US867694A - Watch-guard. - Google Patents

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H. N, BOLTON. WATCH GUARD.

- APPLICATION FILED JUNE 15, 1907.

IIIIIIIIIA WITNESSES lNVENTO/i I 7 By 1 ATTOfiNEYS- THE NORRIS PETERS cm. WASHINGTON, D. c.

PATENTED OCT. 8 1907.

HORACE N. BOLTON, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY.

WATCH-GUARD.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 8, 1907.

Application filed June 15,1907. Serial No. 379,138-

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HORACE N. BOLTON, a citizen of the United States, residing in Paterson, Passaic county, New Jersey, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Watch-Guards; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a device for preventing a watch from being withdrawn from or falling out of the w'earers'pocket Without his knowledge thereof which shall effectively accomplish that object without being expensive or complicated in construction and which may be readily made so as to fit various kinds and sizes of watch stems.

In the accompanying drawings, in which my invention is fully illustrated, Figure 1 shows a watch with the improved watchguard attached thereto; Fig. 2 is an enlarged plan view, partly in section, of one form of the watch-guard; Fig. 3 is a side view, partly in section, of what is shown in Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is a plan view of another form of the invention; Fig. 5 is a side view, partly in section, of what is shown in Fig. 4'; Fig. 6 shows still another form of the invention in plan; and, Fig. 7 is a sectional view on line xx of Fig. 6 and on a somewhat larger scale.

In the drawings, a, a designate two segments each of semicircular form and preferably formed with an internal groove 1). The segments have corresponding ears or lugs c whereby they may be secured in substantially circular arrangement by means of the screws d, whereby the ring or band thus produced may be clamped about the neck or stem e of the watch f.

The segments are formed with diametrically disposed hollow projections g each having a slot 11 on one side thereof extending to the inner margin of the corresponding segment. In these projections, which form guides, are arranged the bolts j having the pins k which project from the slots i and the upturned spurs Z which extend through holes m in the ends of the projections.

The projections are normally maintained in the position shown in the drawings by any suitable means, a convenient form of which is illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3 where n is a plate-spring having a bend 0 inserted between two of the lugs c and held in place by the screw 01 and having its end-portions lying in the groove b and bearing against the inner ends of the bolts 3'.

In the construction shown in Figs. 4 and 5 the band or ring 12 is of split one-piece construction, it having the ears q and a screw 1 arranged in them for securing it to the neck or stem of the watch. At diametrically opposite points hollow projections s are formed on the ring, and in these projections are guided the bolts t having upturned spurs u and the pins 1), the bolts be ing held in their extended position by spiral springs w interposed between them and the ring; the pins project through slots 0: in the projections and thus limit the outward movement of the bolts and coact in guiding them.

In Figs. 6 and 7 the projections y are integral extensions of the split-ring 2 which are rolled into substantially cylindrical form after the extensions have been laid at right angles to the adjoining portions Z of the body of the split-ring; where the edges of the extensions meet a slot is formed in them, as at 2, in which the pin on the bolt (not shown in this figure) works.

The guard is secured to the watch in the manner shown in Fig. l, i. e., so that the spurs l or 11. project to the front and rear. They thus engage in the lining of the pocket and, being upturned, prevent the watch from being withdrawn except they are caused to be first sheathed in the projections g, s or g, which is accomplished by the wearer moving the pins k or v toward each other with his thumb and forefinger.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is;

1. The combination of a contractible ring or band, means for clamping the same around the stem of a watch, sliding bolts diametrically arranged in said ring or band and each having a projection at its outer end, and means for normally maintaining said bolts extended, substantially as described.

2. The combination of a contractible ring or band, means for clamping the same around the stem of a watch, sliding bolts diametrically arranged in said ring or band and each having an upturned spur at its outer end, and means for normally maintaining said bolts extended, substantially as described.

3. The combination of a ring or band, means for clamping the same around the stem of a Watch, and spring-actuated sliding bolts arranged substantially diametrically in said ring or band and each having a spur at its outer end, substantially as described.

4. The combination of a ring or band, means for clamping the same around the stem of a watch, spring-actuated sliding bolts arranged substantially diametrically of said ring or band and each having a spur at its outer end, and a sheathing means for the spurs forming guides for said bolts, substantially as described.

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing, I have hereunto set my hand this 13th day of June, 1906.

HORACE N. BOLTON.

Witnesses:

- WM. D. BELL,

JOHN W. STEWART.

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