US2771887A

US2771887A - Bobby pin dispenser

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Publication number: US2771887A
Application number: US463204A
Authority: US
Inventors: Nathan L Solomon
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1954-10-19
Filing date: 1954-10-19
Publication date: 1956-11-27
Anticipated expiration: 1973-11-27

Description

Nov. 27, 1956 N. 1.. SOLOMON 2,771,887

BOBBY PIN DISPENSER Filed Oct. 19, 1954 Ticil.

INVENTOR. NATHAN L. SOLOMON BOBBY PIN DISPENSER Nathan L. Solomon, Englewood, N. J.

Application October 19, 1954, Serial No. 463,204

6 Claims. (Cl. 132-1) This invention relates to devices for dispensing bobby pins one at a time and in automatically opening the pin in the operation of discharging the same from a suitable holder to facilitate immediate use of the bobby pin. More particularly, the invention deals with a holder having means facilitating mounting or loading of bobby pins therein.

The novel features of the invention will be best understood from the following description, when taken together with the accompanying drawing, in which certain embodiments of the invention are disclosed and, in which, the separate parts are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views and, in which:

Fig. 1 is a plan view of a holder made according to my invention, indicating the parts in a position opening a bobby pin, preparatory to discharging the same from the dispenser.

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view through the upper portion only of the dispenser showing the parts in the normal position.

Fig. 3 is a view, similar to Fig. 2, showing the parts in the position shown in Fig. 1 and also illustrating part of the lower structure of the dispenser, portions of the dispenser being broken away.

Fig. 4 is a sectional detailed view illustrating the position of the parts substantially at the time of ejection of a bobby pin from the dispenser; and

Fig. 5 is a section on the line 55 of Fig. 1.

In the drawing, I have shown a bobby pin dispenser comprising a main hollow body or casing part 10, having a slightly enlarged upper end portion 11, forming a shoulder 12, against which an outer closing sleeve or shell 13 abuts, suitable means being provided to frictionally hold the sleeve or shell 13 in position upon the casing 10. The hollow casing has an opening extending through upper and lower surfaces thereof for passage of bobby pins upwardly through the casing, as later described.

Fitting into the lower portion of the shell 13, as noted in Fig. 3 of the drawing, is a bottom closure or cover 14, having centrally thereof, means, as at 15, for anchorage of one end 16 of a flat coil spring 17, the upper end 18 of the spring 17 being horizontally flat and adapted to bear upon the lowermost bobby pin 19 of a group housed within the casing 10.

Opposed side walls of the body or casing have elongated openings, one of which is seen at 20 in Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawing. These openings provide clearance for fingers of a hand in the mounting of bobby pins in the casing when the cover 14, including the attached shell 13,

are removed.

In the upper end of the casing or body 10 is a recess 21, in which is mounted a spring member 22, this member being suitably fixed in an end wall of the body, as seen at 23, and extends substantially the full width of the casing or body and is freely movable in the recess 21, at least at its end portion 24. The member 22 has an elongated aperture 25, in which the neck portion 26 of a sliding ejector button or fingerpiece 27 operates. This button or fingerpiece has a head 28 on the underside of the member 22 retaining the parts against displacement. By fiexure of the spring member, assemblage of the button or fingerpiece 27 therewith is accomplished. The button or fingerpiece 27 forms the ejector element for ejecting bobby pins 19 one at a time from the upper portion of the casing. The ejector element, or button, is normally positioned on the spring member 22 in spaced relation to the uppermost bobby pin, as seen in Fig. 2 of the drawing, to allow the uppermost bobby pin to come in the path of the button for ejection from the casing.

Considering Fig. 1 of the drawing, it will appear that one end wall of the casing includes an inwardly extending substantially V-shaped rib 29, upon which the end portions 30, 31 of the bobby pin bear, as the pins are moved toward the upper end of the dispenser by the spring 17, it being understood that the end 31 is disposed on one surface of the rib 29; whereas, the end 30 is disposed on the other surface thereof.

The top of the ribbed end wall of the casing has means for guiding the discharge of bobby pins, said means com prising an angular recess 32, the surface of which is bevelled, as seen in Fig. l. The upper surface of the rib 29, is bevelled as indicated at 33 in Figs. 2 and 4 of the drawing, so that the looped end 34 of the bobby pin, as well as the head 28 of the ejector button 27 can ride up over the surface 33 in the discharge of the bobby pin. In this latter operation, it will be understood that the spring member 22 yields outwardly, in the manner diagrammatically shown in Fig. 4 of the drawing.

After discharging a bobby pin, in the manner illustrated in Fig. 4, the element 27 is moved backwardly along the member 22 to the position shown in Fig. 2 of the drawing; whereupon, the spring 17 will move the next successive bobby pin or the end portion 34 thereof in position to be engaged by the head 28 of the element 27 in picking up said bobby pin for discharge from the casing, in the manner described. In the beginning of this operation, it will be understood that the advance movement of the bobby pin will gradually spread the ends 30, 31 thereof until they reach a position, substantially as diagrammatically shown in Fig. 1 of the drawing, after which, the pin is dispensed and, in the dispensing operation, the ends 30, 31 will be brought together, as with other devices of this type and kind.

It will be apparent that, upon removal of the cover 14 with the attached sleeve 13, reloading of the dispenser can be performed in a quick and simple manner, the only requirement being to position the rib 29 between the normally flared ends 30, 31 of the closed bobby pins.

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

1. A bobby pin dispenser, comprising a casing having an enlarged top portion, the lower portion of the casing having side openings for reception of fingers of a hand, the casing having a chamber extending therethrough for reception of bobby pins, one side wall of the chamber having an inwardly extending rib substantially V-shaped in cross-sectional form and, upon which, pre-arranged and alined flared end portions of bobby pins placed in the casing are arranged and guided by said rib in movement of the pins through said casing, a sleeve detachably mounted on the lower end portion of said casing, said sleeve having a cover closing the lower portion of the chamber through said casing, a flat coil spring fixed to the cover and extending into the casing chamber to urge bobby pins in the direction of the upper end of said casing, an elongated spring member mounted in the upper end of the casing and extending substantially the full width thereof, said spring member having an elongated aperture, an ejector element slidably mounted upon said spring and protruding above the upper end of the casing, said element being adapted to engage an uppermost bobby pin supported in the casing in movement of the pin in its entirety through the ribbed side of the casing, and the upper end of the ribbed side of the casing having means to clear and guide a bobby pin discharged from the casing by said ejector element.

2. A bobby pin dispenser, comprising a casing having an enlarged top portion, the lower portion of the casing having side openings for reception of fingers of a hand, the casing having a chamber extending therethrough for reception of bobby pins, one side wall of the chamber having an inwardly extending rib substantially V-shaped in cross-sectional form, and, upon which, prearranged and alined flared end portions of bobby pins placed in the casing are arranged and guided by said rib in movement of the pins through said casing, a sleeve detachably mounted on the lower end portion of said casing, said sleeve having a cover closing the lower portion of the chamber through said casing, a fiat coil spring fixed to the cover and extending into the casing chamber to urge bobby pins in the direction of the upper end of said casing, an elongated spring member mounted in the upper end of the casing and extending substantially the full width thereof, said spring member having an elongated aperture, an ejector element slidably mounted upon said spring and protruding above the upper end of the casing, said element being adapted to engage an uppermost bobby pin supported in the casing in movement of the pin in its entirety through the ribbed side of the casing, the upper end of the ribbed side of the casing having means to clear and guide a hobby pin discharged from the casing by said ejector element, and the upper end portion of said rib being fashioned to spread side portions of the hobby pin in the operation or" ejecting the pin by said ejector element.

3. A bobby pin dispenser, comprising a casing having an enlarged top portion, the lower portion of the casing having side openings for reception of fingers of a hand, the casing having a chamber extending therethrough for reception of bobby pins, one side wall of the chamber having an inwardly extending rib substantially V-shaped in cross-sectional form and, upon which, pro-arranged and alined flared end portions of bobby pins placed in the casing are arranged and guided by said rib in movement of the pins through said casing, a sleeve detachably mounted on the lower end portion of said casing, said sleeve having a cover closing the lower portion of the chamber through said casing, a fiat coil spring fixed to the cover and extending into the casing chamber to urge bobby pins in the direction of the upper end of said casing, an elongated spring member mounted in the upper end of the casing and extending substantially the full width thereof, said spring member having an elongated aperture, an ejector element slidably mounted upon said spring and protruding above the upper end of the casing, said element being adapted to engage an uppermost bobby pin supported in the casing in movement of the pin in its entirety through the ribbedside of the casing, the upper end of the ribbed side of the casing having means to clear and guide a hobby pin discharged from the casing by said ejector element, the upper end portion of said rib being fashioned to spread side portions of the bobby pin in the operation of ejecting the pin by said ejector element, the end portion of the spring member disposed over said rib being freely movable toward and from the rib, and the other end of said spring member being fixed to the other end portion of said casing.

4. A bobby pin dispenser, comprising a casing having an enlarged top portion, the lower portion of the casing having side openings for reception of fingers of a hand, the casing having a chamber extending therethrough for reception of bobby pins, one side wall of the chamber having an inwardly extending rib substantially V-shaped in cross-sectional form and, upon which, pre-arranged and alined flared end portionsof bobby pins placed in the casing are arranged and guided by said rib in'movement of the pins through said casing, a sleeve detachably mounted on the lower end portion of said casing,

said sleeve having a cover closing the lower portion of the chamber through said casing, a flat coil spring fixed to the cover and extending into the casing chamber to urge bobby pins in the direction of the upper end of said casing, an elongated spring member mounted in the upper end of the casing and extending substantially the full width thereof, said spring member having an elongated aperture, an ejector element sidably mounted upon said spring and protruding above the upper end of the casing, said element being adapted to engage an uppermost bobby pin in its entirety supported in the casing in movement of the pin through the ribbed side of the casing, the upper end of the ribbed side of the casing having means to clear and guide a hobby pin discharged from the casing by said ejector element, the upper end portion of said rib being fashioned to spread side portions of the hobby pin in the operation of ejecting the pin by said ejector element, the end portion of the spring member disposed over said rib being freely movable toward and from the rib, the other end of said spring member being fixed to the other end portion of said casing, said spring member being arranged in a re cess of the enlarged top portion, and said ejector element being keyed to and supported by said spring member.

5. A bobby pin dispenser of the class described, comprising a hollow casing, means for detachably and yieldably supporting bobby pins in the casing for movement toward the upper end thereof, an elongated spring member forming a closure for the upper end of said casing and, against which, the uppermost bobby pin is adapted to hear, one end of the spring member being fixed to one top side of the casing, the other top side of the casing having means for guiding a bobby pin discharged from the casing, an ejector element keyed to and movable longitudinally of and with said spring member, said element being normally positioned on the spring member in spaced relation to one end of the uppermost bobby pin bearing against said spring member in ejecting said uppermost bobby pin from the second named upper side of the casing over said guiding means, and said guiding means including means for spreading said-side members of a hobby pin in the operation of ejecting the same from said casing.

6. A bobby pin dispenser of the class described, comprising a hollow casing, means for detachably and yieldably supporting bobby pins in the casing for movement toward the upper end thereof, an elongated spring member forming a closure for the upper end of said casing and, against which, the uppermost bobby pin is adapted to bear, one end of the spring member being fixed to one top side of the casing, the other top side of the casing having means for guiding a bobby pin discharged from the casing, an ejector element keyed to and movable longitudinally of and with said spring member, said element being normally positioned on the spring member in spaced relation to one end of the uppermost bobby pin bearing against said spring member in ejecting said uppermost bobby pin from the second named upper side of the casing over said guiding means, said guiding means including means for spreading said side members of a hobby pin in the operation of ejecting the same from said casing, said last named means comprising a rib, substantially V-shaped in cross-sectional form, the upper surface of said rib being bevelled to free the hobby pin from the casing, and said casing having apertured sides facilitating mounting of bobby pins in the casing.

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