US1174079A - Pin-point protector. - Google Patents

Description

A. McKELLAR.

PIN POINT PROTECTOR.

APPLICATION FILED AUG-16. 1913.

1,174,079. Patented Mar. 7,1916.

ALEXANDER McKELLAR,

I=IN5POINT Specification of Letters Patent.

reruns orrion PROTECTOR.

Patented Mar. *7, 1916.

Application filed August 16, 1918. Serial No; 785,147

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER MoKnL- LAR, of a Glaisnock street, Cumnock, Scotland, watchmaker and jeweler, have invented certain new and useful- Improvements in Pin-Point Protectors, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide a simple and effective device for the protection of pin points, and as a safeguard against the loss of articles of jewelry, such as brooches, scarfpins, and the like, and also to prevent the pin-point tearing vest or neck-tie when in use. g V

In the drawings accompanying the specification I have shown the invention applied to a brooch as illustrating one example of its application.

Figure 1 is a backview of abrooch embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same showing the brooch fastened by the pin to which the improvements embodying my invention are applied. Fig. 3 is'a correp the brooch B spending view showing the brooch unfastened by the pin and the improved device detached from the point of the pin. Fig. l is a back view of the brooch embodying my invention in one of its alternative or modilied forms. Fig. 5 is a plan corresponding to Fig. 2 showing the brooch fastened by the pin to which the modified form is applied, the dotted lines illustrate the safeguard and protector removed from the point of the pin. Fig. 6 is an end view of the same, all hereafter more fully referred to and de scribed. I

Referring to the drawings which illustrate my invention as applied to a brooch, the device consists of a finely coiled spiral spring A. made of hard drawn wire and formed so as to grip the end of the pin B of In its present application there is a short chain C, one end of which is attached to a small ring D fixed to the brooch B and the other to the spiral spring A whereby, even when the brooch becomes unfastened, there is a prevention against its falling from the dress of the wearer.

According to the modification illustrated in Figs. 4-, 5 and 6, the end of the spring A is formed into a loop E to which one end of the chain C is fastened, and from the loop; the wire is bridged across the spring and suitably fixed to the end thereof. In thebridge-piece F a wave or bend G is provided to enable. the free end of the catch H, on the brooch, or the like, to passthrough it,

'when the brooch, or thelike, is fixed to the piece with it, so that the wave, or bend G engages the catch H and being looped is which operation forms an effective lock, and the brooch, or the like, cannot possibly be detached from the garment until the spring has been again turned inthe opposite direction and the catch unlooped from the said I wave or'bend G. lnits application to pendants there would be a short pin fixed to the back of pendant to whichthe grip is fastened after the pin is inserted in the dress. The gripmay be arranged in various designs to suit the special purpose of its application, 6. g. as a protection to pin points, it can be so enlarged as to represent a sword handle, a golf club blade, or any other device ofan ornate nature.

grip is simply fixed on the end of thepin,

turned into the position shown in Fig. 6,

and a half-turn of the spring-griptightens the grip so that it will not slip off until it is unloosened by the reverse movement. This method of fixing the grip is also applicable to the various other uses above described.

Claim.- a A device for safeguarding scarf pins,

pendants, and the like, comprising in combi;

nation a brooch, a pin pivoted to said brooch, a hook-like catch for said pin, anda combined guard and lock for said pin, said guard and lock being formed of a closely coiled spiral wire adapted to fit over the end. of the .pin and tapering toward the point of the pin, said wire being formed into a loop at the larger end of the spiral, and

being bridged across from the said loop to the smaller end of the spiral, the bridging portion of said wire being bent outward away from the coiled portion of the wire in a U-like bend adapted to inclose said catch and lock said guard and pin thereto, and chain connecting said brooch and said loop.

In testimony whereof I my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ALEXANDER MGKELLAB.

1 Witnesses:

- 7 JOHN RIDDLE, v

CA HERINE HAMILTON.

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

. Washington, D- 0-

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