IMPROVED APPLIANCES TO BE EMPLOYED IN CONNECTION WITH WATCHES AND OTHER ARTICLES TO PREVENT THE SURREPTITIOUS ABSTRACTION OF THE SAME FROM THE POCKET
Year: 1879

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by John Christopher Beuthin Danby at
the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 25th April 1879.
JOHN CHRISTOPHER Beuthin DANDY, of Moorgate Street, in the City of London,
Civil Engineer. "IMPROVED APPLIANCES TO BE EMPLOYED IN CONNECTION WITH
WATCHES AND OTHER ARTICLES TO PREVENT THE SURREPTITIOUS ABSTRACTION
OF THE SAME FROM THE POCKET."
This Invention consists in the construction or formation of improved appliances
to be employed in connection with watches and other articles, and by means of
which the surreptitious abstraction of the same from any pocket or receptacle in
which they may be deposited cannot be effected without the employment of such
an amount of force as will necessarily attract the attention of the wearer, whilst
at the desire of the latter the article to which the appliance is connected can be
removed from the pocket with as much ease as is the case when the said appliance
is not employed. The said appliance is small, durable, and light, and the employ-
ment of the same tends to keep the article from moving about in the pocket,
and also to preserve it from injury by external violence.
I will now proceed to describe the form of appliance which it is preferred to
employ in connection with watches and other similar articles. The main portion
of the appliance consists of a bevilled belt, band, or strip of india-rubber, which is
attached to or formed on the lower edge of a cap of the same material in such a
manner that the pointed or thinnest portion of the said bevilled belt, band, or strip
will then form the lower edge or a portion thereof of the cap. The said cap is
made to fit over the upper half of a watch, the ring or pendant of the latter passing
through a slot or aperture in the same. When it is desired to refer to the dial, the
cap can be moved aside by the thumb or fingers, or the said cap at that part may
be so cut away or perforated as to admit of such reference without the necessity of
moving the same. Instead of constructing the cap of india-rubber as before
described, it may be formed of a frame work of some rigid material to which the
band, belt, or strip is attached.
A modification of the appliance above described consists in cutting away the
sides of the cap, and thus leaving two flaps extending respectively half way down
the front and back of the watch, from the ring spindle which passes through a slot
or aperture. The lower edges of the flaps are provided with the before mentioned
bevilled edge.

page_text: A further modification consists in mounting two or more of the said bevilled
bands or strips on a belt passing round the watch.
The bevilled edges may be made by turning back the edge of the indin rubber of
which the cap or other contrivance is formed, and then submitting the part so
doubled to pressure.
The principle of my said Invention may be applied to pocket books, purses, and
other similar articles, by employing in connection therewith a bevilled band, or the
band may be formed of a double bevil, that is to say, the upper surface thereof may
have a V shaped section.
The action of the appliances above described is as follows:-On an attempt
being made to abstract the watch or other article from the pocket, the enlarged
portion of the bevilled belt, band, or strip comes into contact with the sides of the
pocket or other receptacle, and so much friction is thereby produced that tho
attempt cannot be successful without tho exercise of a considerable amount of force,
whereby the attention of the wearer is immediately attracted; but in the event of
the latter desiring to extract the article, he bas merely to lay hold of the bevilled
belt, band, or strip with his thumb and fore finger, thereby extending the sides of
the pocket or other receptacle, and the watch or other article is readily removable.