US1020784A - Hat-pin guard. - Google Patents

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J. J. VALLIER.

HAT PIN GUARD. APPLICATION IILED MAY 10, 1911.

1,020,784. Patented Mar. 19, 1912.

WITNESSES INVENTOR ATTORNEYS COLUMBIA PL'ANOORAPH c0., WASHINGTON. u, C.

JOHN JAY VALLIER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. HAT-PIN GUARD.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed May 16, 1911.

1,020,784. Patented Mar. 19, 1912.

Serial No. 627,407.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN J. VALLIER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State with a suitable gripping device such as a end of the catch extendlQ; the upper end of this catch is provided of Illinois, have lnvented a new and Imthrough another slot 12 contained in the proved Hat-Pin Guard, of which the folupper portion of the body member 1. At an lowing is a full, clear, and exact description. approximately central portion of the wall or 1 y invention relates generally to devices partition 7 a suitable openrn 13 1s p1 ovided 'or cooperation with the pointed end of a through which the pin 14 is adapted to hatpin whereby when the pin is in use the pass, the lower bent portion of the catch 9 pointed end which projects through the side being also provided with an opening 15 of the hat may be guarded. which is adapted to register with the open- My device comprises generally an exing 13 when the catch is moved back into the tended body portion having means at one position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 3. end thereof for holding a suitable ornament, In order to place the guard on the end of the interior of the body portion being prothe hatpin the ring 11 at the end of the catch vided with a spring catch adapted to en a e 9 is pressed back until the openings 13 and the pin between two points of support car- 15 register, when the pin may be inserted rled by the uard whereby the uard may through the opening in the end member 2 be securely held in position. and through the openings 13 and 15 until eference is to be had to the accompanythe pointed end is brought into position ing drawings forming a part of this speciwithin the opening 6 in the soft plate 5 when fication, in which like characters of referthe catch may be released; the normal posience denote corresponding parts in all the tion of the catch is as shown in full lines views, and in whichin Fig. 3, which position the catch will as- Figure l is a longitudinal sectional view sume when pressure thereon is released, due of the guard; Fig. 2 is an enlarged vertical to the resiliency of the metal. With the sectional view thereof on the line 2-2 of catch in operative position it is to be noted Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional view that opposite edge portions of the opening showing the details of the spring catch. 15 come into contact with opposite portions he guard comprises an extended body of the body of the pin whereby the same is member 1 of any suitable shape or design prevented from withdrawal, the pin, howhaving its opposite ends 2, 3, closed by suitever, being supported on opposite sides of able members, one of these members, such as this catch at the ends of the body member. 2, being provided with an opening extended In order to remove the guard from the pin therethrough, the outer end of the opening it is necessary only to move the catch 9 into having a flaringmouthet whereby the pointed the dotted line position in Fig. 3 when the end of the pin may be guided within the guard may be easily separated from the pin. opening. To the inner portion of the op- It is obvious that many changes may be 5 posite end member 3 a suitable plate 5 of made in the shape and design of my guard soft material having an opening 6 at its and any sort of ornament may be placed on central portion is suitably positioned wherethe outer end thereof as desired, or, in fact, by the pointed end of the pin may be held in this ornament may be omitted altogether position within the body member. without departing from the spirit of the in- As shown particularly in Fig. 1 the pin is vention as set forth in the following claim. in. engagement with the body member at the Having thus described my invention, I opposite ends thereof and in order to seclaim as new, and desire to secure by Letcure the guard on the pin I provide a suitters Patent: able spring catch which engages the pin be- A hat pin guard comprising an extended tween these end members. Extending transbody member having a slot in the side wall versely of the body member 1 is a partition thereof and having one end closed, the said or wall 7 of any suitable material or conclosed end being provided with an opening struction having a slotted upper portion 8, adapted to receive the pointed end of a hat a spring catch 9 of the shape shown in Fig. pin, the other end of the body member hav- 11o ing an opening extending tl'rerethrough into having its lower end secured to the partiwhich the said pin is adapted to be inserted,

tion or wall 7 by any means such as a rivet ate the ends of the body member and having ail,

HN J AY VALLIER.

a transversely extending member intermedian opening through which the pin is adapted to pass, the upper portion of the said member being provided with an opening, a resilient catch having one end thereof secured to the body member on the inner side thereof and adjacent the said transversely extending member, the opposite end of the catch being offset and extending through the opening in the upper portion of the said transversely extending member and exteriorly through the said slot in the said body Vitnesses DANIEL W. RODERICK, SAMUEL J. CUNNINGHAM.

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