Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Nov., 1887
Complete Specification Left, 9th Aug., 1888
Complete specification Accepted, 14th Sept., 1888
I, MARGARET GOUNDRY of 16 Woodbine Road Gosforth Northumberland do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :-
An improvement in the form of Hairpins by which they are rendered incapable of
working loose in the hair. This is accomplished by altering the straight pointed
ends of the pin by turning up the wire in the form of a small rounded hook, to an
extent sufficient to effect that object, while not interfering with its easy insertion and
removal. The planes of these small hooked ends are parallel and at right angles to
the general plane of the pin.

page_text: MARGARET GOUNDRY 16 Woodbine Road Gosforth Northumberland 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 :-
An improvement in the form of Hairpins by which they are rendered incapable of
working loose in the hair or falling out. This is accomplished by altering the straight
pointed ends of the pin by turning up the wire in the form of a small rounded hook,
to an extent sufficient to effect that object, while not interfering with its easy insertion
and removal. The planes of these small rounded ends are parallel and at right angles
to the general plane of the pin.
Figure 1 shews the form of the pin a b with hooks of about one fourth of a circle,
made small and both in the same direction, parallel and at right angles to the general
plane.
Fig. 2 is the same in a different view, shewing the general form.
Both the figures 1 and 2 are drawn perspectively. In fig. 2 the hooks at b and the
pin at c are intended to be represented as foreshortened.
The hook does not extend beyond (or much beyond) one fourth of a circle, Fig. 1 b,
this being sufficient to secure, without entangling the pin in the hair. It is small
so as not to obstruct the process of insertion, which should be made with the hooks
held outwards from the head. The bend, in withdrawing the pin, being raised
(Fig. 3, see dotted curve a d) off the head, so as to release both the hooks together
to the position db or thereabout. This is rendered practicable by the hooks being
turned both in the same direction (see Figs. 1 and 2) parallel, and at right angles or
thereabout to the plane; (e Figs. 2, 3 and 4-end view) otherwise the movement
necessary to release one would only refix the other in the hair.
The features of novelty are the turned up ends at an angle to the plane as described,
by which the pin is secured, without rendering it difficult to insert or remove. By
merely holding the pin with the hooks outwards from the head, in inserting, and
lifting the bend of the pin outwards in releasing, so that by the same motion both
hooks may be released at once, all obstruction is obviated, and the finest hair is
uninjured by the hooks.
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 1
claim is :-
:-
1. Turning up the ends of the pin in the form of small hooks to any extent less
than a semicircle, if the hooks lie out of the general plane. But preferably about a

page_text: 2. Turning both the ends to the same side of plane, whether the hooks are parallel
or divergent. Preferably about parallel.
3. Turning both hooks in any angle to the plane,-when parallel to each other.
Preferably at about right angles.
4. Any combination of these, as the hooks, of a quarter of a circle or thereabout,
made small, in combination with their being turned at about right angles to the
general plane of the pin, (roughly parallel to each other) and both in the same
direction as to (i.e. on same side of) the plane of the pin.
5. The combination of hooks as described with any of the commonly used forms of
Hairpin, in whatever materials usually adopted, and whether one or both of the limbs
is hooked in the same direction, at or near right angles to the general plane of
the pin.