New or Improved Clothes Peg for Retaining Clothes or the like upon Lines.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 23rd July, 1898-Accepted, 8th Oct., 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
New or Improved Clothes Peg for Retaining Clothes or the like upon
Lines.
I, GEORGE FREDERICK HUSSEY, of Chalk House Green, near Reading, in the
County of Berks, Musician, 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 devices for retaining clothes and other articles upon
lines and the like upon which they are exposed for the purpose of drying. Those
commonly used are called clothes pegs, being simply short pieces of wood which
are slit up some two thirds of their length so as to form a fork the tines of which
are sufficiently elastic to grip the clothes tightly.
The disadvantages of the existing system consists in the fact that the clothes
are frequently injured by the peg being forced into position and the grip not being
sufficiently strong to hold or retain the clothes in position.
Now in this invention I increase the elasticity of the peg by forming it in two
separate parts which while normally pressed together by a spring, can yet be
easily opened by pressing the other ends together.
In order that my invention may be fully understood and ascertained I append
drawings in which :-
Fig. 1. is a side elevation and
Fig. 2 an end elevation of a simple form of peg.
Fig. 3 is a side elevation and
Fig. 4 an end elevation of a modified form.
Fig. 5 is a part section of same.
A indicates the jaws of which there are two to each peg the ends which grip
the clothes being indicated by a and the ends which are pressed by the fingers,
by, a. To one of the jaws is rigidly fixed by means of rivets pins or screws 62 a
cheek or cheeks B formed preferably of zinc or galvanized or tinned iron.
In Figs. 1 and 2 these cheeks are formed of one piece of metal, b forming the
sides and b¹ the top the other part of the peg is thrust into the upper part of these
cheeks and held therein by means of a pin or rivet 63 it being also cut away so as
to enable a coil spring C to be introduced, one end c of which presses against the
interior of the part 6 of the cheeks while the other end c¹ normally presses the
ends a of the jaws together. When it is necessary to loosen the hold of the peg
it would be necessary only to press together the ends a¹ which causes the ends a
to part for the purpose of being either placed over or with-drawn from the clothes
and line.
In Figs. 3, 4 and 5, the cheeks B are formed separately from each other and
attached to one of the jaws A by pins or rivets 62, the other jaw is pivoted to this
by a pin b about which it can be rocked. The spring C is in this case inserted
between the two parts, one end c² pressing against the upper and the other 3
against the lower part A thus normally retaining the jaws in the closed position
shewn. To open all that is necessary is to press the ends a¹ together as before.

page_text: In most cases I form on the inside of either one or both of the jaws A a notch
or notches E for the purpose of affording a firmer grip.
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:
1. A clothes peg in which the jaws are normally forced together by a spring,
in such manner that they can be opened by pressing together the back ends,
substantially as described and shewn.
2. In a clothes peg the combination of the jaws A, the cheeks or sheath B
having a part 6 and the 'spring C one end of which presses against the interior of
the sheath, B, and the other against the jaw A, substantially as described and
shewn.
3 V.
3. In a clothes peg the combination of the jaws A, the cheeks B rigidly fastened
to one of the jaws, the other of which is pivoted to the cheeks and a spring C
substantially as described and shewn.
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4. In a clothes peg as hereinbefore described and claimed, forming one or both
of the jaws with one or more grooves E substantially as described and shewn.
Dated this 23rd day of July 1898.
WILLIAM J. MUNDEN,
75, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Algent for the Applicant.