Improvements in Clothes-pegs.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 12th Feb., 1887.
Complete Left, 5th Aug., 1887.
Complete Accepted, 6th Sept., 1887
Improvements in Clothes-pegs.
We JABEZ NALL of Penistone, in the County of York, Mineral Water Case Manu-
facturer, GEORGE GOODAIR of Grace Street, Barnsley, in the County of York, Butcher
and THOMAS WICKHAM of Grace Street, Barnsley aforesaid, Glass Mould and Press
Maker do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention consists in an improved clothes-peg for fastener for fastening clothes
to a line or rope during the process of drying after being washed or otherwise.
According to this invention the improved peg is made so that both ends are alike
and either end of the peg can be used for fastening clothes to the line.
Our improved peg can be advantageously made of one piece of wood which we bind
round the middle with wire or with tin or thin hoop iron. We prefer to employ wire,
either copper or brass, on account of the pliability of these metals and their not being
liable to rust or iron-mould the clothes; if iron or steel wire is used it should be
tinned or galvanised.
To bind the pegs with wire we find it advantageous to first bore a suitable hole
through them, then thread the wire through the hole and turn the end at a right angle,
then wind the wire round the peg and over the loose end thus fastening the first end
of the wire; after the wire is wound round the peg a sufficient number of times we
bore another suitable hole through the peg and thread the wire through this hole one
or more times so as to fasten it; as a further fastening for the last end of the wire
a small piece of wood could be driven into the hole after the wire is threaded through.

page_text: The peg thus partly made is cut lengthwise at each end by a circular or other saw
and at the extreme ends a further portion is cut away by a chisel or other suitable tool
so that the peg can easily be put on the clothes and line and pressed down by the hand
thus securing the clothes to the line in the usual manner.
It will be obvious that our improved pegs can be made of two pieces of wood bound
together and cut lengthwise as above described or they can be made of two pieces of wood
as last described and a small piece put in the middle so as to do away with cutting
down lengthwise with a saw.
G. F. REDFERN,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: We JABEZ NALL, of Penistone, in the county of York, Mineral Water Case Manu-
facturer, GEORGE GOODAIR, of Grace Street, Barnsley, in the county of York, Butcher
and THOMAS WICKHAM of Grace Street, Barnsley, aforesaid, Glass Mould and Press
Maker, 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 consists in an improved clothes-peg or fastener for fastening clothes
to a line or rope during the process of drying after being washed or otherwise.
According to this invention the improved peg is made so that both ends are
practically alike so that either end of the peg can be used for fastening clothes to
the line.
Our improved peg can be advantageously made of one piece of wood which we bind
round the middle with wire or with tin or thin hoops of iron, brass copper or other
suitable material. We prefer to employ wire, either copper or brass, on account of
the flexibility of these metals and their not being liable to rust or iron-mould the clothes;
if iron or steel wire is used it should be tinned or galvanised.
To bind the pegs with wire we find it advantageous to first bore a suitable hole
through them, then thread the wire through the hole and turn the end at a right angle,
then wind the wire round the peg and over the loose end thus fastening the first end
of the wire; after the wire is wound round the peg a sufficient number of times we
bore another suitable hole through the peg and thread the wire through this hole one
or more times so as to fasten it; as a further fastening for the last end of the wire a
small piece of wood could be driven into the hole after the wire is threaded through.
The peg thus partly made is cut lengthwise at each end by a circular or other saw
and at the extreme ends a further portion is cut away by a chisel or other suitable tool
so that the peg can easily be put on the clothes and line and pressed down by the
hand thus securing the clothes to the line in the usual manner.
It will be obvious that our improved pegs can be made of two pieces of wood bound
together and cut lengthwise as above described or they can be made of two pieces of
wood as last described and a small piece put in the middle so as to do away with
cutting down lengthwise with a saw.
In the accompanying drawing figures 1 and 2, represent elevations of a clothes peg
constructed according to our invention and shewn by way of example made from two
pieces of wood with a small piece placed between them; figure 3 is a section on
line A B of figure Similar letters in all the figures represent similar parts.
a, a', are the two pieces of wood from which the clothes peg is made and which
may be of rectangular, semicircular or other suitable shape in cross section; b, is a
small piece of wood placed between the said pieces or strips so as to separate thein as
shewn. The two pieces a, a, are shaped by a suitable tool to adapt them for the
purpose; c, is a piece of tinned iron or other suitable metal which will not be liable to

page_text: rust or to injure the clothes, the said piece of metal c, serving by means of the pins d, d,
to bind the pieces a, a', and b, together which pins extend only partly through the
peg as shewn or entirely through so that they can be rivetted or clinched on the opposite
side.
From the foregoing description it will be seen that either end of our improved pegs
can be used for fastening clothes or other articles to a line during the drying, after
they have been washed or otherwise treated, and that in the event of one end of the peg
becoming broken the other end can still be used for the said purpose.
The construction which we have herein described and illustrated is that we have
found most advantageous in practice and is given only as an example, but it will be
obvious that our pegs can be made in other ways such as those first hereinbefore
described.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we claim is :-
1. A clothes peg or fastener having a slot or opening at each end, for the purpose
specified.
2. The improved clothes peg or fastener constructed substantially as hereinbefore
described with reference to the accompanying drawing.
1 CA1007
G. F. REDFERN,
4, South Street, Finsbury, London,
Agent for the Applicants.