US1018290A - Hat-pin-point protector. - Google Patents

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L. BARBALIGZ.

HAT PIN POINT PROTECTOR. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII A1114, 1911.

Patented Feb. 20, 1912.

LAURANCZ BARBALICZ, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

HAT-PIN-POINT PROTECTOR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 20, 1912.

Application filed March 14, 1911. Serial No. 614,379.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LAURANCZ BARBALTCZ, a subject of the King of Hungary, and resident of Cleveland, county of Cuyahoga, and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Hat-Pin-Point Protector, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a hat pin point protector, and the objects of my invention are to provide a guard that can be easily and quickly mounted upon the pointed end of a hat pin to prevent the end of the pin from injuring pedestrians or objects that accidentally contact with the pin, and to furnish a hat pin with a guard that is simple in construction, durable, inexpensive to manufacture, and highly eflicient for preventing an accidental displacement of a hat pin relatively to a hat.

I attain the above objects by a mechanical construction that will be hereinafter specifically described and then claimed, and reference will now be had to the drawing, wherein Figure 1 is a side elevation of the hat pin protector, Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional View of the same, Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional view taken on the line XX of Fig. 2 showing the guard in an open position, Fig. 41 is a similar view on line ZZ of Fig. 2 showing the guard in a closed position, and Fig. 5 is a side elevation of a detached guard.

A protector in accordance with this invention comprises an outer cylindrical casing 1 made of malleable metal and having the lower end thereof reduced or tapered, as at 2. The casing 1 is provided with a longitudinal bore 3 having the lower end thereof reduced at the lower end of the casing 1 to provide an entry 1. The upper end of the bore has the side walls thereof cut away, as at 5 and the side walls of the bore 3 intermediate the ends thereof are provided with two oppositely disposed teats or protuberances 6, the object of which will presently appear. The upper edges of the casing 1 are adapted to be bent inwardly or flanged, as at 7 to loosely engage the neck 8 of a spherical hollow head 9, the lower end of the neck 8 having an annular enlargement 10 adapted to retain the flanged edges 7 of the casing 1 in engagement with the neck 8. The neck 8' and the enlargement 10 are provided with a vertical opening 11 having the walls thereof threaded, the upper end of the opening terminating in the hollow head 9 and the lower end thereof in communication with the bore 3.

Screwed into the opening 11 is the upper threaded end 12 of a tapering guard 13, said guard being made of resilient metal. and comprising two yieldable arms 14. The lower ends of the arms 14 are adapted to normally engage the lower walls of the bore 3 and provide an entry opening 15 that longitudinally alines with a longitudinal opening 16 provided therefor in the upper threaded end 12 of the guard 13. The arms 1 1 are provided with diametrically opposed openings 17 adapted to normally receive the teats 6 to allow the arms 11 to remain in engagement with the walls of the bore 3.

The pointed end 18 of a hat pin can be easily inserted in the openings 15 and 16 and the protector can be mounted over the pointed end 18 of the pin. Assuming that the protector has been placed upon the end of a pin, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, it is only necessary to rotate the casing 1 a quarter of a revolution, which moves the teats 6 out of the openings 17, causing said teats to engage the outer walls of the arms 14c and force said arms inwardly, thereby causing the lower ends of said arms to frictionally engage the hat pin and retain said pin in engagement with said protector.

The yieldable clamping arms 14 not only retain the pointed end of the hat pin in the protector, but prevent the protector from being displaced, consequently the protector or the hatpin upon which it is mounted cannot become displaced relative to the hat or garment in connection with which it is used.

What I claim is 1. A hat pin protector comprising a rotatable casing having a longitudinal bore, 0ppositely disposed teats carried by the walls of the bore of said casing, a head movably mounted in the upper end of said casing,

and a guard connected to said head within the bore of said casing and having yieldable clamping arms adapted to be engaged by and forced toward each other by said teats thereby shifting said arms to clamp the end of the pin.

2. A hat pin protector comprising a head, a casing rotatably supported by said head, said casing having the bore thereof provided with oppositely disposed teats, a guard In testimony Whereof I a'ffix my signature mounted in said head and adapted to receive in the presence of two Witnesses. the end of a hat pin, and yieldable clamping T arms carried by said guard and extending LAURAL CZ BARBALIOZ' in said casing and provided with openings Witnesses:

adapted to normally receive the teat-s of said P. E. NOWAK,

casing. G. M. KovAoHY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained. for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

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