Year: 1896

page_text: Date of Application, 4th July, 1596
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Apr., 1897-Accepted, 8th May, 1897
1 CHARLES VILLIERS WILSON, of The Groves, Malpas, in the County of
Chester, Gentleman, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
The object of this invention is to form an improved hair pin which will not be
liable to fall out of the hair.
For this purpose I take a piece of wire of suitable length (say about eight inches
long) and after bending it into a coil or eye at the centre so as to bring the
two ends close together, or nearly so, I bend each extreme point inwards so as to
form a hook. I then bend or double over the wires about three quarters of an
inch (more or less) from the coil or eye so as to form two loops the coil being then
about three quarters of an inch from the end of the loops. The coil thus acts as a
spring and by pinching the loops together the hooks at the other end can be
opened out and on releasing the loops the end hooks will be closed together.
Dated this 3rd day of July 1896.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.
1 CHARLES VILLIERS WILSON, of The Groves, Malpas, in the County of
Chester, Gentleman, 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 form an improved hair pin which will not be
liable to fall out of the hair.
The nature of my invention will be readily understood on reference to the
annexed sheet of drawings and the following explanation thereof.
Fig. 1 is a side view of one of my improved hair pins (open), and Fig. 2 a
similar view of the same (closed). Figs. 3, 4 and 5 shew a nodification hereinafter
more particularly described.
For the purposes of my invention I take a piece of wire of suitable length (say
about eight inches long) and after bending it into a coil or eye at the centre a so
as to bring the two ends close together, or nearly so, I bend each extreme point
inwards so as to form a hook as at b. I then bend or double over the wires at the
part c, about three quarters of an inch (more or less) from the coil or eye a so as
to form two loops, the coil a being then about three quarters of an inch from the
end of the loops c. The coil a thus acts as a spring and by pinching the loops c
together the hooks 6 at the other end can be opened out as shewn at Fig. 1, and ou
releasing the loops e the end hooks b will be closed together as shewa at Fig. 2.

page_text: Instead of forming hooks b at the ends of the pins I sometimes curve the wire
so that the ends cross each other as shewn at Figs. 3 and 4 which are similar views
to 1 and 2, the form of the doubled or looped portion c and coil d being clearly
shewn at Fig. 5 which is an edge view of the same partially turned..
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 :-
The improved spring hinged hair pin constructed of a single piece of wire,
-substantially as hereinbefore described and illustrated by the drawings annexed.
Dated this 2nd day of April 1897.
GEO. DAVIES & SON,
4, St. Ann's Square, Manchester, Agents for the Applicant.