US946255A - Clothes-pin. - Google Patents

Description

' R. E. MGCREARY.

CLOTHES PIN.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 21. 1909.

946,255, I Patented Jamll, 1910.

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ROBERT E. MCGREARY, OF GUN'I'ERSVILLE, ALABAMA.

CLOTHES-PIN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 21, 1909.

Patented Jan. 11, 1910.

Serial No. 491,231.

'10 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT E. MCCREARY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Guntersville, in the county of Marshall and State of Alabama, have invented a new and useful Clothes-Pin, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to clothes pins, and has for its object to provide a device of this character which can be kept permanently on the clothes line and can readily be carried to any point on the clothes line, whereby to secure a handkerchief or a blanket with equal effectiveness.

Another object is to provide a device of this character that can be used on metal clothes lines so that the articles secured will not come in direct contact with the line, and thus will not be soiled by the rust on the line.

Still another object is to provide a device of this character that will adjust itself to every strain put upon it and will retain articles of difierent sizes, and hold them securely in the strongest breeze.

With these and other objects in View, which will be shown in the following specification, and set forth in the claims, my invention embraces the structure illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the clothes pin in applied position. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail, with a portion cut away to show the method of securing the pin to the clothes line.

It is a well known fact that wit-h the usual style of clothes pin, difliculty is experienced in securing the articles to the line so that when a strong breeze is blowing, the articles will not twist about and work out of the pin. Every housekeeper knows that it is almost impossible to secure heavy articles to a metal line by the usual form of clothes pin, and in many cases a very heavy article, such as a wet blanket cannot be secured to the line at all as its great weight will pull it out of the pin even when there is no breeze. To provide for an occasion of this kind, I have devised a clothes pin that the more strain put upon it, the tighter it will hold, and having but a few parts that can- -not be shaken loose, under ordinary conditions of wind and weather.

In a detailed description of my invention in which like characters of reference designate similar parts, wherever they occur in the views shown, 1 is a metal clothes line of the usual kind, having different articles 2 and 3 retained thereon by clothes pins.

The clothes pin consists essentially of a support 4 preferably made of wood, and substantially rectangular in facial contour. This support is provided at its opposite ends with openings 5 and 6, leading through the top and bottom faces of the support, and adapted to receive the vertical ends 7 and 8 of the clamping member. This clamping member may be made of any suitable material, but is preferably made of spring wire, and is adapted to be carried under the support and has the lowest point of its loop 9 substantially midway the length of the support. The clamping member is provided with the straight 1portions 10 and 11 adapted to bear against t e bottom of the support, the purpose of which will hereafter be shown. The ends 7 and 8 of the straight portions are bent upward, and terminate in the eyes 12 and 13, adapted to receive and slidingly fit the clothesline 1. These eyes have a diameter greater than the diameter of the openings 5 and 6, in order that the eyes may be seated on the upper face of the support, and the support forced against the clothes line and the line consequently braced and prevented from bending or being formed into kinks by the eyes under the weight of the clothes.

The straight portions 10 and 11 of the clamping member, when in normal position are held tightly against the bottom of the wooden support by the loop 9, but will yield sufiiciently to permit the corner of any article of apparel to be forced between them and the bottom of the support as shown in Fig. 1.

In applying the clothes pin to the line, the line is made to enter the eyes 12 and 13 as shown in Fig. 2 and the eyes will be so in contact with the line as to hold the pin in whatever position it may be placed, but the pin is free to be slid to any desired point on the clothes line.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, the construction and operation of my invention may be easily understood without a more extended explanation.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. A clothes pin comprising a support disposed parallel to a clothes line, and a clamping member having terminal means for engaging a clothes line and holding said support thereto, said clamping member being adapted to bind a garment against the suport.

P 2. A clothes pin comprising a support adapted to be carried underneath and parallel to a clothes line, and a clamping memher having terminal means for engaging a clothes line and holding said support thereon, intermediate port-ions adapted to clamp a garment against the support, and a spring connecting the intermediate clamping portions free of the support.

3. A clothes pin comprising a support adapted to be carried underneath and parallel to a clothes line, and a clamping memher having straight portions adapted to bear against the bottom of said support, said straight portions terminating in eyes encircling the clothes line, and a spring between the straight portions holding them against the support.

4. A clothes pin comprising a support having openings adjacent its ends, said support adapted to be carried underneath and parallel to a clothes line, and a clamping member having straight portions adapted to bear against the bottom of the support, the outer ends of said straight portions being bent upward to pass through the openings in the support and terminating in eyes adapted to bear against the upper surface of the support and hold the support on the clothes line, and a dependent spring loop connecting the inner ends of the straight portions.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto aflixed my signature in the presence of tWo Witnesses.

ROBERT E. MGOREARY. lVitnesses:

DAVID C. JORDAN, lVILLIAM H. EARLY.

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