US606427A - Safety-pin - Google Patents

Description

I (No Model.)

. M. RHINE.

SAFETY PIN.

No. 606,427. Patented June 28,1898.

Eric.

MINNIE RHINE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

SAFETY-PIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 606,427, dated June 28, 1898.

Application filed Octoberii, 1897.,

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MINNIE RHINE, a citizen of the United States,residin g at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certainnew and useful Improvement in Safety-Pins, of which the following is a specification;

My invention relates to a new and useful improvement in double safety-pins, and has for its object to provide a simple and cheap device of this description which may be utilized for the various purposes to which such devices are put and have but little tendency to set or become disarranged.

With these ends in view this invention con sists in the details of construction and combination of elements hereinafter set forth,and then specifically designated by the claim.

In order that those skilled in the art to which this invention appertains may understand how to make and use the same, the construction and operation will now be described in detail, referring to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a perspective of a pin made in accordance with my improvement; Fig. 2, a detail perspective of the metal strip for holding the two sections of the pin in place relative to each other.

In carrying out my invention as here e1nbodied I take a single piece of wire and so bend it as to produce the two hooks A, suitable cross-bars, shanks B, and the prongs 0, between which latter and the shanks are formed the spring-coils D. After this operation the thin' sheet-metal strip E (shown in Fig. 2,) is bent around the shanks and crossbars, as clearly shown in Fig. 1, thereby securing said shanks together and inclosing the cross-bars. ,This arrangement leaves a sufficientlength of the shanks free to add spring Serial No. 654,534. (No model.)

action tothe prongs, and this, in connection with the coil-springs D, will permit the movements of the prongs without liability of setting. The shanks are bent upward in leaving the cross-bars and downward in reaching the coils, the object of which is to remove the shanks out of the same plane. To prevent the pulling apart of the sections of the pin, I provide a T-shaped plate or strip, as shown in Fig. 2, having the arms A A, which are bent A safety-pin consisting of a single piece of.

wire doubled on itself and then bent to produce a T-shaped figure having the shanks B and hooked arms A, A, the ends 0, C, of the wire'being bent parallel with the shanks to engage the hooks, said shanks being bent down just before their junction with the arms A, A, and the ends 0, 0, whereby said ends are in a plane below that of the shanks, and in combination a T-shaped plate having the arms A, A, and the shank E, said arms being bent around the arms A, A, and the shank E around the shanks B, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I- have hereunto affixed my signature in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MINNIE RI-IINE. Witnesses:

S. S. WILLIAMSON, SAMUEL L. TAYLOR.

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