US464743A - Watch-bow fastener - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

0. JOHANSON. WATCH Bow FASTBNBR.

Patented Deu. 8, 1891.

A TTOHNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

oLor JonANsoN, or NEW YORK, N. Y., AssIeNoR To rnE KEYs'roNn WATCH CASE COMPANY, OE PENNSYLVANIA.

WATCH-BOW FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 464,743, dated December 8, 1891.

Application filed September 6, 1889. Serial No. 323,118. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: in Fig. 3, and the bow having been adjusted,

Be it known that I, OLOF JOHANsoN, of the as represented in the drawings, locking keys city of New York, in the county and State of or pins l5 are passed down through the pend- New York,have inventedanew and Improved ant bores, a portion of the key-bodies resting 5 lVateh-Bow and Fastener, of which the folin the bowgrooves l2, the arrangement being 55 lowing is a full, clear, and exact description. such that while the bow may be freely turned rlhis invention relates to watch-bows and upon its connection with the pendant the posfasteners, the object being to prevent the acsibility of accidental displacement is avoided. eidental displacement of the bow 5 and to the Instead of forming but two bores let, as repro end named it consists, essentially, of a watchresented in Fig. 3, I might under certain cir- 6o bow formed with inwardly-bent end sections, cumstances form other bores 14. but such the axes of said sections being in substanbores la would not ordinarily be required. tially the same line, the ends ot the bow be- By fastening the watch -bow as above set ing formed with annular grooves, and the forth it is impossible for a thief or pick- 15 pendant in connection with which the bow is pocket to twist the watch from the bow, and 65 to be employed being bored so as to form rehence the danger of thus losing a watch is cesses. that are complementary to the bowmaterially decreased. grooves, the bow-grooves and the pendant-relVhile I prefer the details which have been cesses being arranged to receive keys or lockshown, I do not limit myself to them, as it is zo ing-pins, all as will be hereinafter more fully apparent that they may be modified without 7o explained, and pointed out in the claims. departing; from the invention, the essential The, grooves upon the ends of the bow form feature of which is the fastening of the end heads upon the extremities thereof within of the bow into the pendant by means of an which the locking devices fit or extend, so independent fastening device which engages z5 as to prevent the ends of the bow from bethe end of the bow within the head upon the 75 ing withdrawn through the apertures of the extremity thereof. pendant. Having thus described my invention, I

Reference is to be had to the accompanying claim as new and desire to secure by Letters drawings, forming a part of this specification, Patent*- 3o in which similar gures of reference indicate l. rlhe combination, with a pendant, of a 8o Corresponding parts in all the views. watelrcase having journal holes or recesses for Figure l is a side view of awatch embodythe ends of the bow, a bow having its ends ing my invention, the pendant being shown formed with annular grooves and received in in section. Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the recesses or holes in the pendant, and two 3 5 the pendant and bow, the watch-case being parallel pins or screws for each bow and car- 85 shown in full lines. Fig. 3 is aview wherein rled by the body of the pendant and extendthe pendant is shown in section on line meot ing down into and upon opposite sides of thev Fig. l, and Fig. 4 is a similar view of a modiannular grooves in each end of the pendant. fied Construction, .2. The combination of a watch-case pend- 4o In the drawings, l0 represents a watclrbow ant having journal holes or recesses for the 9o that is formed with inwardly-bent end secends of the bow,a bowhaving its ends formed tions l1, the axes of said sections ll being in with annular grooves and received within said substantially the same line. Near the ends recesses or holes in the pendant, and two ping of the bow l0 I form annular grooves l2. or screws for each end of the bow carried by 4 5 The bow above described .is designed to tit the body of the pendant and extending tan- 9 5 in proper apertures formed 1n a pendant 13, gentially into the groove of the bow end on the body of this pendant being bored to form opposite sides thereof, whereby each of said recesses 14, that are complementary to the bow ends is supported upon two sides. bow-grooves l2. Two of these bores 14. may 3. A watch-bow fastening device consisting 5o be formed upon opposite sides, as represented of a pendant provided with apertures for the 10o ends of the bow and provided with bores through the metal of the pendant opening into said apertures, a bow having its ends formed with annular recesses and received in the apertures of the pendant, and keys or locking-pins arranged within the bores of the pendant and extending into the grooves of the b oW.

4. A Watch-bow fastener consisting of a pendant formed with apertures to receive the ends of the bow, a bou having its ends received in the apertures of the pendant and provided with annular recesses or grooves, and a pin for each end of the bow projecting down through the metal of the pendant from OLOF JOIIANSON. Witnesses: v

EDWARD KENT, Jr., C. SEDGWIOK.

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