity of the bracket is provided with a
support, as a self-holding adjustable friction swivel joint, whereby the holder proper
may be sustained in a movable relation. The said support is provided with suitable
holding means, as two preferably lower spring fingers, and upper spring fingers
one of which ordinarily straddles the stem and the other serving to hold the crown
or pendant and ring of the watch in a rigid relation. Registering devices, as
points in either the holder or bracket and corresponding recesses in the other, serve
to hold the time piece in any position.
Improvements in Holders for Time Pieces.
We, ROBERT HAWLEY INGERSOLL and CHARLES HENRY INGERSOLL, both of 65,
Cortlandt Street, New York, in the United States of America, Merchants, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement:-
Our invention relates to time movement supports or holders, as for example
bicycle attachments adapted for use primarily in holding time pieces, and has for
its object the provision of watch holders and appliances of the class described,
simple in construction, inexpensive to manufacture, and convenient and efficient
in practical use.
To attain the desired end, our invention consists in the construction, arrange-
ment and operation of parts herein set forth.
In the drawings accompanying and forming a part of this specification, Figure 1
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page_text: represents a side elevation of our time piece support, and Figure 2 a front elevation
of our holder proper.
Like letters of reference indicate like parts in said views.
We have found it desirable to provide means for carrying a time piece on a
bicycle, in such a manner that the same will not be in the way, and will be readily
accessible when wanted, and we have, therefore, constructed according to our inven-
tion an attachment or holder, embodying the preferred construction of parts, and
their mutual relationship, combination, arrangement and organization in a composite
body or structure, as hereinafter described.
Referring particularly to the drawings, A denotes a preferably spring arm or
bracket provided with an adjustable clamp as a vertical plate A', horizontally
located, screws a and wing nuts a¹, located at or adjacent to one end of the same.
The other extremity of the bracket A is provided with a support as a self holding,
adjustable, friction swivel joint a³, whereby the holder proper B may be sustained
in a movable relation. The said support B is provided with suitable holding
means, as the preferably lower spring fingers B¹ and the upper spring fingers B³
and B³ which latter is ordinarily provided with a groove or recess between its ends;
the fingers B serve to hold the watch from moving downward or forward, the
preferably bifurcated finger B, which ordinarily straddles the stem, assisting in
preventing the time pieces from moving backward or upward, and the forwardly
projecting finger 13 ordinarily serves to securely hold the crown, or pendant and
ring, or bow of the watch in a rigid relation, in order to prevent any railing of the
same, and also to lock the time piece in the said fingers B³.
It is manifest that many omissions of some particulars could be made without
materially affecting the essential features of our invention, or the operation of the
remaining parts. and we do not therefore, wish to be limited to the specific struc-
tural details of the organizations herein set forth. Obviously the elements of the
structure described, may be located at an angle to the plane in which they are
shown, or they may be inverted if desired." We, accordingly, use the words
"vertical horizontal," and the like in a relative sense.
In operation, upon our adjustable clamp or bearing being applied to a suitable
support as, either to the handle or frame of the bicycle, the watch may be turned
around and held in any desired position by means of registering devices whereby the
holder and bracket may be engaged, as points a³, located in either the holder B or
bracket A, constructed and arranged to register with corresponding recesses or
indentations, made in the other.
The watch may be readily detached as for purposes of winding, setting, etc., and
all rattling of the parts thereof is obviated.
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:-
1. A holder for a watch consisting of stationary bearing points, to form a rest,
and to grip the watch by the edge at the bottom thereof, and a pair of stationary
and relatively spring arms to grip the watch at the top thereof, the relation of the
same being such that when the watch is placed in the first mentioned arms, it may
be snapped into position, and held against rotatory, vertical, or downward move-
ment and from which the same may be readily detached; the said holder being also
provided with elastic, flexible, or yielding means to engage the watch ring, to
hold the same rearward of the spring arms, to prevent the watch from being thrown
by jolts or like quick movements from the same.
2. A time piece holder consisting of upper and lower sustaining means, and also
of holding means to press against the top of the crown, and provided with a recess
to receive the ring, to prevent the said crown and ring from rattling.
3. In an appliance of the class described, an arm or bracket provided at one end
with an adjustable clamp, and at the other with a self holding adjustable joint in
combination with a time piece holder, whereby the said holder is supported by the

page_text: said arm in a movable relation, the said time piece holder consisting of upper and
lower sustaining means, and also of holding means to press against the crown or
pendant, and ring to prevent the said crown and ring from rattling.
4. A watch holder consisting of upper and lower retaining fingers to grasp the
body of the watch, and elastic, flexible or yielding means, as a spring, to engage
the ring and crown thereof, to hold the watch against the said spring fingers.
5. In an appliance of the class described, an adjustable clamp, and a self holding
adjustable joint in combination with a holder for a time piece consisting of upper
and lower retaining pieces to grasp the body of the watch, and a spring to engage
the ring and crown thereof.
6. A watch holder consisting of upper and lower retaining fingers to grasp the
body of the watch, and a spring to engage with the ring and crown thereof.
7. A watch holder consisting of bifurcated upper and bifurcated lower retaining
fingers to grasp the body of the watch, and a spring to press the watch against said
bifurcated fingers.
Dated this 30th dow of Varmmbon 1907