Improvements in Clothes Pegs.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 27th May, 1890-Accepted, 26th July, 1890
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Clothes Pegs.
I WILLIAM SMITH of Cleveland House Wellington, in the County of Salop
Manufacturer 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 the manufacture of clothes pegs, and its object is to
provide that such pegs shall be made of wood in such a form, as to reduce to a
minimum, their liability to break or split.
Wooden pegs for this purpose are now made, but are very liable to split; and in
some instances in order to prevent this, a metal rivet or pin is passed through them at
such part where the breakage usually takes place, which strengthens and binds the
two sides of the peg together. This however, is expensive, and to some extent
troublesome in making, and it is with a view to overcome these defects and objections
that I have made this my invention.
In order to more fully explain this my invention, and how it is to be performed,
I have appended hereunto an illustrative sheet of drawings, upen which are figures
and letters of reference, similar letters referring throughout the several views to the
same thing or part.
Fig. 1, is a front, and Fig. 2, a side view of the peg as finished. Fig. 3, is a front
view of the peg, as it appears when being used, and just in the act of being passed
onto the clothes line &c., showing where the spring or yielding of the wood takes
place.
A piece of wood is first sawn out, of an approximate size, wherewith to make the
peg a.
At b, a hole is made, and a saw gate c, cut from the mouth end thereinto. At
the mouth of the peg, at f, it is well bevilled off, in order that it may be readily
forced onto the line &c. g, (in section). Just behind the mouth f, is the recess e, in
which the line g &c. rests and is held.
Usually this kind of peg has been inade of such a form, that when being passed
onto the line &c., as seen in Fig. 3,-all the spring of the wood necessary for the
opening of the mouth, bas been taken from each side at 6; and by reason of the long
leverage of the two sides from ƒ to b, a great strain is put upon the part at b, and
breakage frequently occurs.
In this my improved peg however, I provide that at d, the wood shall be shaped
inwards somewhat, so as to furnish a further yielding or springing point at such part.
Thus when the mouth is being forced upon the line and the mouth expanded-see
Fig. 3-a considerable bending takes place at d¹, d¹, which in most cases, is such, as
practically to convey no strain to the parts at b. In any case, the yielding at d¹, d¹.
reduces the strain at 6 to a minimum, and prevents breakage, also obviating the use of
rivets or pins or their equivalents as preventatives of splitting.
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 improvements in the manufacture of clothes pegs hereindescribed and illustrated
upon the drawings. that is to say; Making the pegs of a form having a yielding or
bending point about midway between the points b and the mouth f, substantially as
described & illustrated, and for the purpose specified.
Dated this 24th day of May 1800
CHARLES T. POWELL,
Applicant's Agent.