US1654756A - Fastening element - Google Patents

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Jan. 3, 1928.-

B. R. RYAN FASTENING ELEMENT Filed Sept. 11. 192.5

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This invention relates to improyeinents in fastening elements, and has particular reference to a clothes pin adapted to be' used in retaining clothes on a line. v

Thewprincipal object of this invention is to produce a device of this character which includes a metal member having a flexible tongue so struck as to be. capable of a limited spring action.

Another object of this invention is to pro duce a clothes pin which will be cheap to manufacture, simple in use, and one which will take up a minimum amount of space when stored. I

A further objectis to produce a device of this character which cannot become easily broken in counter-distinction to the customary wooden clothes pin which breaks read- 11; 2a A. still further objectv is to produce a clothes pin which will not in any manner damage the clothes'being held thereby.

Other objects and advantages will be aparent durlng the course of' the following escription.

In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specificatlon and in' which like numerals are employed to designate like parts throughout the same, I

F igure 1 -'s a perspective view ofmy improved clothes pm,

' Figure .2 is a front elevation of the same, showing the pin upon a clothes line,

Figure 3 IS a cross-section taken on the line 3--3jof Figure 2,

Figure 4 is a view slmilar to Figure 3 showlng the device hung upon a wall hook and not employing a clothes line, and

Figure 5 discloses. a modified form of my invention;

In the hanging of clothes, it is essential thatthe devices have sufiicient gripping action to hold the clothes'against accidental removal as oftenoccurs in a strong wind.

It is also essential that the clothes pin have a considerable surface as often the hands are wet due to the handling of the clothes, 1

which makes small pins hard to handle.

Further clothes pins should be compact so that they will take up a minimum'amount of space in handling and storing, and. at the a nnnmnn'r.

i same time, retain the large amount of sur face abovereferred to.

- lishes all the objects above referred to, and

I, have devised a clothes pin whichaccomin the accompanylng drawings, Figure 1, 7

the numeral 5 designate'sa blank preferablyof metal from which blank a tongue 6' is struck. Striking the tongue from this blank -5 leaves a substantially- U-shaped portion 7 surroundin the tongue 6. 4

p In the blank 5 I also punch an opening 8 the purpose of which will'be later seen. 1 In the tonguefi I form a bend 9, while in the U-shaped portion 7 I form bends 11 and 12.

This construction permits a clothes line to be passed beneath the tongue 6 soas to lie in the bend portions 9, 11 and 12, as best shown in F iures 2 and 3.

In emplo ing my device the clothes to be hung are p aced'over the clothes line designated at 13, after which one of my clothes pins is placed over the whole so as to. hold the clothes to the line as best shown in Figure 3,

As there, are no sharp corners in my de- .v1ce,- the clothes being held will not be daniaged in any way. Further the large amount of surface will serve to securely hold the clothes and at the same time this same surface permits suflicien't gripping surface for the purpose of applying or removing the p1n.- v

In Figure 4,1 have illustrated the use of the pin in hanging an object upon a hook. It is at this time that the opening 8 is employed. The common type of clothes pin now upon the market, does not permit the "hangingof clothes from a wall'hook in this ..'manner.'

In the modified form shown in Figure 5, the construction is identical-with the exception that the U-shaped portion 7 of Figure 1 has been eliminated and two arms as shown at 14 and 16 will take its place The manner of employing this modified form is the same as that above described.

It is to be understood -thatthe forms of viny invention herewith shown and described are to be taken as preferred examples of the same andthat varlous changes in the shape, I

size and arrangement. of parts may be resorted to withoiitdeparting the spirit having a bend-formed therein and in an op v ofthe invention or the scope of'the sub. osite. direction from the first mentioned 10 5 claim joined "claim. Y end, and at a oint diametrically opposite Having thus described my invention, I the bend formed in said tongue, so as to engage a line passing between said blank and In a clothes pin,.a blank having a" tongue said ton e. I v struck therefrom, said tongue having a bend In,test1mony whereof I aflix my signature. formed'therein, the remainder of sand blank BERNARD RUPERT RYAN.

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