US1030386A - Clothes-pin. - Google Patents

Description

F. COMEAU.

Patented June 25, 1912.

lJNlflE FRANK COIVIEAU, OF LOUISBURG, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA.

CLOTHES-PIN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 25, 1912.

Application filed April 26, 1911. Serial No. 623,540.

To all whom t may concern Be 1t known that l, F RANK COMEAU, a subject of the King of England, residing at Louisburg, 1n the county of Cape Breton, Province of Nova Scot-1a, Dominion of Canada, have invented a new and useful Clothes-Pin, of which the following 1s a specification.

rlhis invention relates to clothes pins.

The principal object of the invention is to provide a strong, simple, durable, and comparatively inexpensive clothes pin which may be easily and quickly manipulated and which is adapted to remain in either open or closed position until the operator moves it to the other position.

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification, Figure l is a view in elevation of the clothes pin of the present invention in closed position; Fig. 2 is a sectional view through the construction illustrated in Fig. l, showing the spring retracted and the jaws open; Fig. 3 is a section on the line Y-Y of Fig. l; Fig. 4 is a section on the line X-X of Fig. l; and Fig. 5 is a perspective view of one of the jaws of the clothes pin.

Like reference numerals indicate corresponding parts in the several figures of the drawing.

The clothes `pin of the present invention comprises a body indicated generally by A,

a pair of jaws indicatedl generally by B and C, pivotally connected with the body A and adapted automatically to remain in either open or closed position, and a sliding U- shaped spring D adapted, when shoved in, as shown in F ig. l, to hold the jaws B and C in the locked posit-ion, and when drawn out as shown in Fig. 2, to hold said jaws positively in open position.

The body A of the clothes pin preferably is made up of a metallic casing l, in which is mounted a filling block 2. The casing l as shown in Fig. l is provided with downwardly extending wings 3 in which are pivoted the jaws Bland C, as indicated at t, said jaws being pivoted intermediate their ends. rlhe jaws B and C are formed at their outer ends with meeting faces 5 which, when said jaws are in closed position, as shown in Fig. l, contact with each other, and form a close fit. The inner vfaces of the jaws B and C are cut away, as indicated at 6 to provide a space to receive the clothes line and clothes. The out away portions 6 at their upper ends are shaped to produce right Vangular shoulders 7 which, when the clothes pin is in open position, as shown in Fig. 2, meet closely at their inner ends so as to limit the dist-ance to which the clothes pin can be fitted downward over the clothes line. In other words, the shoulders 7 serve as abutments to prevent the clothes pin from being moved too far with relation to the clothes line and the clothes. At their upper ends, the jaws B and G are formed with inner faces 8 which are arranged at such angle with relation to each other as to contact as shown in Fig. 2, when the jaws are open, thereby limiting the eX- tent of the opening movement of said jaws.

The spring D for holding the jaws 'B and C in either open or closed position preferably is U-shape and consists of the approximately parallel resilient arms 9 9 which at their free ends are bent or otherwise shaped to produce the limiting stops l0, the outer portions of which stops engage the lower edges of the metallic casing l, when the pin is opened, as shown in Fig. 2, so as to limit the upward movement of the spring, and the inner portions of said resilient arms 9, as indicated at l0, engage the outer faces of the jaws B and C and slide thereon, so as to move said jaws from open to closed position and vice versa. Adjacent their upper ends, the arms 9 are curved outwardly as indicated at 12 to provide means to limit the downward movement of the spring D, as shown in Fig. l, said outward bends 12 cngaging the metallic casing l and preventing the spring D from being shoved down too far.

As shown in Fig. 4L, the arms 9 slide in suitable grooves 14 formed in the filling block 2 and in suitable grooves 15 formed in the metallic casing l, said grooves l5 being perforated, as indicated at 16 in Fig. l to reduce the friction on the spring arms 9.

Constructed as described, the operation of the clothes pin is thought to be obvious. By

t-he body toform a handle for manipulating' the spring, the free ends of said spring being slidable on'the outer faces of the jaws from points on one side of the pivots thereof to points on the other side of said pivots, said spring serving'to hold the jaws posi- Y tively in open or closed position, and means for limiting the sliding movements of said spring, said limiting means engaging the spring 'when the spring is holding the aws open.

2. A clothes pin comprising a body made up 'of a casing and a iilling member, the casing and filling member being formed in their sides with registering grooves, said easing being provided with downwardly extending wings, a pair of clamping jaws pivoted in said downwardly extending wings, said jaws having upper and lower sets of faces arranged at an angle to each other, the lower set of faces being adapted to oontact when the jaws are closed and the upper set of faces being adapted to contact when the jaws are open, said jaws also having cut away inner faces formed at their upper portions with square shoulders adapted to aline with each other when the jawsare open to form a stop, and an approximately U-shaped operating spring extending through the grooves in said casing and filling member,

and slidable therein, said spring having. limiting means at the upper and lower ends thereof to limit its sliding movement with relation to said casing, the free ends of said spring bearing against the outer faces of said jaws and slidable thereon to move said jaws from one position to another.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto aixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

A FRANK COMEAU. W'itnesses Y PORTER W'nioox, ALONZO MARTELL.

Copies o f this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. G.

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