Improvements in Safety Pins.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 31st May, 1893-Accepted, 1st July, 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Safety Pins.
I, MALCOLM FRISEN, of 26 Temple Street Patersen, County of Passaic and
State of New Jersey, U.S.A., Ribbon Weaver, 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 :-
This invention relates to a new and useful improvement in safety pins, and it
consists in a safety-pin made of a single piece of wire bent into the shape herein-
after described, and having one end provided at or near its point with a ridge and
its other end bent double upon itself to form a recess, having a contracted aperture
and designed to receive the point and to lock the same therein against lateral
strain. It consists also in providing a partition integral with the body of the pin
and adapted to guide the point of the pin into said recess and to prevent the point
from slipping past the same. It further consists in the combination and arrangement
of parts hereinafter described and claimed.
My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a
side elevation of my improved safety pin; Figure 2 is a top plan view of the same,
Figure 3 is an enlarged sectional view taken on the line of Figure 1, the pin
proper not being shown, and Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail perspective view of the
recessed end and guide partition of the safety-pin.
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In said drawings a represents the body of the safety pin preferably bent as at b
into one or more coils and provided with the pin e proper, ending in a point e.
or near this point e, the pin c is preferably flattened in two planes at right angles
to each other to form a ridge or enlargement d.
The other end of the body a is bent into a substantially double goose-neck f, the
sides diverging as at g to form a recess or slot. The end of this goose neck
terminates in a curved or yoke shaped portion g¹ bent at substantially right angles
to the body of the pin. This forms a recess or aperture h slightly contracted at its
upper end and adapted to receive the pin c beyond the ridge d and to lock the
point e of said pin within the recess against lateral strain. The other free end of
the body a is wrapped around the body as shown at f¹ and terminates in an
upwardly projecting plate or strip i preferably flattened. This plate or strip i
extends at or about the middle line of the recess formed between the double goose
neck and serves to guide the point e of the pin into said recess and to prevent it
slipping past the same when the pin is closed.
The bend of the goose neck rises above the plane of the point i of the pin and
therefore serves as a guard to prevent said point from sticking into the hands or
clothing when the pin is closed. The contracted aperture 7 prevents the point e
from being withdrawn from the recess under lateral strain until the point e has been
depressed sufficiently to clear the goose neck as illustrated in the lower dotted lines
of Figure 1.
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 :-
A safety pin consisting of a single piece of wire bent upon itself at one end to
form a substantially goose neck shaped recess, having a contracted aperture at
substantially right angles to the body of the pin, and a partition plate projecting
upwards to about the center line of said recess, and having at its other end a
point and at or near said point a ridge formed by flattening the body in two
planes at right angles to each other, said point being adapted to be guided into

page_text: said recess by projecting partition plate and to be locked in the contracted aperture
of said recess against lateral strain by said ridge, substantially as described.
Dated this 31st day of May 1893.
J. P. BAYLY,
18, Fulham Place, W., Agent for the Applicant.