US1130796A

US1130796A - Hat-pin.

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Publication number: US1130796A
Application number: US81387014A
Authority: US
Inventors: Clement Cleveland
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1914-01-23
Filing date: 1914-01-23
Publication date: 1915-03-09
Anticipated expiration: 1932-03-09

Description

G. CLEVELAND.

HAT PIN.

APPLICATION FILED JAILZS, 1914.

1,1 30,796. Patented Mar. 9, 1915.

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CLEMENT CLEVELAND, OF NEW YORK, Y.

HAT-PIN.

Specification of Letters iatent.

Application 131611 January 23, 1914. Serial No. 813,870.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLEMENT CLEVELAND, a citizen of the United States, residing in New York city, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hat- Pins, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to combinable, or duplex, hat-pins, and a principal object of the invention is to provide a composite or duplex hat-pin having an improved construction whereby it will be adapted for use as a single pin, or as a pair of separate pins, and also as a safety device.

My present invention is in part in the nature of an improvement on the duplex hat pin described in my co-pending application, Serial No. 762,181, filed April 19, 1913, which has matured into Patent No. 1,118,473, issued Nov. 24, 1914, to which reference may be had.

In the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, Figure l is a side view, with the tubular pin shown in section, of the duplex hat pin, and shows the two pins assembled as when in use as a combined and safety hat pin. Fig. 2 is a View similar to the left-hand portion of Fig. l, for illustrating the manner of assembling the two oombinable pins for the purpose of inserting them into a hat by using them as if a single pin. Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional view in line N, N, Fig. 1, and shows the parts at the left-hand of said line, as seen from a point at the right-hand thereof. Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail view of the point-end of the tubular pin, in the position shown in Fig. 1, and Fig. 5 is a similar detail view showing said point-end as seen from below in Fig. 4.

Similar characters designate like parts in all of the views.

One of the pair of combinable pins is indicated by B, and consists of a small tube which, in practice, may be made extremely thin and is preferably made of some kind of hard-drawn or tempered metal. In practice the tubes for the pins B may be made of steel of suitable temper. To facilitate the illustration of the improvement I have shown the pins somewhat modified from the more usual proportions.

In Fig. 1 the tubular pin B is shown as having some suitable kind of head, as H, fixed to one end thereof, while the other Patented Mar. 9,1915.

end 2 is provided with a fabric-puncturing point of improved construction for operatmg in connection with the central pin C, which is also provided with some suitable head, as (Z. I

By reason of its small diameter, the pin C willbe sufficiently flexible so that. it may be readily inserted through some suitable branch-way opening, as 6, arranged in any convenient'manner for permitting the central pin to be assembled, in the direction indicated in Fig. 2, with the tubular pin B without entering the bore of the tube B close to the. head thereof. By this means a point-receptacle, as at P, Figs. 1,2 and 3, is reserved and separated from the path of entrance of the pin C, for the purpose of receiving the point 4 of the pin (J when this is assembled with the pin B in the reversed direction shown in Fig. 1, at which time the point 4 of the pin C is inclosed and protected within the point-receptacle P and is prevented, by the head H acting as a stop therefor, from being pushed outwardly so as to become uncovered.

When the two pins are assembled in a manner indicated in Fig. 2, they become practically a single pin and may then be inserted through the hat, (as K, Fig. 1), after which the central pin may be withdrawn and re-inserted from the point end of the pin B, as shown in Fig. 1, so that when thus combined each ofthe two pins has a head, and thus reversely combined, have a head at each end thereof, while the point 4 of the pin B is safely inclosed within the pointreceptacle P adjacent to the head H, as more fully explained in my said patent.

A convenient way of arranging the branch-way entrance is indicated in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 as consisting of the hole 6 formed through the head H and in one side of the tubular pin B, which may be laterally enlarged at the head-end, as illustrated in said views, for that purpose. When this arrangement is used and on. account of the considerable difference in the external diameters of the two'pins, it is evident the hole 6 may be only large enough to allow the free entrance of the small pin C, especially as this central pin will usually have a considerable degree of flexibility. Thus the tubular pin has near the head-end thereof an entranceway for an insertible central pin, and has this entrance-way branching from one side of the tube, for thereby forming in the tube a:

' reserved portion serving as a point-receptacle,

' bore of the tube B, and adjacent to the branch-way entrance 6, so that when a central pin, as C (which is longerthanthe tubular pin), is inserted from the point-end 2 of the tubular pin, the point, as i, of such central pin'will be stopped by the said pointstop. r r 7 lhe tube of the tubular pinyB is shown with one side thereo-f,-see Figs. 1, i and 5, extended into an elongated and resilient fabric-puncturing point, 12,'theapex e of which is shown set inwardly (from and relatively to the line,as '2', F ig. i,,of the tubewall), for bringing the apex e initially in line with,or partly forward of,the bore of the tube. By this means, the apex, or extreme point e of the tubular pin, is readily made to contact properly with a central inserted pin, as (J, even when such inserted- 1. pin is considerably smaller than the bore of the tubular pin. In this connection it will beunderstood that in practice, it is not feasible'to manufacture the pin tubes without any variation whatever in size of bore, nor to make the central pins precisely round in section nor exactly of the same diameter, nor to make or keep them perfectly straight. In my present improvements, however, the normally injurious effects of such variations are avoided,-since a considerable difference in the size of the .central pin, C, as compared with the bore, 7, is compensated for by the inward settingof the point 12, whereby the apex e thereofis normally-tensioned against Copies of this patent may be obtained for vthe central pin, even when this varies considerably in diameter.

By the means here set forth, the apex of the tube-point is initially so placed and related to the tube and the insertible pin, as

to avoid the forming between those parts of any space or crevice, and thus I overcome the normal; tendency which. would otherwise exist for the fiber of a hatfabric my invention, I

than the tubular pin when such central pin is inserted within the tubular pin from either direction.

2. A duplex hat-pin comprising a tubular pin having a head, said head forming a point stop in line with the bore of the tube,

and an adjacent branch-way entrance in said head for a central pin. 7

3. A duplex hat-pin comprising a tubular pin having a central bore, said central bore being enlarged at the head end of said pin, j

a point stop in line with. the bore of the tube at the head end, there being an entrance eccentric of said bore in said enlargement for a central pin. I I

- CLEMENT CLEVELAND. WVitnesses:

CHARLES R. S'roUeH'roN, .SILACE L. BURNETT.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, i Washington, I). C. j i I