Improvements in Hat Pins and the like.
Year: 1895

page_text: Date of Application, 25th Feb., 1895-Accepted, 30th Mar., 1895
Improvements in Hat Pins and the like.
I, GEORGE MITCHELL Junr., of 5 Stowe Road, Shepherd's Bush, London, W.,
Advertising Inspector, 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 :-
My invention relates to improvements in hat pins and the like, and has for its
object a means to securely fasten the hat pins in the hat or the like in the form of
a new fitting or head.
I will describe my invention with reference to the accompanying drawings,
wherein like reference letters are used for corresponding parts.
Fig. 1 is a sectional elevation of the improved fitting, whilst
Fig. 5 is a plan view thereof looking upwards.
Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of a modification of my improvement,
Fig. 6 being a plan of same looking upwards.
Fig. 3 is also a sectional elevation of another modification of my improved pin,
Fig. 7 is a sectional plan thereof on the line a.
Fig. 4 is a sectional elevation of another of the many forms my invention may
take,
Fig. 8 being a sectional plan of same on line y y'y' y.
a is the improved fitting or head composed of bone, or any suitable material or
metal.
c is the ordinary hat pin.
With reference to Figs. 1 and 56 is a portion of any suitable soft substance for
the purpose of firmly holding the pin c, when same is inserted after c being
pushed through the hat or the
e.
Referring to Figs 2 and 6, the pin c is made with a screw d on it, a corresponding
screw being formed in a conical hole formed in the head a.
In Fig. 3 and 7, is a cylindrical plate let in a and having between its two
flanges a flat piece of rubber or other suitable substance or inaterial, having a
hole in the centre of same, for the purpose of inserting the pin c which has a small
horizontal indention on same as shewn in Fig. 3.
In Figs. 4 and 8 I have shewn a device regulated by a spring of any suitable
shape and a flat plate y of shape shewn working in guides . In this case the
pin c is also indented as shewn.
In operation the several modes of obtaining the same results, work as follows.
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page_text: MODE 4, FIGS. 4 AND O.
The pine is pushed through the plate g forces the jaws of same apart until the
indentions on c are reached when they (the jaws) contract, holding firmly in
position.
To release the projecting ends of 9 are pushed together, causing the jaws of
same to open, leaving the pin c free to be pulled out.
Of course it is understood that these modifications are only some of the many
that I may form.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of any said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, 1 declare that what ]
claim is.
CLAIMS.
1. The improvement in hat pins substantially as shewn in Figs. 1 and 5 of the
accompanying drawings.
2. The modifications of my improvements in hat pins substantially as shown in
Figs. 2, 6, 3, 7, 4, 8, of my the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 25th day of February 1895
HUGHES & YOUNG,
23, Coleman Street, London, E.C., Agents for the Applicant.