US953527A - Watch-protector. - Google Patents

Description

B. GREENBERG.

WATCH PROTECTOR.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 28, 1909 Patented Mar. 29, 1910.

IN I/EA/TOI? er'zjam in Green 581' By 4 "DRIVE 76' WITNESSES BENJAMIN GREENBERG, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

WATCH-PROTECTOR.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN GREEN- BERG, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved VVatoh- Protector, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention relates to watch protectors, such as shown and described in the Letters Patent of the United States, No. 600,000, granted to me March 1, 1898.

The object of the present invention is to provide a new and improved watch protector for convenient and secure attachment to the pocket of a Vest or other garment, and arranged to permit the wearer of the garment to conveniently place the watch in position in the protector or remove it therefrom and to prevent abstraction of the watch by pickpockets or unauthorized persons.

The object is attained by providing a pocket case formed of two members hinged together and adapted to receive the watch between them, the outer case member having at its top a cut-out portion or recess for accommodating the watch pendant, a guiding flange on the inner member opposite the said recess, a finger piece on the outer case member at one side of the recess, and means for securing the innermost case member to the pocket lining.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a front face View of the im provement; Fig. 2 is a rear face view of the same; Fig. 3 is an edge view of the same; Fig. A is a plan View of the improvement partly opened; and Fig. 5 is a transverse section of the improvement as applied and secured inposition in the pocket of a garment.

The pocket case is formed of inner and outer members A and B, connected with each other at their lower ends by a hinge O, provided with a spring D for normally keeping the members A and B in a closed position with the watch between the said members. The pocket case is placed into a pocket E of a vest or other garment, and is fastened to the inner wall or lining E of the pocket, so as to securely hold the pocket case in position in the pocket E. For the purpose men- Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 28, 1909.

Patented Mar. 29, 1910.

Serial No. 474,767.

tioned the rear member A of the pocket case is provided with pointed and threaded pins F and F, adapted to be pushed through the fasten the case in position in the pocket E.

The pins F and F are pointed to permit ready piercing of the lining E, and the nuts F F have their threaded openings terminating a distance from the outer face of the nuts, so that when the latter are secured in place the points of the pins F and F are concealed and hence are not liable to injure the wearer of the garment. As shown in the drawings, the pin F is placed near the bottom of the case member A, while the pin F projects from a guiding flange Gr, formed on the top of the case member A and bent rearwardly and upwardly, so as to guide the watch when placing the same into the pocket case.

Opposite the guiding flange G and on top of the front case member B is formed a cutout portion or recess H, to accommodate the pendant of the watch when the latter is in position in the pocket case, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 5. On the front case member B and at one side of the cut-out portion H is arranged a finger piece I adapted to be taken hold of by the wearer of the garment with the thumb of the left hand, for bringing the front member B into an open position when it is desired to place the watch into the pocket case or remove it therefrom, it being understood that when the pocket case is partly opened by the operator pressing on the finger piece I, then the operator having hold of the watch with the right hand can readily slip the same down over the guiding flange G into the partly open case, and then the operator releases the watch and the finger piece T, to allow the case member B to swing shut by the action of the spring D. Now when the watch is in position in the pocket case, it is securely held against abstraction by pickpockets or other unauthorized persons, but when the user of the garment desires to remove the watch he only needs to press slightly in an outward direction on the finger piece I to partly open the pocket case and to allow the operator to pull out the watch.

The inner faces of the members A and B,

as well as the flange Gr are preferably lined the recess of the front member, a spring 1.; normally holding the members closed, pointed and threaded pins, one secured to the rear member near the bottom and the other to the guiding flange of said member, and nuts on the said pins.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

BEUJATVITN GREENE Ell G.

\Vitn esses Tnno. G. lilos'rmz, JOHN P. DAVIS.

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