Improvements in Means for Securing a Key or Keys to a Person's Dress.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 18th July, 1890-Accepted, 23rd Aug., 1890
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Means for Securing a Key or Keys to a
Person's Dress.
I, GEORGE FREDERICK REDFERN, of the firm of G. . Redfern & Co., the General
Patent Office, No. 4, Sonth Street, Finsbury in the County of London, Patent Agents,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention (a communication from abroad by
Robert Spierling of Hildesheim, Merchant) 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 to hold a key or keys and to be easily
attached to any part of a person's dress the said device allowing the key to be
easily removed or hooked on but effectually preventing it from becoming accidentally
detached.
The device or holder consists of a combination of a hook with a safety pin which
spring hook is either provided with a spring point or head or is itself in the form of
a spring.
In the accompanying drawing,
Figure 1 is an elevation of the improved device for holding a key or keys and con-
structed according to my invention, the device being provided with a spring point or
head and shewn attached to a portion of a garment.
Figures 2, 3, 3, 4 and 4° are views of the improved devices, which themselves form
springs.
Figure 5 illustrates one of the improved devices attached to a person's dress.
The improved device as shewn in Figure 1 consists of a bow B formed integral
with a plate a and provided with a spring point or head 6 which bears against an
outwardly curved portion of the plate a. The plate a is provided with eyes d, d¹
through which, (after they have been passed through the garment), is passed a pin e
for the purpose of attaching the device to the dress.
The eyes d, and the pin e can be replaced by a safety pin fixed to the back of the
plate. Instead of a spring point or head 6 being adapted to the bow or hook B as
herein before described and illustrated in Figure 1 for preventing the key A from
accidentally leaving the device the latter can as shown in figures 2, 3, 3, 4 and 4* form
a spring to prevent the key from coming off.
In the arrangement shewn in Figures 2, 3 and 3* the device is formed of wire
bent into a spring by giving it several spiral twists at f similarly to a safety pin and
the pin
is also bent into a spiral form at 9 so as to secure the device not only
by passing the pin through the fabric of the garment but also by the spring
pressure.
The device shewn in Figures 4 and 4* is attached to the garment in the same manner
as the device illustrated in Figure 1 but instead of employing the eyes d, d' an ordinary
safety pin is attached to the plate a.
The advantage of this device or key-holder is that not only can it be manu-
factured in an elegant and ornamental form but in consequence of its combination
with a safety pin it can be easily fastened to any part of a person's garment.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
:-
(1.) A device for securing a key or keys to a person's dress consisting of the com-
bination of a spring bow or hook B with a safety pin e in such a manner that a key ▲

page_text: suspended in the spring hook B and the device itself are by means of the safety pin
both secured in position substantially as hereinbefore described.
(2.) The improved means for securing a key or keys to a person's dress herein before
described with reference to the various figures of the accompanying drawing.
Dated the 18th day of July 1890.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicant.