Improvements in Hair-pins.
Year: 1899

page_text: Date of Application, 6th Apr., 1899
Complete Specification Left, 4th Jan., 1900-Accepted, 17th Feb., 1900
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Improvements in Hair-pins.
We, HERMANN NOBIS and ANTON THISSEN, trading as Nobis and Thissen, of
Aix-la-Chapelle, in the German Empire, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:
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This invention relates to improvements in hair-pins.
According to the invention we construct hair-pins preferably of steel wire
which are bent to an elongated U-shape in the usual manner. The looped end
of the pin is then bent over at the extremity; the turned over portion, which is
short, being practically at right angles to the limbs of the pin.
Hair-pins constructed in this manner retain their shape better and are more
serviceable than hair-pins as usually made as the bent end imparts a considerable
amount of spring or elasticity to the pin.
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G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.
Improvements in Hair-pins.
We, HERMANN NOBIS and ANTON THISSEN, trading as Nobis and Thissen, of
Aix-la-Chapelle, in the German Empire, Manufacturers, 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;-
This invention relates to improvements in hair-pins.
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According to the invention we construct hair-pins, preferably of steel wire
bent to an elongated U-shape in the usual manner. The looped end of the pin
is then bent over at the extremity; the turned over portion, which is short, being
practically at right angles to the limbs of the pin.
Hair-pins constructed in this manner retain their shape better and are more
serviceable than hair-pins as usually made as the bent end imparts a considerable
amount of spring or elasticity to the pin.
To enable the invention to be fully understood we will describe it by reference
to the accompanying drawing, in which:-
Figures 1 and 2 are a front and side view respectively of the hair-pin shewing
an intermediate stage in the manufacture; and
Figures 3 and 4 are views similar to Figures 1 and 2 of the finished hair-pin.
a is the wire forming the hair-pin, the said wire being preferably of steel

page_text: and being initially bent to the elongated U-shape in the usual manner, as
clearly shewn in Figures 1 and 2. b is the looped end of the hair-pin, the said
looped end being, after the wire has been made into the U-shape shewn in
Figures 1 and 2, bent over from the position shewn in the said figures and in
dotted lines in Figure 3 to the position shewn in full lines in Figures 3 and 4,
the bent over portion 6, which is short as clearly shewn, being more or less
at right angles to the limbs of the hair-pin.
As above described, hair-pins made in this manner are found to retain their
shape better and also to be more serviceable than hair-pins of ordinary con-
struction, the bent end 6 of the hair-pin imparting a considerable amount of
spring or elasticity.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, we declare that
what we claim is:-
1. An improved manufacture of hair-pins consisting in bending wire prefer-
ably of steel to an elongated U-shape and in then bending or turning over a
short length of the wire at the loop end thereof more or less at right angles
to the limbs of the hair-pin, substantially as, and for the purpose, herein before
⚫ described.
2. Hair-pins made substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated in
the accompanying drawing.
Dated this 3rd day of January 1900.
G. F. REDFERN & Co.,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London, Agents for the Applicants.