Improvements in Safety Pin Attachments.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Jan., 1898-Accepted, 26th Mar., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Safety Pin Attachments.
I, MAX WANGENHEIM, of 75, Dresdenerstrasse, Berlin, Germany, Merchant, 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:
In safety pins hitherto in use the pin has usually been made in one piece with the
bow and the retention of the free end of the pin in the clothes, was dependent on
the elasticity of the metal of which the whole was formed. According to the
present invention the pin is made separate from the bow and means are employed
for securing the same in the bow as herein after set forth, and particularly pointed
out in the claims.
And in order to render the present specification more easily intelligible reference
is had to the accompanying drawings in which similar letters of reference denote
similar parts throughout the several views:
Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the safety pin in its most simple form,
Fig. 2 a detail of the pin,
Fig. 3 plan of a modification, in which the bow is replaced by a plate,
Figs. 4 and 5 end and side view of Figure 3.
Fig. 6 shows the pin attachment at the rear of the brooch,
Fig. 7 being an end elevation of Fig. 6.
Figs. 8 and
other bag.
show back and side elevation of the device applied to a purse or
Fig. 10 is a perspective elevation showing the attachment of the purse to a band
or strap.
Figs. 11 and 12 are back and end elevations of the attachment in connection
with a bag.
Fig. 13 shows the bag and pin attachment together with a dress holder.
Fig. 14 showing side elevation of the same attached to part of a dress, and
Figs. 15 to 22, show various forms of attachment for the pin to the bow or back
part of the device, as hereinafter more particularly described.
The simplest form of the invention is shown at Figs. 1 to 5. In Fig. 1 the bow is
bent of wire as at A, having its ends bent round at right angles and one of them
formed to a loop a¹ whilst the other is wound to form a cup a² for the reception of
the end of the pin B. The latter is pointed at one end, the opposite end being
provided with a knob b and bent round as shown so as to form a slight bend, and
allow the knob to contact with the shaft of the pin, the elasticity of the wire being
sufficient to allow the knob to be pressed away from the shaft when the pin is
forced through the eye a¹, so that the said knob will spring over the eye and hold
the pin securely in place, with its point in the cup a as shown. Instead of the
cup a, a second eye may be employed.
In Figs. 3 to 5 a plate A¹ is substituted for the bow A, said plate being provided
with the cup as rivetted or soldered thereto and with an eye at similarly attached
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page_text: thereto through which the pin is inserted as described with reference to
Figs. 1 and 2. The plate A¹ may also be provided with holes d by means of which
it may be attached to any desired article.
Figs. 6 and 7 show the pin attachment attached direct to a brooch A and need
no further description.
Figs. 8 and 9 show the same device rivetted at d² to the back of a purse V.
This device is particularly handy as shown at Figs. 9 and 10, since it enables the
purse to be attached to a band or to the dress of the wearer and thus avoids the
necessity, as at present, of ladies carrying their purses in their hands, B indicates
the band, to which the purse may be attached.
According to Figs. 11 and 12, the cup or receiving eye for the point of the pin
is attached to the metal bow F of a hand bag E, as at f, whilst the eye f¹ for the
pin head attachment is fast to the opposite side of the said bow. The operation of
the device is otherwise the same as that described with regard to the previous
figures.
.
Figs. 13 and 14. show the combination with a 'bag as described with regard to
Figures 11 and 12; of a chain H having suspended thereon a hook H¹, in which
case the bag may be pinned to the dress and the hook applied to the lower part of
the same to carry it as shown at Fig. 14.
Fig. 15 shows a modified form of attachment for the pin head. In this case the
head end of the pin forked as at and the ends provided with knobs 12,
depressions or notches is being formed in the outsides of the shanks which engage
with the eye
when the pin L is inserted through the same and keep it in
position.
In Fig. 16 the pin M is provided with a knob m' and rectangularly extending
bar m with knob m². In this case the eye n (Fig. 16) is cut through as at n¹, the
bar m being passed through the slot and turned round as shown in dotted lines.
In Fig. 17 the eye N is cylindrical and provided with a rectangular slot n² n³ into
which the bar m of the pin is turned to form a bayonet-like attachment.
The pin
is shown in position in the slot at Fig. 18. Fig. 19 shows a further modification
according to which the head o' of the pin o, is provided with a loop o² bent back
upon the head so as to spring close against the same. The eye is made in the form
of a block P, having slot P¹ therethrough, through which the pin and pin head are
inserted, the bend down loop of the pin head engaging with the T-shaped slot P²
in said block (Fig. 21).
Fig. 22 shows a pin similar to that of Fig. 1 but engaging its eye by means of a
bow R hinged to the pin head at r and having spring to retain it in the proper
position.
The attachment may, as will be obvious, be applied in a variety of ways not
shown or described in the present specification, without however departing from
the nature of the present invention, the essential feature of which is always the pin
attachment having a separate pin, as specified.
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 :-
1-A safety pin attachment consisting of two parts viz. a bow plate or object
having thereon two eyes or an eye and a cup and a pin adapted to be passed through
said eyes and having means in connection with its head to retain it in position,
such as spring, friction, bayonet like or other attachment substantially as
described.
12: A safety pin consisting of a wire bow having eyes formed at either end and
a pin having its head end bent round as specified and adapted to spring or press
over one of the eyes substantially as described.
3-Safety pin attachment, consisting of a plate having fast thereto eyes as
specified and a pin having means for engaging one of said eyes with its head end
substantially as described.

page_text: 4:-Safety pin attachment according to Claim 3 in which the eyes are attached
direct to the back of the object to be attached substantially as described.
5 Attachment, according to Claim 1 in which the eyes are attached to the
metal bow of a purse, the pin being formed as specified with regard to Claim 2
substantially as described.
6: The combination of the purse as covered by Claim 5 with a chain and dress
holding device substantially as described.
7: In the safety attachment as specified, the combination of a pin having
bifurcations at its head end, notches in the outside of said bifurcations to engage
the eye of the bow or plate substantially as described.
8: In a safety attachment, the combination of a slotted eye at one end, and a
laterally extending bar to the pin shaft adapted to be passed through said slotted
eye and turned round substantially as described.
9: In a safety device, the combination of a cylindrical eye baving rectangular
slot therein, through which the lateral bar of the pin is passed and turned round
into the rectangular arm of said slot substantially as described.
10: In a safety device as claimed, the combination of a spring hook at the end
of the pin which is adapted to engage in a depression or slot of the eye in the
manner and for the purpose substantially as described.
11-A safety pin device substantially as described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.
Dated this 17th day of January 1898.
MARKS & CLERK,
18, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents.