US622039A - Crowell m - Google Patents

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HAIR PIN.

(Application filed Oct. 17, i895.

(No Model.)

WITNESSES: INVENTOR BY 5 v Q/%M/7 ATTORNEY Nrrnn STATES PATENT Orrrcn.

CROWELL M. DISSOSWAY, OF NEW YORK, Y., ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN GOODCIIILD, GUARDIAN, OF SAME PLACE.

HAIR-PIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 622,039, dated March 28, 1899.

Application filed October 17,1898. Serial No. 693,700. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CROWELL M. DIssos- WAY, a citizen of the United States,residin gin the borough of Manhattan and city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hair-Pins, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of hairpins which have devices of some kind to prevent them from slipping too readily out of the hair after insertion therein. Many forms of pins have been proposed for this purpose, some ofwhich are ineffective and others, while reasonably effective in holding the pin in place, are too difficult to extricate from the hair, an operation which it is desirable to effect with one hand and which must not injure the hair.

The present invention, which has for its obj ect to provide an inexpensive pin which will not injure the hair, which will retain its place when inserted, and which can be readily disengaged from the hair and withdrawn with one hand, consists, broadly, in a pin having two prongs and a connecting-head, as usual, and having formed in one only of its prongs near the head, but not at the head, a smooth concave pocket, which is eXteriorly situated relatively to the space between the prongs of the pin, so as not to contract the space between the prongs at the point where it is situated, and which opens toward the head of the pin. When the head of the pin is grasped between the thumb and finger and pushed into the mass of hair up to the head, as usual, there is no undue compression of the hair in passing a contracted part of the space between the prongs; but the retention of the pin is effected by the engagement in said pocket of the hair exterior to the pin and which crosses the pin near the head thereof and above or beyond said pocket. In removing the pin this engaged lock of hair may be simply disengaged by pushing it aside with the finger when the head of the pin is grasped for withdrawing the latter. The lock of hair not being confined between the prongs of the pin at its head, as in some forms of pins, it offers no obstacle to the ready extrication of the pin.

In the accompanying drawings several em"- bodiments of the invention are illustrated.

commoner forms of these pins are made by.

bending a piece of wire at its middle. In carrying out this invention in a wire hair-pin the wire of one only of the prongs is bent at or near the head end of the pin, so as to form a concave retaining-pocket c, the mouth of which opens or is directed toward the head.

end of the pin. When such a pin is pushed into the mass of hair, some portion of the latter will, as stated, fall into the pocket 0 and ofier such resistance to the accidental working out of the pin that the-latter will retain its place until Withdrawn by the hand. The withdrawal of the pin may be effected without difficulty, as the finger used in grasping the head of the pin can be used for pushing back or to one side the hair crossing the pin in the pocket 0, the latter being made smooth and rounded, so as to prevent the hair from getting wedged or fast in it.

The pocket 0 may be formed in the same plane as the face of the pin, or, in other words, the pin will be fiat, as seen in the end view below in Fig. 1; but the bracket 0, forming the pocket, may be turned at an angle to the face of the pin, as indicated in the embodiment illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3.

Fig. 4 shows the invention applied to a pin formed from other material than wire, as celluloid, tortoise-shell, aluminium, or the like.

It will be noted that the displacement of the hair to permit the bracket in which the pocket is formed to pass is effected in the loose exterior hair and not by compression, as in the case of pins having interiorly-situated shoulders, which contract the space between the prongs at the point Where they are situated.

In the simpler form of the pin, Figs. 1 and 4, the prongs are separated farther between the pocket and their tips than between the pocket and the head. This allows the pin to be more easily inserted and withdrawn.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- 1. As an improved article of manufacture, a hair-pin having prongs and a head, and having formed in one of its prongs near, but not at the head end of the pin, an open, concave retaining-pocket, the said pocket being externally situated with respect to the space between the prongs, and having its opening or mouth directed toward the head end of the pin.

As an improved article of manufacture,

a hair-pin having prongs and a head, and having formed exteriorly in one of its prongs an open, concave pocket 0, the space between the prongs being narrower between the pocket and the head of the pin than between the pocket and the ends of the prongs, whereby the pin is adapted to be easily withdrawn when the hair is disengaged from said pocket, substantially as set forth.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name, this 13th day of October, 1898, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

OROWVELL M. DISSOSWVAY.

\Vitnesses:

PETER A. Ross, HENRY CONNETT.

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