An Improved Clothes Peg or Clip for Securing Clothes or other Articles to Cords or Rods or for Securing any Two Articles together.
Year: 1886

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd July, 1886.
Complete Left, 6th Apr., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 6th May, 1887
RESERV
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Clothes Peg or Clip for Securing Clothes or other
Articles to Cords or Rods or for Securing any Two Articles
together.
I JOHN FLEMING of 5 Corn Market, Halifax in the county of York, Brush Manu-
facturer do hereby declare the nature of this Invention to be as follows:-
My peg or clip is made preferably of fire, which is coiled spirally, and the two
ends are bent down to form the two jaws of the clip or peg, the ends of the jaws are
bent and passed within the spiral part, so as to work against each other, the lower
parts of the jaws are opened out to admit the rope or rod, and the article to be
secured; between the lower part of the peg and the spiral, the jaws are bent outwards,
and when together they form a recess in which the articles and cord are held, or the
jaws may be made of wood, attached to the two ends of the wire, or the clip may be
made the same shape out of sheet metal instead of wire; in using the pegs or clips,
they are held by the spiral or top part and the open end is put on the article to be
secured and pushed down in the usual manner to the recess, thus forming a perfectly
secure spring clothes peg.
JOHN E. WALSH,
· Crossley Street, Halifax,
Agent for the Applicant.

page_text: same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement :—
DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS.
Fig. 1 is a front elevation of my invention constructed of wire.
Fig. 2 is an end elevation of Fig. 1.
Figs. 3 and 4 shew elevations of wire clothes peg, with only one bend or coil
at the top.
Figs. 5 and 6 shew elevations of my invention constructed with wooden jaws.
Fig. 7 shews a modification of my spring clothes peg.
My peg or clip is made preferably of wire, see Figs. 1 and 2, which is coiled
spirally, and the two ends are bent down to form the two jaws A. B, of the clip or
peg, the ends of the jaws are bent again, and passed within the spiral part C, so as to
work against each other, the lower parts of the jaws are opened out to admit the rope
or rod, and the article to be secured; between the lower part of the peg and the spiral
or circular bend or coil, the jaws are bent outwards, and when together they form a
recess D, in which the articles and cord are held, or the jaws may be made of wood
attached to the two ends of the wire spring, see Figs. 5 and 6, or it may be wholly of
wood or other non metallic substance see Fig. 7 with a rubber or other spring. Or
the clip may be made the same shape out of sheet metal instead of wire; in using the
pegs or clips they are held by the spiral or round top part, and the open end is put on
the article to be secured and pushed down in the usual manner to the recess D, thus
forming a durable and perfectly secure spring clothes peg, the spring may be formed
with only one single bend or coil, or any number of bends or coils. The clips may be
made of any section of wire or metal preferably galvanized, or coated with any suitable
substance to prevent them from corroding or ironmoulding the clothes, or of wood,
composition, or other suitable. material.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this invention, and
in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is :-
The use and employment of a spring clothes peg, having open ends, and a recess, so
that it can be held in one hand, and pushed on to the cord or rod, and the clothes or
other articles secured, substantially as shewn and described.
Dind th: niet
11007
JOHN E. WALSH,
Crossley Street, Halifax,
Agent for the Applicant.