Improvements in Pins for Fastening, Attaching, Looping Up, and Suspending Garments and other Objects.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 20th Aug., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 20th May, 1895-Accepted, 22nd June, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pins for Fastening, Attaching, Looping Up, and
Suspending Garments and other Objects.
I, LOUIS HEINEMANN of 5 Woodberry Grove, Finsbury Park, in the County
of Middlesex, Manufacturers' Agent, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
to be as follows:-
These improvements relate to pins for fastening, attaching, looping up, hitching
up and suspending garments and other objects. I form the pin at the point end
with a shoulder or collar in order to counteract or prevent tearing of the material.
The pins are usually made with a point and shoulder at each end and are by
preference made of one piece of wire and by suitable machinery for pointing,
setting up and where required bending into the required shape. Pins thus made
are intended to be sold in quantities at a cheap rate.
A suitable form applicable to many purposes is that of a Chook the ends being
pointed and provided with set up shoulders or collars by preference flat or square
or nearly so on the side towards the point but with rounded edge and square or
hollowed on the other side. For pins made of stout wire the shoulder is produced
by merely forming a set off near the end and pointing the latter. The two ends of
the pin may be bent parallel with the main part or beat in a little towards that
part or be bent a little outwardly or sideways.
The improvements are also applicable to S hooks and other forms of hooks and
to straight pins pointed at each end.
As applied to dressholders, agraffes or the like I may ornament the middle part
of the pin in any desirable way either by bending or otherwise shaping it or by
fixing thereto any suitable ornament.
Dat this 20th dor of August 1894.
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Pins for Fastening, Attaching, Looping Up, and
Suspending Garments and other Objects.
I, LOUIS HEINEMANN of 5 Woodberry Grove, Finsbury Park, in the County
of Middlesex, Manufacturers' Agent, 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 :-
These improvements relate to pins for fastening, attaching, looping up, hitching
up, and suspending garments and other objects.
I make the pin with a bend and a pointed end formed or provided with a
shoulder or collar or equivalent projecting part or parts in order to counteract or
prevent tearing of the material. The pins are usually made with a point and
shoulder at each end and are by preference made of one piece of wire, and by
means of suitable machinery pointed, set up and where required bent into the

page_text: required shape. Pius thus made are intended to be sold in quantities at a cheap
rate.
Fig. 1 illustrates the nature and chief advantage of the invention when applied
to loop up a part of a garment or other object. The pin a has a bend and a
pointed end 6 which is provided or formed with a shoulder e resting upon the
fabrice the weight of the looped up part tending to produce friction against the
shoulder and forming also a slight fold in the material, thus preventing
the tearing of the material e in the hole formed by the point b.
Fig. 1 shews the bottom part of the pin and material which is looped up.
Figs. 1 and 2 shew two suitable forms of pin applicable to a great many
purposes, for instance for fastening shawls, collars, neckties, handkerchiefs and
other garments round the neck of the wearer, for "taking in" trousers at the
bottom (as required by cyclists), for tying together pawnbrokers' drapers' and
laundrymen's parcels, for tying up railway wrappers and for looping up dresses.
The pins are in the form of a C hook the middle part a straight or nearly so and
the ends b pointed and provided with shoulders or collars c, set up out of the
material of the wire or affixed thereto. These collars are by preference flat or
square or nearly so on the side towards the point b, but with slightly rounded edge,
and square or hollowed on the other side. For pins made of sufficiently stout wire
the shoulder is produced by forming a set off towards the point b. The two ends
of the pin may be bent parallel with the middle part a as shewn in Fig. 1 or be
bent in a little towards that part, or be bent a little outwardly as shown in Fig. 2.
The points may in these cases be in the same horizontal plane or be bent a little
sideways in opposite directions.
Fig. 3 shews an S hook form of pin applicable for instance to curtains.
Figs. 4 and 5 are end view and side view of a C hook in which the shoulders are
formed by bending the wire itself near the point in shape or it may be bent in
any other equivalent shape.
As applied to dressholders, agraffes or the like I may ornament the middle part a
of the pin in any desirable way either by bending up or otherwise shaping it.
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. The application to the bent ends of a pin, near the points, of a shoulder for
the purpose of preventing the tearing of the hole in the material pierced by the
point, substantially as set forth.
2. The constructious of pin with shoulder near the point as described with
reference to the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 20th day of Mon 1005
JENSEN & SON,
77, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agents.