Improvements in Clips for Securing Chains.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 26th May, 1893-Accepted, 22nd July, 1893
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Clips for Securing Chains.
I, IGNATZ BORNI of Steinstrasse 98 Hamburg in the Empire of Germany, 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 for improvements in clips for securing chains has for its object to
provide a clip by which any desired length of loop can be formed in a chain and is
specially applicable to a chain-tag for a coat which can be passed over a clothes
hook drawn up tight and secured by the clip so that it cannot be drawn over the
knob of the hook without loosening the clip.
In the accompanying sheet of illustrative drawings
Figure 1 is an elevation to an enlarged scale of a clip constructed according to
this invention for a chain tag of a coat showing it attached to a clothes or wardrobe
hook.
Figure 2 is a similar view showing the clip releasing the chain.
Figures 3 and 4 are sectional views of Figures 1 and 2 respectively.
The clip consists essentially of three cylindrical pieces ab and c fitting telescopically
one over the other, the cylinders a and b being provided with the rims w and w³ for
convenient handling and the cylinder c being provided with an angular or bayonet
slots by means of which the cylinders a and bare fixed in their end position. The
inner cylinder a carries a fixed pin which when the two cylinders are moved
slides in a slot & in the cylinder & parallel to the slot s. Before pushing or sliding
the cylinder it is only necessary to turn the fixing cylinder c in the direction of
the arrow in Figure 1 whereupon both slots are over one another and the pin t is
free to move.
The upper ends of the cylinders a and form a semi-cylindrical
jaw m leaving an opening o free in the centre for the chain k. By sliding the
cylinders a and this opening can be so enlarged that the middle part of the chain
can be pushed through the whole of the clip cylinders as shown in Figure 4.
The action is as follows.-The loop of the chain is pushed through the clip
and drawn out sufficiently to enable the loop to be put over the head of a hook h.
The clip is then pushed up the chain as far as the hook, all the links of the chain
being free to pass the open jaw of the clip. The loop is fastened on the hook by
pushing the cylinder a into the cylinder b, the latter being held by the rim w in
one hand. By this movement the pin t slides up the slots s and s² until it is stopped
with the edges of the two jaws at the same height leaving an opening twice the
thickness of the chain links and thus fixing the loop as shown in Figure 3.
slight turn of the closing ring e then fixes the cylinder a to the cylinder b as shown
in Figure 1.
The loop is unfastened in the reverse manner.
A
In a modification one end of the chain is passed through and fixed to the
cylinder a and the loop of chain is varied by drawing on the other free end of the
chain.
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 clip for forming any desired length of loop in a chain consisting essentially
of two jaws sliding one on the other to vary the opening between the jaws and
between which the chain passes, and locked by means of a locking ring sliding on
the jaws and provided with a havanat braking slat substantialle as described

page_text: 2. The improvements in clips for securing chains substantially as described with
reference to the drawings.
Dated this 26th day of May 1802
WHEATLEY & MACKENZIE,
40, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Agents.