Improvements in Pins and Combs.
Year: 1896

page_text: Improvements in Pins and Combs.
I ALFRED CANTRELL YOUNG of 3049 Sesquehanna Avenue in the City and
County of Philadelphia State of Pennsylvania one of the United States of America
Manufacturer of Surveying Instruments do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
My invention relates to pins especially those used for the hair, either as hair pins
or what are commonly known as hat and stick pins and the object of my invention
is to provide means to prevent the pin from falling out after being inserted in the
hair or in any other place wherefrom the pin is liable to work loose. This object
I attain in the following manner.
The pin may be of any suitable or usual form such as for example an ordinary
hair pin it being bent to form a loop having two prongs aud a rounded end. This
pin can be made in the ordinary manner and after bending I preferably coat it with
an adhesive compound, such for instance as ordinary cement and when the cement
is sufficiently set I coat the cemented portion of the hair pin with flock, or equiva-
lent material which will roughen the surface of the hair pin to a sufficient degree
without forming edges which are liable to cut the hair; and when the cement is
thoroughly dried the hair pins can be cleared of any flock that still remains
unattached, after which they can be packed in the ordinary manner.
By this invention I am enabled to make a hair pin that has a sufficient frictional
surface to prevent it becoming accidentally loosened from the hair and which when
being placed in position will not catch in the hair and I need not alter the shape of
the ordinary hair pin.
The entire pin with the exception of the ends can be coated with this frictional
material or only a portion of the pin may be so coated. Or the material may be
placed on the pin in a spiral manner. Or one leg only of the pin may be provided
with the frictional material. The coating may extend beyond the body of the pin,
and the body pertion of the pin be of equal diameter throughout or the body portion
may be reduced so as to form a groove in which the material is inserted so that
whilst it will adhere to the hair, the outer surface of the pin is of the same diameter
throughout.
Hat pins may be made with a frictional portion in the same manner as the bair
pin, which portion may extend the full length of the pin in some instances, or
throughout only a portion of it as desired.
It will be understood that my invention can be applied to ordinary or any kind
of pins and also to combs such as are used for securing to the hair.
While I have described the method of providing the frictional material by
first coating the pin with an adhesive substance and then applying the flock, or
equivalent material, it will be understood that the desired effect may be accom-
plished by applying-other frictional material or surfaces for example by rusting a
portion of the pin, the rusted portion acting as the friction section, to prevent the
accidental withdrawal of the pin.
In some instances, only a portion of the surface of the pin may be coated for

page_text: instance only a portion of the inside surface of each leg of a hair pin may be so
coated.
Dated this 20th day of February 1896.
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pins and Combs.
I, ALFRED CANTRELL YOUNG, of 3049 Sesquehanna Avenue, in the City and
County of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, one of the United States of
America, Manufacturer of Surveying Instruments, do hereby declare the nature
of my invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My invention relates to certain improvements in pins, especially those used for
the hair, either in the form of hair-pins, or what are commonly known as "hat"
and "stick" pins.
The object of my invention is to prevent the falling out of the pin after being
inserted in the hair or in any other place where the pin is liable to work loose.
This object I attain in the following manner, reference being had to the accom-
panying drawings, in which :-
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Figure 1 is an enlarged view of my improved hair-pin;
Figure 2 is a view of a hat-pin, illustrating my invention, and
Figures 3 4, 5, 6, and 7 are views of modifications of my invention.
Referring in the first instance to Figure 1 the pin a is of the ordinary hair-pin
type, being bent to form a loop having two legs or prongs a' and a rounded end a².
This pin can be made in the ordinary manner, and after bending to the form shewn
in Figure 1,1 preferably coat it with an adhesive compound, such, for instance, as
ordinary cement, and when the cement is sufficiently set I coat the cemented
portion of the hair pin with flock or flocky frictional material, or equivalent
material 6 that is, material which will roughen the surface of the hair-pin to a
sufficient degree without forming abrading or cutting edges which are liable to
cut the hair; and when the cement is thoroughly dried the hair-pins can be
cleansed of any fleck that still remains unattached, after which they can be readily
packed in the ordinary manner.
By this method I am enabled to make a hair-pin that has a sufficient frictional
surface to prevent it becoming loose in the hair and which will not catch in the hair
as it is placed in position, and I do not alter the shape of the ordinary hair-pin.
The entire pin, with the exception of the ends, can be coated, as shewn in
Figure 1 with this frictional material, or only a portion of the pin may be coated,
as shewn in Figure 3; or the material may be placed on the pin in a spiral manner
as shewn in Figure 4; or one leg of the pin may be provided with the frictional
material, as shewn in Figure 5. In all these figures the coating extends beyond
the body of the pin, the body portion of the pin being of an even diameter
throughout.
In Figure 6 I have shewn the body reduced, at one part forming a groove or
recess in the outer surface of the pin, in which groove or recess the material bis
inserted, so that while the pin is of the same diameter throughout it will have a
tendency to adhere to the hair.
In Figure 2, I have shewn a hat-pin a³ made in the same manner as the hair-pin,
but having a frictional portion b. This portion may extend the full length of the
pin in some instances or only a portion of it, as desired.

page_text: It will be understood that my invention can be applied to combs as well as to pins,
and in some instances it may be applied to the ordinary pin without departing
from my invention.
In some instances the surface of the pin may be coated only partly round the
circumference as shewn in Figure 7 in which only a portion of the inside surface of
each leg of the pin is coated.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what I
claim is :-
A pin or comb having a surface or coating of flocky or like frictional material
substantially as herein before described.
Dated this 2nd day of November-1896.
JOHNSONS & WILLCOX,
47 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, W.C., Agents.