US765553A - Clip for holding papers, clothing, &c. - Google Patents

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' UNITED STATES Patented July 19, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK M. BULKLEY, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO HENRY C. FRESHOUR, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT.

CLIP FOR HOLDING PAPERS, CLOTHING, 81.0.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 765,553, dated July 19, 1904.

Application filed April 16, 1904. Serial No. 203,415. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, FRANK M. BULKLEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bridgeport, county of Fairlield, State of Connecticut,

have invented a new and useful Clip for Holding Papers, Clothing, &c., of which the following is a specification.

My invention has for its object to provide an inexpensive and practical skeleton clip which shall consist simply of two corresponding members and a spring which may be readily assembled and attached together, thus reducing the cost of construction to the minimum, which shall be neat and attractive in appearance, and which shall be equally adapted to be made in large or small sizes, so as to be used for a paper-clip, a clothes-pin, or any of the various uses to which clips and spring-pins are commonly applied.

With these ends in view I have devised the simple and novel clip which I will now describe, referring to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and using reference characters to indicate the sev- Z3 eral parts.

Figure 1 is an elevation illustrating the use of'my novel clip, the members thereof being shown as made of wire; Fig. 2, an end view corresponding with Fig. 1; Fig. 3, an elevation with the spring in transverse section, illustrating a skeleton form of my novel clip made from sheet metal; and Fig. L is a similar view illustrating a form in which solid sheetmetal members are used.

3 5 My novel clip comprises two members, (indicated by A,) which may be made of wire or sheet metal, and a spring, (indicated by B.)

C denotes an article held by the two members. 4o portion (indicated by 10) and an eye or fingerpiece, (indicated by 11.) The special shape of the clamping portion and the finger-piece is of course immaterial so far as the principle of the invention is concerned. I have shown the clamping portion as made substantially triangular in form, the base or operative portion being straight and the sides converging to form a neck 12, above which is the eye or finger-piece, which is wider than the neck.

Each member consists of a clamping The skeleton form of the invention, as illus- 5o trated in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, is the preferred form, for the reason that it is light, amply strong, requires less metal, and is exceedthe under side of the eyes on opposite sides of the necks, as clearly shown, whereby the 5 spring is retained in place and the two members retained in the clamping position. A wire spring may be substituted for the sheetmetal spring, if preferred. The action of the spring is to throw the eyes outward away 7 from each other, and consequently to press the lower ends of the clamping portions toward each other, causing them to grip firmly any article or articles that may be placed between them as, for example, a number of papers or when made of suitable size a clothes-line with articles of clothing thereon. Constructed in the manner shown the power of the spring is very great, and the pressure of the clamping portions upon an article or articles gripped 30 between them is more than ample for any of the ordinary conditions of use. hen the members are made of wire, in order that there may be no break in the continuity of the visible portions I place the joints between the 5 ends of the pieces of wire under the tongues,

as indicated at 14 in Fig. 1, both ends of the wire being gripped and held firmly by the tongue which incloses them.

Having thus described my invention, I 9 claim 1. A clip comprising two corresponding members each consisting of a gripping portion, a neck and a finger-piece, and a spring whose central portion lies between the members and the ends of which extend upward and are provided with tongues which inclose the finger-pieces on opposite sides of the necks.

the neck a finger-piece, and a spring whose central portion lies between the members, the ends being curved upward and provided with tongues which inclose the lower portions of the finger-pieces on opposite sides of the necks, the ends of each piece of wire being inclosed by one of the tongues.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FRANK M. BULKLEY. Witnesses A. M. VVoos'rER, S. W. ATHERTON.