US1054706A - Protective device or button for hat-pins. - Google Patents

Description

P. T. MERRILL.

PROTECTIVBDEVIGE 0R BUTTON FOR HAT PINS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 1, 1911.

1,054,706 Patented Mar. 4, 1913.

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PHINEAS T. MERRILL, OF LEOMINSTER, MASSACHUSETTS.

PROTECTIVE DEVICE 0R BUTTON FOR HAT-PINS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 1, 1911.

Patented Mar. 4, 1913. Serial No. 630,703.

To all whom it may concern Be itknown that I, PHINEAS T. MERRHL, a citizen of the United States, residing in Leominster, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Protective Devices or Buttons for Hat-Pins, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention relates to a protective device or button for the pointed ends of pins and especially hat pins, such as now commonly used.

The present invention has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive and eflicient device or button for the purpose specified.

The particular features of this invention will be pointed out in the claims at the end of this specification.

Figure 1 represents the head of a lady wearing a hat provided with a hat pin having its pointed end protected by a button or device embodying this invention. Fig. 2, a view in plan of the button shown in Fig. 1, with parts broken away, and Fig. 3, a section on the line 33, Fig. 2.

The button or device comprises a body portion a of any suitable or desired shape and provided with a socket Z) of substantially the diameter of the hat pin 0 for a portion of its length and preferably made tapering at its inner end. The body portion a is also provided with a second socket (Z, preferably materially larger than the diameter of the socket b and shorter than the latter. The socket a3 is arranged with relation to the socket b so as to communicate therewith, and in the present instance, the socket d cuts across or into the socket Z) to leave an open space connecting the two sockets and which is common to both. The socket (Z is designed to receive a friction device, which may be of any suitable material, but preferably a helical spring 6 of substantially the diameter of the socket (Z, so as to fill the same and have its outer circumference extend into the pin receiving socket Z), so that when the pin 0 is inserted into its socket b, it will engage the outer circumference of the friction spring 6 and tend to crowd or push the same back into its socket cZ,'thereby creating suflicient trio tion to hold the protective device or button on the hat pin with suflicient force under conditions of use, as represented in Fig. 3.

The body portion a of the button is pro-- vided in the present instance with a ca provided with a flange 9, which frictionally engages the body portion, said cap serving to close the larger socket (Z and retain the spring 6 therein, and having an opening it through it, which registers with the pin-receiving socket b and is provided with a bell shaped or flaring mouth piece 2' integral with the cap and serving to guide and center the button or device on the hat pin 0. I may prefer to employ a helical spring as the friction agent, but it is not desired to limit the invention in this respect, as cork, rubber or other material may be used. The sockets 6, (Z may be drilled in the button and by arranging their centers with relation to each other, their circumferences may intersect more or less, and thereby vary the width of the opening common to both sockets, so that more or less of the friction device is capable of projecting into the pin-receiving socket to obtain the desired or necessary frictional grip upon the pin. In the present instance, the sockets Z), (Z are shown as circular in cross-section and arranged parallel to each other, but it is not desired to limit the invention to this particular form of the sockets or to the particular arrangement of the same.

From the above description, it will be seen that the button or protective device is simple, durable and can be made to be sold at a minimum price, which enables the device to be used with expensive and inexpensive hat pins.

The button Or device may be made plain or ornamental and of any desired shape.

The friction device is capable of yielding laterally sutliciently to enable the protective device to be removed by the operator with one hand and by pulling the protective device in the direction of the length of the pin.

Claims:

1. A protective device for the pointed ends of pins, comprising a solid body portion having a central pin-receiving socket and a second socket located at one side of the center of said body and parallel with the pin-receiving socket and whose circumference intersects the circumference of the pin-receiving socket, a helical spring 10- cated in the second-mentioned socket and projecting into the pin-receiving socket to be engaged by the pin inserted into the pinreceiving socket and frictionally grip the same, a cap detachable from said body portion and covering the spring-containing socket to retain the spring therein and provided with an opening which registers With the pin-receiving socket to guide the pin into the latter, said opening having a flaring mouth, substantially as described.

2. A protective device for the pointed ends of pins, comprising a solid body portion having a cylindrical pin-receiving socket and a second cylindrical socket parallel with the pin-receiving socket and having its circumference intersecting the circumference of the pin-reiving socket, a yielding friction device located in the secondmentioned socket and projecting into the pin-receiving socket to be engaged by the pin inserted into the pin-receiving socket to retain the device on the pin and capable of yielding laterally to permit the device to be put on and removed from thepin by the use of only one hand of the operator, a cap detachable from said body portion and covering the socket-containing the friction device to retain it therein and having an opening which registers with the pin-receiving socket to guide the'pin into the latter, substantially as described.

3. A protective device for the pointed ends of pins, comprising a solid body portion having a cylindrical socket for the reception of the pin and extended but partially the length of the body portion, and a second cylindrical socket of larger diameter than the pin receiving socket and parallel therewith and extended but partially the length of said body portion with its circumference intersecting the circumference of the pin-receiving socket, and a yielding friction device in said second socket and of substantially the diameter thereof to be supported by the walls of the said socket and have a portion projected into the pin-receiving socket to engage the pin and frictionally hold the protective device thereon, and capable of yielding laterally to permit the device to be put on and removed from the pin by the use of only one hand of the operator, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

PHINEAS T. MERRILL.

\Vitnesses \VM. A. PUTNAM, FRANCES R. BURNS.

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

Washington, D. G!

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