US859797A - Barrette. - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES PATENT- oFFIois.

WILLIAM s. ssorirotn, F NEWARK, NEW JERSEY;

BAR/BETTE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed November 21, 1906. Serial No. 344.445.

Patented July 9, 1907.

My invention relates to a novel bar-pin or barrette for keeping the hair tidy on a woman's head, and has for its object a barrette which will keep the loose and stray hair away from the neck and can be securely held within the hair.

For. this purpose my invention consists of a barrette comprising a back or body portion, an abutment and means adapted to hold the hair against said abutment.

The nature of my invention will best be understood in connection with the. accompanying drawings in which-- I Figure]. is aplan view of one form otbarrette. Figs. 2 and 3 are end views of the barrette shown'in Fig. 1. Figs. 4 to 1]. are views illustrating various forms of my improved barrette. I

Similar characters of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the seveal views.

- Referring to the drawings, 1 indicates afmine of celluloid, tortoise shell or the like and forming the hacker body portion-of my improved hair retainer. Upon this'hack is a longitudinal abutment 11 which is preferabiy,provided witha recess 12- in the form of agroove Figs. 1 to 6, or as a slot Figs. 7 and 8. This longitudinal abutment ll may be of various forms as illustrated. In Figs. 4, 5 and 6 I have shown this abutment as aspringy, concave cross-piece -13 integral with the frame 10 and provided with the recess or groove 12.

At one end of the iraine 10 is provided ahinge piece 14 and at, the other a hook 15. To said hinge piece is pivoted a tongue or pin 16 conforming to the cavity and r adapted to locked in said hook and to fit the said reccss when-"so, locked. This tongue or pin when locked in the hookl5 .holds the hair in the recess 12 and presses it firmly against the abutment. The hair is thus firmly locked and the barrette securely held thereby. The edges of therecess are preferably rounded to prevent the cutting of the hair. I

I am aware that barrettes have been known in which a tongue or pin holds the hair between it, and the back of the barrette as. a sort of an abutment. This form,

however, does not securely hold within the hair, whereas applicants barrette'by reason of a specially formed abutment and particularly in providing a recess therein, securely locks itself in the hair. I do not wish, however, to restrict myself to any particular construction of this recess nor to any particular shape of the back or body portion, or abutment. g

I claim: 7

1. A barrette or'hair retainer comprising a concave buck or body portion provided at one-end with a hinge piece,-

and at the otherwith a hook, a narrow tonguepr pin composed of a singlepiece pivoted to said hinge piece and conforming to the concavity of thc back, a narrow recess slightly wider than the width ot'the tongue insaid buck the edges of which form a longitudinal abutment, the said tongue being adapted to fit said recess and when locked in said hook .to hold the hair in said recess and against said abutment.

2.. A barrette or hair retainer comprising a. concave back or body portion provided at the end with ahinge piece and .atthe other with a hook, a narrow tongue or pin composed of a single piece pivoted to said hinge piece-and conforming to the concavity oi the back, a groove slightly wider than the w th of the tongue, in said back forming a longi= tudinal' abilitment, the said tongue being adapted to fit said groove 'and when locked in said hook to hold the hair in said grooveand against said abutment.

3. A barrette or hair retainer comprising a back or body portion provided with a recessed, longitudinal, concave, springy abutment integral therewith; and a tongue or pin pivotally connected to said back, adapted to fit said recess and to hold .the hair against said abutment nnd'in said recess. 7 i

Signed at Newark, in the county of Essex, and State of New Jersey, this 19th dayot November, A. D. 1906.

- WILLIAM S. BECHTOLD.

Witnesses:

. Fnson E. Scmmrz,

SALLY 0. Yuorzxr.

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