US1344254A - Clothespin - Google Patents

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B. M. BARRICKMAN.

CLOTHESPIN.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 23. 1918.

1 ,344, 254:. Patented June 22, 1920.

Jvwemboz BART ivr. BARBICKMAN, OF-IPORTLAND', OREGON.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 22, 1920.

Application filed November 23, 1918. Serial No. 263,845.

.skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The present invention relates to new and useful improvements in wire clothes pins, more particularly of that type formed of a single length of wire bent to provide a pair of jaws resiliently opposed to relative movement whereby to exert a proper gripping articles inserted therebetween. general the object of the present to simplify and. otherwise imstructure and to increase the efficiency of devices of this character. I

A more detailed object is to provide an improved gripping action of the clothes pin both with respect to the range of resilient action afforded. the jaws and with respect to a balanced gripping relation of the various aw portions.

lVith the above and other objects and advantages in view, the invention resides more particularly in the novel combination,

action on t is in invention prove the formation and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and particularly out in the appended claims In the accompanying drawings:

Figure l is a perspective view of the improved clothes pin.

Fig. 2 is an edge elevational view thereof.

Fig. 3 is a front elevational view thereof.

Fig. 4 is a sectional view therethrough.

Referring now more particularly to the accompanying drawings, a single length of wire from which the pin is formed is bent centrally and the portions adjacent the bend extend in contiguous relation to form a pair of jaw shanks 5, the central bend 6 of the wire being disposed at the outer ends of the jaw shanks, and the inner ends of the jaw shanks are twisted together at 7. From the twisted portions 7, each stretch of wire is coiled outwardly in a helical spring at 8,

pointed the jaw shanks 5 being disposed tangential I to the helix, and from the outer ends of the coils the wire isextended tangentially in substantially the plane of the shanks 5 to form a. pair of jaw shanks 9, these jaw shanks being parallel and spaced laterally at opposite sides of the pair of jaw shanks 5. The free end portion of one of the shanks 9 is turned laterally at right angles as shown at 11 and is terminally connected to the extremity of the other shank 9 as shown at 12. The pair of shanks 5 which ointly form one of the gripping jaws of the clothes pin are provided with a pair of bends 13 and 13 directed forward from the plane of the shanks 9 which latter shanks form jointly the other gripping jaw of the clothes pin. It will be noted that the bend 13 is of less amplitude than that of the bend 13. The shanks 9 are provided also with bends 14' and 14 direrted rearwardly, or oppositely to the.

. alined bends 13 and 13' with which they and durable clothes pin has thus been provided which possesses a wide range of resilient action and which may be most readily applied in operative position to a clothes line. The gripping action of the jaw shanks 5 is exerted between the jaw shanks 9, and thus an entirely balanced gripping action is procured.

It is noted that the jaw shanks 9 are longer than the jaw shanks 5, and thus should the resilience of the ja'ws'in a normal operation become lessened by continued use or unusual strain, thejaw shanks 5 may be passed between the shanks 9, to lie at the other side of them when articles may be gripped between the other faces of the jaws and the rentrant bends between 13 and 13' and between 14 and 14' become effective.

For securing the pin permanently to a clothes line, a link 15 is provided, having an eye 16 at one end loosely engaging the outer convolutions of one of the coils 8 and having a normally closed spring hook 17 at its other end for engagement on the clothes line.

The free end portions of the- I am aware that clothes pins have heretofore been formed of a single length of wire bent to provide a pair of resiliently opposed jaw portions, and my invention therefore resides in the particular formation recited in the claims to procure a most simple, readily manufactured and efficient clothes pin of this type.

Vllitt is claimed is:

l. A clothes pin comprising a single length of wire having its ends connected, the wire being extended from said connecting ends to form a pair of spaced jaw shanks, then coiled, and then extended from its coileiil portion to form a second pair of jaw shanks shorter than and capable of swinging through the first, the jaws having bends facing each other when the shorter jaw is on either side of the longer.

2. A clothes pin comprising a single length of wire having its ends connected, the wire being extended from said connected ends to form a pair of jaw shanks, and then coiled and extended from its coiled portion to form a coaeting second pair of jaw shanks, said second pair of shanks being twisted together adjacent the coiled portion.

3. A clothes pin comprising a single length of wire having its ends connected, the wire strands being extended from said connected ends in spaced parallel shanks, then coiled inwardly from said shanks, then twisted together, and finally extended to form a coacting second pair of jaw shanks shorter than the first.

a. A clothes pin comprising resiliently connected jaws, one of which includes spaced shanks terminally connected and of greater length than the other jaw for movement of the latter aw between them for co operation with their opposite faces selectively.

In testimony whereof, I affix my signa.

ture, in the presence of two witnesses.

BART M. BARRIGKMAN, \Vitnesses:

G. P. GUnNow, T. GRANSTREM.

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