IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS FOR FASTENING OR PROTECTING SCARF PINS AND OTHER ARTICLES
Year: 1874

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Bennett, of Poland Street, in the County
.
of Middlesex, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS FOR
FASTENING OR PROTECTING SCARF PINS AND OTHER ARTICLES."
Sealed the 14th August 1874, and dated the 17th March 1874.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Bennett at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
17th March 1874.
I, CHARLES BENNETT, of Poland Street, in the County of Middlesex,
do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS
IN MEANS FOR FASTENING OR PROTECTING SCARP PINS AND OTHER ARTICLES,"
to be as follows:-
The Invention has for its object improvements in means for fastening
or protecting scarf pins and other articles. For this purpose I form on
the pin one or more annular recesses or grooves, in connection with
which I employ a clip fastener or protector formed of a double oval or
round coil of hardened wire. In this clip fastener or protector I form
two notches or recesses in the centre of the double wire coil opposite to

page_text: each other so as to meet and form a small opening or passage for the
point of the pin to pass through. Then by forcing the pin through this
opening or passage far enough the double coil of wire is caused to clip
firmly around one or other of the annular grooves or recesses around
the pin and fasten the same to any article to which it may be applied,
whilst at the same time the point of the pin will be protected by lying
within the double ring. This arrangement of double coil spring clip
protector or fastener may be applied to other articles such as bill files
and others where a pin is used, and it may also be employed in cases
where two parts are required to be held together, the two parts being
provided with projections forming, so to say, half pins which are
provided with annular grooves or recesses acting in combination with
the spring-clip fastener or protector as before described.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said Charles Bennett in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 16th September 1874.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, CHARLES
BENNETT, of Poland Street, in the County of Middlesex, send
greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Seventeenth day of March, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four, in the
thirty-seventh year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and suc-
cessors, give and grant unto me, the said Charles Bennett, Her special
license that I, the said Charles Bennett, my executors, administrators,
and assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles Bennett, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with,
and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use,
exercise, and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland, the Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for
"IMPROVEMENTS IN MEANS FOR FASTENING OR PROTECTING SCARF PINS AND
OTHER ARTICLES," upon the condition (amongst others) that I, the said:
Charles Bennett, my executors or administrators, by an instrument in-

page_text: writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and scals, should
particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed and cause the
same to be filed in the Great Scal Patent Office within six calendar.
months next and immediately after the date of the said Letters
Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles Bennett, do hereby declare
the nature of the said Invention, and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement thereof, that is to say :-
The Invention has for its object improvements in means for fastening
or protecting scarf pins and other articles. For this purpose I form
on the pin one or more annular recesses or grooves, in connection with
which I employ a clip fastener or protector formed of a double oval or
round coil of hardened wire. In this clip fastener or protector I form
two notches or recesses in the centre of the double wire coil opposite to
each other so as to meet and form a small opening or passage for the
point of the pin to pass through. Then by forcing the pin through this
opening or passage far enough the double coil of wire is caused to clip
firmly around one or other of the annular grooves or recesses around
the pin and fasten the same to any article to which it may be applied,
whilst at the same time the point of the pin will be protected by lying
within the double ring. This arrangement of double coil spring clip.
protector or fastener may be applied to other articles such as bill files and*
others where a pin is used, and it may also be employed in cases where
two parts are required to be held together, the two parts being provided"
with projections forming, so to say, half pins which are provided with
annular grooves or recesses acting in combination with the spring-clip
fastener or protector as before described.
:
And in order that my said Invention may be more clearly understood
and readily carried into effect, I will proceed aided by the accom-
panying Drawings more fully to describe the same.

page_text: and towards one side or the other, when the parts will separate from
each other, as indicated in Figure 13.
My Invention as above described is applicable to a variety of articles,
amongst which may be enumerated snaps or fastenings for chains, in
which case the pin a would be secured to one end of the chain and the
clip to the other end; it is also applicable to bill files, to protect the
points thereof, the clip forming a ring to hang it up by, and to
earrings and ear tops, to prevent their accidentally slipping out of the
car, and to secure ornaments of various kinds to a variety of different
articles.
My Invention is also applicable as a means for holding together two
or more parts of an article, such as a locket, examples of which I have
shown by edge views at Figures 14 and 15, each side of the locket
having formed thercon a half pin a which when the locket is closed will
with the other half pin a form a complete pin upon which a clip b can
be placed, as before described, to hold the parts in their closed position,
such clip in this case serving the purpose of a loop to the locket. In
this way my Invention is also applicable to watch cases, key rings, and
a great variety of articles.
Having thus described the nature of my said Invention and the mode
in which I carry the same into effect, I would have it understood, that
what I claim as my Invention is the forming on pins or half pins one or
more grooves or recesses a¹, a², in combination with which I employ
clips, fasteners, or protectors acting in manner and for the purpose
substantially as herein shown and described.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Bennett, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Ninth day of September, in the year of
our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-four.