Improvements in Safety Pins.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Apr., 1898-Accepted, 9th July, 1898
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Safety Pins. ·
I, GEORGE BODEN, of Watertown, County of Litchfield, and State of Connecti-
cut, United States of America, Foreman of Safety Pin Factory, 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 invention relates to that class of safety pins which are formed from a piece
of wire and are provided with a sheet metal guard or shield at one end for
engaging and protecting the point of the pin.
The object of the invention is to provide an improved guard into which the pin
point may be readily and conveniently inserted from either side and in which
the opposing sides of the guard ensure the engagement of the pin with the
guard.
In the accompanying drawings,
Fig. 1 is a side elevation, of the improved pin,
Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the opposite side,
Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a guard before it is 'applied to the pin,
Fig. 4 is an end elevation of the guard,
Fig. 5 is a section on line 5-5, Fig. 1.
C,
The wire portion of the pin is of the usual construction, and is made from a
single piece of wire having one end pointed to form the pin A, and the other end
curved as at B for retaining the guard in place. The wire is coiled at C to form
the spring which tends to throw the pin away from the guard when the point is
free. The guard consists of a sheet metal cap D, the sides of which are slit
at a and b, the slits being out of line with each other. The guard is secured to
the wire by clamping the guard end B of said wire between the sides d of the
guard below the slits a, b. The sides c, d are bent inward out of line with the
sides e, f, above the slits so that the pin A may readily pass up into the guard.
When the pin is introduced on the right side, Fig. 5 for instance, the part d
acts as a guide to direct the pin A between the parts e and f and the part e
prevents the points from passing directly through the guard and out the other
side. If the pin is introduced on the other side the parts c and d direct the pin
up into the guard, and the part d also prevents the passage of the pin directly
through the guard.
With this construction a thin guard may be used and the pin may be con-
veniently introduced from either side without danger of passing out the other
side.
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-In a safety pin formed of wire, a guard secured to the guard end of the
wire, said guard having sides e and f with their edges out of line transversely,
and sides c and d bent inward out of the planes of sides e and f, the edges of

page_text: the sides d and f being substantially in a line transversely, substantially as
described.
2 In a safety pin formed of wire, a guard secured to the guard end of the
wire, said guard having a slit in each side, the slit in one side being out of line
with the slit in the other side, and the sides below the slits being bent inward out
of line with the sides above the slits, substantially as described.
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GEORGE BODEN.
Haseltine, Lake & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.