US2287865A - Combined ring and pin - Google Patents

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June 30, 1942 c. A. cARLToN 2,287,865

COMBINED RING AND PIN Filed Sept. 13, 1941 Patented June 30, 1942 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE COMBINED RING AND PIN Charles A. Carleton, Minneapolis, Minn.

Application September 13, 1941, Serial No. 410,714

Claims.

My invention provides a very useful novelty adapted to'be used either as an ornament or as a signalling device, or both, and is of such structure that it may be quickly adjusted to a finger and used as a ring or applied to a garment as a pm.

This device I call a combined ring and pin. It involves a crown or head and a ring-like pin. The ring-like pin is a transversely split or cut member that is passed through the crown and at its short end, close to the crown, it is formed with a laterally open sheath. It is preferably made U-shaped in cross-section much like the sheath of a safety pin. The long end of the ring is sharpened or brought to a point so that it can be readily inserted through cloth, but when sprung into the sheath, it will form a complete ring. That portion of the pin that is passed through the crown is loosely mounted therein so that the ring can be oscillated and turned perpendicular to the crown when the device is to be used as a ring or may be turned nearly into the plane of the base of the crown when it is passed into and through a garment after the manner of a safety pin.

In the crown there is mounted one or more reflector elements or buttons such as made of glass and cut with facets usually tinted but sometimes of clear glass and for signalling purposes tinted ruby or red. The ring will usually be made of quite resilient steel wire of somewhat ductile character so that it can be bent to different diameters with its sharp end projected more or less into the sheath. Preferably, the ring is normally sprung so that when its sharp end is free, it will spring slightly out of the major plane of the ring.

A commercial form of the device is illustrated in the accompanying drawing wherein like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawing:

Fig. 1 is a plan view of the device shown applied as a ring;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the device showing the same applied to the back of a glove;

Fig. 3 is a front elevation showing the device applied as a pin to the front of a garment;

Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the device showing the same removed from working position;

Fig, 5 is a view partly in section taken on the line 5-5 of Fig. 4, but certain of the parts being shown in full elevation; and

Fig. 6 is a fragmentary section taken on the line 5-6 of Fig. 4.

The crown of the ring is indicated by the numeral l0 and may be either of glass, plastic or any other suitable material. Into this crown one or more, as shown three, reflector buttons ll of the character above stated are inserted. The ring-like pin I2 is passed through the crown ID in a manner already stated and to the projecting short end thereof is securely attached the sheath I3. The sharp end l2 of the ring, as shown in Fig. 4, naturally springs out of the plane of the sheath l3. Obviously, when the device is to be used as a ring, it will be adjusted as shown in Figs. 1 and 5, but when it is to be used as a pin, it will be adjusted or applied as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. When applied as shown in Fig. 2, the pin will be inserted through the back of the glove or, when applied to a garment, as shown in Fig. 3, it will be inserted through the cloth and its ends secured in the sheath [3 with the ring-like pin turned nearly closely into or toward the plane of the crown.

This simple device, as is evident, can be used as a novelty ring or ornament and whether used as an ornament or applied for other reason, it makes an extremely effective trailic signal. Persons wearing this device on the hand while crossing a street through trafilc, and especially at night, simply by holding out the hand with the reflector facing toward the on-coming traffic, will give a very telling warning. When used by the driver of an automobile, it gives a very effective signal of the fact that he is about to turn a corner. This simple, easily convertible device may be made at small cost and may be used by children as well as grownups. It is an effective device when applied, for example, tothe back of the outer garment of a person riding a bicycle.

What I claim is:

1. A device of the kind described comprising a crown, and a ring-like pin passed through the crown with the long and short end projecting from the same, said short end having a secured sheath adapted to receive and hold the free end of said pin.

2. A device of the kind described comprising a crown, and a ring-like pin passed through the crown with the long and short end projecting from the same, said short end having a secured sheath adapted to receive and hold the free end of said pin, the transverse portion of said pin being loosely mounted in said crown and adapting the ring to be oscillated to and from a position perpendicular to the crown and whereby the device may be used either as a ring or as an ornamental pin.

A device of the kind described comprising crown with the long and short end projecting 10 from the same, said short end having a secured sheath adapted to receive and hold the free end of said pin, the transverse portion of said pin being loosely mounted in said crown and adapting the ring to be oscillated to and from a position perpendicular to the crown and whereby the device may be used either as a ring or as an ornamental pin, and a reflector button applied to said crown.

5. The structure defined in claim 2 in which the free end of said pin is normally under tension to spring to one side of the major plane of the nng.

CHARLES A. CARLETON.

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