Improvements in Pins, Brooches, and the like.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Sept., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 5th Nov., 1894-Accepted. 9th Feb.. 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pins, Brooches, and the like.
RICHARD JAMES PAUL 14 Addle Street, London, E.C. Merchant, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
A device by which through using a safety-pin in duplicate made all in one,
greater security is obtained, and the setting of the design of a brooch or pin is
made level instead of hanging down as is usual with a single pin.
This device can be applied to dress pins, brooches, and any other object where
securing by means of a pin
adopted.
Dated this 25th day of September 1894.
I, RICHARD JAMES PAUL of 14 Addle Street, London, E.C. Merchant, 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:-
In accordance with my improvements, I produce a fastening contrivance for
pins, brooches and the like, which partakes of the nature of the device known
generally as a "safety pin." Instead however of my improved fastening having
only one limb or shank, I duplicate this member. This duplicated or "twin"
formation including the body part or framing, being arrived at by the employment
of only one piece or length of any suitably "springy" metal wire. That is to say,
I produce, made all in one, a twin pointed dress pin, brooch or any other like
article or object where securing by means of a pin or pins is adopted. The wire of
the framing is formed at the head with duplicated convolutions or scrolls serving
also the function of springs, and of which convolutions or scrolls, the fastening
shanks or prongs of the device, form continuations.
In the accompanying sheet of drawings illustrative of my invention
Figure 1 shews a dress pin of a plain pattern made all out of one length of
wire;
Figure 2 a pattern of rather more ornamental nature;
Figure 3 shews how the device shewn Figure 1 can be utilised for the
attachment thereto of ornamental badges of various kinds, so as to serve as a
brooch;
Figures 4 & 5 relate to an application of my improvements which I will hereafter
describe.
Referring to Figures 1 to 3 inclusive, a is the framework of the device; b, b, the
dual or twin fastening shauks; c, c, the convolutions or scrolls at head of the
device, and serving as springs; d, d, the dual or twin catches at the clasping end
of the device. The manner of using the device is as follows; the pointed twin
shanks b, b, having been passed through the material of say a lady's dress, bodice
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page_text: or other article of wearing apparel or personal adornment, are pressed until the
pointed ends b', 6', come into contiguity with the clasping hooks or catches d, d.
Then, on the pressure being relieved or withdrawn, the resiliency of the wire, aided
by the impetus imparted, due to the convoluted formation at the head serving as a
spring, the twin shanks will fly, with some force into, and with corresponding force
be retained in, the hooked catches d, d. Not only so, but the device will lie flat
upon the article to which it is secured instead of hanging down as in the case when
only a single pin fastening is employed.
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The views Figures 4 & 5 illustrate by a front and back view respectively, the
application of my invention to ordinary brooches as the means for attachment of
game. In this case the duplicated scrolled or convoluted head c, c, is attached to
the usual "setting at back of the brooch, by means of a small hinged block
piece e, the pins being in the same horizontal plane as that of the back of the
brooch, so as to ensure same lying flat, as in the case previously described in
reference to the Figures 1 to 3 inclusive. To allow of the clasping of the pointed
free ends of the shanks b, b, the setting is provided as shewn at f, with a shielded
hasp having duplicated hook shaped catches d, d, for the retention therein, when
introduced, of the pointed ends of the shanks b, b. The resiliency of the wire, aided
by the spring-like action of the convolutions c, c, being utilised for the manipulation
of the device all as already described in reference to Figures 1 to 3.
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 duplicated or
" twin "
fastening device made out of one piece of wire
substantially as herein described, and shewn in the accompanying sheet of
drawings.
1
V. LAZARUS,
1, Furnival Street, Holborn, E.C., Agent for Applicant.