An Improved Pointed Spring Clip or Fastening.
Year: 1889

page_text: An Improved Pointed Spring Clip or Fastening.
I, FREDERICK FAWSON LEE, of The Close, Salisbury, in the County of Wilts,
Surgeon, 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 :-
The object of this invention is to produce a cheap and simple form of pointed spring
clip or fastening which is applicable for a number of purposes and specially for
clipping or holding and fastening papers and documents of all kinds, for keeping
together the edges of vegetable and animal substances, and for holding the material
of a dress when used as a dress suspender for ladies.
The clip or fastening is formed from one piece of wire coiled or twisted at about its
centre to form a spring and its ends crossed over and bent into the required shape,
the ends being pointed so as to firmly grip or hold fast the material or substance into
which they may be inserted.
And in order that my invention may be well understood and carried into practice, I
will now proceed to describe the same with reference to the accompanying drawings
in which similar letters indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.
Figure 1 is a perspective view of my invention; Figure 2 is a plan of the same;
Figure 3 is a side elevation, and Figure 4 an end elevation of Figure 2; Figure 5 is
a plan of the clip or fastening when opened to its fullest extent by pressing together
the finger pieces A.
In the manufacture of my pointed spring clip or fastening, I prefer to use steel
wire of any suitable gauge, tempered and hardened as required, and the ends B
formed into points and sharpened or else turned back at right angles each way so as
to form a broader 1 shaped clip with the ends B still turned backwards into points
which are received into the loop of the opposed shaped piece of wire, as shown by.
the dotted lines in Figure 3. In making the clip or fastening, I take a piece of
straight wire of the requisite length with the ends sharpened, and I form a spring in
the centre by one or more circular coils C as in the spring end of an ordinary safety
pin, and bring the sides D parallel with each other or thereabouts. I then turn each
side over into a circle A in a plane at right angles to the plane of the coil or coils C,
and continue the sides D in their own plane and bend each over at right angles still
in the plane of the coil so that one crosses over the other. I then bend them over so
that together they form a rectangle, the ends or points B being opposed to each other
at the centre of the side furthest from the spring coil or coils C. When the ends are
formed into a 1 shape for a clip, the cross arm of the 1 may preferably be in the
plane of the spring coil or coils C, or in the plane parallel to the plane of. the finger
pieces A. as shewn by the dotted lines in Figure 3, and terminate in sharp points
which are respectively received into the corresponding loops on the opposed wire.
To operate the clip or fastening, it is simply necessary to grasp the pieces A between
the finger and thumb and press them together when the ends B will open or separate
as in the action of the ordinary scissors."
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of
my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is :-
:-
The construction of a pointed spring clip or fastening from one piece of metal

page_text: wire bent into the shape shewn in the accompanying drawings, substantially as and for
the purpose herein before set forth.
Dated this 30th day of July 1889.
CASTLE SMITH,
Per F. W. Golby.
Invention " Office, 54, Fleet Street, London, E.C., Agent for the Applicant.