US1327701A - Watch-holder - Google Patents

Description

B. F. CHRIST.

WATCH HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 21. 1919.

1,327,701 Patented Jan. 13, 1920.

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WATCH-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 13, 1920.

Application filed May 21, 1919. Serial No. 298,593.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN F. CHRIST, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Idagrove, inthe county of Ida and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Watch-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in watch holders, and has for its object to provide a simple and cheap, but efficient, holder of the character specified having means grasping the watch to hold the same firmly, yet in a .manner easily releasable, and which is also provided with means for engaging the pocket to prevent accidental displacement of the watch and holder.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a front view of the improved holder;

Fig. 2 is a rear view;

Fig. 3 is a bottom edge view;

Fig. 4 is a side view.

In the present embodiment of the invention the improved holder comprises a plate or disk 1 of suitable material, as, for instance, thin sheet metal, aluminum or the like, having on one face means for grasping and holding a watch, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 1. The said means comprises a pair of lugs 2 which overlie the plate in spaced relation as shown, the said lugs being curved to fit over the edge of the watch case, and opposite these lugs 2 the plate has a radial extension 3.

This extension has a laterally extending tongue 1 which is bent over upon the body of the extension as shown, to grasp the stem of the watch. Referring to Fig. 3, it will be noticed that the tongue 4 is bent down toward the extension intermediate its connection with the extension and its free end, to prevent accidental disengagement of the stem from the tongue.

The stem of the watch is grasped between the extension and the tongue. The extension is doubled back upon the rear face of the plate as indicated at 5, to form with the plate a clasp for engaging the edge of the pocket, to hold the holder in the pocket.

In use, the watch is placed in the holder as shown in Fig. 1, with the lugs 2 engaging over the edge of the case and with the stem of the watch beneath the tongue 4. The holder is then placed in the pocket, the edge of the; pocket extending up between the extension 5, which is a clasp, and the plate 1. There is sufiicient closeness between the clasp and the plate to insure a firm grasp on the cloth of the pocket, and the hem. of the pocket, by its greater thickness, also assists in preventing disengagement. It will be understood that the improved holder may be constructed of any desired material, as, forv instance, sheet metal, sheet celluloid or thin gauze, any material, in fact, having suflicient rigidity to hold its form.

It will be noticed that a loop 6 is struck up from the extension 5, for engagement by a fob or the like. It is obvious that the holder might be of any shape, other than disk shape, as, for instance, Y-shape, square, octagonal or the like.

I claim:

A device of the character specified comprising a plate shaped to fit the back of a watch and having means on one face for grasping the edge and stem of the watch, to hold it to the holder, said holder having a clasp for engaging the pocket to hold the holder in the pocket, the clasp comprising a radial extension from the plate bent back over upon the rear face of the plate to lie close thereto in spaced relation, the holding means comprising lugs engaging the edge of the case at the opposite side from the extension, and a tongue spaced from the extension for engaging the stem of the watch between the same and the extension.

BENJAMIN F. CHRIST.

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