Improvements in or appertaining to Pins adapted to be used for Securing Oarpets or Druggets, or for like purposes.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Mar., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 21st Dec., 1899-Accepted, 27th Jan., 1900
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or appertaining to Pins adapted to be used for
Securing Oarpets or Druggets, or for like purposes.
I, JAMES HUME GIBSON, of Cambridge Arcade, Southport, in the County of
Lancaster, Ironmonger, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:
My invention has for its principal object an improved carpet or drugget
pin which shall be simple to make, neat in appearance and readily removable
without damage to the fabric, or to itself.
My invention is also applicable to drawing pins or similar devices which may
require to be readily withdrawn.
A pin constructed according to my invention consists of two separate parts.
One of these is a disc or plate of metal, leather, or other suitable material, which
when in place rests on the surface of the fabric.
The other part consists of a staple, or if preferred more than one staple.
The disc or plate is provided with perforations corresponding in number to
the number of shanks of the staples employed. For instance with one staple
there will be two perforations.
In use the shanks of the staples are driven through the perforations of the
disc or plate and into the material beneath, such as a floor or board.
When it is desired to remove the device the staple may be levered up and the
end of the tool employed is fulcrummed on the disc or plate and thus no damage
is done to the fabric."
The upper surface of the plate is channelled to allow of the top of the staple
lying flush therewith and also to allow the end of the tool to be inserted for
its removal.
Dated this 20th day of March 1899
Improvements in or appertaining to Pins adapted to be used for
Securing Carpets or Druggets, or for like purposes.
I, JAMES HUME GIBSON, of Cambridge Arcade, Southport, in the County of
Lancaster, Ironmonger, 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:-

page_text: pin which shall be simple to make, neat in appearance, and readily removable
without damage to the fabric or itself. My invention is also applicable to drawing
pins or similar devices which require to be readily withdrawn. A drugget pin
constructed according to my invention consists of two separate members. One
of these is a disc or plate of metal, leather, or other suitable material, which
when in place, rests on the surface of the fabric. The other member consists
of a staple, or in some cases more than one staple.
I will use the term head throughout this specification to identify the disc
or plate.
The head is provided with perforations corresponding to the number of spikes
of the staples employed. In the example illustrated there are two perforations.
In the drawings, Fig. 1 is a plan of the head. Fig. 2 is a section on line a-b
of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a side view of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a similar view to Fig. 1,
but showing the staple in place, as it appears when the device is in use. Fig. 5
is a section showing the drugget pin in use in fastening a fabric, such as carpet,
to a floor.
1 is the head, its upper surface being provided with channels 2, and it has
perforations 3. 4 is the transverse top of a staple having depending spikes 5.
In use the spikes 5 are passed through the perforations 3 and are then driven
through the fabric 6 into the board or floor 7. The main advantage of my
invention is that by placing a screw-driver or other tool in the channel 2, and
inserting its point beneath the transverse top 4 of the staple, the latter may
then be withdrawn without injury to it or to the fabric, whereas in removing
drugget pins as ordinarily constructed hitherto, there was a great liability to
bend the shank or spike, and to damage the fabric, and to wrench off the head.
The channels 2 serve to guide the tool, and to countersink the top 4 of the
staple.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is:
1. A drugget pin comprising a head, having two channels or recesses in its
upper surface at right angles to each other, perforations in one of said channels,
and a staple whose limbs are passed through said perforations, and whose top
lies flush within the channel in which said perforations exist, substantially as
described.
2. The improvements in and appertaining to pins adapted to be used for
securing carpets or druggets, or for like purposes, taken as a whole, substantially
as described.
Dated this 90th day of December 1900
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