US929703A - Clothes-pin. - Google Patents

Description

F. H PERRY.-

GLOTHES PIN.

APPLIOATION'IIILED nov. so, 190a.

Patented Aug: 3 1909.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK H. PERRY, OF BEVERLY, MASSACHUSETTS.

CLOTHES-PIN.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FnnnEnIoK ll. PERRY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Beverly, county of Essex, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Clothes Pins, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawing, is a specification, like characters on the drawing representing like parts.

This invention relates to clothes pins and especially to clothes pins of the type shown in my Patent No. 880,819. The clothes pin illustrated in said patent comprises two legs which are made of separate pieces of wood and which are tied together at their head ends by abinder, said legs being formed with abutting faces at the head end where the binder is applied and being reduced. in thickness intermediate their ends to give them the required resiliency, said legs also being shaped at their free ends to present a line space. While a single binder such as shown in said patent is sufficient to hold the logs from spreading apart, yet where the two legs are held together at one point only, the free ends thereof are apt to be twisted out of correct alinement with each other in a direction parallel to the line space. This might be prevented by placing two binders on the head, one above the other or by fastening the two legs together at two different points, but such an expedient involves additional exense.

It is the object of the present invention to provide a novel construction of clothes pin by which the free ends thereof are prevented from being thrown out of alinement with each other in the direction of the length of the line space, and which does not involve any additional expense in its manufacture. My preferred way of accomplishing this object is by providing means situated between the abutting faces of the legs which will prevent the undesirable twisting movement of one leg relative to the other, and one convenient way is to make said abutting faces of such a shapethat they will interlock with each other.

Referring now to the drawings wherein some embodiments of my invention are shown, Figure 1 is a side view of a clothes pin embodying the invention; Fig. 2 is an edge view thereof; Fig. 3 is a top plan View; Fig. 4 is a side view of a clothes pin showing a modification; Fig. 5 is a section on the line .t9c, Fig. 4; Fig. 6 is an end view of still Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 30, 1908.

Patented Aug. 3, 1909.

Serial No. 465,06.

another form of clothes pin embodying the invention; Fig. 7 is a section on the line y-y, Fig. 6.

The two legs or pieces of which the clothes pin is made are designated by 3 and i rospectively. These-legs are sl'iaped to present abutting faces at the head end of the clothes pin, are reduced in thickness intermediate their ends as at 5, are provided with the inwardly-directed stops 6, and are shaped at their lower ends to present a line space 7. The two are tied together at the head of the clothes pin by a single fastening means which. may be a binder in the form of a wire 8 that is wrapped tightly around the two parts, as shown in Figs. 1. to 4., or may be binder in the form of a pin or rivet 30 that passes through the two parts, as seen in Figs. 6 and 7. A clothes pin having the wire binder 8 is shown in my above-mentioned patent.

As stated above while a single hinder or fastening means is suzllicient to hold the two parts of the clothes pin together, yet it does not always prevent the free ends of the logs from being twisted out of line with each other in the direction of the length of the line space 7. pin in which the two legs will always be maintained in proper alinenient, I propose to make the abutting faces of the legs 3 and 4 of such shape that they interlock with each other. This can conveniently be done by making one abutting face witha groove in which a tongue on the other abutting face enters, said tongue and groove running in the direction of the pin. If a single tongue and groove are employed, however, the two sides of the clothes pin will be in the nature of rights and lofts, that is, a part with. a groove must always be associated with a part with a tongue. In order to make the two legs oxactly alike so that there will be no rights and lefts and so that any leg may be used with any other leg, I propose to make the tongue and groove of the shape shown in Fig. 3 wherein the abutting face of each member has two tongues 9 and two grooves 10. The tongues and grooves are so arranged that on one side of each leg a groove is situated and on the opposite side a tongue. Since the two legs 3 and 4 are exactly similar, any two legs can be used together and the abutting faces will always fit each other. The tongues and grooves run in the direction of the length of the clothes pin and therefore they prevent In order to produce a clothes the free ends of the clothes pin from being thrown out of alinement with each other.

While making the. abutting faces at the upper ends of the clothes pin of such a shape that they are interlocked with each other is usually sufficient to hold the two legs in alinement, yet I may if desired make the meeting faces of the stops 6 so that they will interlock with each other as shown in Figs. 4 and 5 wherein each of the stops is provided with grooves 10 in which tongues or ribs 9 on the other part are received. I propose also to make these tongues and grooves so that the arrangement of tongues and grooves on each leg is exactly like thaton the other leg, as shown in Fig. 5. W here the abutting faces of the stops 6 are made to interlock as above described, an additional means is afforded. for preventing the free ends of the legs from being thrown out of alinement with each other. Inlieu of the tongue-and-groove arran gement shown in Figs. 1 to 5, I may make each of the abutting faces with a groove 12 arranged to aline with the groove in the opposite abutting face so that a locking strip 13 may be inserted into the alined grooves, as shown in Fig. 6. This construction also has the advantage that the two parts of the two legs are exactly alike and in assembling the clothes pin it is not necessary to select rights and lefts.

I have not shown herein all embodiments of my invention but the illustrations are suflicient to disclose the principle of the invention.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1 1. A clothes pin having two legs provided at their upper ends with abutting faces and shaped at their free ends to present a line space, and means to secure the two legs toabutting faces in alinement, one of the abutting faces being provided with a longitudinally-extending groove to receive a tongue extending from the other abutting face.

3. A clothes pin having two legs provided at their upper ends with abutting faces and shaped at their free ends to present a line space, and means to secure the two legs to-.

gether at the head of the clothes pin with the abutting faces in alinement, said abutting faces having similarly-placed longitudinallyextending tongues and grooves, the tongues on one face fitting the grooves 011 the other face. i

4. A clothes pin comprising two legs provided at their upper ends with abutting faces, sald legs being reduced 1n thlckness between the1r ends and provided with m 'wardly-extending stops and shaped at their lower ends to form a line space, and a binder tying together the legs at the head of the clothes pin, the abutting faces of the two legs being shaped to interlock and the meeting faces of the stops being also shaped to interlock with each other.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of 7 two subscribing witnesses.

FREDERICK H. PERRY.

.Witnesses;

Louis 0. SMITH, V FREDERICK S. GREENLEAF.

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