Improvements in Hair Pins.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 19th June, 1896
Complete Specification Left 11th Mar 1897 Accented 17th Ane
1807
Improvements in Hair Pins.
I, ALFRED JOHN HEYS, of John Street, Sale, in the County of Chester, Buyer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to hair pins and its objects are to so construct them that
they may easily be inserted into the hair and so that they will hold themselves
securely in place.
In a hair pin constructed according to these improvements the two limbs approach
each other until they touch or nearly touch at a place near to their points. From
this place the limbs diverge or open out to the points. A pin is thus formed which
is open at the points so that it may easily be inserted, and is provided with a
contracted part from which extends a space to contain the hair. This space is
narrower near the points than it is at the bend of the pin, and the pin has no
tendency to work outwards after it has been inserted, as is customary with the pins
ordinarily in use, where the spaces for containing the hair are wider nearer the
points than they are near the bends.
The improved pin is normally held in the closed or contracted position by the
spring of the wire or metal from which it is formed.
Dated this 18th day of June 1896.
W. E. HEYS & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hair Pins.
I, ALFRED JOHN HEYS of John Street Sale in the County of Chester, Buyer,
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 hair pins and its object is to so construct them that they
may be easily inserted into the hair, and, having been inserted, shall hold
themselves securely.
I will describe my said invention with reference to the accompanying drawings
in which Figure 1 represents a side elevation and Figure 2, a front elevation.
My improved hair pin has two limbs A B, which converge inwards towards
the point D from the bend C. From the point D, where the limbs are normally
almost or quite in contact with each other, they converge outwards to the
angles E F, from which to the tips G, the limbs may be approximately parallel as
indicated. The tips G may be simply rounded or blunted, or they may be enlarged
to form "ball-points."
As my hair pin is quite open at the points and the way to the contraction D is
made easy by the slopes E D, F. G, it can quite easily and comfortably be

page_text: inserted into the hair. When so inserted, the hair is contained in the triangular
space A B C D, and to effect the removal of the pin, the hair must be caused
to pass through the opening D at the apex of the triangle. In passing through the
opening, it will be obvious that the limbs must be separated, and such a degree
of force will be required as will overcome the resistance of the natural spring of
the wire at the bend C. The hair pin therefore cannot fall out or work out in
'ordinary use.
When the hir pins are made of round wire, I may reinforce the natural spring
at the bend C, by flattening that part as indicated, either during or after the act
of manufacture. If however the pins are made of wire having a flattened cross
section with its greatest length in the plane of the pin, the same result will be
attained.
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 hair pin the two limbs of which converge from the bend towards the
points, then diverge and finally become approximately parallel, constructed
substantially as hereinbefore described and as illustrated by the accompanying
:drawings.
2. In bair pins constructed as herein before described, flattening the bends,
substantially as set forth.
This 10th den of March A D 1897
W. E. HEYS & SON,
Agents for the Applicant.