US767792A - Clothes-pin. - Google Patents

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No. 767,792. 7 P,ATENTED AUG. 16, 1904 H. S.BR 0UG HT01 I.

'GLOTHBS PIN.

APPLIGATION FILED 11110.23, 1903.

no MODEL.

fiitzzed ea Patented August 16, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY S. BROUGHTON, OF SALEM, OREGON.

CLOTH ES-PYIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 767,792, dated August 16, 1904.

Application filed December 23, 1903- Serial No. 186,298. (No model.)

I 0 (tZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY S. BROUGHTON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Salem, county of Marion, and State of Oregon,

have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Clothes-Pins, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a new and useful improvement in clothes-pins, and has for its object to provide a clothes-pin made of one piece of wire.

With this end in View this invention consists in the details of construction and combination of elements hereinafter set forth and then specifically designated by the claims.

In order that those skilled in the art to which this invention appertains may understand how to make and use the same, the construction and operation will now be described in detail, referring to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a perspective view of my invention in operation; Fig. 2, a front elevation of the pin; Fig. 3, a side elevation of the same.

This clothes-pin is designed to be made of one piece of wire, said wire being bent in the center to form the loop A, the wire at the upper end of the loop being bent outward at each side into the small loops B, the wire then bent around these loops B, and the two ends of the wire O passing downv ard through the loop A and being bent over at their outer ends, as represented at D. The ends C of the wire are given such a tension that they will be held in spring contact with the lower end of the loop A. a

In operation the pin is pressed downward upon the line, so that the line will pass in between the ends D and the loop A, and therefore will hold the clothes upon the line by the friction between the two.

In order to prevent any possibility of the pin springing off of the line, the ends C are bent inward toward the loops A, as shown in Fig. 3, (represented at E,) and when the pin has been pressed down far enough so that the line will enter this bent-in portion of the ends C there will then be no possibility of an accidental displacement of the pin from the line.

Of course the upper end of the pin can be made in any way desired, as my invention con sists, essentially, in providing a loop through which the free ends of the wire extend; butI prefer to manufacture the pin as shown in the drawings, in which the upper strand of the wire forming the loops B passes across to the opposite side of the pin, then around the opposite loop D, and downward through the loop A.

Of course I do not wish to be limited to the exact construction here shown, as slight modifications could be made Without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and useful is 1. In a device of the character described, a clothes-pin made of a single piece of wire, the center of the wire bent so as to form a loop A, the wire at the upper end of the loop being bent outward at each side so as to form the small loops B, the ends of the wire then bent around the small loops B and passing downward through the loop A and normally lying in spring contact with the lower end of the loop A, as specified.

2. In a device of the character described, a clothes-pin formed of one single piece of wire bent in the middle to form the loop A, the wire at the upper end of said loop being bent outward at each side to form smaller loops B, the

upper strand of each loop B passing across and around the opposite loop B, the ends of the wire then passing downward through the HENRY S. BROUGHTON.

Witnesses:

OHAs. T. POMEROY, O. EUGENE Kns'rER.

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