US1281853A - Safety-catch for pins and similar articles. - Google Patents

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A. SCHROETTER.

SAFETY CATCH FOR PINS AND SIMILAR ARTICLES.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. I. m1.

1,281,853. Pat-anted Oct. 15, 1918.

IIVI/E/VTOR WJMV ' ATTORNEY ARNOLD SCHROETTER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SAFETY-CATCH FOR PINS AND SIMILAR ARTICLES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 15,}918.

Application filed September 1, 1917. SeriaI No. 189,249.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARNOLD SoHRoEr'rER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York city, in the county of Bronx and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Safety-Catches for Pins and Similar Articles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a catch of novel construction by means of which the fastening pin may be locked securely to a breast pin or similar article of jewelry. The invention consists in the various features of improvement more fully pointed out in the specification and appended claims.

In the accompanying drawing;

Figure 1, is a front view of an open-work bar pin provided with a safety catch, embodying my invention;

Fig. 2, a cross section through the catch 7 showing it closed;

Fig. 3, a cross section showing the catch open;

Fig. 4, a plan of the catch, and

Fig. 5, a front View thereof.

The catch comprises a hook-shaped member 1, having a shank 2 that is forked to form a pair of bendable prongs or bridge 3. These prongs may be alined with and are soldered to the solid parts or webs of an open-work bar pin, brooch or other article of jewelry 4. Hook 1 is adapted to be engaged by a conventional springy fastening pin 5 which is pivoted to bar pin 4. at 6.

To shank 2 is pivoted at 7 a pair of jaws 8 adapted to straddle hook 1 and connected at their back by a cross bar or finger piece 9, the jaws conjointly with the cross bar constituting a substantially U-shaped keeper. Jaws 8 are grooved at their upper ends as Copies of this! patent may be obtained for at 10, to constitute hooks adapted to grasp pin 5. Below grooves 10, the jaws are slitted some distance as at 11, to form a pair of resilient tongs 12, which are adapted to bear from below against pin 5.

To close the catch the keeper is swung back (Fig. 3) pin 5 is sprung into hook 1, then the keeper is advanced to straddle the hook and grasp the pin in which position the tongs 12, will bear yieldingly against the latter from below, so as to maintain the keeper in its closed position, and to hold the pin firmly against the hook (Fig. 2).

To open the catch the keeper is thrown back and the pin dislodged from the hook.

It will be seen that the catch constructed as described may be readily manipulated and that it efiectively locks the pin against accidental or larcenous withdrawal.

I claim:

1. A safety catch for pins comprising a hook and a keeper pivoted thereto, said keeper being composed of a pair of connected grooved jaws adapted to straddle the hook.

2. A safety catch for pins comprising a hook having a divided shank to form a pair of bendable prongs, and a keeper pivoted thereto, said keeper being composed of a pair of grooved jaws adapted to straddle the hook and of a finger piece connecting the jaws.

3. A safety catch for pins comprising a hook and a keeper pivoted thereto, said keeper being composed of a pair of connected jaws adapted to straddle the hook, said jaws being provided with grooves, and with slits below the grooves to form a pair of resilient tongs. V

ARNOLD, SGHROETTER.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, 110.

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