Improvements in Hair, Dress, and like Pins.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 4th Jan., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 4th Nov., 1890-Accepted, 3rd Jan., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hair, Dress, and like Pins.
1 ROBERT OSMAN STYLES of No. 96 Sandringham Road Dalston in the County of
Middlesex Gentleman do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in the construction of pins to be used in
securing and dressing the hair or in securing or fastening ornaments, articles of dress
or otherwise.
The nature of the invention consists in the pins being so constructed as to diminish
or obviate the risk of their loss when fixed in position and also in affording greater
firmness and safety to the substances or articles which they are intended to secure.
To effect these purposes I use the ordinary bow or two stemmed hair pins but I
make them with a double or bend in the centre so forming a round turn or ring on
the inner or concave side of the bow of the hair pin, such ring being of suitable size
to carry the elastic cord hereinafter described.
I then attach to the said ring a piece of elastic cord of about half the length of the
stems or arms of the hair pin, more or less according to the strength of the elastic
employed. At the end of the elastic cord opposite to that by which it is attached to
the ring in the pin a small cap or sheath made of metal, wood, bone or other suitable
material is affixed of such size and shape as will closely but easily envelope the point
ends of the arms or stems of the pin to which it acts as a sheath or cover.
The pin
then being placed in position is secured by the elastic cord being strained either over,
round, under or through whatever is intended to be fastened by or attached to the pin
and the cap or sheath is slipped over the points of the pin where it is retained in place
by the tension of the elastic cord.
The elastic cord is preferably constructed in pieces of the requisite length with
small eylets or loops worked in the material at each end to facilitate its attachment to
the centre ring of the hair pin at the one end and to the cap or sheath at the other in
a neat manner.
Where either single or double stemmed pins with ornamental or other tops or heads
are used in pairs I attach the above described elastic cord to small rings fixed in any
usual manner on both the pins just below the heads and I construct the sheaths or
caps for the points of the single or double stems as the case may be in the under sides
of the heads of each of the pins forming a pair so that when placed in position the
tension of the elastic cord presses the points of the arms or stems of each pin into the
sheath or cap prepared for them in the lower part of the head of the other.
Dated this Fourth day of January 1890.
RT. OSMAN STYLES.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Hair, Dress, and like Pins.
I ROBERT OSMAN STYLES of Bridge House 181 Queen Victoria Street in the City of
London 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.:-
This invention relates to improvements in the construction of pins to be used in
securing and dressing the hair or in securing or fastening garments or ornaments or
otherwise. The nature of the invention consists in the pins being so constructed as to
diminish or obviate the risk of their loss when fixed in position and also in affording
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page_text: greater firmness and safety to the substances or articles which they are intended to
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To effect these objects I use any ordinary single or double stemmned hair pin or
ordinary dress, brooch or other pin to which I attach heads by screws cement or by
other known means. On or immediately below the head of a single stemmed pin
Fig. 1 in annexed sheet of drawings I fix a small ring a and to such ring is attached
a piece of elastic cord either round or flat according to the purpose for which the
pin is to be used and which is made about half the length of the stem of the pin more
or less according to the strength of the elastic employed. At the end of the elastic
cord opposite to that by which it is attached to the pin I affix a small cap or sheath c
made of metal, wood, bone or other suitable material of such size and shape as will
closely but easily envelope the point end of the pin to which it acts as a sheath or
cover. The pin then being placed in position is secured by the elastic cord being
strained either round over under or through whatever substance or article is to be
fastened by or attached to the pin and the cap or sheath is then slipped over the point
or points of the pin where it is retained in place by the tension of the elastic cord.
In the case of the ordinary bow or two stemmed headless hair pins as in Figs. 2
and 3 I make them with a double or bend d in the centre so forming a ring or bend
in the inner or concave side of the bow of the pin such ring or bend being of suitable
size to carry the elastic cord hereinbefore described and the cap or sheath is in such
case so constructed as to receive and envelope one or both points of the stems or arms
of the two stemmed pin as shown at e and f Figs 2 and 3.
Where either single or double stemmed pins with ornamental or other tops or heads
are used in pairs I attach the above mentioned elastic cord to small rings fixed in any
usual manner to both the pins in or just below the heads and I construct the sheaths
or caps for the points of the single or double stems as the case may be in the under
sides of the heads of each of the pins forming a pair as in Fig. 4 so that when placed
in position the tension of the elastic cord presses the points of the arms or stems of
each pin into the sheath or cap g prepared for them in the lower part of the head of
the other or opposite pin of the pair.
The elastic cords are preferably constructed in the requisite lengths with small
eyelets worked in the material at each end through which eyelets the rings or other
fastenings by which the cords are fixed to the pin at the one end and to the cap or
sheath at the other are attached in any ordinary manner.
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 hair and other pins such as described the application of a sheath or cap such
as described attached by an elastic cord or connection substantially as described.
2. In hair and other pins to be used in pairs such as described the connecting
together of two pins to form a pair by an elastic cord and with sheaths or caps in the
heads of each of such pins for the reception of the point or points of the opposite pin
of the pair substantially as described.
Datad this Wounth day of November 1800.