Improvements in Safety Devices for Retaining Watches in Pockets.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Oct., 1889-Accepted, 7th Dec., 1889
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Safety Devices for Retaining Watches in Pockets.
We, MAX DEINES of No. 76 Stadtweg, in the Village of Loschwitz, near Dresden,
Saxony, Merchant, WOLF VON WOLFFRAMSDORFF of No. 1 Melanchton Strasse,
Dresden, Merchant, and CARL OTTO, No. 28 Street No. 1 in the Village of Striesen,
near Dresden, Merchant, trading under the style of Wolffrausdorff and Company at
Dresden aforesaid, do hereby declaro 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 has reference to a device for retaining a watch in the pocket of a
garment in such a manner that it cannot be readily abstracted therefrom by a pick-
pocket, or accidentally fall out of such pocket when the wearer bends or stoops.
Fig. 1 is an elevation showing the application of a safety device according to
this invention for retaining a watch in a pocket, part of which is shown broken
away.
Fig. 2 is a horizontal section through the pocket.
The safety device comprises a plate a, upon which a spring hook is secured in a
horizontal position by any convenient means such as by soldering, or rivetting.
The plate a is provided with a suitable number of holes c, arranged in any con-
venient position whereby it may be secured to one side of the pocket.
It is considered advantageous to fix the plate a by sewing it, to the inner surface of
the material forming the outer wall of the pocket. The hook is made as a spring
hook so as to yield in such a manner that if the watch be placed within the pocket, it
may, by means of its ring d, or its ring holder e, or by any convenient part of the
watch chain near the watch, be secured to the hook by a sideways movement of the
ring or other part. It is furthermore preferred to so arrange the plate a with its
spring hook or piece within the pocket that the watch will rest upon the bottom of the
pocket so as not to hang on the book b, which will however keep the watch in position
as shown.
The entrance into the eye or loop of the spring hook is formed at both sides by
curved surfaces, which permit of the ring d or other part of the watch or chain being
readily engaged with or disengaged from the spring book by a gentle pressure, the
free bent portion of the hook yielding sufficiently for this purpose but so nevertheless
as to make it difficult for a pick-pocket to abstract the watch, and also to prevent the
watch falling out of the pocket, should the wearer bend or stoop.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what
we claim is :-
A safety device for retaining a watch in a pocket, consisting of a plate a adapted to
be secured to the inner side of the pocket, and provided with a piece or spring book b
the arrangement being such that the ring or other suitable part of the watch, or a part
of the watch chain, can be readily engaged with and disengaged from the spring hook
by the wearer but so as to render improper abstraction of the watch difficult, and to
prevent the watch accidentally falling out of the pocket, as set forth.
Dated this 21st day of October 1889.
W. LLOYD WISE,
Per F. J. Brougham.