Improvements in Safety-fastenings for Scarf-pins and Brooches.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 31st Oct., 1890-Accepted, 27th Dec., 1890
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Safety-fastenings for Scarf-pins and Brooches.
I, CARL BACHEM, of Pforzheim, in the Grand Duchy of Baden, German Empire,
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 :-
My invention relates to a new and improved safety fastening for scarf-pins and
brooches, and it is the object of my invention to provide means for entirely pre-
venting scarf-pins and brooches from being lost, or from getting an oblique or
incorrect position.
The manner of fastening brooches employed hitherto, consists, as well known,
in putting the needle into an eye or ear, after having attached the brooch to the
dress, said manner being improved in the case of wearing dear brooches by a short
golden chain, which separately connected brooch and dress. The same safety-chain
is used everywhere with dear scarf-pins, and the chain answered its purposo as
far as the brooch or scarf-pin respectively held thereby was prevented from being
lost entirely, but, not from loosing its proper place or from getting an incorrect
position.
In order to attain the effects mentioned above, I have constructed my new safety-
fastening, which is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which similar letters
denote similar parts throughout the several views and in which :
Figs. 1 and 2 and 3 are rear-views of a scarf-pin, showing several positions of the
shield with its hook.
Fig. 4 is a side-view of the scarf-pin, showing the position the shield and hook have
when in a scarf, as in Fig. 5.
Figs. 6 to 10 are rear-views of a brooch, showing several positions of the shield
with its hook.
The shield b carries a pin e to the rear extremity of which is firmly secured a hook c.
The needle a is loosely attached to pin e by means of an eye g, thus allowing shield b
with hook c to gain positions as shown in Figs. 2 & 3, whilst needle a remained in its
vertical normal state. Now, when putting the scarf-pin in a scarf, it is in the position
Fig. 1, in which the shield is reversed; the latter is turned now, as shown in Fig. 2,
and the hook c enters the stuff, and enters it the more the farther shield b is turned,
until the latter arrives in the position Figs. 3-5, in which it has attained its normal
position. As easily to be seen now, hook e prevents the scarf-pin very effectively from
even the slightest axial displacement, and thus from being lost, as the only means for
removing the pin from the scarf consists in turning the shield again to the position
Fig. 1.
When
Concerning brooches said safety-fastening acts in exactly the same manner.
putting needle a into the dress, the shield has a reversed position, as seen in Fig. 6.
By now turning the shield hook c enters the stuff by and by till the shield attains its
normal horizontal position Fig. 9. The needle is put into the eye then, and the
fastening thus finished. The security is still more increased by fixing the hook to the
shield or to the pin e respectively in the position shown in Fig. 10. The shield must
be turned here, of course, in opposite direction than before, and is then perfectly
secured in its place. The brooch cannot loose possibly its proper position, nor can it
get lost at all.
Having thus fully 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 :-
In a safety-fastening for scarf-uins and branches. The combination of the front-

page_text: shield (b) having a pin or projection (e), with a hook (c) firmly secured to the rear of
said pin (e), the latter movable in an eye or ear (9) attached to the needle (a), for the
purpose as described.
Dated the AVN Aw of Claber 1890
CARL BACHEM.
By Rayner & Cassell,
37, Chancery Lane, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.