US1233195A - Hair-pin. - Google Patents

Description

s. E. CREECH"& P. BLAND.

Patented July 10, 1917.

it It HAIR-PIN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July :iltl, TQM.

Application filed April 6, 1917. Serial no. 160,284.

- and PERRY BLAND, citizens of the United States, and residents of Sullivan, in the county of Moultrie and State of Illinois,

have invented new and useful Tmprovements in Hair-Pins, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in hair pins, and the primary object is to provide a pin of this character which may be readily and conveniently used, and when used will securely remain in the position in which it is placed without injury to the hair or scalp of the wearer.

Other advantages and objects will be apparent in the course of the following description, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, and the particular features of novelty will be pointed out in the appended claims. The pin may be of bone, wire or any other material.

' Tn the drawings in which similar characters of references denote similar parts in all the views,

Figure l is a front view of a hair pin embodying our invention.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged view of the divergent ends.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, the pin is formed from a single strand of resilient wire or any other suitable ma terial bent at the center 1 forming a U- shape. The prongs 2 converge toward the ends of same, and are provided for a por-- tion of their length with a crimped portion 3. The free ends of the prongs 2 are bent as shown at 4 to be divergent and are relatively long and. provided at the ends thereof with ball points 5.

The divergent portions of the prongs 2 are provided with a plurality of waves, depressions or flattened portions 6 which are preferably positioned adjacent the ball points 5 on both the inside and outside of the prongs.

The pin when inserted in the hair will be securely held therein by the several means employed; The crimped sections 3 bind against the hair and retain the same.

]By the use of the ball points 5, it is obvious that as the pin is forced into engagement with the hair, any danger of injury to the scalp by the scraping or piercing of same with the free ends is prevented, and further the ball points give an added means for securing the pin against displacement. As the hair is engaged in the pin, it forces the spread of the pin to its point of resistance and the smaller waves, depressions or flattened portions 6 press firmly against the hair on both the inside and outside.

The units of hair are pressed firmly in each wave or flattened portion 6 and fit snugly therein and also facilitate the retention of the pin in the hair.

In use the depressions or flattened portions 6 areplaced next to the scalp as the hair remains natural at that point and will offer more resistance there than in any other place.

Tn reduction to practice, we have found that the form of our invention illustrated in the drawings and referred to in the above description as the preferred embodiment is the most eflicient and practical, yet realizing that the conditions concurrent with the adoption of our device will necessarily vary, we desire to emphasize the fact that various minor changes in details of construction, proportion and arrangement of parts may be resorted to, when required, without sacrificing any of the advantages of our invention as defined in the appended claims.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A hair pin comprising a single length of material bent upon itself to form coacting prongs, said prongs having their free end portions diverging outwardly, said free treme free ends with ball points and inwardly of and adjacent said ball points with spaced depressions to engage with the hair near its roots whereby the maximum degree of holding action is obtained.

2. A hair pin comprising a single lengthend portions being provided at their ex-

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