US1041664A

US1041664A - Pocket-book-securing device.

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Publication number: US1041664A
Application number: US70220512A
Authority: US
Inventors: Martin Olson
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1912-06-07
Filing date: 1912-06-07
Publication date: 1912-10-15
Anticipated expiration: 1929-10-15

Description

M. OLSON.

POCKET BOOK SECURING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 7, 1912.

Patented Oct. 15, 1912.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 15, 19 12.

Application filed June 7, 1912. SeriaI No. 702,205.

, ing Devices; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such, as will enable others skilled inthe art to which it appertains to make and usethe same.

My invention hasfor its object to provide a safety lock device for detachably securing a pocketbook, wallet, or similar article within the pocket of a garment or directly to the garment in order to prevent-the same fro being lost-or taken by pick pockets.

To this end, the invention consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described and defined in the claims. I

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings wherein like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings,-Figure 1 is'a View partly in section and partly in elevation, showing the improved device detachably securing a pocketbook within the pocket of a garment; Fig. Qis a front elevation ofthe improved device, removed from the pocketbook and pocket; Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section taken on the line m m of Fig. 2, some parts being shown in different positions from that shown in Fig. 2; Fig. at is a detail View, partly in rear elevation and partly in section, taken onthe line ac :0 of Fig. 3, and Fig. 5 is a transverse section taken on the line 00 w of Fig. 2.

The numeral 1 indicates a portion of a garment provided with a pocket 2-. Placed within the pocket 2, is a pocketbook indicated, as an entirety, by the numeral 3. Permancntly secured to the pocketbook 3, by means of rivets 4, is a flat base plate 5 having partially cut and pressed therefrom, a pair of transversely spaced outwardly projecting hinge lugs 6. Also partially cut and pressed from the base plate 5, at a point directly below the hinge 1 s 6, is a comparatively wide, laterally pro ecting extension 7 terminating at its free horizontal edge, in a multiplicity of upwardly projecting teeth, or barbs, 8. These teeth extend in a plane parallel with the base plate 5.

finger piece 12, and at its lower end, is secured a pair of. long teeth or barbs l3 arranged for cooperation with the short barbs 8. The barbs 13 are, as shown, preferably formed from a single rod, bent U-shape, with the ends of its prongs sharpened to form the barbs. Partially cut from the lover 9, at points below the hinge lugs 10, is a pair of lugs 14 that are rolled or pressed around the barbs 13 adjacent to their inner ends, as best shown in Fig. 4. These lugs 14: securely hold the barbs against lateral or twisting movements. To prevent endwise movement of the barbs 13, a lug 15 is pressed rearward from the lever 9 at a point intermediately between the hinge lugs 10 and its lower edge portion engages the transverse portion of the rod forming the barbs 13.

.Telescoped onto the intermediate portion of the hinge lug 11, is a coiled spring 16, one end of which engages the base plate 5, at its upper edge portion, as a base of resistance,

and its other end bears against the lever 9 at a point above its hinge lugs 10, as best shown in Fig, 3. This spring 16 tends to yieldinglyhold the free ends of the barbs 13 in a positlon close to the outer face of the base plate 5 and inward of the short barbs 8. The lower end portions of the hinge lugs 6 are extended considerably below a point where the hinge pin 11 passes therethrough to form stops 17 with which the lugs 14: engage, as best shown in Fig. 5, to limit the inward movements of the barbs 13.

To. secure the pocketbook 3 within the pocket 2, the same is first placed within said pocket, as shown in Fig. 1. The finger piece- 12 is then pressed inward against the tension of the spring 16, thereby carrying the long barbs 13 into a position, as shown in Fig. 3. In this position of the barbs 13, the same are forced through the fabric of the pocket 2 with their free ends extending outside thereof. The-pressure on the finger piece l2 is then released and the spring 16' carried the barbs 18 inward between the short barbs 8 and into a position close to the base plate 5. Further inward movement of the barbs 13 is limited bythe stops 17.

During the inward movement of the barbs 13, the same have carried therewith that portion of the garment with which they are engaged, and folded the same over the short barbs 8, as shown in Fig; 1. With a .portion of the garment thus folded over the'short barbs 8, it is impossible for the pocketbook 3 'to be accidentally dropped out of the pocket 2 or to have the from by a thief.

The above described device, while extremely simple and of small cost, is thought to be highly efficient for the purpose had in view.

What I claim is 1. The combination with a pocketbook, of a base plate secured to said pocketbook, a toothed flange on said plate, and a cooperating barb equipped member movably mountsame removed there- .ed on said base plate and arranged to fold a long spring actuated barbs mounted on said base plate and arranged to fold a portion of. a garment onto and over said relatively short barbs, substantially as described.

4., The combination with a pocketbook, of

long barbs being normally held in a position 1 between said base plate and said-short barbs, substantially as described.

- 5. The combination with a pocketbook, of a base plate secured to said pocketbook, relatively short upwardly projecting barbs pressed from said base plate and sgced outward therefrom, a spring actuated ger piece hinged to said base plate above said short barbs, and a. yoke-like rod secured at its intermediate portion to said finger piece, the prongs thereof aifording a pair of relatively long barbs,;the points of which are arranged to work between said short barbs and from one side to the other thereof and to engage and fold a portion of a garment onto and over said relatively short barbs, said lon barbs bein normally held in a position et-ween sai base plate and said short barbs, substantially as described.

In testimonv whereof I'afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

. MARTIN OLSON.

Witnesses:

F. ,D. MERCHANT, HARRY D. Kim-01m.

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

' 1 Washington, .D. G.