An Improved Safety Attachment for Brooches and the like.
Year: 1892

page_text: Date of Application, 9th May, 1392-Accepted, 11th June, 1892
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Safety Attachment for Brooches and the like.
I. MARY ELIZA CARR of Thurming, Oundle, in the County of Northampton,
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 :-
This invention has for its object to provide a safety attachment for brooches
and similar articles used as ornaments or for fastening wearing apparel and is
designed to prevent loss of the brooch in case the ordinary pin fastening should
become disengaged.
The invention consists in the combination, with the brooch or other article
secured by a hinged brooch pin, of a chain or cord attachment adapted to be linked
to the brooch or other article and terminating in a pin to be inserted in the material
of the garment before the brooch pin is secured, this pin being inserted in a vertical
position so that it will be at right angles to the brooch pin and be wholly concealed
by the brooch. Should the brooch pin become accidentally unfastened, the
brooch will remain pendent from this second pin which by reason of its vertical
position will not be liable to lose its hold of the material in which it is inserted.
Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this
Specification, wherein
Figure 1 is a view of the safety attachment separately.
Figure 2 is a rear perspective view of the brooch, shewing the pins in their
relative positions as in use, the material to which the brooch is supposed to be
fastened being omitted, and
Figure 3 is a vertical cross-section through the brooch.
All these figures are drawn to a magnified scale. The same letters of reference
denote like parts in all the figures.
a is a light steel or other chain or cord to one end of which is attached a steel
or other pin b provided with a head to admit of its being readily forced into the
fabric, the other end of the chain or cord being provided with a "split" ring e to
enable it to be readily linked to a loop d provided at the upper part of the brooch
at back, this loop d being either soldered to the brooch for the purpose or being
the ordinary loop with which brooches are usually provided when intended to be
worn on a necklet as a locket.
The contrivance is used in the following way:-Having inserted the ordinary
hinged pin e of the brooch into the material of the garment and before securing it
to the ordinary catch the pin bis inserted point downwards through the material
so as to pass behind the brooch pin e at right angles thereto, as shewn in Figures 2
and 3 and having brought the point of the pin b again through the material (which
is represented by 9 in Figure 3) the point of the brooch pin e is engaged in its
catch f.
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Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is-
The combination, with a brooch or other article fastened by a hinged brooch pin,
of the herein described safety attachment for use substantially as specified.
1000
MARY ELIZA CARR,
By A. M. & Wm. Clark,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.