US857867A - Clasp-pin. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTED JUNE 25, 1907.

G. E. BURNS. CLASP PIN.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 28,1905.

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GEORGE E. BURNS, OF CENTRAL FALLS, RIIODE ISLAND.

CLASP-PIN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 25, 1907.

Application filed June 28, 1905. Serial No- 267,325.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. BURNS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Central Falls, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented an Improvement in Clasp-Pins, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention in jewelry is shown as embodied in a pin or brooch, and relates more especially to the means for retaining the pin securely fastened to whatever garment it may be applied.

I shall use the word pin hereafter to represent the bar that is thrust through the fabric upon which the article of jewelry is to be attached for use or is to be displayed.

Figure 1 in side elevation shows part of an article of jewelry with which my improvement is embodied; Fig. 2 is a right hand end view thereof; Fig. 3 is an enlarged section in the line 0ca:, Fig. 2; Fig. 4c is a section in line cc ac, Fig. 3; Fig. 5 is a side view of thehook part of my improved catch; and Fig. 6 is two views of the lug part.

In the drawing, A represents the body or exposed part of an article of jewelry. The body has at its under side the usual split leg (I, to receive a rivet a to which is pivoted the fabric engaging-pin a These parts may all be as usual and they form no part of my invention which relates more particularly to the catch-part which I will now describe.

The catch part comprises a bifurcated lug c and a hook 0 having an ear The ear 0 is of a thickness less than the width of the shank c in the line 12, as best seen in Figs. 3 and 4, and said ear is provided with an aperture or recess 0 The bifurcated lug c is rigidly secured to the under side of the body A in any suitable way, as by soldering, and the ear 0 of the hook is received in the slot 6 of the lug.

When the parts are assembled, the top edge 8 of the ear rests against the seat 9 constituted by the inner wall of the bridge 10 of the lug, and the face 11 of the shank or stem 12 of the hook rests firmly against the rear side 14 of the lug. The hook and its ear are so constructed that the hook will always be properly positioned byv simply slipping the ear 0 between the legs of the lug and bringing the upper edge 8 of the ear against the seat 9 and the inner face 11 of the stem of the hook against the side of the lug. After the parts are thus assembled, the ear is rigidly con nected to the lug in some suitable way, as by one or more inturned projections 17 made in the walls of said lug by a prick punch, which projections enter the recess or aperture 0", as shown best in Figs. 3 and i.

In my invention, the hook is rigidly secured to the lug and is therefore rigid with the body and because of the construction shown, the said hook may be readily assembled and rigidly secured in place at a minimum expense.

It will be noticed, see Fig. 2, that the space between the point of the hook and the lug is a little narrower than the diameter of the pin, so that when the pin is thrust, in usual manner, into the hook, the hook will spring a little, and will thereafter prevent the pin from being withdrawn from the hook except by overcoming the force of the spring which may be more or less according to the size of the article of jewelry.

I have shown herein one embodiment only of my invention.

Having described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a device of the class described, the combination with a body having rigid therewith a lug, of a hook separate from the lug and provided with an car which is rigidly secured to the lug, and a pin pivoted to the body and adapted to engage the hook.

2. A catch for an article of jewelry comprising a bifurcated lug secured to said. article, and a hook provided with an ear to be received between the legs of the lug and rigidly secured thereto, the upper edge of said ear lying against the inner wall of the body of the lug and the inner face of the stem of the hook lying against the side of the lug.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE E. BURNS.

WVitnesses:

GEO. GREGORY, ELIZABETH R. MORRISON.

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