US418918A

US418918A - Clothes-pin

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Publication number: US418918A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1890-01-07
Anticipated expiration: 1907-01-07

Description

(Model.)

L. LIEBSCHER.

CLOTHES PIN.

Patented Jan. '7, 1890.

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N. PETERS, Phnllihogripher. Wis

ilivrTnn STATES PATENT Ottica.,-

LEO LIEBSCHER, OFV MILIVAUKEE, \VISCONSIN.

CLOTHES-PIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 418,918, dated January '7, 1890.

Application tiled May 2l, 1889. Serial No. 311,529. (Model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEO L1EBscHER,of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee, and in the State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes Pins or Analogous Fastening Devices; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention relates to clothes -pins or analogous fastening devices; and it" consists in certainpeculiarities of construction, as will be fully set forth hereinafter, and subsequently claimed.

In the drawings, Figure l is a plan view of my device, partly in section. Fig. 2 is a plan view of my device turned one-fourth over. Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3 3 of Fig. l, and Fig. a is a perspect-ive view of said device.

My device is formed of a single piece of spring-wire bent into the required shape, and preferably having its ends united, as shown. The material is preferably what is called tinned or galvanizet wire, as such will not rust when exposed to air and moisture, and hence is particularly adapted for use in fastening wet clothing to a line.

The wire is bent as follows, the device beinoi supposed to be in the position shown in Fig. el: Starting from one end (t, the wire is bent in a downward and outward inclined section b to the point c, and thence upward and downward again (forming a bend (l) to a point e, (opposite the point 0,) and thence in an upward inclined section f to the point g, thence outward and inward (forming the bend h) to the point t', (under the point g,) and thence in an outward and upward incline, forming the section j, (in line with and exactly under the section f,) to the point 7e, (adjacent to the point 6,) thence downward and upward (forming the bend m opposite the bend d) to the point n, (opposite the point 7e and adjacent to the point 0,) and thence in a downward and inward inclined section o to the point p, (adjacent to the point l,) and thence outward and inward, forming the bend q, (opposite the bend to the point r, (adjacent to the point 9,) and thence downward and outward, forming the section s, to the end t, meeting the end a. These adjacent ends d 1f may be simply brought together or united by a drop of solder or by a split sleeve u, as shown.

My device possesses several advantages, among which are those that as each end is made in the saine mannerdthat is, with a contracted spring-neck and outward-opposing bends-either end may be used as a fastening device-a point of considerable impor tance when hanging out clothes on a line. Again, when the lines are left out per1nanently, the pins may be pushed down when not in use and left suspended on the line, which is a great convenience, especially when galvanized-wire clothes-lines are used.

Although primarily designed for use as laundry clothes-pii'1s,1ny device is as well adapted for any purpose requiring spring fastening devices, such as dry-goods hang ers, label-holders in stores, and the like.

The line of opening at one end of the device (from the opposing outwardly-turned reception-bends to the contracted spring holding-neck) is at right angles to the similar line of opening at the other end, and hence, no matter how widely one contracted holdingneck is stretched, the other neel; will not be at all affected.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Let-` ters Patent, is-

l. A clothes-pin or analogous fastening device composed of spring-wire bent into four connected longitudinal sections, each two of which are parallel on an inclined plane and regularly divergent from one end of said plane to the other, and with a spring holding-neck at each end7 substantially as set forth.

2. A clothes-pin or analogous fastening device consisting of a single piece of wire bent. into four connected divergent longitudinal sections to form a spring holding-neck, and

to form n spring ho1dng-neek, und opposing ou twlrdly urned reception-bends at each end, the line of opening at one end being' at right angles to the line of opening at the other end7 w 5 and the two ends of the Wire from which the LEO LIBBSCHER' device is formed being brought together and Vitnesses: united, substantially as set forth. I-I. G. UNDERWOOD,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I A WILLIAM KLUG.

o have hereunto set my hand, at Milwaukee, in

the count-y of Milwaukee and State of Wis- 1o Cousin, in the presence of two Witnesses.