US77037A - Harvey d - Google Patents

Description

HARVEY D. HAEADEN, 0E AEAETEORD, VERMONT.

Letters Paten: No. 77,037-, ated April 2*'1, 186s.

v IMPROVED CLOTHES-PIN.

Gite vlrlpamle mmh tu in igen @time 33mm zint making met nf its same.

To ALL PERSONS To wHoM THESE PRESENTS MAY COME:`

Be it known thatl I, HARVEY D. HARAISEN, of Hartford, in the county of Windsor, and State of Vermont, have invented an Improved Clothes-Pin or Spring-Clip; and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of whieh Figure 1 is aside elevation, and

Figure 2 a top view of it.

' Figure is a side view of the block, showing the arrangement of the saw-kerfs made in it for converting it into a clothes-pin.

In making the saidclothes-pin, I take a lpiece of wood, A, in the form`of a quadrilateral prism, and first bore a. hole, b, through it laterally, vnear one end of it, and nearer to-the lower than to the upper edge ofit. Next, by means of a saw, I make a, kerf or slit lengthwise in the piece of wood, the said lcert being arranged 4i'n manner as represented at a, which shows it as going diametrically through the hole b, and extending about two-thirds the distance through the piece, from that end of it which is next tothe hole b. Next I make two other saw-kerfs in the piece from its-other end, and at an acute angle with each other, in manner as shown at e andfin g. 3, whereby I remove from the piece a wedge, g, and form it with an open space, as shown at 'c in fig. 1. The portion it, comprehended between the slits a andfand their inner ends, isthus made to operate as a hinge and spring-connection'ot` two jaw-levers, 1:, made by sawing into the piece in manner as described.

I prefer, however, to place. within the space c 4a metallic spring, d, which I insert in the piece-A at the vertex of the opening, c, thespring'being bent so as to bear against the tails of both levers.

In this 'way I form, from asingle piece of wood, a spring-clip or clothes-pin. A

-I do not claim a furoated clothes-pin made of a single piece of wood, split or sawed into from one end only; that is tosay, so to make it in the form as represented in fig. 4 of Vthe accompanying drawings.

Nor do I claim a clothes-pin as represented in the -United States Patent, No. 14,262.

' In my invention the jaws z' 7c are formed by. the single slit or saw-kerf a, of an equal width throughout, and' I make but one spring-opening, c, and I employ a separate spring, d, which I arrange therein in manner as represented.

I therefore claim my improved clothes-pin, consisting not onlyof the piece of wood A, Ahaving the slit a, the angular opening c, and the hole b,` formed and arranged in-vit as described, but of the spring d arranged in the said slit, the whole being substantially as described.

Witnesses RUEUs H. SIMoNDs, HORACE C. PEASE.

, HARVEY D. HARADEN.

Images