US1044805A - Clothes-pin. - Google Patents

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I Y 64/zMM4 E. A. NORMAND. CLOTHES PIN. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 6, 1911.

Patented Nov. 19,1912.

WITNESSES INVENTORK ATTORNEY Y Specification 6r i'lettt'rs Patent. a lication filed November 6, ism; serial no. eraser.

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- To all whom it may concern:

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a citizen of the United Stas, residing atv San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State of California, have inventednew and useful Improvements-in Clothes- Pins, of which the following is a speclfication.

The objectof my invention is to prov1de a clothes pin of very cheap, simple, strong, and durable construction, which Wlll securely hold clothes to a clothes line, will occupy but little space when not in use, and a large number of which can be safely packed in small compass, and which can be used equally well when reversed end for end, and

on either side of the clothes line.

in the accompanying drawings,-Figure 1 is a side view of my improved clothes pin, showing it in use on a clothes line; lfig. 2 is en ode or side of the pin. Ester-ring to the drawing, 1 1ndicates my improved clothes pin, which is preferably made of wood as being the cheapest material suitable for the pose but may be made of ime any suitable material. It is formed of uniform thickness and with fiat sides 2, 3, and straight parallel edges 4 and 5, and it is of considerable width in proportion to its thiclmess. Two recesses 6, 7, are formed therein, both opening outward through one edge 5. The recess 6 is circular in form, while the recess 7 is elongated but with circular ends, and is slightly wider than the recess 6 The parts of the clothes pinwhere said recesses open into the edge 3, are in the form of acute angles, with somewhat blunt apexes, thus forming tongues or hobhs 8, 9, the angles of the tongues 9 being more acute than those of the corners 8 The mode of use of my improved clothes pin is as tollows: 'lhe clothes having been placed over the clothes line, shown at 10, the clothes pin is held somewhat oblique to the clothes line and is passed thereupon so that portions oi the clothes and clothes line are received within the recess 6, and the adjacent terminal portion 11 of the clothes pin is on one side of the clothes line, while the ortion 12 is on the other side. Maintainmg the recessed portion 6 in engagement with the clothes and clothes line the other'terminal portion 13 of the clothes pin is then moved toward the clothes line, the extreme end thereof being raised sufi- ---terminal portion,

view thereof- Fig. 3 is a view of .m consequence the device ciently to enable it to pass over and" just clear the clothes line with (the clothes thereon, still keeping the mediate portion 12 of the clothes pin on said other side of the line, and pressing said mediate portion against the hue to bend it, so that the terminal portion 13 of the clothes pin passes to the same side of the line .asthe portion 11. Said terminal portion 13 is then pushed down on the line, so that the clothes and clothes line are contained within'the recess 7. In this position the clothes are held to the clothes line very securely by the clothes pin.

1' deem it necessary to make the mediate portion 12 of the clothes pin considerably longer than either terminal portion 13., and in fact substantially twice as strong as either since it has to withstand the'same strain of the clothes line at the one side, which the two terminal portions withstand at the other side.

important feature of my invention consists in the acute-angled tongues or hooks, 8, 9. lThe urpose of these tongues is to retain the clot-es pin securely upon the clothes of each recess in directions pointin' toward each other, I am enabled to provide means for retaining the clothes pin upon the clothes line which do not project beyond the sides of the clothes pin, thereby enabling the clothes pin to-be made at a very low cost, for it is. thereby rendered possible to form these clothes pins out of a long and narrow block of wood, by first tong in said block longitudinal grooves, the transverse forms of which are those of said recesses 6, 7, and then cutting the block transversely into strips of the "re uired thichress. Moreover, by reason 0 these tongues or hooks being syetrical relative to, opposite sides of the clothes pins, said clothes pin can be used equally well on either side of the clothes line and it is therefore not necessary to adjust the same in the hand when applying it to the clothes line.

I thus provide a clothes pin having the following properties which I consider es sential for the commercial introduction of an'article of this character 1) It is made of a single piece; (2) the whole of the parts are contained between two parallel planes, in which are the two sides of the clothes pin; can be made ve cheaply; and a large number of these devices can be packed in a very small compass, with- By forming tongues on opposite sides I claim A clothes pin formed of a single piece of.

wood ofconsiderable width in proportion to its thickness, and having its sides in parallel plane surfaces and with parallel longitudinal edges, and comprising two terminal portions and a mediate portion separated by recesses, each recess having circular ends and one being longer than the other, and the mediate portion being longer than either terminal portion, through which recesses can be passed a clothes line, both recesses having contracted entrances opening in one longitudinal edge thereof.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ERNEST A. NORMAND.

Witnesses Framers M. WRIGHT, N. B. KEATING.

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