US1645220A - Clothespin - Google Patents

Description

Oct. 11. 1927.

G. BRADY CLOTHESPIN Original Filed Nov. 9.1925

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Patented Oct. 11, 1927.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GERTRUDE BRADY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CLOTHESPIN.

Application filed November 9, 1925, Serial No. 67,781. Renewed February 17, 1827.

My invention relates to improvements in clothespins.

The object is to provide a simple, inexpensive clothespin of spring metal so shaped as to form gripping fingers adapted to snugly engage the thinnest fabric without damaging it and which clothespin is so constructed as to be easily and quickly secured over a piece of clothing hung upon a line.

My improved clothespin is of such a char acter that the spring metal Wire of which it is built is so bent that a resilient loop is produced, which loop serves as a handle .for the clothespin and one side of which cooperates with a projectin end portion to form a spring clip adaptec to grip a piece of clothing.

A preferred construction consists in for1ning the clothespin of spring metal wire so shaped that the end portions cross each other on a long side of an elongate loop and extend outwardly beyond the crossing point to provide in co-operation with the adjacent sides of the loop spring clips adapted to grip pieces of clothing.

The wire of which the clothespin is formed is doubled upon itself so that the clothes-gripping portions are of doubled wire and the wire forming the clothespin is of a non-rusting character which will not injure the fabric. I

The above objects and advantages together with others will more fully appear from the following description, appended claims and accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective of my improved clothespin.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of my improved clothespin.

Fig. 3 is a. side elevation showing the pin in use.

Fig. 4 is a front elevation of the clothespin shown in Fig. 2.

Fig. 5 is a side elevation of a modified form of my improved clothespin.

My improved clothespin is formed from a single piece of spring. metal wire which is bent as shown in the several figures of the drawing to provide an elongate-loop 10. The wire is doubled upon itself so that the end port-ions thereof themselves form loops and the ends of the wire are carried back and twisted at 12 about the wire which forms the closed side of the loop.

The closed end portions of the loop cross each other substantially midway of the long side of the loop opposite the binding 12. These end portions are indicated as 14: and 16, and as illustrated in the drawings the end portion letpasses between the wire loop which'forms the end portion 16. The wire being of spring metal the loop itself is resilient and each end portion serves in conjunction with the adjacent side of the loop to act as a clip, as shown in Fig. 3, to engage over a piece of clothing such as 18 to secure the same upon a clothesline 20. Either of the end portions 14 or 16 may serve as a clip and these end portions eX- tend outwardly at an acute angle to the adjacent side of the loop.

The loop itself isadapted to be used as a handle to be gripped in the hand of the operator to be secured over the clothesline.

What I claim is:

1. 7A clothespin formed of a single piece of spring wire having each end portion doubled back upon itself and twisted thereabout to make a two-strand wire provided with closed end loops, said two-strand wire being bent into the shape of a loop with its closed end portions crossing each other, each closed end portion extending outwardly from the crossing point at an angle to the adjacent side of the opposite end portion and forming therewith a spring clip.

2. A clothespin formed of a single piece of spring wire each portion of which is doubled back upon itself to form a twostrand Wire and twisted about the doubled back portion of the opposite end to bind two strands together, thereby formingv a twostrand wire having closedend loops, said two-strand wire bent upon itself so that the closed end portions cross each other, one of said closed end portions extending between the two strands on the opposite closed end portion and each closed end portion extending outwardly beyond the crossing point and forming with the adjacent side of the opposite closed end portion a spring clip adapted to grip a garment placed therein.

3. A clothespin formed of a single piece of wire having each end portion doubled back upon itself, said end portions overlapping each other and twisted about the two strands to hold them together, said two strand wire bent into the form of an open loop with the closed end portions crossing each other, one closed end portion extending between two strands that form the opposite closed end portion and each closed end porllH) ' form with the opposite closed end portion a spring clip, said' crossing point being positioned on the opposite side of the loop from the point at which the-ends of the single piece of 'wire are twisted about the two strands.

4. A clothespin formed of a single piece of wire, having each end portion doubled back upon itself and secured to the intermediate portiono't' the wire, making a twostrand wire provided with closed end loops, said two-strand wire bent into the, shape of a loop with its closed end portions crossing each other and extending outwardly from the crossing pointto form with the adjacent side of the opposite end portion a spring clip.

5. A clothespin formed of a single piece of wire, having each end portion doubled back upon itself and secured to the opposite end portion and to the intermediate portion or the wire, making a two-strand wire provided with closed en-d loops, said two-strand wire bent into the shape of a loop with its closed end portions crossing each other and extending outwardly from the crossing point to form with the adjacent side of the opposite end portion a spring clip.

In testimony'whereof, I sign this specifica- 0 tion.

I GERTRUDE BRADY.

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