US982060A - Badge. - Google Patents

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BADGE.

APPLICATION FILED 00T. 5, 1909) Patented Jan. 147,1911.

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BADGE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 17, 1911.

Application filed October 5, 1909. Serial No. 521,053.

To all whom it may concern:

.lie it known that I, JOHN E. HENRY, av citizen or the United States, residing at. Swainsboro, in the county oit' Emanuel and State ot Georgia, have invented new and useful improvements in Badges, of which the Jfollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to a souvenir or badge in the torni oit' a cob pipe adapted to be worn on the lapel and comprising in combination with a pipe a pin having an arm in the bowl ot' the pipe and provided with a spring retaining coil and an arm exteriorly of the pipe. and adapted for attaching the saine as hereinafter described and claimed.

in the accompanying drawings :-l"igure l is a perspective oi a souvenir or badge constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the same. Fig. is a detail perspective ot' the pin.

My improved souvenir or badge is in the in oi' a cob pipe having a bowl l and a stem tie. ribbons or streamers such as shown at i may be tied on the bowl. In rinnection with the bowl or body of Jthe pipe. Vl provide an inverted U-shaped pin fl: which has an arm 5 `for disposition exteriorllv oil the pipe bowl and an arm (3 to be disposed on the inner side thereof, the said pin being adapted to be placed astride one side or the pipe bowl as shown in Fig. 2. The arm (i ot the pin is provided at its end with a spring coil 7 which fits in the bottom of the bowl and serves to irmly attach the pin thereto so thatv the outer arm (5 of the pin may be employed for fastening the device on the coat or other garment of the wea-rer.

lhat I claim is A badge comprising a hollow cylindrical member of relatively soft material having one end closed and provided adjacent to its closed end with a radially extending stem; oi a fastener including a single piece of resilient wire bent adjacent to its middle to provide parallel side portions of unequal length, the shorter of which correspondsin .length to the depth of the cylindrical member and is insertible into the open end ot the said cylindrical member and terminates in a helical expansion spring to bind on the closed end and inner surface of the cylin- JOHN E. H FLNRY.

Witnesses WILLARD E. LIGHTFOOT, EvnLYN M. LIGHTFOOT.

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