A New or Improved Spring Clip, applicable for Use as a Clothes Peg and for other like purposes.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 31st July, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 16th Apr.. 1895-Accepted, 18th May, 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
A New or Improved Spring Clip, applicable for Use as a Clothes
Peg and for other like purposes.
We GEORGE WHITEHOUSE of Barford Street Tube Works, Birmingham in the
County of Warwick Tube Manufacturer and Brassfounder and JOSEPH WOODCOCK
of No. 7 Court No. 3 House, Barford Street, Birmingham, aforesaid Curtain
Hook Maker do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
The said invention consists of the new or improved spring clip hereinafter
described, the said clip being made from steel wire or other elastic wire. The
said spring clip is particularly applicable for use as a clothes peg, that is, for fixing
clothes on lines for drying but may also be used for securing other articles on lines
or cords.
The said new
or improved spring clip or clothes peg constituting the said
invention consists of two nearly parallel branches made by doubling and fashioning
a piece of steel or iron wire, the junction of the two branches being made into a
flat coil by which the springing or clipping action is given to the said branches.
The branches are made to cross each other a short distance from their free ends
and each branch is bent at the crossing into a nearly semi-circular figure, the
concave sides of the said bends being presented to each other so as to form between
the spring branches a nearly elliptical opening. The said semi-circular bent parts
constitute spring jaws between which the clothes and the line or cord can be gripped
for securing the clothes on the line.
The extreme ends of the branches below the gripping jaws described are bent
outwards and are separated a short distance apart, the said separated ends joining
the gripping jaws by inclined shoulders by pressure on which the said jaws can be
opened or separated.
In using the spring clip as a clothes peg, the clothes having been put on the line
in the usual way, the separated free ends of the peg are passed on to the clothes
line and the said peg pressed downwards. By the action of the line on the inclined
shoulders described, the gripping jaws are opened or separated and when the semi-
circular bends or jaws of the peg have reached the line, the said jaws close and
snap upon the clothes and line and secure the said clothes to the line. By upward
pressure of the peg the two gripping jaws are opened and the peg released from
the clothes and line.
Dated this 31st day of July 1894.
W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicants.

page_text: A New or Improved Spring Clip, applicable for Use as a Clothes
Peg and for other like purposes.
We GEORGE WHITEHOUSE of Barford Street Tube Works, Birmingham in
the County of Warwick Tube Manufacturer and JOSEPH WOODCOCK of No. 7
Court, No. 3 House, Barford Street, Birmingham, aforesaid, Curtain Hook Maker,
do hereby declare the nature of the said invention and in what manner the same is
to be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
The said invention consists of the new or improved spring clip hereinafter
described the said clip being made from steel wire or other elastic wire.
The said spring clip is particularly applicable for use as a clothes peg, that is,
for fixing clothes on lines for drying but inay also be used for securing other articles
on lines or cords.
The said new or improved spring clip or clothes peg constituting the said invention
consists of two nearly parallel branches made by doubling and fashioning a piece of
steel or iron wire, the junction of the two branches being made into a flat coil by
which the springing or clipping action is given to the said branches. The branches
are made to cross each other a short distance from their free ends and each branch
is bent at the crossing into a nearly semi-circular figure, the concave sides of the
said bends being presented to each other so as to form between the spring branches
a nearly elliptical opening. The said semi-circular bent parts constitute spring
jaws between which the clothes and the cord or line can be gripped for securing
the clothes on the line.
The extreme ends of the branches below the gripping jaws described are bent
outwards and are separated a short distance apart, the said separated ends joining
the gripping jaws by inclined shoulders by pressure on which the said jaws can be
opened or separated.
In using the spring clip as a clothes peg the clothes having been put on the line
in the usual way, the separated free ends of the peg are passed on to the clothes
line and the said peg pressed downwards. The inclined shoulders of the peg
bearing on the line cause the gripping jaws to be opened or separated and when the
semi-circular bends or jaws of the peg have reached the line, the said jaws close
and suap upon the clothes and line and secure the said clothes to the line. By
upward pressure of the peg the two gripping jaws are opened and the peg released
from the clothes and line.
Figure 1 of the accompanying drawing represents in front elevation and Figure 2
in edge view a metallic spring clip or clothes peg made according to this invention;
Figure 3 represents the same in the act of being passed onto the clothes line for
securing the clothes on the line and Figure 4 represents the same after the gripping
jaws of the peg have closed upon the line or cord.
a, bare the nearly parallel branches of the doubled and fashioned piece of steel
or other elastic wire from which the clothes peg is made, the junction of the said
branches being made into the flat coil or spring c by which a springing or clipping
action is given to the said brauches. The said branches a, b cross each other at d
and each branch is bent at the crossing into two spring jaws marked respectively a²
and having between them a nearly elliptical opening as represented. Between
the spring jaws a², 63 the clothes and the line or cord are gripped. The extreme
ends of the crossing branches below the gripping jaws a³, bare bent outwards and
are inclined to one another as represented so as to constitute inclined shoulders a³, |3
at the free ends of the peg, by pressure on which inclined shoulders the two
jaws a, b can be opened or separated.
In placing the clothes peg on the line for securing the clothes thereon, the

page_text: inclined shoulders a³, 63 are passed over or onto the clothes line and clothes and the
said peg pressed downwards. The gripping jaws a², 6 are thereby opened or
separated by the inclined shoulders a, b on the peg bearing against the line and
clothes as illustrated in Figure 3 and when the said jaws a², 6 have been sufficiently
opened to bring the line between the said jaws the latter close and snap upon the
clothes and line as illustrated in Figure 4 and thereby secure the clothes upon the
line. By pressing the peg upwards, its jaws a², 6' are opened by the inclined
shoulders a, b bearing against the line and clothes as indicated in dotted lines in
Figure 4 when the peg is released from the clothes and line and may be removed.
The peg may be released from the clothes and line by pressing the two branches
together by the thumb and finger in the directions of the arrows Figure 4, when the
two jaws a, b are opened as before described.
Although the new or improved spring clip hereinbefore described and illustrated,
is especially applicable for use as a clothes peg yet it may be used for other like
purposes such for example as for fastening articles of dress, fabrics, sheets of
paper and the like to lines or cords.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that we claim
as the said invention;-
The new or improved spring clip, applicable for use as a clothes peg and for
other like purposes hereinbefore described and illustrated in the accompanying
drawing; that is to say, a spring clip consisting of two nearly parallel branches
bent and fashioned from a length of steel wire or other elastic wire, the said
branches crossing each other near their ends and being bent at or near the crossing
into two spring or gripping jaws, the extreme free ends of the branches being bent
outwards and joining the gripping jaws by inclined shoulders substantially as
described and illustrated.
Dated the Eleventh day of April 1895.
GEORGE WHITEHOUSE.
JOSEPH WOODCOCK.