US609198A - Clothes-pin - Google Patents

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No.`609,|98. Patonted Aug. I6, 1898.

` F. S. GRAVES.

CLOTHES PIN. (Application led Jan. 25, 1897.) (No Model.)

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FREDERICK VS. GRAVES, OFI'IANCOCK, MAINE.

i CLOTHES-PIN.`

SIPEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 609,198, dated Augustl, 1898.

Application filed January 25, 1897. Serial No. 620,621. (No model.)

'as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to clothes-pins, the object of the same being to provide a simple and cheaply-constructed device of this character, which is formed with two engaging ends.

The invention consists of a double end clothes-pin made up of three separate and distinct bars of wood, metal, or other suitable material, the central bar having oppositelydisposed sockets or recesses and laterally-extending grooves or indentations on the sides thereof, parallel with said sockets, and the outer bars having sockets. on their inner faces and laterally-disposed recesses ou their outer faces, with the inner surface of the engaging ends of said bars covered with corrugated rubber, metal, or other suitable material. In connection with the three bars referred tov I employ two coiled springs, the coils of each fitting within the respective sockets in the central and outerbars and the outwardly-extending arms on the ends of said coils iitting around the opposite sides of the central and outer bars, respectively, and t. ting within the grooves in said bars.

The invention also consistsin other details of construction and combinations of parts, which will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, yforming a, part of this specification, Figure l represents Y a perspective view of a clothes-pin constructed according to my invention.

Fig., 2 is a lon-v gitudinal section through the same. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the central bar. Fig. 4 is a similar view of one of the outer bars. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of one ofthe springs employed.

Like reference-numerals indicate like parts in the dierent views.

My improved clothes-pin is made up of three separate bars 1, 2, andl 3, the central bar 1 having oppositely-disposed laterally-extend the bar 1. Each of the bars 2 and 3 is formed with a socket 6, which lies directly opposite one of thegockets 4 in the bar 1 and also has a laterally-extending groove 7 in its outer surface at a point adjacent to its engaging end. Said engaging end is grooved on its inner surface and is covered with corrugated rubber, metal, or other Vsuitable material, as'

clearly shown at 8. Acting in engagement withthe parts just referred to are two springs 9 9, each formed with a coil l0, which Iits within the sockets 4 and 6 of the respective barsl and 2 and 1 and 3, and with laterally-extending arms 11 12 at each end. The arm 11 is bent upwardly and outwardly, as shown at 13, and ts within the groove 7 in the bar 2 or 3, and the arm 12 is bent downwardly and outwardly, as shown at 14, and fits within one ofthe grooves 5 in the bar 1. When in place, as described, the bars 1, 2, and 3 are held in close contact with each other and cannot become accidentally separated.

In using the device the pin is attached to the clothes-line by separating the bar 2 or 3 from the central bar land inserting saidline between these two bars. The article of clothing which isl to lbe suspended from the line is by attaching the same directly to the line, is

OVGICOUIG.

Y By reason of the fact thatthe outer engag-A ing ends of the central bar 1 are formed flat and the inner surfaces of the engaging ends of the bars 2 and 3 are formed with grooves IOO 8 8 provisionfis made for the attachment of Y the pin-to the clothes-line and of the clothes' to the pin, which will effectually prevent slipping. If both of the engaging ends of the central bar l were grooved to correspond with the engaging ends ofthe bars 2 and 3, curved surfaces would be formed of substantially the same shapeas the clothes-line and the grip of the pin upon the line Would bematerially decreased. By making one engaging end flat, however, and the other curved a bite upon the line or upon the clothes is obtained, which prevents accidental slipping.

While my invention has been described as a clothespin, it is obvious that I may use it as a bill-file, if so desired.

Having now described the invention, what I claimas new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a clothes-pin of the character described,

the combination with the two outer bars, formed with semicircular grooves in the inner faces at opposite ends, and formed in the outer v faces or sides with transverse grooves, and in their inner sides formed with central transverse sockets, of the intermediate beveled strip formed with central sockets in opposite sides, and the transverse grooves. near the ends, and the springs each formed with a coil and with lateral arms at each end, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

FREDERICK S. GRAVES. Witnesses:

S. J. LANE, VINAL MCCALEB.

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