An Improved Safety Pin.
Year: 1896

page_text: IDIONAL
LION.
An Improved Safety Pin.
I, CHARLES BAYER (trading as C. Bayer & Co.) of 31, London Wall in the
City of London, Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
My invention has for its object to provide a safety pin so constructed that the
article to which it is applied may be adjusted and secured in place and be
unfastened when required without wholly detaching the pin. The improved
safety pin is more especially designed to be used in connection with towelettes or
diapers and it consists of a combined safety pin and buckle, the buckle being
united to the back or rigid member of the safety pin frame either by a strip of
metal embracing both the said frame and the tongue bar of the buckle or by
any other means whereby the buckle and safety pin may be united in the same or
different planes and so presented in opposite directions for engagement with the
portions of the article to be united.
Dated this 4th day of March 1896
A. M. & WM. CLARK,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.
I, CHARLES BAYER (trading as C. Bayer & Co.) of 31, London Wall, in the
City of London, Manufacturer, 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 has for its object to combine the facility of attachment to any part
of an article of apparel which is afforded by a safety pin with the facility of
adjustment obtainable by means of a buckle so that the article to which it is
applied may be adjusted and secured in place and be unfastened when required
without wholly detaching the pin.
The invention which is more especially designed to be used in connection with
towelettes or diapers, is illustrated on an enlarged scale in the accompanying
drawing, in side elevation and cross section in Figures 1 and 2 respectively.
It consists of a combined safety pin A and buckle B both being of any ordinary
type and the buckle being united to the back or rigid member a of the safety pin
by metal clips c c embracing both the back member a of the safety pin and the
tongue bar 6 of the buckle whereby the buckle and safety pin when thus united
are in the same plane but presented in opposite directions for engagement with the
portions of the article or articles to be united. The clips c c are strips of metal
clenched tightly around the members a and b and to ensure the rigid maintenance

page_text: of position of the buckle with regard to the safety pin the member a is flattened at
the points a where embraced by the clips whilst the member b is made of the
usual flat or oval section. Or if preferred the clips might loosely encircle the
member a which in that case would be of round section so that the safety pin and
buckle would be virtually hinged together. The safety pin portion may be secured
to the article at any desired position by passing the pin proper through the article
in the ordinary way whilst a corner or other portion of the article or a tab
attached to it may be drawn through the bow frame of the buckle B and be
transfixed by the tongue points 6' in the usual way of buckling.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that
what I claim is:-
A combined safety pin and buckle substantially as specified
A. M. & WM. CLARK,
53, Chancery Lane, London, Chartered Patent Agents.