US1420232A - Jewelry container - Google Patents

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L E. BAER. IEWE LRY CONTAINER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 19, I921- Patented June 20, 1922.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFliCE.

LAWRENCE E. BAER, 0F ATTLEBORO, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO BAER & WILDE COMPANY, OF ATTLEBORO, MASSACHUSETTS.

JEWELRY CONTAINER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 20, 1922.

Application filed March 19, 1921. Serial No. 453,568.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LAWRENCE E. BAER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Attleboro, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Jewelry Containers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in jewelry containers, and pertains more especially to a container which can be carried in the pocket or in a traveling bag or the like or placed in an article of furniture in the home, for holding buckles, brooches, buttons, and any article of jewelry.

The invention aims to provide a container for holding the jewelry in an anchored position, and'between the sides of a leather or similar flexible container, thereby to maintain the jewelry out of contact withother pieces of jewelry or with the wood of drawers, such as occurs in the proiniscous placing of jewelry in a common box or drawer, thus avoiding scratching or other injury.

The inventionbriefly consists of a case formed of a member which is folded along its central line to form two sides, the latter being connected by suitable fasteners, and a flexible tongue connected at one end to one side of the member and having its opposite end free and extending longitudinally between the sides so as to be housed by the latter against all movement.

The invention aims to provide a device of this type which is eflicient for the purpose mentioned and is both simple and economical, and at the same time possessed of an attractive appearance.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the invention in closed position;.

Figure 2 is a plan view of the container in open position, showing the tongue in dotted lines in its outward position;

Figure 8 is a section on line'83 of Fig ure 1; and

Figure 4 is a section on line 4-4 of Figure 1. V.

In proceeding in accordance with the present invention, a container is employed which is preferably made of a piece of leather of approximately rectangular shape as shown in Figure 2. Obviously any other suitable flexible material may be employed. This piece of material is then folded on the line 1 to form similar sides 2, which latter are connected by a pair of spaced snap fasteners 3, or equivalent. A tongue 4; which may be made of leather or cloth, for example, felt, is employed and is preferably of strap formation as depicted in Figure 2, and extends longitudinally between the sides 2 and is stitched at one end adjacent one end of one of the sides 2 as indicated at 5. In this manner it will be noticed from Figure 2, that the tongue may be moved from the full line housed position to that indicated in the dotted lines, to thus render the tongue more accessible for purpose of applying articles of ewelry to or removing same from the tongue.

From Figure 2 tongue 4:, when the container is closed has its longitudinal edges disposed between the line of fold 1 and the pair of fasteners 3, so that lateral movement of the tongue 4 will be inappreciable.

A belt buckle B and a brooch C are shown, completely in dottedlines, by way of example, of a manner of using the invention, though obviously the invention is adaptable for general jewelry purposes.

In the securement of tongue, the pins thereof are passed through the tongue, while in the securement of belt it will be noticed that the brooches to the buckles, the latter are attached to the tongue fords a simple, convenient, and neat carrier for jewelry and likev articles.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is In a jewelry container, a flexible body of approximately rectangular elongated fornr having a central transverse line of fold along its shortest length whereby when folded the body will have a pair of long sides defined by the line of fold and by the free meeting side edges of the body, a strap of sides of the body secured at one end to one of the sidesandhaving its opposite end free, said strap being formed of a width apconsiderable less width than that of the proximately eoualling that of a belt so as to enable the Iree end of the strap to be re ceived in a belt buckle, and a series of fastening i'neans located adjacent to the tree meeting edges of the sides to hold the latter together throughout the lengths of the sides,

the strap being disposed so as to have its sides located between the line of fold and the fasteners when the container is closed

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