US1071564A - Pin. - Google Patents

Description

E. MOREHOUSE.

PIN.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 5, 1912.

1,07 1 ,564, Patented Aug. 26, 1913.

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EUGENE MOREI-IOUSE, 0F PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR TO B. A. BALLOU &, COMPANY, INC., OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, A CORPORATION OF RHODE ISLAND.

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To all 'ZU/LOHL if m (11/ concern Be it known that I, EUGENE MonEHoUsE, a citizen of the United States, and resident of the city of Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pins, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to pin-stems of the class designed to be pivotally mounted between the joint ears of a beauty pin, and has for its object to provide a pin-stem of this character having two distinct laterally projecting lugs or members in its head portion, one being adapted to engage the forward and the other to engage the rear edge of the joint ear, whereby a front stop and a back stop respectively are formed for the the pin-stem.

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lVith these and other objects in view, the invention consists of certain novel. features of construction, as will be more fully described and particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

Figure 1 is a sectional side elevation of a pin showing my improved pin-stem mounted therein. Fig. 2 is an enlarged perspective view of my improved pin-stem showing the shape of the lug members as formed on the head when the same is struck from sheet stock. Fig. 3 illustrates these lug members as bent or swaged down into operating position one to form a front stop and the other to form aback stop for the pin-stem. Fig. -1- is a rear view of the pin-stem head showing the relative positions of the stop lug members. Fig. 5 is a greatly enlarged side elevation illustrating my improved pinstem head as pivotally mounted to the joint ears of a pin and in closed position showing the front lug in position to engage the frontedge of the ears to form a front stop for Fig. 6 shows the pin-stem as mounted in the joint ear and in open position illustrating the rear lug as engaging the rear edge of the joint ear forming a back stop for the pin-stem.

Referring to the drawing, 1 designates the body portion of a so-called one-piece cuff or beauty pin in which the catch member 2 and joint ears 3 are all formed integral with the body portion thereof. My present invention, however, relates more particularly to the pin stem which is designed to be pivotally mounted between the joint ears of Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Aug. 26,1913. Application filed. August 5, 1912.

Serial No. 713,264.

such a pin, or between joint ears of any construction which in some cases may be formed separate and independent of the pin body if desired.

My improved pin stem is provided with a body portion & and when struck from sheet stock the end 5 is slightly tapered and the flat enlarged head portion 6 at the other end is provided with a lug 7 extending outwardly from the rear outer edge of the head at substantially a right angle to the axis of the pin body and at the rear of a vertical line through the pivoting point, assuming the pin-stem to lay in a horizontal plane. The forward lower edge of this head is also provided with a lug 8 extending substantially in a line parallel with the axis of the pin body but below the pivoting point. The surplus stock at the opposite or rear lower edge 9 of the head is preferably rounded off to reduce its weight and the head is pierced at 10 for the reception of the pintle. In the next operation the body portion of the pin is rounded and a point formed thereon. The stock in the lug 7 is bent and swaged crossways of the head forming lateral lugs 11 and 12 projecting in opposite directions from the faces of the head, the stock in the lower forward lug 8 is also bent and swaged crosswise of the head forming lateral lugs 13 and 1% projecting in opposite directions from the relative faces of the head. The pin is now completed and ready to be mounted be tween the joint ears of the pin.

It is well known that pin stems mounted in the ordinary one-piece pin have hereto-fore usually required a very long end to extend down and engage the bottom of the pin body or the joint in some way must be built up between the ears to provide the necessary fulcrum and back stop for the pin-stem, but by my improved construction of pin-stem, the same may be mounted between the joint ears of any ordinary construction, the laterally extending lugs 13 and 14 being adapted to engage the front edges of the ears to form the necessary front stop or fulcrum, as best illustrated in Fig. 5, while the lugs 11 and 12 are well adapted to engage the rear edge of the joint ears to form a back stop for the pin stem, as best illustrated in Fig. 6. Then again, by my improved construction the size of the head itself may be reduced to the minimum and the lugs, both of which may project from either one or both sides of the head, are all formed integral therewith by a simple autonmtic process. A particular advantage of this construction being that it is adapted to be mounted between the plainest or simplest form of joint ears.

I claim:

A pin-stem pointed at one end and hav ing an enlarged flattened head at its opposite end adapted to be pivotally held between the joint ears of a pin, said head being provided with a pair of integral laterally extending lugs on its lower forward edge adapted to engage the fmfward edges of the joint ears below the pivoting point to form a front stop, said head being also provided with another similar pair of lugs on its upper edge and to the rear of the pivot point adapted to engage the rear edges of the joint ear when the pin-stem is thrown back to form a back stop for the same.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

EUGENE MOREHOUSE. itnesses HOWARD E. BARLOW, E. I. OGDEN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, I). 0.

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