Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 7th Feb., 1896
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Dec., 1896-Accepted, 9th Jan., 1897
I, WILLIAM HOLLAND the younger, of The Beeches, Alcester Road, Kings
Norton, near the City of Birmingham,. Manufacturer, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to safety and like pins and fasteners; such, for example,
as nursery and toilet pins, surgical pins, flower holders, breast pins, brooches,
attachments for curtain hooks and the like.
One form of my said invention consists essentially in employing in connection
with a pointed pin, a sheath or carrier made from paragon or trough cross
sectioned metal known in commerce as sheet metal paragon wire, that is, a strip of
thin sheet steel or other suitable metal is turned up into a trough figure, with a
bridge or covered gap coming about the middle, and with the opposite and open
sides closed into lignable tubular sleeves of slightly less diameter than the pin.
By the joint being open and the bore less than the cross section of the pin, the
said pin is held in position by frictional adhesion consequently on the joint being
slightly opened by the pin, around which the metal springs. The after end of the
length of trough metal forming the body of the pin may be closed by a ball or
other equivalent means.
When the pin is drawn out of the sleeves, the middle part (which is in the shape
of a half hoop) is thus openéd upon one side and into this the material to be
pinned up is inserted prior to the passing of the pin up the axial holes in the
sheaths, which come upon either end of the gap.
As a further form of my invention, which is particularly applicable for nursery
purposes, the body of the pin is made nearly of a complete circle with a gap in one
part bridged, when fastened, by a like shaped pin located inside the hollow body
part being pushed round by its headed end (which extends through a slot in the
pin body) so that its point is caused to protrude through the open end. To
unfasten the pin, the head is drawn along and the point withdrawn into the barrel
or body part leaving the gap open for the removal of material.
As a further modification, I may make the body of an ordinary safety pin from
a length of spring paragon or like trough sectioned metal, with the middle part
flattened and with the one end formed into a point guard or protector and the
other end, which is preferably tubular, bent around the shank end of a pointed pin.
This pin is used in the same way as an ordinary safety pin.
The application of my invention to the other articles enumerated differs in no
essential respect from its application to a safety or nursery pin as herein described.
Dated this 6th day of February 1896.
WILLIAM HOLLAND, JUNE.,
By Henry Skerrett,
Agent for Applicant.

page_text: Improvements in Safety and like Pins and Fasteners.
I, WILLIAM HOLLAND the younger, of The Beeches, Alcester Road, Kings
Norton, near the City of Birmingham, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
This invention relates to safety and like pins and fasteners, such, for example,
as nursery and toilet pins, surgical pins, flower holders, breast pins, brooches,
attachments for curtain hooks and the like.
One form of my said invention consists essentially in employing in connection
with a pointed pin, a sheath or carrier principally made from paragon or trough
cross-sectioned metal known in commerce as sheet metal paragon wire; that is,
a strip of thin sheet steel or other suitable metal is turned up into a trough figure,
with a bridge or covered gap coming about the middle, and with the opposite and
open sides closed into lignable tubular sleeves of slightly less diameter than the
pin. By the joint being open and the bore less than the cross section of the pin,
the said pin is held in position by frictional adhesion consequently on the joint
being slightly opened by the pin, around which the mètal springs. The after end
of the length of trough metal forming the body of the pin may be closed by a ball
or other equivalent means.
When the pin is drawn out of the sleeves, the middle part (which is in the shape
of a half hoop) is thus opened upon one side and into this the material to be
pinned up is inserted prior to there passing of the pin up the axial holes in the
sheaths, which come upon either end of the gap.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings represents an elevation of a nursery or
safety pin constructed according to this form of my improvements.
Figure 2 is a topside plan thereof.
Figure 3 represents a longitudinal vertical section of the sheath, and Figure 4
represents a cross section upon the dotted linex Figure 3.
Figure 5 is a cross section upon the dotted line ¹.
Figure 6 represents the sheath separately and Figure 7 the pin separately.
Figure 8 represents a blank from which the said sheath may be made, although
generally I propose to make the said sheath from scrap or waste paragon wire.
Figure 9 shows an elevation and a plan of the sheath before the ends of the same
are closed into sleeves or tubular sheaths.
Figure 10 is a section, upon an enlarged scale taken on the dotted line ³,
Figure 6.
The same letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in Figures 1 to 10 of
the drawings.
a is a tubular sheath, having a covered gap or half-hoop or bridge-shaped middle
part a', closed by the crossing of the pin b, whose point 6', passes into the close-
ended sleeve a, whilst the knob or head b, comes up to the open end a³ of the
other sleeve a*.
Figure 11 represents a modified form of Figure 1 as applied to a curtain hook,
and Figure 12 is an edge view of the same.
a is the body of the holder having a suspension book a and a pin b, b', passing
through the barrel or sleeve ends a, a, of the said part a.
As a further form of my invention, which is particularly applicable for nursery
purposes, the body of the pin is made nearly of a complete circle with a gap in one
part bridged, when fastened, by a like shaped pin located inside the hollow body
part being pushed round by its headed end (which extends through a slot in the

page_text: pin body) so that its point is caused to protrude through the open end. To
unfasten the pin, the head is drawn along and the point withdrawn into the barrel
or body part leaving the gap open for the removal of material.
Figure 13 is a section of such a fastener, with the pin drawn into the tubular
body part leaving the gap open, and Figure 14 is a like view, but with the gap
bridged or closed by the pin.
Figure 15 is a vertical section of Figure 13 upon the dotted line.
a is the nearly circular and hollow body part and a' the gap between its ends.
b is the sliding pin, having a head end 6, extending through a slot a, on the inner
circumference of the said body and by which the same is protruded or withdrawn,
whilst a' is a stop for limiting the movement of the said pin.
As a further modification, I may make the body of an ordinary safety pin from
a length of spring paragon or like trough sectioned metal, with the one end formed
into a point guard or protector and the other end, which is preferably tubular,
bent around the shank end of a pointed pin. This pin is used in the same way as
an ordinary safety pin. Figures 15 and 16 show a side elevation, and a cross
section on the line, of such a pin.
The application of my invention to the other articles enumerated differs in no
essential respect from its application to a safety or nursery pin as herein
described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
First. A safety pin or fastener comprising a tubular sheath with a half-hoop or
equivalent shaped middle part bridging a gap, and a pin running through the
tubular parts or sleeves of the sheath and bridging or crossing the gap,
substantially as described and set forth in Figures 1 to 12.
Secondly. In safety pins and fasteners as referred to in the preceding claim,
making the same from paragon wire or from sheet metal fashioned into paragon or
trough sectioned wire, with the ends subsequently fashioned into tubular parts,
substantially as described and set forth.
Thirdly. The modified form of pin or fastener consisting of a nearly circular
and tubular sheath having working within it, a sliding and like shaped pin,
adapted to cross the gap and pass through material placed within the gap,
substantially as described and represented in Figures 13, 14 and 15.
Fourthly. A safety pin made from paragon or trough-sectioned wire, sub-
stantially as described and set forth in Figures 16 and 17.
Dated this 1st day of December 1896.
WILLIAM HOLLAND, JUNIOR,
By Henry Skerrett,
24 Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.
WILLIAM HOLLAND, JUNIOR,
By Henry Skerrett,
24 Temple Row, Birmingham, Agent for Applicant.