An Improved Pin Hook for Tag Holders, Eye-glass Holders and similar purposes.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 3rd May, 1898-Accepted, 18th June, 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Pin Hook for Tag Holders, Eye-glass Holders and
similar purposes.
I, JOSEPH BURRELL RICHARDS, residing at Thomson, in the State of Georgia,
U.S.A., 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:-
My invention relates to a new article of manufacture, a pin hook designed for
attaching tags or price tickets to dry goods, for holding eye-glasses on the breast
of a garment, for attaching a ladies' skirt to a belt, for displaying drygoods in
a shop or shop-window and for various other uses, and the invention consists
of a combined hook and two oppositely acting pins transverse to the hook, which
pins terminate two curved spring members integral with the said pins and the
hook, which members when squeezed together overlap each other and thus tend
to spread the hook and store a spring tension in all of the parts of the device
which, when the members are released, will cause the pins to penetrate the goods.
When the said members are released from closing pressure and are allowed to
spring back to normal position, the members brace each other in open position,
so that the pins cannot become easily detached.
In the accompanying drawings to which reference is made and which form.
a part of this specification:
Fig. 1 is a front elevation illustrating my invention as applied for holding a
tag or price ticket;
Fig. 2 is a side view of the pin hook;
Fig. 3 is a front view of the same in normal position, and
Fig. 4 is a like view showing the members squeezed in the act of attaching the
pins to any fabric or object to which the device is to be attached.
In the drawings 2, 2 represent the oppositely pointing pins. These may be said
to be horizontal, while the hook 3 may be said to be vertical, the same occupying
a position intermediate of and below the said pins.
The said pins 2, 2 are the pointed ends of the two spring side members 4, 4
of the device, which members are united at 5 and upturned to form the hook 3.
The lower portions 6, 6 of the hook 3 are normally spaced as shown in Fig. 3
and from the points 6, 6 to the angles 7, 7 the side members 4, 4 are first curved
towards each other and then away from each other, so that normally they touch,
or nearly touch, and brace each other. The members 4, 4 therefore constitute
oppositely curved and mutually bracing springs which hold the pins 2, 2 in firm
engagement with the fabric.
In the act of attaching or detaching the device from any object, the mem-
bers 4, 4 are to be squeezed together and they pass each other as illustrated in
Fig. 4. This operation spreads apart the lower portions 6, 6 of the hook as
shown in said Fig. 4, and stores a torsional spring action at, and adjacent to, the
points 6, 6, which together tend suddenly to return the members 4, 4 to normal
position as soon as the squeezing pressure is removed. This spreading and
torsional action distributes the spring action throughout a considerable length

page_text: of the wire and obviates the danger of the device breaking by the effect of being
bent at one spot each time the device is attached to and detached from any object,
so that the device may be used an unlimited number of times without weakening
the necessary force of its spring pressure on the pins.
It is desirable also to bend the members 4, 4 backwards as shown in Fig. 2 to
facilitate the attachment and detachment of the pins from the fabric.
8 represents a numbering tag or price ticket attached to the hook 3; but
while this will be the principal use of the pin hook, I do not limit myself to this
use, as it may be used for various other purposes as hereinbefore set forth.
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 pin hook having the form of construction and principle of operation sub-
stantially as herein shown and described.
2. A pin hook whose side members are inwardly curved to brace each other and
are adapted to overlap each other, substantially as described.
3. A pin hook whose side members are inwardly curved and adapted to over-
lap each other when squeezed together and when so squeezed together open the
hook and exert torsion on the wire, substantially as described.
4. A pin hook comprising the pins, 2, 2, hook 3, and oppositely curved side
members 4, 4, which approximate each other at a point between the hook and
the pins, substantially as described.
D: 0.
er
1000
H. D. FITZPATRICK,
70, Wellington Street, Glasgow, Agent.