US1630017A

US1630017A - Clothespin

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Publication number: US1630017A
Application number: US57685A
Authority: US
Inventors: Larson John
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1925-09-21
Filing date: 1925-09-21
Publication date: 1927-05-24
Anticipated expiration: 1944-05-24

Description

J. LARSON May 24, 1927i CLOTHESPN Filed Sept. 2l, 1925 Patented May 2.4, man l l,53ll$017 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN LARSON, OF LITTLEFORK, MEN'NESOTA.

CLOTHESPIN.

Application flied September 21, 1925. Serial No. $7,585.

This inventionrelates to improvements in '.lhe clothes pin is applied to the clothes Clothes pins and its object is to provide a line T by inanuallv spreadingl or pressing' the clothes pin that is simple in construction, hook and side lineinber 4l away from the positive and etlleient in operation and cheap side nieniber until the line can be disposed 45 li to manufacture. in the loop G, lVhen a garn'ient S is to be A further object is to pro\.'ide ay clothes secured to the line with the clothes pin the `pin adapted to obtain a maximumv purehase pin is again spread apart to receive the garupon the garment and in garments ot 1nenient or' garments. the sides a and 5 of the diuin or large size to obtain a double purH cloth-es pin rotning together against the gar- 5 eli-ase or grip upon` the saine. nient tor almost theirentire length thus oblith the foregoing' and other objects in taining a pureliase or bite upon the garment View the invention consists in the e ntbina and the book il and side 5 also engaging the t-ion and arrangement of parts to be hereti'tin garment. beyond its pointl ot' engagement. by after fully described, pointed ont in the ap l both ot said sides thus affording a positive 55 l5 pended Claim and illustrated in the accom and double purchase or bite of the pin upon panying` drawing which torins a part ot this the garment. vapplication and .in Whiehli'hen the clothes pin is not in use it may Fig. l is a plan View of the Clothes pim be st ispended iroin the clothes line by in Fig. Qis a View in side elevation illustratfrei-ting` it and perinitting` disposal of the 60 ing' its application. line through the hook 2 shown in Fig. 3.

F 3 is an inverted View of' the pin showlll/That is elaiined is :we ing how it; niay be suspent'led from the line A clothes pin formed of a single piece ot' when not 1n use. resilient. material eolnprtsing 'a pairv of Like reference characters denote eorrespaced non-crossed side nieinbers tol-ming 65 spending parts throughout the several elongated jaws adapted to come together Views. upon the garment', a loop conn'notingv said The Clothes pin is lornted ot a sing-le piene side nien'ibers and ret-eiving the ,garment and ot material, preferably wire. the ends ot the clothes line. and an enlargelfl hook at the which are bent to 't'orin tiny leyes l, Q more end ot one of said side members, the tree 70 for ornamentation than otherwise. Thema end -ot said hoot; being; contiguous to the terial extending' from the eye 2 is curved kor other side ineniber and toi-nung' jaws t1obent to 'torni an enlarged hook which `gether therewiths the bite ot said jaws being merges into the side ineinber 4i. `The inatein spaced relation to the aforesaid elongated rial from 4or beyond the eye l torina the jaws, the entire space between said jaws 75 side nieniber 5 which `is ot greater extent. torniingr a mouth 'for said book whereby the than the side 4;', said sides beingspaced but clothes line admitted 'to said hook when a very slight. distance apart'7 parallel to each the saine is notV in use upon a. garment. other, and waved synnnetrirally, said sides ln testimony that l claiin the 'foregoing being' united by the loop (3, tbe bool; 3 adas iny own I havel hereto aiiied my signa- 80 jacent the eye Q being spaced very 'slightly ture. troni the side nieinber 5. JOHN LARSN.