US1269578A - Tie-pin holder. - Google Patents

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L. M. CAMPAU.

TIE PIN HOLDER. I APPLICATION FILED JULY 17.19l7.

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, amuewboz Lawrence/W Cam val LAWRENCE M. CAMPAU, 0F DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

TIE-PIN HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Julie 18, 1918.

Application filed July 17, 1917. Serial No. 180,978.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LAWRENCE M. CAM- PAU, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented a new and useful Tie-Pin Holder, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to tie-pin holders, such as are employed to prevent a stick-pin either working loose from a neck-tie or being surreptitiously removed therefrom.

It is the object of the inventionto provide a device of this nature that will consist of a single part, which may be stamped from sheet-metal, so that the cost of productionwill be comparatively little.

The provision of a tie-pin holder that maybe very quickly and easily engaged with or disengaged from a stick-pin-is another object.

These objects are attained by the construction hereinafter described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a necktie showing the holder in full lines engaged with a stick-pin upon the back of the tie, and showing said holder in dash lines partially disengaged from the pin.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the holder alone.

Fig. 3 i a vertical sectional view showing the holder in position upon the pin and tie.

In these views, 1 designates a neck-tie and 2 a stick-pin therein. As shown, the pin has its top and bottom portions inserted through the tie and is concealed intermediate said portions at the back of the tie, this being the common practice. The holder which constitutes the present invention is engageable with the concealed intermediate portion of the pin, and is in the nature of an E-shaped sheet-metal stamping comprising a body 3 having lateral terminal lugs A and an intermediate lug 5. The lug 5 is in the plane of the body 3 while the lugs 4 are slightly bent so as to incline longitudinally of the holder at opposite angles. In corresponding faces of said lugs 4, there are formed shallow V-shaped troughs 6 extending in the direction of inclination of said lugs, and presenting at their innermost edges sharp bearing points for engagement with the pin.

When the holder is engaged with the tiepin the lug 5 bears against one side of the pin and the two lugs 4 bear against the opposite sides, the body of the holder being sprun to an arcuate form as seen in Fig. 3. wing to the inclination of the lugs 4 to the plane of the body of the holder, said lugs havebearing contact with the pin only at their adjacent edges, and under the reflexing tension of the body of the holder these lugs, co-acting with the lugs 5, serve as detents to resist relative longitudinal movement of the pin and holder in either direction. Accidental lateral displacement of the holder from the pin is prevented by engagement of the pin in the V- shaped troughs 6.

Engagement or disengagement of the holder and pin is accomplished by shifting 'the pin angularly between the two positions shown in full and dash lines in Fig. 1, and at the same time flexing the holder longitudinally. Thus a substantially transverse movement enables the desired positioning of the holder, and the resistance offered by the lugs 4 to longitudinal motion is avoided.

The facts that the invention may be produced by a single machine operation, and that it requires no careful or prolonged manipulation to engage it with a pin, are emphasized.

What I claim is:

1. A tie-pin holder comprising a body having spaced projections for engagement at one side of a pin and an intermediate projection engageable at the opposite side of the pin, one of said projections presenting a bearing edge to the pin and acting as a detent to resist relative displacement of pin and holder longitudinally of the former.

2. A tie-pin holder comprising a body having spaced projections for engagement at one side of a pin and an intermediate projection engageable at the opposite side of the pin, one of said projections presenting a bearing edge to the pin and acting as a detent to resist relative displacement of pin and holder longitudinally of the former, said projection having a portion bent to resist relative transverse displacement of pin and holder.

3. A tie-pin holder comprising a body having spaced projections for engagement at one side of a pin and an intermediate projection engageable at the opposite side of the pin, one of said projections presenting a bearing edge to the pin and acting as a detent to resist relative displacement of pin and holder longitudinally of the former, said projection having a trough-shaped portion for embracing the pin to resist relative transverse displacement of pin and holder.

4:. A tie-pin holder comprising a resilient sheet-metal body having spaced projections for engagement at one side of a pin and an intermediate projection engageable at the opposite side of said pin, said projections normally being in substantially the same plane, and engagement with the pin being established by flexing the holder between its first-named projections.

5. A tie-pin holder comprising a body having spaced projections for engagement at one side of a pin and an intermediate projection engageable at the opposite side, the first-named projections presenting bearing edges to the pin and co-acting with said intermediate projection to resist relative longitudinal displacement of the pin and holder in either direction.

6. A tie-pin holder comprising a body having spaced projections for engagement at one side of a pin and an intermediate projection engageable at the opposite side, the first-named projections presenting bearing edges to the pin and co-acting With said intermediate projection to resist relative longitudinal displacement of the pin and holder in either direction, one of said proj ections being formed with a trough-shaped portion to resist relative lateral displacement of the holder and pin.

7. A tie-pin holder comprising a resilient body having spaced lugs for engagement at one side of a tie-pin and an intermediate lug engageable at the opposite side of said pin, the first-mentioned lugs being bent to incline them oppositely at a slight angle to the plane of the body whereby they present bearing edges to the pin and form-detents to resist longitudinal displacement thereof,

said lugs being further shaped to resist lateral displacement of the pin.

In testimony whereof I sign this specification.

LAWRENCE M. CAMPAU.

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

Washington, D. G.

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