US2181071A - Brooch - Google Patents

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Nov. 21,1939. MLRUSS L 2.181.071

- BROOCH Filed May 19, 1938 2] MW I 17444 4 5 .Z/77Zf' {0605M closed fastening Patented Nov. 21, 1939 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFECE srsooon Malle Little Russell, Philadelphia, Pa. Application May 19, 1938, Serial dzoasar 3 Claims. This invention relates to a brooch, and more particularly to an improved means for fastening a brooch or like article to a garment.

It is well known that brooches, being articles of personal adornment, are adapted to be fastened by means of pins to the most expensive and delicate types of textile fabrics. Heretofore, articles of this kind have been commonly subject to the objectionable features of causing injury and inconvenience in attaching the brooch to and de taching it from the fabric. The injury to the fabric has for the most part been caused by the fabric catching between the pins by whichthe brooch is fastened to the fabric and the body of the brooch and the inconvenience from the use of such an article has arisen from the effort necessary to be expended in attempting to disengage without injury to the threads of the fabric a brooch which has been caught in such a manner.

In my prior Patents Nos. 757,756 and 1,405,445 I have shown a securing means for brooches, buckles, etc., which overcomes the. faults incident to the use of pin fastening means of the character referred to. In such prior patents I have dismeans in the form of hooked pin elements having spaced points extending toward each other whereby the point at one side of the device may be inserted in the garment and the buckle or the like moved with respect to the garment in the direction of the other point or points, whereupon the latter may be hooked into the garment.

. These devices were substantial improvements over conventional pin structures but they possessed the disadvantage of having substantially or J-shaped pin members which effectively held the devices in position, but the cloth through which the pins were inserted sometimes passed around the loops of the pin and made it somewhat diificult to remove them. Unless care was used in removing a buckle or the like employing the structures referred to, injury to the fabric might result asin the case of conventionalpin structures.

Accordingly, the principal object of this invention is toprovide means for fastening a brooch or the like to fabric, which will materially diminishthe possibilityof injury to the fabric.

A further object is to provide a brooch with fastening means which will enable the brooch to be detached from the fabric with a minimum of effort. i

A further object is to provide a brooch with fastening means which positively prevents the tening the brooch to a danger of catching the fabric between the back of the brooch and the fastening means.

A further object is to provide a brooch with fastening means which will hold the back of the brooch in close proximity to the fabric to, which 5 it is attached.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent during'the course of the following description.

In the drawing I have shown several embodiments of they invention. In this showing:

Figure 1 is a plan View of the back face of a I brooch provided with fastening means,-.

Figure 2 is a sectional view. taken along the line 22 of Figure 1 showing the brooch attached to a piece of fabric,

Figure 3 is a perspective view of one set of the fastening means,

Figure 4 is a perspective view of embodiment of the invention, and,

Figure 5 is a perspective view of a further mod- I ification.

Referring to-Figure l, the numeral lt'designates the body member of the device such as a brooch, provided with identical fastening devices 25 H and'iZ located at diametrically opposite sides of the brooch. The identical fastening devices II and I2 are more clearly shown in the perspective view in Figure 3, and will be presently described in detail. 30

A suitably formed metallic'strip l3 having a flat surface I4 is provided for attachment to the brooch ill at suitable'points by soldering or any other means. Obviously, the strip l3 could be made integral with the back of the brooch. The strip I3 is provided with abutments l5 formed. thereon or integral therewith. Needle-like garment fastening devices it are provided for fasgarment and protrudes The ends of the abutstrip is are preferably a modified from the abutments l5. ments remote from the formed in the shape of a sphere, and the garment pins [6 are connected to the spherical portion of the abutment centrally thereof in order that the abutment will diverge abruptly from the shank of the garment fastening devices [6.

Referring to. Figure 4, I have shown my fastening devices l6 applied to a brooch havinga body member, I! in the form of a corsage. holder having a semi-circular portion provided with a pin 50 I8 centrally thereof for holding the stems of flowers (not shown). It will be noted that abutments l5 are preferably attached directly to fiat surfaces I 9 forming the ends of the body member or corsage holder I1 without the use of a strip l3.

any sharp edges engaging the In Figure 5, I have shown a modification of the attaching means. In this showing an abutment structure is employed wherein the end of each abutment remote from the brooch is of a cylindrical shape and the fastening devices [6 are connected thereto so as to intersect the axis of the cylindrical portion of the abutment. In Figures 4 and 5 it will be noted that the needlelike garment fasteners 16 are substantially parallel to the common plane of the flat surfaces IQ of the body member of the device, and that the fasteners at opposite sides of the device point toward each other.

Referring to Figure 2 wherein the brooch H] is shown attached to a piece of fabric 2|, it will be noted that the needle-like garment fastener l6 terminates at the abrupt enlargement provided by the spherical portion of the abutment l5 to effectively prevent movement of the fabric beyond or over the abutment l5. Accordingly, the needle-like garment fastener l6 may be inserted between the threads of the fabric but the abutment 15 will prevent the fabric from being caught at. any point between any of the fasteners and the body portion of the brooch H3. Accordingly, it will be obvious that the brooch 18 may be disengaged in the fabric 2i without injury to the threads of the fabric.

Regardless of the type of abutment used, there will be provided a rounded surface 22 spaced from the flat surface I4 and beyond which the fabric cannot pass when the pointed members iii are inserted thereinto. The rounding of the abutments l5 and 20 in this manner eliminates fabric to cause injury thereto. Moreover, since the fabric, where pierced by the members l6, cannot pass beyond the butt ends of the members 16, the portion of the fabric between the abutments will be held in proximity to the members l6. Therefore, these members will lie against the fabric, thus rendering it substantially impossible for the points of the members [5 to stick into the skin of the wearer. It also will be noted that the portions of the fabric which pass over the abutments will be supported thereby to space the members [6 from the wearer and thus assist in protecting the wearer from injury.

t has been found desirable to place equal numbers of garment fasteners I6 at opposite sides of the brooch with the fasteners l6 lying in a common plane substantially parallel to the flat surfaces [4 or IS'and with the ends of each fastener it in substantially direct alignment with and projecting toward a similarly positioned fastener on the opposite side of the brooch. With this construction the brooch is very easily attached to and detached from the fabric garment.

From the foregoing, it will be apparent that I have provided meansfor fastening a brooch to fabric which effectively prevents injury to the fabric and by so doing minimizes the amount of effort necessary to detach the brooch from thefabric.

It is to be understood that the forms of the invention herewith shown and described are to be taken as preferred examples of the same and that various changes in the shape, size and arrangement of parts may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention or the scope of the subjoined claims.

I claim:

1. A device .of the character described comprising a body member, abutments fixed to one face of said body member adjacent opposite edges thereof and projecting laterally therefrom, a relatively short substantially straight needle-like element carried by each abutment, said elements having their pointed ends extending toward and substantially in alignment with each other and spaced a substantial distance apart, said elements lying in a common plane substantially parallel to the portions of said body member to which said abutments are fixed and having their remote ends fixed toportions of said abutments which face toward each other, each abutment having a continuous smooth surface diverging sharply in all directions from the needle-like element fixed thereto to present a smooth abrupt enlargement to fabric impaled on said elements to prevent the fabric from sliding over said abutments and from becoming abraded or otherwise injured thereby.

2. A device of the character described comprising a body'member, a pair of substantially spherical abutments carried by and arranged adjacent opposite edges of and spaced from one face of said body member, a relatively short needlelike element fixed to and protruding from each abutment substantially radially thereof and lying substantially in a common plane spaced from and parallel'to the adjacent portions of said body member, each of said elements projecting toward the other element in substantially direct alignment therewith and terminating a substantial distance therefrom, the substantially spherical shape of each abutment providing a smooth continuous surface diverging from the corresponding element and presenting an abrupt enlargement to a fabric impaled on the corresponding element to prevent the fabric from sliding over either of said spherical abutments, said smooth surface extending to a sufficient distance from the point of connection of said elements to said abutments to prevent abrasion or other injury to the fabric.

3. A device of the character described comprising a body member, a pair of parallel substantially cylindrical abutments arranged adjacent opposite edges of one face of said body member and carried thereby, a plurality of relatively short parallel needle-like elements fixed to and projecting from each abutment substantially radially thereof, said elements lying substantially in a horizontal plane spaced from and parallel to the adjacent portions of said body member, each element of each abutment projecting toward and being substantially aligned with an element ofthe other abutment and terminating a substantial distance therefrom, each abutment presenting a smooth curved surface diverging sharply from each of the associated elements at their points, of connection therewith to present an abrupt enlargement to a fabric impaled on said elements to prevent the fabric from sliding over' said abutments, said smooth surface extending to a sufiicient distance from such points of connection to prevent-abrasion or other injury to the fabric.

' MALLE LITTLE RUSSELL.

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