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US1457969A
US1457969A US572764A US57276422A US1457969A US 1457969 A US1457969 A US 1457969A US 572764 A US572764 A US 572764A US 57276422 A US57276422 A US 57276422A US 1457969 A US1457969 A US 1457969A
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06F—LAUNDERING, DRYING, IRONING, PRESSING OR FOLDING TEXTILE ARTICLES
    • D06F55/00—Clothes-pegs
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T24/00—Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
    • Y10T24/44—Clasp, clip, support-clamp, or required component thereof
    • Y10T24/44641—Clasp, clip, support-clamp, or required component thereof having gripping member formed from, biased by, or mounted on resilient member
    • Y10T24/44658—Clasp, clip, support-clamp, or required component thereof having gripping member formed from, biased by, or mounted on resilient member with specific means for mounting to flaccid supporting structure or structure-to-be-secured
    • Y10T24/44667—Mounting means made entirely from integral wire portion of resilient gripping member
    • Y10T24/44675—Wire coiled about flaccid supporting structure
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T24/00—Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
    • Y10T24/44—Clasp, clip, support-clamp, or required component thereof
    • Y10T24/44641—Clasp, clip, support-clamp, or required component thereof having gripping member formed from, biased by, or mounted on resilient member
    • Y10T24/44769—Opposed engaging faces on gripping member formed from single piece of resilient material
    • Y10T24/44778—Piece totally forms clasp, clip, or support-clamp and has shaped, wirelike, or bandlike configuration with uniform cross section throughout its length
    • Y10T24/44803—Resilient gripping member having coiled portion

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  • the object of the invention is to provide a simple and eflicient metallic clothes pin which may be permitted to remain permanently in engagement with the clothes line whether of rope or cord or of wire, which will be frictionally retained in any position to which it may be adjusted on the line, which may be readily moved from one part of the line to another to accommodate the position of the articles to be suspended therefrom, and each having means for engaging a plurality of articles so that one pin may be arranged between adjacent articles on the line to engage the adjacent edges thereof; and with these objects in view the invention consists in a construction, combi nation and relation of parts of which the preferred embodiment is shown in the accompanying drawing, wherein:
  • Figure 1 is a view of a clothes pin embodylng the invention applied in the opera-- tive position to a line;
  • Figure 2 is a side view of the same re moved from the line and shown in the normal positions of the arms whereby a tension is maintained thereon to hold the terminals of the same in engaging relation with a properly stretched and taut line;
  • Figure 3 is a plan view of the pin.
  • the pin consists essentially of a central eye 10 adapted to be threaded on the line 11 for movement in any desired direction and required distance thereon, from which pro ject in opposite directions the engaging arms 12, said eye consisting preferably, and as illustrated in the drawing, of a plurality of coils formed at an intermediate or approximately central portion of a single blank of 1922. Serial No. 572,764.
  • the looped arms are provided at their outer or remote ends represented by the closed portions of the loop with transversely deflected seats 14 which lie in straddling relation with the line and serve as a means of clamping a fabric with which the same are engaged in proper frictional contact with the line to prevent disengagement.
  • the arms of the pin are deflected angularly from an axial line of the eye so that when the pin is applied to the line and the latter is tensioned, so as to bring theextremities of the arms into a position wherein a straight line passing therethrough will also pass through the eye, the arms are placed under tension and therefore have a transverse spring bearing action against the line to firmly engage fabrics which are suspended or looped over the line.
  • a clothes pin constructed from a single blank of resilient wire bent midway of its length to form a central eye consisting of a plurality of coils, arms projecting in opposite directions from said eye and having return bends to form loops having closed ends spaced from the eye, the closed ends of said loops being deflected to form line engaging seats, the arms being yieldingly held in po sition to have the line engaging seat bear transversely upon a line extending through the eye, said arms consisting of the terminal portions of the blank with the extremities of the blank provided with hooks for engaging the coils of the eye, and said arms normally occupying a position in a plane be low the axial line of the eye.

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June 5, 1923. 11,457,969
, w. o. 'GADD CLOTHESPIN 7 Filed July 5. 1922 W. Q fiad Patented June 5, 1923 time WILLIAM O. GADD, OF SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.
CLOTHESPIN.
Application filed July 5,
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, WILLIAM O. GADD, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Antonio, in the county of Bexar and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Clothespin;
and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.
The object of the invention is to provide a simple and eflicient metallic clothes pin which may be permitted to remain permanently in engagement with the clothes line whether of rope or cord or of wire, which will be frictionally retained in any position to which it may be adjusted on the line, which may be readily moved from one part of the line to another to accommodate the position of the articles to be suspended therefrom, and each having means for engaging a plurality of articles so that one pin may be arranged between adjacent articles on the line to engage the adjacent edges thereof; and with these objects in view the invention consists in a construction, combi nation and relation of parts of which the preferred embodiment is shown in the accompanying drawing, wherein:
Figure 1 is a view of a clothes pin embodylng the invention applied in the opera-- tive position to a line;
Figure 2 is a side view of the same re moved from the line and shown in the normal positions of the arms whereby a tension is maintained thereon to hold the terminals of the same in engaging relation with a properly stretched and taut line;
Figure 3 is a plan view of the pin.
The pin consists essentially of a central eye 10 adapted to be threaded on the line 11 for movement in any desired direction and required distance thereon, from which pro ject in opposite directions the engaging arms 12, said eye consisting preferably, and as illustrated in the drawing, of a plurality of coils formed at an intermediate or approximately central portion of a single blank of 1922. Serial No. 572,764.
spring 'or resilient wire of which the terminals are looped to form the engaging arm, the extremities of the blank being provided with hooks 13 which engage the eye to hold the parts of the pins in their proper relative positions. The looped arms are provided at their outer or remote ends represented by the closed portions of the loop with transversely deflected seats 14 which lie in straddling relation with the line and serve as a means of clamping a fabric with which the same are engaged in proper frictional contact with the line to prevent disengagement.
In their normal positions. the arms of the pin are deflected angularly from an axial line of the eye so that when the pin is applied to the line and the latter is tensioned, so as to bring theextremities of the arms into a position wherein a straight line passing therethrough will also pass through the eye, the arms are placed under tension and therefore have a transverse spring bearing action against the line to firmly engage fabrics which are suspended or looped over the line.
Having thus described the invention, what I claim is A clothes pin constructed from a single blank of resilient wire bent midway of its length to form a central eye consisting of a plurality of coils, arms projecting in opposite directions from said eye and having return bends to form loops having closed ends spaced from the eye, the closed ends of said loops being deflected to form line engaging seats, the arms being yieldingly held in po sition to have the line engaging seat bear transversely upon a line extending through the eye, said arms consisting of the terminal portions of the blank with the extremities of the blank provided with hooks for engaging the coils of the eye, and said arms normally occupying a position in a plane be low the axial line of the eye.
In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.
WILLIAM O. GADD.
Witnesses J. A. PURvIs, H. M. LANCASTER.
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US3097408A (en) * 1963-07-16 hildebrand
FR2888310A1 (en) * 2005-07-11 2007-01-12 Jean Claude Magnard Object or product maintaining device for e.g. positioning signage, has three guides to support object on wire, where two guides are supported in same direction on wire and other guide is supported on wire in opposite direction

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* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US3097408A (en) * 1963-07-16 hildebrand
FR2888310A1 (en) * 2005-07-11 2007-01-12 Jean Claude Magnard Object or product maintaining device for e.g. positioning signage, has three guides to support object on wire, where two guides are supported in same direction on wire and other guide is supported on wire in opposite direction

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