A New or Improved Key Ring or Holder, suitable also as an Attachment for Watch Charms and for other Purposes.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd Apr., 1889
Complete Specification Left, 2nd Jan., 1890-Accepted, 3rd Apr., 1590
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Key Ring or Holder, suitable also as an
Attachment for Watch Charms and for other Purposes.
I, OTTO FLEISCHHAUER of Möckernstrasse 146, Berlin, in the German Empire,
Architect, do hereby declare the nature of my invention to be as follows:-
The object of this invention is a new or improved spring sliding gate ring or double
holder with a double locking device or gato suitable according to its size etc., for the
reception for instance of watch charms, for the attachment of a watch chain to a
button hole, as a key ring or holder, as an attachment for harness, or as an attach-
ment or holder for any object to which it may be suitable in principle.
The improved devico differs from ordinary spring sliding gate rings in that an
inward bend or bay is provided at a part of the tubular segment, and an outward
bend is made at a part of the sliding gate preferably of size sufficient to be itself a
holder and therefore to make of the article a double holder, the said bay serving as a
movable temporary enclosure opening to receive the object to be passed on to the
holder, carrying said object and delivering same first into the outward bend of the
sliding gate to the entrance of which the said bay forms itself a gate in normal
position of the parts, and thereafter upon a second movement of the parts permits
said object to be slid on to the segment ring itself if so desired.
Thus the improved device consists of a segment of a hollow or tubular ring having
at one end thereof an inwardly curved extension so as to form a recess or bay of some
size in the general circular contour of the segment of the ring. The device comprises
also a bent wire or bar, made in any suitable form to form an enclosure with an
opening between the two arms which are bent outward and curved exactly to fit and
slide within the tubular ring segment aforesaid so that said enclosure lies outside of said
ring. Within the ring is a spring bearing on a solid core in the ring at one end and
on the end of the longer arm (which may be called a piston arm) of the aforesaid bent
or curved bar at the other end in a similar manner as in the usual rings with spring
sliding gates at present used for holding watch charms and similar purposes, except
that said piston arm is of such length that with the amount of slide allowed to the
segment ring (limited by the abutment of the one and other end of the segment
ring respectively against the shoulders formed by the bent wire below the curved arms
thereof) the ring is never opened at this point or indeed directly opened at any
point.
The shorter curved arm of the bent wire is one of the gates and enters into the
other end of the segment ring when the latter is in its usual position within the bayed
extension thereof. The said bayed extension in such position thereof lies over and
forms a gate to the lateral enclosure before mentioned.
To pass an object on to the holder, the 'segment is revolved by the finger as far as
the limits allow against the spring. This movement will move the segment ring so
that the bayed extension slides past and beyond the gate formed by the arm of the
bent wire and the object may be placed in said bay and the segment ring released,
the bay returning over the gate will carry the object to deliver it into the enclosure
where it may remain if desired. To pass it within the segment, the latter is again
moved, the extension thereof which forms the gate between the segment and lateral
enclosure in normal position is thus moved away and the object may be passed on
to the segment.
Dated this 3rd day of Anril 1889

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Key Ring or Holder, suitable also as an
Attachment for Watch Charms and for other Purposes.
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1 OTTO FLEISCHHAUER, Architect of Möckernstrasse 146, Berlin in the Empire
of Germany 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 this invention is a new or improved spring sliding gate ring or
double holder with a double locking device or gate suitable according to its size etc.
for the reception for instance of watch charms for the attachment of a watch chain
to a button hole as a key ring or holder, as an attachment for harness or as an
attachment or holder for any object to which it may be suitable in principle.
The improved device differs from ordinary spring sliding gate rings in that an
inward bend or bay is provided at a part of the tubular segment, and an outward
bend is made at a part of the sliding gate preferably of size sufficient to be itself a
holder and therefore to make of the article a double holder the said bay serving as a
movable temporary enclosure opening to receive the object to be passed onto the
holder, carrying said object and delivering same first into the outward bend of the sliding
gate to the entrance of which the said bay forms itself a gate in normal position of
the parts and thereafter upon a second movement of the parts permits said object to
bo slid onto the segment ring itself if so desired.
Thus the improved device consists of a, segment of a hollow or tubular ring having
at one end thereof an inwardly curved extension so as to form a recess or bay of
some size in the general circular contour of the segment of the ring. The device
comprises also, a bent wire or bar made in any suitable form, to form an enclosure
with an opening between the two arms which are bent outward and curved exactly
to fit and slide within the tubular ring segment aforesaid so that said enclosure lies
outside of said ring. Within the ring is a spring bearing on a solid core in the ring
at one end and on the end of the longer arm which may be called a piston arm of the
aforesaid curved or bent bar at the other end in a similar manner as in. the usual rings
with spring sliding gates at present used for holding watch charms and similar
purposes, except that said piston arm is of such length that with the amount of slide
allowed to the segment ring (limited by the abutment of the one and other end of the
segment ring respectively against the shoulders formed by the bent wire below the
curved arms thereof) the ring is never opened at this point or indeed directly opened
at any point.
The shorter curved arm of the bent wire is one of the gates and enters into the other
end of the segment ring when the latter is in its usual position within the bayed
extension thereof. The said bayed extension in such position thereof lies over and
forms a gate to the lateral enclosure before mentioned.
To pass an object onto the holder the segment is revolved by the finger as far as
the limits allow against the spring. This movement will move the segment ring so
that the bayed extension slides past and beyond the gate formed by the arm of the
bent wire and the object may be placed in said bay and the segment ring released the
bay returning over the gate. will carry the object to deliver it into the enclosure where
it may remain if desired. To pass it within the segment the latter is again moved
the extension thereof.which forms the gate between the segment and lateral enclosure
in normal position is thus moved away and the object may be passed onto the
segment.
The accompanying drawings illustrate the construction of the improved ring or
holder. Fig. 1 shows the same closed partly in section. Fig. 2 illustrates the first
movement to open the bay d in the segment A. Fig. 3 illustrates the return to
the first position with ring O carried by the bay d into the enclosure e e¹ of the
wire B. Fig. 4 shows the second movement when the ring O can pass up into the
segment A.

page_text: Fig. 5 illustrates several articles hung on the holder. Figs. 6 and 7 illustrate a
modified form of holder in which the segment A carries the aforesaid outward
enclosure or outwardly directed bay eel and the wire B carries the inwardly directed
bay d the principle being the same as that illustrated in Figs. 1 to 5. Fig. 8 is a
cross section of the part of the part C of the segment A. Fig. 9 is a cross section of
the finger piece of the segment A. Fig. 10 illustrates the attachment of watch
charms. Fig. 11 the attachment to a button hole.
A is the segment ring, having the part e beyond the bay therein, is the spring in
the socket in said segment. B is the wire, a being the piston end and 6 the gate
end, ee the outward bay or enclosure, d the inward bay.
T
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
The double gate ring comprising a segment with bay and a gate thereto with bay
or enclosure constructed to operate substantially as set forth.
Din and day of January 1890
HERBERT & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C., Agents to Applicant.