US1038392A - Safety-catch for jewelry. - Google Patents

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E.P.KOHN. SAFETY CATCH FOR JEWELRY.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 17, 1912.

1,038,392. Patented Sept. 10,1912.

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EDMUND r. KOHN, or NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

SAFETY-CATCH FOR JEWELRY.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, EDMUND P. KOHN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safety-Catches The present invention has reference, generally, to improvements in safety-catches for brooches, breast-pins, chatelaines,badges, safety-pins, and other similar articles of jewelry; and the invention relates, more particularly to a novel safety-lock or means employed in connection with the pin-receiv: ing catch for guarding against any accidental displacement or disengagement of the pin-shank from the holding catch of the piece of jewelry. a

The invention has for its principal object to provide an improved piece of jewelry in the form of a brooch, breast-pin, chatelaine, badge, safety-pin, or the like, having a pinreceiving catch and a slidably mounted locking means secured thereto, which may be easily operated and secured, against accidental disengagement of the pin-point when the piece of jewelry is once fastened to the dress or other article.

Other objects of this invention not at this time more particularly mentioned will be tailed description of the same.

With the various objects of the present invention in view, the said invention consists, primarily, the pin-shanks of breast-pins, .brooches, badges, safety-pins, and the like; and, the invention consists, furthermore, in the novel arrangements and combinations of the various parts, as well as in the details of the construction of the same, all of which will be more fully described in the following specification and then finally embodied in the clauses of the claim which are appended to and which form an essential part of this specification.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of a breast- Specificationof Letters Patent. Application filed April 17, 1912.

so as to insure in the novel safety-lock for Patented Sept. 10,1912. Serial No. 691,391. 1

pin or bro-och provided with a pin-shank retaining means or safety-lock made according to and embodying the principlesof the present invention, the locking means being shown in its unlocked position; and Fig. 2 is a similar view of the parts shown in said Fig. 1 with the locking means in its operated or locked relation to the pin-shank. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section of the same on a larger scale, taken on line 33 of Fig. 2. of the drawings, looking in the direction of the arrow 00, and Fig. 4 is a longitu dinal vertical detail section of Fig, 3, showing the locking means in, its operated or locked position in relation to the pinshank, said view being also made on an enlarged scale- Similar characters of reference are employed in all of the above described views, to indicate corresponding parts.

Referring now to the said figures of the drawings, the reference-character 1 indicates a complete piece of jewelry, such as a breast-pin, brooch, chatelaine, badge, safety-pin, or the like, the same comprising a suitable body or be of any desirable be provided with any suitable surface-ornamentation upon its face, as will be clearly evident. Suitably upon the back of said body or face-plate 2 is any well-known form of pivotal support, as 3, which is provided with a pivot 4 upon which is pivotally arranged, in the usual manner, the perforated end-portion 5 of a pin 6 formed with the pin-pointed end-portion 7. Suitably secured upon the rear side of said body or face-plate 2 is the novel con struction of pin-catchand safety-lock embodying the principles of the present invention, the said pin-catch and safety-lock being of the general construction to be presently more fully set forth. Secured by means of solder, or in any other suitable manner, to the back of said face-plate is a pin-point receiving and holding or retain .ing catch-like member,

as 8, the same comprising two post-like members or elements 9 and 10 which are suitably connected with and extend downwardly from the rear side of said faceplate 2. Suitably connected with the lower end-portions of the said post-like members or elements 9 and 10 is a connecting piece 11 forming with the said post-like members or elements the pin point receiving socket of the holding or arranged and secured of the drawings.

retaining-catch, just mentioned, the said connecting piece 11 being preferably of a U- shaped configuration, as shown in Fig. 3

One of the post-like members or elements 9 is preferably made narrower than the post-like member or element 10, so that the post-like member or element 10 will act as a stop when the pin point 7 is moved in a lateral direction and thus stops the pin-point 7 directly over the receiving socket or holding-catch, as will be clearly evident.

.Each side-portion of the connecting piece 11 is formed with a longitudinally extending opening or slot 12, and slidably arranged in these openings or slots are suitable end-lugs or cars 14: of a slide or crossbar 13, the said end-lugs or cars 1 L being bent slightly toward the base of the postlike elements, so as to prevent any lateral slipping means, the said slide or cross-bar 13 being also bent or curved centrally in an upper direction, as at 15.

As will be clearly evident from an inspection of Fig. 4: of the drawings, when the locking-means or cross-bar 13 is at the inner end of the openings or slots 12, the pin-point 7 is securely retained and locked within the receiving socket of the holding catch, the parts being held in their locked relation by v the frictional engagement betwen the said parts,

and any possibility of accidental displacement is done away with; but, when the locking-means or bar 13 is moved to the outer ends of the openings or slots 12, the

pin-point 7 may be easily lifted from the receiving-socket of the holding catch and the piece of jewelry removed from the dress.

From the foregoing description of the present invention it will be clearly seen, that j I have devised an efiicient and simple locking means for the pin-shanks of jewelry and the like, which is neat in its appearance, and the parts of which cannot become accidentally disarranged.

I claim 1. In jewelry, or the like, a pin-receiving catch comprising a pair of post-like elements and a connecting piece, arranged to form a pin-point receivingsocket, said post-like elements being provided with longitudinally extending slots, a pin-retaining slide disor displacement of the locking posed between said post-like elements and intermediate the base of said post-like elements and said connecting piece, and endlugs connected with said slide, said end-lugs extending into and being slidably disposed in the slots of said post-like elements, and the free end-portions of said lugs being bent to prevent lateral displacement of said slide, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. In jewelry, or the like, a pin-receiving catch comprising a pair of post-like elements and a connecting piece, arranged to form a pin-point receiving socket, said post-like elements being provided with longitudinally extending slots, a pin-retaining slide disposed between said post-like elements and intermediate the base of said post-like elements and said connecting piece, and endlugs connected with said slide, said end-lugs extending into and being slidably disposed in the slots of said post-like elements, said slide being provided between the said postlike elements with a centrally curved and extending portion toward the base of the post-like elements, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

3. In jewelry, or the like, a pin-receiving catch comprising a pair of post-like elements and a connecting piece, arranged to form a pin-point receiving socket, said post-like elements being provided with longitudinally extending slots, a pin-retaining slide disposed between said post-like elements and intermediate the base of said post-like elements and said connecting piece, and end-lugs connected with said slide, said end-lugs extending into and being slidably disposed in the slots of said post-like elements, said slide being provided between the said post-like elements with a centrally curved and upwardly extending portion, and the free end-portions of said lugs being bent to prevent lateral displacement of said slide, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony, that I claim the invention set forth above I have hereunto set my hand this 15th day of April, 1912.

EDMUND P. KOHN.

Witnesses ROBERT W. THROSSELL, WM. R. SKILLMAN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of latents.

Washington, I). G.

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