US1433238A - Hairpin - Google Patents

Description

C. L. SCHULZ. HAIRPIN. APPLICATION man ocr. a. 1920.

1,433,238, Patented 0ct.24,1922

1 tions in mind, this invention has for one of This construction forms an intermediate 7 provide a hair pin so designed as to oil'er hair, accumulated between the projections 80 marital oer, iaaa j I l d-3&2

ll ll it CHARLES LOUIS SCHULZ, 03E MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN.

Heparin. Application filed October 8, 1920. Serial No. 415,589.

To all whom it may concern: ed according to the best mode I have so far Be it known that LCHARLns Louis Sorrow, devised for the practical application of the a citizen of the United States, and resident principles thereof, and in which:

of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee The single view illustrates a hair pin con 5 and State of Wisconsin, have invented new structed in accordance with my invention. and useful Improvements in Hairpins, 0t Reterring now more particularly to the which the following is a descriptiomreter acompanying drawing, my improved hair ence being had to the accompanying drawpin is formed from a single length of spring ingswhich are apart of this specification. wire, or other suitable material 5 and has 10 This invention relates to certain new and each side thereof formed with an outwardly useful improvements in hair pins. curved humped portion 6 spaced from the Great diliiculty is now experienced in the closed end or shank portion. 7 of the pinfthe present construction of hair pins in that lower portions of the humps 6 extending inthey are constantly slipping out and becomwardly to a point slightly spaced from each ing lost and while the hair pins now in genother, as at 8, forming what may be termed 5 eral use have been kinked or provided with instruck portions. The sides are then struck irregularities in the sides thereof, still this or curved downwardly, as at 9, and then outfault has not been entirely eliminated. wardly, as at 10, and then the sides continue Hence with the above and other objecparallel to form the legs 11 of the pin.

its objects to provide a hair pin which will restricted opening 12 through which the hair remain in place until removed by the wearer. passes when the pin is inserted and which Another object of this invention is to prosprings over the hair and confines a portion vide a hair pin formed from spring steel or thereof in the space between the instruck 2.5 other spring metal and having an intermeportions 8 and the end 7 of the pin. When 7 diate restricted opening whereby the same the pin has been lnserted in place, six abutmust spring over the hair and ofier resisments orshoulders, a, b and 0, resist thedetance to the removal of the pin therefrom. tachment of the pin. from the hair, as well A further object of this invention is to as the restricted space 12 through which the six distinct shoulders or abutting faces to 8 and the end 7, must pass. The shoulders resist the removal of the pin from the hair. 7) form substantially complete closure means A still further object of this invention is j for the shank or closed end portion of the to provide ahair pin. that may be produced pin. the shoulders I) being formed at sub- 35 at the same cost of the hair pins snow in stantially right angles to the axis of the pin. general use and which will be practical for By reason of the hair pin being made of the purpose described. spring or other material, the parts 8 may be With the above and other objects in view sprung apart to engage or disengage the which will appear as the description prosame with the halr and the same Wlll 1m- 40 ceeds, my invention resides in the novel conmediately return to its normalposition. struction, combination and arrangement of What I claimas my invention 1s: 0 parts substantially as hereinafter described As anew article otmanu'facture, a hair and more particularly defined bythe appin comprislng a looped shank portion and pended claim, it being understood that such a pair of tine portions, sa d pm intermediate 45 changes in the precise embodiment of the the shank portion and saidtme portions behereindisclosed invention may be made as ing formed wlth a pair of inwardly extendco-me'within the scope of the claim. ingprojections adapted to provide a sub- In the accompanying drawing, 1 have ilstantlally closed throat, the sides of said prolustrated onecomplete exampleotthephysh jections adjacent the shank portlon being so cal embodiment of my invention construct formed at substant ally right angles to the axis of the pin, those portions of the pin between the respective last mentioned sides of said projections and the sides of said shank portion being curved outwardly to form rounded humps on the sides of the pin, and those portions of the pin between the respective sides of said throat and said tine portions extending downwardly and then outwardly 1n the form of reverse curves to provide rounded shoulders on the sides of J 1 CHARLES LOUIS SCHULZ.

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