USD21482S - Design for a watch-case - Google Patents

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DIG-37. UR D 21,482 EX DESIGN.

T. BBNPIELD.

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No. 21,482. Patented Apr. 19, 1892.

WITNESSES: f INF/5% ATTORNEY.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS BENFIELD, OF NE\VARK, NEW JERSEY.

DESIGN FOR A WATCH-CASE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Design No. 21,482, dated April 19, 1892. Application filed March 17, 1392. Serial No. 425,365. Term of patent 7 years.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS BENFIELD, a subject of Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented and produced a new and original Design for Watch-Cases, of which the following is aspecificatiolnreference being had to the aceompanying drawings, forming part thereof.

Figure 1 isa plan view of a wat l1-oase,sliowing my new design. Fig. i is a sectional view taken on the line X X of Fig. 1.

As shown in the drawings, the leading or material feature of my design consistsof a so ries of ribs A and grooves or corrugations ll, disposed or arranged as shown in Fig. l, the said ribs A being convex in cross'seclion and the grooves or corrugations ll concave, as shown in Fig. 3. The ribs A are intersected by the hand of corrugations B, running from 20 one end of the ease to the other and formed of compound curves in their length, as shown. The center of the case is left plain, as shown at C. The several portions may, it is manifest, be engraved, chased, or otherwise ornamented, as desired.

It is apparent that this design is also applicable in lockets and other similar articles.

llnving described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The design for a watch-ease, as herein shown and described.

'l] IOMAS BENFIELD.

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