US2388427A - Retaining means for badges, brooches, ornaments, bars for decorative ribbons, or the like - Google Patents

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Nov. 6, 1945.

A. w. NIADGER 2,388,427

RETAINING MEANS FOR BADGES, BROOCHES, ORNAMENTS BARS FOR DECORATIVE RIBBONS, OR THE LIKE Filed Aug. 21, 1943 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 flew/we, W. 04906512.. @y V v I I Nov. 6, 1945. w, MADGER 2,388,427

RETAINING MEANS FOR BADGES, BROOCHES, ORNAMENTS,

BARS FOR DECORATIVE RIBBONS, OR THE LIKE w Filed Aug. 21, 1943 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Nov. 6, 1945 RETAINING MEAN BROOCHES,

S FOR BADGES, ORNAMENTS, BARS FOR DECORATIVE RIBBON S, OR THE LIKE Arthur Wakefield Madger, Malden, England Application August 21, 1943, Serial No.

In Great Britain July 22, 1943 7 Clainis. (01. 24-87) This invention relates to a retaining means for badges, brooches, ornaments, bars for decorative ribbons or the like as worn upon articles of clothing and has in view to provide a means which will securely hold such a badge or like article by a locking effect obtained in conjunction with fastening pins adapted to be passed through a garment or the like thereby to prevent the possibility of accidental loss or theft of the article, the said means being capable of easy and quick manipulation and of a form such that there will be no risk of same becoming released accidentally.

The invention resides in a method of retaining bades, brooches, bars for decorative ribbons and the like fitted on to Wearing apparel and the like, involving the use of pins hingedly mounted on the back of the badge or the like and adapted to be swung away from said badge or the like to allow said pins to be passed through the clothing and to be swung down towards said badge or the like to hold same in position, the said method consisting in flexing a springy locking strip to bowed form and passing the respective ends thereof beneath portions of said pins which have been passed through and. are disposed behind the clothing or the like whilst the intermediate portion of said locking strip overlies extension portions of said pins, and releasing said locking strip so that same takes up a substantially flat condition and maintains the pins in their folded down positions.

The means provided according to the invention comprises a pair of spaced-apart cranked pins hingedly mounted on the back of said article and adapted when swung away from said article to be passed through a, garment or the like and thereafter to be swung down towards said badge or the like, anda springy locking strip so formed or dimensioned that by flexing said strip to bowed form and then releasing same, end portions of said strip are adapted to engage beneath portions of said cranked pins Whilst the intermediate portion of the strip overlies the remaining outer portions of the cranked pins, the locking strip being adapted to assume a substantially flat condition behind the garment or the like.

Preferably means is provided for locating the locking strip against endwise displacement when same is in locking position, and conveniently for this purpose the locking strip may be formed with offset portions providing shoulders adapted to abut those portions of the pins which overlie the locking strip.

Retaining devices of convenient forms in accordance with the invention are illustrated in the accompanyin drawings, wherein:

Figure 1 is a perspective rear view of a ribbon-display bar having pins formed according to one embodiment of the invention, and

Figure 2 is a perspective rear view of the springy locking strip provided for use in conjunction with said pins.

Figure 3 is a perspective rear view of a piece of clothing showing the device applied thereto,

Figure 4 is a longitudinal section showing the manner of engaging the locking strip after having engaged the pins with the piece of clothing,

Figure 5 is a view similar to Figure 4 showing the position taken up by the locking strip when released to take up its locking position,

Figures 6 and 7 are views corresponding to- Figures 1 and 2 showing a modification, and

Figures 8 and 9 are views corresponding to Figures 1 and 2 and showing another modification.

The device illustrated comprises a substantially rigid bar Ill adapted to be covered with decorative ribbon and to be worn upon the person, said bar being provided on the back with a pair of pins H which are spaced apart and hingedly mounted as at l2 so as to be capable of swinging towards and away from one another,

Each of the pins I I is cranked to have a laterally-extending portion [3 disposed substantially parallel to the axis of the hinge and an outer portion l4 disposed at an acute angle with respect to portion [3, so that the pin has approximately the form of the numeral seven. The laterally-extending portions it of the pins are mutually parallel.

That is to say, the pin -I| includes a shank portion [3-44, the former being provided with an offset pintle Ila which fits into appropriate holding means l2 on the back of the article ID, and the portion l3 of the shank of the pin is cranked laterally with respect to the garment piercing arm [4. Thus the end portions l6 of the locking strip 1 5 may pass beneath the cranked portions l3 so that the shoulders I! of the strip will engage the sides of the said cranked portions, as shown.

The device comprises also a separate part iii in the form of a strip of springy material which, by its inherent spring property assumes when free a bowed shape as shown in Figure'2. At its respective ends said strip is formed with offset portions I6 connected to the main portion of the strip by shoulder portions l1, the ofisetting of said portions being on the salient side of the bowed main part. The distance between the two shoulder portions ll of the strip I5 when said strip is maintained in a substantially straight condition is slightly less than the space that exists between the portions I3 of the respective pins II when said pins are swun inwardly towards one another and downwardly as far as possible. The construction as above described is such as to enable the device to be applied to a garment in the manner now to be described.

The pins II are swung upwardly about their hinges I2 so as to project out from the bar I and the portions I4 are pushed through the garment I8, the device being manipulated to thread 7 the portions I3 also through the garment. The angular disposition of the pins when they pierce the garment I8 is such that when the pins have been threaded through the latter to the-ultimate extent, the garment has a fiat condition behind the bar ID. The pins II are now swung'down'as far as possible so that the extremities'of the'outer portions I4 bed uponthe-back of the garment I8. The locking strip I5 is now taken and flexed beyond a straight condition so as to take up a bowed form reverse to that of its normal condition and as shown in :Figure 4. This reduces the effective lengthof said locking strip so that the distance between the extremities of the end portions I6 is less than the distance between the laterally-extending portions I3 of the pins. The strip I5 is then allowed to exert itself whilstso holding same that its end portions I6 will pass beneath the respective .pin portions I3. The said strip I5, in :regaining or attempting to regain its original bowed form, bears upon the cranked portions I4 of the pins. Theslioulder portions H of the strip I5 are adapted to serve as abutments which, by'contact with the vpin portions I3, will serve to locate the said strip by preventing it passing-endwise out'of itsproper locking position. As shown, the locking strip extends in a straight line from one pin to the'other.

Whilst the device 'isin its locked condition as shown in Figures 3 and 5,'accidental detachment of the badge-or the like and attempted 'theft'of same whilst being worn are rendered impossible since the locking stri-p I5 rnust be flexed out by force at the back'of 'the garment andbe detached before the 'pins I I can swing out.

In "the modified construction-shown in Figures 6 and 7, the 'pin's-have mutually-parallel laterallyextending portions I3 as in the above described construction and have outer portions I9 extending from said portions -I3in perpendicular relation thereto. The locking strip has a median portion 25 of greater width thanits end portions I6 so as to becapable of overlying the outer portions [9 of the pins. The end portions I6 of said strip are offset'as in the first-described construction to provide transversely-extending shoulders for abutting the portions I3 of the pins.

In the further modification shown inFigures 8 and'9, each of the pins has an inner portion 2I disposed at an angle of inclination with respect to the axis of the hinge I2, and an outer portion 22 disposed in angular relation to said inner portion 2|. The locking strip I5 has offset end portions I6 connected to the main'part of the strip by obliquelydisposed-shoulderportions I'I adapted to abut the correspondingly sloping pin portions-2|. That isto say, in Figures 8 and 9 the pin I II) is provided with the angular pintle portion -I-Ic fitting in thesocket'or holding means I 2a, and the shank portion of the pin includes posed pintle at one end, means on the back of the article for pivotally supporting said pintles,

"and said shank'portions each including a garment zpiercing arm and a cranked portion laterally spaced from and joining said pintle, and a combined pin guard and locking strip having end portions formed to engage beneath the cranked portions *of the pin and also provided with shoulders to engage the cranked portions of the pin whilethe intermediate portion of the strip overlies and conceals the garment piercing arm 1301- tions and the 'zpoint's oftheapins.

2. Retaining means for badges, brooches, bars for decorative ribbons or likearticles-comprising, a pair-of spaced apart pins-each including ashank and a pintle, means for 'hingedly mounting said pintle on'the back of the article, andeach of said pins having the inner end of its shank portion permanently cranked laterally to the plane of movement about the pintle, saidpranke'd portion being spaced from the zpintle, and'said pin's'being adapted, when swung away from said article, to be passed through a garment or the like and thereafter to be swung dow n towards the back of saidarti'cle, and a springy lockingstrip having shouldersinthe proximity of its ends and which is so iormed that by fl'exing :said strip to bowed form and "then releasing the same, end portions of said strip beyond the shoulders are adapted, as the strip straighten's, to engage beneath the said permanently cranked and laterally extending portions of said pin'swhile the intermediate portion of said strip' overlies the shank portions of the pins, the shoulders of the locking strip providing endwise location for said strip in conjunction with the laterally "extending portions of the cranked pins.

3. Retaining means for badges, brooches, bars for decorative ribbonsor like article's according to claim 2, wherein the locking strip is formed withofiset end portions providing said shoulders adapted, by abutting the permanently cranked laterally extending "portions of the pinsto locate the said locking strip against endwise displacement when in locking position.

4. A retaining-means 'f-or badges-broochesgbar's for-decorative ribbons or like articles according to claim 2, wherein the pins'are'formed't'o provide laterally-"extending portions "each parallel to the hinge axis beneath which "end portions of "the locking strip are adapted to engage, and with outer portions which are disposed each at an acute angle with respect to "the associated laterally-extending portion, the locking strip being substantially parallel sided and extending in a straight line from one pin-totheother, andhaving transverse shoulders for abutting said laterally-extending portions of the "pins.

5. 'A r'et'aining means 'for badges, brooches, bars for decorative ribbons or like articles according to c1aim2, wherein the pins are "formed" to "provide laterally-extending portions each par alle'l to the hinge axis and beneath which end portions *o'f .the locking strip'ai'e adapted to engage,- an'd*-with outer portions extending substantially perpendicular to said laterally-extending portions, and the locking strip has a median portion of greater Width than its end portions so as to be capable of overlying the said outer portions of the pins, and has transverse shoulders for abutting the laterally-extendin portions of the pins.

6. A retaining means for badges, brooches, bars for decorative ribbons or like articles according to claim 2, wherein each pin has an inner portion disposed at an angle of inclination with respect to the hinge axis of the pin, and an outer portion disposed in angular relation to said inner portion, and the locking strip is formed to extend in a straight line from one pin to the other and has obliquely disposed shoulders for abutting the said inner portions of the pins.

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