New or Improved Device for Preventing Pocket-books, Purses, or the like being Stolen From or Accidentally Falling Out of the Pocket.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 24th Dec., 1889-Accepted, 15th Feb., 1890
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Device for Preventing Pocket-books, Purses, or
the like being Stolen From or Accidentally Falling Out of the
Pocket.
A communication from abroad by GUSTAF FREDRIK PETTERSON, of No. 6 B,
St. Paulsgatan, Stockholm, in the Kingdom of Sweden, Master Shoemaker.
I, WILLIAM PHILLIPS THOMPSON, F.C.S., M.I.M.E. of the Agency for Foreign
Patent Solicitors, 6 Lord Street Liverpool and 6 Bank Street, Manchester, both in the
County of Lancaster, and 323 High Holborn in the County of Middlesex, Civil
Engineer, 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 relates to a device adapted for preventing pocket books, purses,
etcetera, from falling out of the pocket or from being stolen therefrom.
On the annexed drawing :-
Figure 1 is a front view,
Figure 2 a side view, clasping a pocket book marked with dotted lines, and
Figure 3 a top view of the same.
The device consists of a plate A, to the lower part of which is attached or connected
a hooked terminal B, which strip, being interlaced in the plate A by being passed
through holes punched therein, may be moved according to the size of the pocket
book. In the plate A is formed a longitudinal gutter C, having for its object to partly
contain a spiral spring D. This spiral spring D is, at its lower part, coupled to a
book E secured to the plate, and at the top likewise coupled to an elongated hook E'
secured to a flap G which is connected to the plate A by means of a hinge. At the
top, the plate is provided with a safety pin H fixed to the back.
The device is applied, when in use, to the pocket intended for the pocket book or
purse, and is fixed there by means of the safety piu H. As shown by Figure 2, the
pocket book or purse, when put into a pocket provided with this device, will rest at
the bottom of the pocket in the hooked terminal B, and at the opening of the pocket
be clasped by the flap G, which, by the tension of the spiral spring D, pinches the
pocket book and holds it in place. When the pocket book is wanted, the flap G, as
indicated by dotted lines in Figure 2, is turned up, when the pocket book can be
taken out.
The centre of the pin on which the flap turns is so located, behind the point of
attachment of the spiral spring on the elongated eye of the flap aforesaid when in its
turned down position, that the tension of the spiral spring tends to bring the flap
towards the pocket book, similarly, when the flap is turned up, the point of connection
of the spring in the elongated eye is shifted (see dotted lines, Figure 2) so that the
flap is retained in its turned up position and does not fall down as the point on which
the spiral spring acts is behind the axis of the flaps. By this means, the pocket book
may be taken out very conveniently.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said invention,
and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by my
foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :-
A device for preventing pocket books, purses or like articles being stolen from or
accidentally falling out of the pocket, consisting of a plate or the like, provided at its

page_text: lower part with a hook capable of being moved in the longitudinal direction of the
plate, and at its top with a pivotted flap which, controlled by a spiral spring, is adapted
to clasp the article put into the device, substantially as described.
Dated this 23rd day of December 1889.
WM. P. THOMPSON & Co.,
Agents for the Applicant.