Improvements connected with Dress and like Pins.
Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 16th Apr., 1895
Complete Specification Left, 16th Jan., 1897-Accepted, 3rd Apr.. 1897
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements connected with Dress and like Pins.
THEOPHILUS FRANKS No. 17 Couthurst Road Blackheath Greenwich Kent Plumber
do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The clip is a strip of brass bent round at the ends. To clip an ordinary round
headed pin a small hole is punched through a strip of brass largh enough to allow the
pin to pass through up to the head. The hole is punched through of an inch from
the end of the clip, the clip is bent round close to the head of the pin, bent up
of an inch and turned squar angle & runing length of the pin, turn round the
point in a circle with the end knockt of an inch down to receive point of pin
forming pin clip for ladies blous wraps and all kinds of domestic uses.
Refering to drawings
1 THEOPHILUS FRANKS of 17 Couthurst Road Blackheath in the County of Kent
Plumber 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 improve the construction of safety pins, pins for
suspending ladies skirts and other purposes.
Now according to this invention I take a strong pin of the ordinary construction
and I secure it at the head end in a metal clip the other end of the said clip being
adapted to receive the point of the pin.
And in order that my said invention may be fully understood I will proceed to
explain the same with reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings in which
Fig. 1 shews a dress pin constructed according to this invention.
Fig. 2 shews section of same on line x Fig. 1.
Fig. 3 shews section of same on line y y Fig. 1.
Fig. 4 shews pin open.
Fig. 5 shews the pin or spike detached from the clip.
The same letters denote the same parts in all the figs.
a is a strip of metal or other suitable material bent at the ends as shewn one end
having a hole d therein to receive the pin or spike b and the other end of the strip a
having jaws to receive the point of the pin or spike b as shewn at Figs. 2 and 3.

page_text: As shewn at Fig. 5 the pin or spike b is in the form of a stout pin of the ordinary
construction having a head at one end and a point at the other end.
The pin or spike is passed through the hole d leaving the head thereof between
the body of the strip a and the turned up portion of the end thereof as shewn
at Fig. 4.
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. In dress and like pins the combination of a strip a having the ends thereof bent
downwards and upwards with a pin or spike b passing through an aperture in one of
the said ends substantially as hereinbefore specified.
2. In dress and like pins the combination of a strip a of metal or other suitable
material having the ends thereof bent downwards and upwards one end having an
aperture d therein and the other end having jaws f with a pin or spike held in the
aperture d and adapted to engage with the said jaws all substantially as hereinbefore
specified and shewn by the accompanying drawings.
3. Dress and other pins constructed as she wn by the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 15th day of January 1897.
T. FRANKS.