US1170186A

US1170186A - Safety-pin.

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Publication number: US1170186A
Application number: US6066315A
Authority: US
Inventors: Vincent Price
Original assignee: CHRISTINA J HIGLEY
Current assignee: CHRISTINA J HIGLEY
Priority date: 1915-11-10
Filing date: 1915-11-10
Publication date: 1916-02-01
Anticipated expiration: 1933-02-01

Description

V. PRICE.

SAFETY PIN.

APPLlCATION FILED NOV. 101 I915.

Pafented Feb.1, 1916.

VINCENT PRICE, or NEW YORK, N.

Y., ASSIGNOR TO CHRISTINA J. HIGLEY, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

SAFETY-PIN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 1, 1916.

Application filed November 10, 1915. Serial No. 60,663.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, VINCENT PRICE, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at New York city, New. York, have invented a new and useful Safety-Pin, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improved safety pin, the object being to provide means to prevent the pin proper from bending under strain to such a degree as to withdraw the point of the pin from the holding shield or to so buckle the pin as to break the same.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a front elevation of my safety pin as it would appear in operation on a garment. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is a detailed view of the pin itself with the pin proper being open.

1 represents the pin portion of a safety pin of otherwise conventional form and which may include the. usual coil 2, a suitable frame or back 3 and the pin receiving shield 4. In the particular form shown herein which is illustrative of a preferable construction, the pin proper is provided with two downward bends 5 and 6 which form a substantial depression in the middle portion of the pin so that when the pin is pushed through a fabric and strain is applied, the fabric will be supported approximately at the points 7 and 8, that is to say, the strain will come close to thecoil 2 and close to the shield irather than in the middle of the pin. By so constructing the pin that the strain occurs near the ends rather than in the middle the pin is much less liable Copies of this patent may be obtained for to bend and hence the danger of withdrawing the pin point from the shield 4 is practically eliminated. In the ordinary safety pin construction in which the pin proper is straight, the fabric tends to gather and be drawn into the middle portion of the pin, sothat when under strain the pin readily bends with disastrous results. By my improvement this tendency of the fabric to seek the middle of the pin is prevented by the resistance offered by the shoulders formed by the bends 5 and 6. These resistance shoulders may be provided in any desired way and may be of course modified in degree although I have found that by following substantially the design and construction illustrated herein, satisfactory results may be achieved. The particular construction is furthermore preferable because the resistance shoulders are formed integrally with the pin thus saving the expense that would attend the providing of such shoulders by added means.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

In a safety pin, a back, a shield at one end thereof, a yielding pin portion supported at the other end thereof, the point of the pin portion being arranged to be engaged by the shield, the intermediate part of the pin portion being bent toward the back to form opposite spaced resisting shoulders relatively tion to prevent the gathering of a fabric through which the pin is passed at the mid- VINCENT PRICE.

dle of the pin.

Washington, D. 0.

near to the-ends of the pin por-