US1792700A - Watchcase pendant - Google Patents

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Feb. 17; 1931. E. NELSON 1,792,700

WATCHCASE PENDANT Original Filed June 16, 1925 abbozweqs inafter specified in detail, and succinctl 1 dlatentecl Feb. 17, 1931 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE WATCHCASE PENDANT Application iiled June 16, 1925, Serial No. 37,534. Renewed December 28, 1927.

My invention relates to watch cases, and has for its object the production of a watch case having a bow that is incorporated wi h a supporting member in which no or more apertures are provided for auxiliary or inde pendent attachment to it of a watch chain, strap, fob, or the like.

Such attachment is usually made exclusive ly to the bow which is, by reason of is construction, necessarily more or less inse My in ion is intended to olier addit'onal or better security for the making of'such attachment, and is of special value in watches when used by mechanics or workmen, and which when so used are likely to en ountet: exposure to rough usage or liability to of being pulled or dropped from the pocket or falling from the hand. of the user.

What constitutes my inven hererile.

fined in the appended claim.

In. the accompanying drai ing, Figure I is a view of an embodiment of r inveitio n present preferred form shown 7/ '31 side elevation a watch c2 se and its iendant a. view of the same taken at to the view shown in Figure to the numerals on the d a watch case wh ch may be I, table and pr f rredmat 'ahshape, and dimensions, and which is shown as one provided with a rotatable stem win tler or crown The parts 1 and :2 may be of any usual and preferred description.

My invention consists in providing for an ordinary bow 3 a supportng member 4-. which firmly secured to or me e part of the watch after the manner, for example, of the usual pendant.

In. its presentpreferred form, the bow 8 is oblong in contour and provided with oppositely extcndin hinge lugs 5 and 6, which the shape of the member 4 is made to accommodate snugly and to protect.

Besides provision of the usual bow 8, the member a is provided with one or more, preferably by two laterally disposed, apertures 7 and 8 formed in the body of the member 4. Said apertures may be of any continuous or broken contour preferred, those of the oval shape illustrated, having their longitudinal axes disposed at oblique angles to each other and to an intermediate diameter of the case, being of a symmetry that is prefei'able.

The means preferred for connection with the lugs 5 and 6, respectively, consist of standards 9 and 10 extending from the member 4.

Those are preferred because they flank the crown 2, and partially encase the same with protective effect.

The supporting member 4 is provided on the outer sides of the respective standards 9 and 10 with alined recesses that are substantially coextensive in length with the lugs 5 and 6 and to which lu the longitudinal sides of Said recesses are juxtaposed. Into those recesses the said lugs are, in assemblage, fitted with the protective efi'ect upon them already indicated, the apertures 7 and 8 being disposed in the member l between the axis of the crown 2, and the edges of said member, and between the periphery of the case 1 and the lugs, aforesaid.

In use an ordinary chain or the like may be attached to the bow 3 exclusively, or if preferred the chain may be provided with auxiliary means of attaching it to the defining wall of one or both of the apertures 78. If an ordinary chain be used, it may be attached either to the bow 3 or to one or the other of the apertures defined as specified.

lVhat I claim is:

In a watch case, the combination with its body and a supporting member firmly fixed thereto, of standards projecting from the supporting member, a winding' crown intermediate the standards, the supporting member having alined recesses on the outer sides of the respective standards, a bow pivoted to the standards by means of oppositely extending hinge lugs provided on the bow that are substantially coextensive length with said recess and are juxtaposed to and mo tected by walls defining the length of said recesses.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand.

EMIL NELSON.

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