Improvements in Watch Protectors
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Aug., 1886.
Complete Left; 20th May, 1887.
Complete Accepted, 24th June, 1887.
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GEORGE WILLIAM PRIDMORE 58 Wyndcliffe Road Small Heath Birmingham in
the County of Warwick (Designer) & SAMUEL HANDS of Edward Street Balsall
Heath Birmingham in the County of Worcester (Brassworker) do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
Improvements in Watch Protectors which consists of a new arrangement which
makes it impossible to snatch or steal the Watch from the pocket. The principal of
this improvement is in the shape of a Collar Stud with the end cut off, so leaving the
Back & neck of stud, a hole is then put near the end of the neck: A hole is then
made in the inside of the waistcoat to enable the neck of stud to go into the Watch
Pocket, & when this is in position a Washer is put over the neck of the stud so that
the thickness of the cloth comes between the back of the stud & the Washer. A split
ring is then put through the hole near. the end of neck of stud & through this
ring the Watch Guard or Chain is passed & being attached to the Watch make its
simply impossible for the Watch to be snatched or stolen from the pocket. This im-
provement can be made in any metal or of Bone or Wood in fact any suitable material.
Dated this 18th day of October 1886.
GEORGE WILLIAM PRIDMORE.
SAMUEL HANDS.

page_text: We, GEORGE WILLIAM PRIDMORE, 53, Wyndcliffe Road, Small Heath, Birmingham,
in the County of Warwick, Designer, and SAMUEL HANDS, of Edward Street, Balsall
Heath, Birmingham, in the County of Worcester, Brassworker, 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 consists in the new or improved watch protector hereinafter described
designed for the purpose of making it impossible for a watch to be stolen from the
pocket.
In order that our invention may be the better understood we have hereunto annexed
a sheet of drawings on which Fig. 1 represents the watch protoctor in side elevation,
partly in section; Fig. 2 is a front view of the same; Figs. 3 and 4 shew how the
watch protector is used.
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the Figures.
The watch protector consists essentially of two parts; viz., firstly, of a headed
stud A which is similar to a collar stud with the front cut off leaving the neck a¹ and
the back part a³, a holo 6 being inade near the outer end of the neck; and secondly,
an ordinary split ring B small enough to pass through the hole b; and we prefer to uso
also a washer C which can be threaded on to the neck a¹.
In using the watch protector above described a hole e is made in the watch pocket
from inside the waistcoat and the end of the neck a' inserted therein from the "inside
of the waistcoat so as to project inside the pocket. The washer 3 (whon used) is then
threaded on to the neck a' of the stud so that the thickness of the material comes
between the back a of the stud and tho washer C, the split ring B is then passed
through the hole b and through this ring the watch guard or chain is passed, which,
being attached to the watch, prevents the watch being drawn from the pocket by
pulling the chain.
Wo prefer to make the parts of the watch protector of metal but they can be made
of any other suitable material.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that what we claim is:
The watch protector, hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawings, consisting essentially of the headed stud A, having a hole in the stem, and
a split ring B, and with or without a washer C, all applied for the purposes and
substantially as set forth and illustrated.
Dated this 19th day of May 1887