Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 1st Feb., 1888.
Complete Specification Left, 11th June, 1888
Complete Specification Accepted. 10th Aug., 1888
I DOUGLAS CAVE of 40 St. James Street Piccadilly London Watch Maker do
hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :--
A bow being made of gold or silver or any other metal working on two rings each
ring having pin which can be secured to any watch by soldering or riveting the
same to watch case.
My invention consists of an improved form of fixing a bow to a watch its object is
to secure the same more effectually to the watch especially to key less watches there
being no room where it is now fixed on account of the winding part, it will also
prevent watches being stolen as in such cases they always take the watch from the
bow it being so insecure.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
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An Improved Safety Bow for Watches and other similar Articles.
I, DOUGLAS CAVE, of 40, St. James's Street, Piccadilly, in the County of Middlesex,
Watchmaker and Jeweller, 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 and accompanying drawing, that is to say :-
My invention relates to the bows used for suspending and carrying keyless and
other watches, lockets, and other articles of the like kind, and it has for its object
novel methods of forming such bows, and of attaching them to the watches or other
articles which are to be suspended from them.
Ordinarily, where watches are stolen from the person of their owners, this is done
by breaking or otherwise removing the bows, but by my present invention such bows
are so strengthened and so securely fastened to the watches that it becomes impossible
to detach them.
For this purpose instead of fastening the bow to the pendant of the watch in the
manner ordinarily heretofore practised, I fasten it to the watch itself and in this way
very great security is attained, especially in the case of what are known as keyless
watches, to which my invention is more especially applicable, in which the winding
device in the pendant occupies so much space in the latter, that very little metal
remains available to receive the ends of the bow in the ordinary way, so that the
latter can be very easily torn away from the watch, whilst if the bow is not attached.
to the pendant there is more space available for the winding device.to pass through it,
and it is more durable and stronger.
The accompanying drawing is in illustration of my invention.
In order to put my invention in operation, I make the watch. bow, as shewn in
figure 1 at a, of gold, silver, or other suitable metal, having at its ends two rings b, b',
formed upon or soldered or otherwise secured to them.
These rings are fitted freely into two corresponding rings or eyes c, c', each having
a pin or stud formed upon or attached to it, which pins or studs are fitted into holes
through the watch case d, one upon each side of the pendant, and are rivetted,
soldered, or otherwise securely fastened to the watch case, so that it is practically
impossible to remove the bow from the latter by violence.
Instead of-the arrangement shewn, the rings b, b, may be made at right angles to
the plane of the bow a, and the eyes.c,c,.parallel to the latter.
It is evident that the exact method of fastening the bow to the watch case may be
varied more or less without departing from the principle of my invention.
For instance the method illustrated in figure 2 may be used, in which the ends of
the bow a instead of having rings upon them as already described, have pivots formed
upon them fitting into eyes in the studs c, c', which are firmly fixed in holes in the
watchcase d in the manner already described. The pivots may be prevented from

page_text: leaving the eyes in the studs c, c¹, by fastening small pieces to their extremities by
soldering or otherwise, or by rivetting their ends over, or by screws or other equivalent
or suitable means.
Figure 3 illustrates another modified form of construction and arrangement in
which the how a is attached to the watch case d by means of metal joints e, e, e¹, el,
which are securely fastened to the watch case, by soldering, screws, rivets, or other
suitable means, the ends of the bow being connected to the joints by pins or screws
passed through them upon which the ends of the bow turn.
My invention may be applied to all watches as well as to keyless ones, and to
lockets and other articles of the like kind, as well as to watches which are worn
suspended to a chain or link and are liable to be stolen by detaching the bow.
I do not claim the precise form, dimensions, or methods of construction and
arrangement described and shewn, but having now particularly described and
ascertained the nature of my said invention, and in what manner the same is to
be porformed, I declare that what I claim is :-
In watches, lockets, and other articles of the like kind, the method of attaching the
bow to the case of the watch or other article, instead of to the pendant, substantially in
the manner and for the purpose described and illustrated in the drawing.
EDWARDS & Co.,
35, Southampton Buildings, London,
Agents for the Patentee.
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EDWARDS & Co.,
35, Southampton Buildings, London,
Agents for the Patentee.