US853211A - Pin. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTED MATH, 1907.

E. ANDERSON.

APPLICATION FILED 11017.6, 1903.

THE NORRIS PETERS 220., WASHINGTON, n. c.

UNITED SATES ATENT FFIOE.

EMIL ANDERSON, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGN OR TO F. H. NOBLE & CO., OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

PIN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 14, 1907.

Application filed November 5, 1903. Serial No. 179,949.

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Be it known that I, EMIL ANDERSON, residing at Chicago, Cook county, Illinois, have invented certain new'and useful Improvements in Pins, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to attaching pins to be used in connection with articles of jewelry, buttons and the like, and the object thereof is to provide simple and inexpensive pins or means of attachment, as will be made apparent from the description hereinafter given.

In articles of the general character described, the attaching member or pin proper should be presented or held projected at right angles to the button or the like, but heretofore such member or pin has been so made and arranged that it was liable to work loose and to turn in respect to the button or the like, with the result that the button could not be readily and conveniently attached where intended. My invention is designed to overcome these objections, as well as to provide a simple and inexpensive construction, as above suggested, the same comprising essentially a cup made in a single piece and a pin, ring or the like which is incorporated therewith or secured thereto in the manner .and with the resulting advantages hereinafter stated.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is.a perspective of a button to which my invention is shown applied; Fig. 2 an elevation, enlarged as compared with Fig. 1, showing the pin and attaching cup; Figs. 3, 4 and 5 detail views of the pin and cup separated; Fig. 6 an enlarged section on line 66 of Fig. 1; Fig. 7 an elevation of a modified form of pin attachment; and Fig. 8 a section on line 88 of Fig. 7.

Referring to the construction illustrated by Figs. 1 to 6, the attaching or pin member proper is shown, for convenience in description, as a safety pin 1, one of whose arms is provided with a kink or bend 2. The cup 3, to which the pin is to be attached securely and against any possibility of turning, is

made in a single piece of thin sheet metal with a transverse opening 4 punched out at the top. In the operation of forming this slot or opening, Which is done when the cup is made by the die, the metal is not removed or cut away but simply pressed outwardly and laterally as seen in Fig. 4. This opening The parts described can thus be made very cheaply and be assembled with great rapidity, there being but two parts to the completed article and expensive soldering and.

other diiferent steps oroperations being avoided.

For the sake of clear explanation of my invention I have shown the pin attachment as employed in connection with a button and I will now proceed to describe it in relation therewith. The button 5 is drilled at the center and undercut as shown at 6 in Fig. 6. The cup 3, to Which the pin has been secured as stated, is inserted in the button opening which is of a diameter to receive it, Whereupon, by a suitable instrument, the cup is flattened out, with the result that its edges will enter the under cut and be retained thereby fixedly in position in the button.

Referring to Figs. 7 and 8, I have here illustrated the same principle of fastening as applied to a form of attaching member differing from the safety pin 1. The form of attachment illustrated in these latter figures is suitable for mounting jewels, cud-buttons and also for buttons which are intended to be sewed instead of pinned on. In this modified form, the cup 3 is the same, but the attaching member is a ring? which partially enters the slot of the cup as seen in the draw ings, after which. the slot is closed over in the manner hereinbefore explained.

By the use of my invention the pin or ring is fixedly secured to the cup and is always presented at right angles thereto, inasmuch as it cannot turn therein owing to the fact that the body of the pin or ring received within the cup resists such movement. Moreover, these articles can be manufactured and assembled very rapidly and be made extremely cheap, especially as the number of steps or operations in their manufacture is limited and soldering is dispensed with.

I claim: v

1. In an article of the class described, the combination of a onepiece cup the bowl of which is provided with a transverse slot, and an attaching member having a bent portion extending to the inside of the cup, the edges of said slot being turned over upon said bent portion to grasp and rigidly hold the same.

2. In an article of the class described, the combination of a one-piece cup the bowl of which is provided with a transverse slot, and an attaching member having a mediate bent portion longitudinally disposed within said slot and eXtendin to the inside of the cup, the edges of said s ot being turned over upon the inside of the bend to grasp and rigidly lgold said bent portion of the attaching mem- 3. In an article of the class described, the

which isprovided with a transverse slot, a

slot and thereby prevented from rotating, the edges of such slot being turned over to grasp and rigidly hold such bend of the pin.

4. The combination of a button 5 having an opening with an undercut 6, a pin 1 having a bend 2, and a one-piece cup 3 .the bowl of which is provided with a transverse slot 4', said bend being received by the slot and rigidly secured therein by the bent edges thereof and said cup being forced into the undercut of the button.

I EMIL ANDERSON.

Witnesses:

F. H. NOBLE, l R. E. KEHL.

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