US2167241A - Dispensing device for hairpins and the like - Google Patents

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' July 25, 11939.

' s. KATZ DISPENSING DEVICE FOR HAIRPINS AND THE LIKE Filed Jan. 25, 1958 Patented my 25, 1939.

s PATENT OFFICE DISPENSING DEVICE FOR HAIRPINS AND THE LIKE

Sam Katz, Brooklyn, N. Y. n Application January 25, 1938, Serial No. 186,756

6 Claims.

The object of this invention is to provide a dispensing device, more particularly adapted for use in beauty parlors, and which may be mounted' upon a stand or the back of a chair occupied by a woman during a hair dressing operation, as for example, finger waving, so that the hairdresser may conveniently and quickly be supplied with each "of the relatively large. number of hairpins required to hold the strands or curls of hair in place during the drying and setting thereof.

In the operation of my device the pinsare successively presented exterior of a holding casing therefor, by automatic action effected by the withdrawal of hairpins for use by the operator.- The hairpins may initially be held together in stack formation similar to a stack of wire staples used in a stapling machine of well known chairfacter,

The' invention will to the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly broken away,

of an embodiment of the invention, an initial- I the embodi- Figure 5 is an enlarged view of the structure shown in Figure 4 with the ejector mechanism in 35 position for action upon a pin underlying an overlying pin which is in position for finger removal. t

Figure 6 is a horizontal section on theline 56 Figure 5. 40 Figure 7 is a perspective view of the ejector element.

Referring to the drawing, I have shown at" I I a metallic casing, which may conveniently be made in' rectangular form, and having awidth, x .45 thickness and length suflicient to enclose, and

Within the casing and movable upwardly and downwardly therein is positioned a carrier 6 for u the ejectormechanism.

be described with'reference The carrier comprises a trough member having vertical narrow side flanges, each-flange being formed' with a cam-slot at 63:. Received within each cam-slot 6a: are the horizontal rounded extensions ix of a set of arms 1, each set of I arms 1 being carried at one side of an ejector, slide 8. The ejector slide is normally maintained in the position shown in Figures 1,5 and 6 by means of a spring 9 one end of the spring being carried by the slide' and the other end being se- 10 cured to the .carrier 6.

At this rear end slide 8 is formed with an upwardly and inwardly bent book 81. The opposite end of the slide carrying an upwardly bent lip 8mm Centrally thereof the slide carries arms [0, each u arm projecting laterally. beyond an appropriate side wall of the casing l which is cut away at l l for this purpose. Thus arms l0 may receive pressure from the fingers of an operatorfor bodily'moving the slide to' the position shown in Figure 4.

Between the bottom wall of the casing and the 7 carrier 6 is placed a spring l3 by means of which the carrier and its connected parts are gradually moved upward within the casing as the hairpins are ejected through an' opening at Ir in theiront wall of the casing.

It will be understood that if desired, the carrier may be held against bodily movement andthe spring, if a spring is required, may be placed above the stack of hairpins so that as the bottom hairpins of the stack are ejected the stack will gradually move downward. The present arrangement, however'enablesmore ready insertion of a fresh stack of hairpins.

.In the operation of the device, a stack of hairpinsis inserted into the casing, the cover being removed for that porpose, andthen being returned to closing position. Such insertion'will cause depression of the carrier against theten sion of spring I3, the parts assuming the posi- 40 position shown in Figures 1, 5 and 6, its point 46.

- being in line with the line of division between the lowermost hairpin head'and the head of the hairpin immediately above it. The operator will then, by means of arms I0, move the slide to the right thereby causing the hook 81: to separate the lowermost hairpin from the stackand-project it tothe position shown in Figure 1'-. v

At the end of the operation just described the slide is released and spring 9 will return it to initial positiom From this point the projection 56' hairpin is adapted to actuate the ejector when.

of each one of the stack of hairpins will be automatically eflected by the manual removal of the initially projected hairpin and the succeeding ones. This follows because upwardly projected lip 8m: of the slide will he immediatelyforward of the head of the projected hairpin. When the pin is moved outwardly by the fingers of the 013- erator, the slide will likewise be moved,-to cause hook 8x to project the overlying pin 'lhis projecting movement will continue until the front one of each of the two sets of arm extensions Ia: of the slide is carried down the inclined section of the appropriate cam-slot 6x. Lip 8m is thereby caused to release the hairpin, which is 'then completely ejected by the manual movement.

. The release of the slide in such manner enables spring 9 to return it to the position of Figures 1, and 6.

In Figure 2 Ihave shown a plan view of a chair,

two of thedevices being shown mounted face to face upon the back of the chair.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is as follows:

1 A dispensing device for hairpins, comprising a casing having supporting walls for a stack of hairpins contained therein, one of said walls beend of the latter, said lip adapted to be engaged by the hairpin so projected upon a return movement of the ejector, whereby the hairpin is adapted to actuate the ejector when the hairpin is grasped by an'operator' and moved outwardlyof the casing.

2. A dispensing device for hairpins, comprising a casing having supporting walls for a stack vof hairpins contained therein and having a dispensing opening in one of said walls, a slide ejector within the casing and movable relatively to the stack, a fingerpiece connected to the ejector and projected exteriorly of the casing whereby the ejector may be moved in a direction away from the casing, said ejector being formed with a hook at one end to engage a hairpin at the end of the stack, the ejector being formed with a lip at its opposite end, said lip being adapted -to be engaged by a hairpin upon amovement of the ejector inwardly of the -casing, whereby the the hairpin is grasped by an operator and moved outwardly of the casing.

3. A dispensing device for hairpins, comprising a casing having supporting walls for a stack of hairpinscontalned therein, a dispensing opening being formed in one of said walls, a carrier within the'casing and formed with a cam slot, a slide ejector having an element projected within said cam slot, said ejector being formed at one end with a hook adapted to engage a hairpin at one end of the stack, the ejector carrying a lip at its opposite end, a spring carried by the casing and engaging the ejector, the ejector having an extension projecting exteriorly of the casing enabling bodily movement of the ejector to cause its hook to engage and project said hairpin through the dispensing opening, the spring being adapted to return the ejectorto inactive position, the ejector in its return movement bringing said lip into engagement with the projected hairpin,

whereby the hairpin in an additional movement imparted to it'in a direction away from the casing will actuate the ejector, o,

4. A device constructed in accordance with claim 3, in which the cam slot is so formed as to casing being formed with a dispensing opening.

an ejector within the'cas'ing and having a fingerpiece projected beyond the casing. said ejector comprising a member formed at each end with an anguiarly bent extension, each extension being ejector, and a cam device adapted to act upon said cam engaging element to effect a tilting movement of the ejector when the latter is given bodily movement relatively to the cam device,

whereby'said tilting movement carries the ejector out of engagement with the hairpin.

6. A dispensing-device for hairpins, comprising a casing having supporting walls {or a stack of hairpins contained therein, a carrier within the casing, a spring engaging the casing and the carrier and adapted to maintain the latter in engagement with said stack, a cam on the carrier, an ejector movable relatively to the carrier and having a cam engaging element adapted' to engage said cam, the ejector being formed at each end with an extension adapted to engage the rounded end of a U-shaped hairpin, a, spring carried by the casing and adapted to hold the ejector in inactive position, and means operable from a pointexterior the casing for bodily moving the ejector against the tension of said spring, the casing being formed with a dispensing opening for the hairpins, and the cam being adapted to move the ejector out of engagement with a hairpin after an active movement of the ejection in a direction outwardly of the casing.

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adapted to abut the rounded end of a L l-shaped hairpin, a cam engaging element carried by the

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