US1162577A - Wire clothes-pin. - Google Patents

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B. B. 81 DE CREVECOEUR.

WIRE CLOTHES PIN.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 5. 1915.

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BARTON BAY BRIAND DE CREVECOEUR, OF BANNING, CALIFORNIA.

WIRE CLOTHES-PIN.

' Application filed May 5, 1915.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that LBaR'roN RAY BRIAND on Canvnoon'on, a citizen of the United States, residing at Banning, in the county of Riverside and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Wire Clothes-Pins, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to clothes pins made of wire. a

One object of the invention is to produce a duplex pin embodying two separate and independent clamping members which may be engaged by separate garments for the purpose of holding the same in suspension for drying purposes.

A further object of the invention is to produce a duplex clothes pin having duplex line-engaging eyes or members spaced apart so that the strain of a garment in one direction will produce a tilting action of the pin, whereby the eyes will frictionally engage the line to retain the pin against sliding.

lVith these and other ends in view which will readily appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same con sists in the improved construction and novel arrangement and combination of parts which will be hereinafter fully described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawing there is illustrated a simple and preferred form of the invention, it being, however, understood that no limitation is necessarily made to the precise structural details therein exhibited, but that changes, alterations and modifications within the scope of the claims may be resorted to when desired.

In the drawing,Figure 1 is a perspective view showing a portion of a line having several pins and showing portions of garments supported thereby. Fig. 2 is a front view, enlarged, of one of the pins. Fig. 3 is a side view of the same. Fig. A is a horizontal sectional view taken on the line 4% in Fig. 2, and looking in a downward direction. Fig. 5 is a front view of the pin showing the side portions thereof distorted as they would appear-when engaged-by portions of garments, the latter being indicated in dotted lines.

Corresponding parts in the several figures are denoted by like characters of reference.

The improved clothes pin is formed of a single piece of stout resilient wire. the same being bent midway between its ends to form Specificationof Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 3Q, 1915.

Serial No. 26,099.

a loop A having limbs or side members 15 and a bridge piece 16, which latter in the completed pin is at the upper end of the loop. The limbs 15 are passed across one another, as seen at 17, and are then reversely bent, as at 18, 18. the end portions of the wire being carried upward to form clamp bars 19, 19 that lie adjacent to the limbs of the yoke A. Beginning at a point a short distance below the bridge piece 18 of the loop A the end portions of the wire are diverged laterally or outwardly to form the side members 20 of an oval frame B, said side members being brought together at the upper end of the frame and intertwisted to form a neck portion 21 from which the wire ends are further extended divergently in an upward direction to form arms 22 having terminal eyes or coils 23 engaging the line 24 which may be made of wire, wire rope, cord or any convenient and appropriate material.

It will be observed that by crossing the limbs of the loop A at the lower end of said loop, said limbs are interlocked, thus interlocking the lower ends of the clamp bars 19 which lie adjacent to the respective limbs of the loop. The upper ends of the clamp bars, however, are free to move outwardly with respect to the limbs of the loop to a limited extent. as clearly seen in Fig. 5, the

movement being limited owing to the fact that the upward extensions 20 of said clamp bars are twisted together at 21. It will be observed that owing to the interlocking formation at the lower extremity of the device, the loop A will be twisted so as to lie in a plane at an angle to the plane occupied by the frame B and the clamp bars which form portions of said frame. The loop A, however, does not occupy such a position that the clamping bars 19 will enter between the limbs of said loop, but Said clamping bars will contact with the said loops so as to produce two separate and independent holding clamps, each composed of a limb 15 and a clamping bar 19, and the two clamping devices be separated and spaced apart by the. bridge piece 18 of the loop A.

In the operation of this device, a plurality of the clothes pins are strung on the line 24. To apply a garment a portion of said garment is introduced through the frame B between the side members 20 of said frame, and is then forced downward between one of the limbs 15 and one of the clamp bars 19.

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Another portion of the garment may then be in a similar manner connected with the next pin. A second garment may then be connected with the second clamping device of the second pin and in like manner with a clamping device of a third pin, and so on, as will be clearly seen by reference to Figs. 1 and 5. It is obvious that any one garment may be removed without disturbing the remaining garments. It will also be seen that when a series of garments are suspended on a line, the pm at the end of the line will be subjected to a strain in one direction only, whereby it will be somewhat tilted, as seen at 25 in Fig. 1, thereby slightly twisting the line and producing a friction between the line and the eyes 23, whereby the pin will be prevented from slipping readily upon the line.

It will be seen from the foregoing that I have produced a clothes pin of simple and inexpensive construction which will be found to be thoroughly efficient for the purposes for which it is provided.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, is:

1. A wire clothes pin comprising a frame having downwardly extending clamp bars connected and spaced apart by an intermediate upwardly extending 106 mm; limbs of which are interlocked by crossing the same said frame being provided with upwardly extending divergent arms having terminal line engaging eyes or coils.

,2; A clothes pin formed of a single piece of wire by bending the same to form a loop having limbs crossing each other at their lower ends, the end portions of the wire being bent vergent arms having terminal line engaging eyes or coils.

ln-testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

BARTON RAY BRIAND DE UREVEUOEUR.

Witnesses: r 7

B. C. TERRY, J. H. NOWLIN.

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

' 'Washington, D. C.

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