A FLOWER. HOLDING BROOCH OR PIN OR IMPROVED BOUQUET HOLDER
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by David MacGregor at the Office of
the Commissioners of Patents on the 13th July 1883.
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DAVID MACGREGOR of the City and and County of Perth, North_Britain,
Jeweller, "A FLOWER. HOLDING BROOCH OR PIN OR IMPROVED BOUQUET
HOLDER
"3
This Invention consists of a Flower holding Brooch or Pin or improved Bouquet
holder and it may be constructed in Gold, Silver, or other material.-In general
form the flower holding Brooch or Pin or improved Bouquet Holder is that of a
door-bolt modified to accord with the requirements of the present Invention and
ornamented. The moveable or sliding bolt is of tubular structure having a bottom
so that it may contain water, forming a water holding tube for about three-fourths
of its length-the remaining fourth, the lower end of the bolt is bent slightly.-
The joint of the pin is soldered or otherwise attached to the back of the fixed
frame or holdfast of the bolt at the top.-There may be no ordinary catch to the
pin as this is supplied by utilizing the bend at the point of the bolt by a
contrivance forming a safety sliding catch.-The bolt turns half its own circum-
ference, like a door bolt, by a knob or handle attached to it in the centre.―
The top of the bolt is arranged for holding a flower or flowers safely and
harmlessly, the top of the frame being also a tube within which the bolt turns.-
An eccentric circular aperture is cut in the top plate of the outer tube thus leaving
a crescent shaped plate. A corresponding aperture is cut in the top plate of the
bolt within, in which is also left a crescent shaped plate but indented or toothed
with sharp points on the inner edge of the crescent.-When the Brooch Pin or
Bouquet holder is open ready for being used this double opening becomes actually
one circular opening freely admitting a flower or flowers to be set down right into
the bolt, with or without a few drops of water, the bent lower end of the bolt
shows turned in towards the dress, and the pin being now put into the dress of the
wearer in the usual manner, the finger and thumb of the left hand press the lower
end of the frame and the point of the pin together, while the right hand turns the
knob of the bolt over to the shut side, at once easily and securely "locking" both
the pin at the point and the flowers at the top. The pin is thus locked by being
pressed into a "slot" at the bend while the brooch is open. When the knob is

page_text: turned the bolt turns and takes in the pin beyond the "slot," so that when the
brooch is shut or fixed-the bent end appears turned out, the point of the pin
being within this, as within a safety catch, is secure. The flowers at the top are.
locked on the bolt being turned by the toothed crescent at its opening being
brought round from under the crescent edge of the outer or upper plate so that it is
reversed against the outer crescent-thus leaving only a small aperture for holding
the flowers fixedly but without injury by the dented crescent within against the
even edge without.-The brooch is instantly unloosed and the flowers freed simply
by bringing round the knob to the "open" "side when the pin at once springs out
of the slot and the flowers are drawn off the teeth.