Improvements in Clothes Pegs or such Gripping like Articles.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 29th Oct., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 26th July, 1889-Accepted, 31st Aug., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION..
Improvements in Clothes Pegs or such Gripping like Articles.
I WILLIAM SMITH, of Cleveland Terrace Wellington, Salop, Manufacturer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the manufacture or construction of a grip, or what is
known as a clothes peg, and has for its object, the employment and combination in
their construction, of a metallic rivet or its equivalent, through such part of its form,
that will prevent splitting or breaking, as is frequently the case with those of present
make. This also enables me to produce such articles in an improved form than
hitherto.
I saw, cut, or otherwise shape an oblong narrow piece of a suitable thickness, say
about three eighths of an inch, its one end rounded, while its other end widens out
upon each side a little. A slot is then cut from the widened end along its centre, for
about three fourths more or less, terminating in a circular hole. This said slot is
shaped bell mouthed at its front. Immediately behind the circular hole, I make a
cross rivet hole, and insert. therein a rivet which is firmly rivetted, thus strengthening
the peg at its weakest point, and practically making it impossible of breakage at such
part. Thus when the wedge like slot is forced upon the object to be held, the two
sides spring open, but the head or rear end of the peg is prevented effectually from
breakage by reason of the rivet. The rivet may if desired be of a headless piece of
wire, passed through, and then each end bent down to form the equivalent of a
head.
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CHARLES T. POWELL,
12, Cherry Street, Birminghain, Applicant's Agent.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Clothes Pegs or such Gripping like Articles.
I WILLIAM SMITH, of Cleveland Terrace Wellington, 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 or construction of a grip, or what is
known as a clothes peg, and has for its object, the employment and combination in
their construction, of a metallic rivet or its equivalent, through such part of its form
that will prevent splitting or breaking, as is frequently the case with those of present
make.
This also enables me to produce such articles in an improved form to those hitherto
in use.
In order to more particularly explain and describe this my invention, and how it is
to be performed, I have appended hereunto an illustrative sheet of drawings, upon
which are figures and letters of reference, similar letters referring throughout the
several views to the same thing or part, and in which :-
Fig. 1, is a front elevation of a clothes peg made according to this my invention.
Fig. 2, is a side elevation of the peg.
Fig. 3, is a sectional elevation of Fig. 1, upon line A-B.
Fig. 4, is a sectional elevation of Fig. 2 upon line C-D.
I saw, cut, or otherwise shape the peg a, of a suitable thickness, say about three
eighth of an inch, its one end b, rounded, while its other end widens out upon each
side a little. A slot c, is then cut from the widened end along its centre, for about
three fourths more or less, terminating in a circular hole d.

page_text: This said slot is shaped bell-mouthed at its front end.
Immediately behind the circular hole d, I make a cross rivet hole, and insert therein
a rivet e, which is firmly rivetted, thus strengthening the peg at its weakest point, and
practically making it impossible of breakage at such part.
Thus, when the wedge like slot c, is forced upon the object to be held, the two sides
spring open, but the head or rear end b, of the peg is prevented effectually from
splitting by reason of the rivet e.
The rivet may if desired be of a headless piece of wire passed through and then
each end bent down to form the equivalent of a head.
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 combination with a clothes peg or grip, of the cross rivet e, constructed and
operating substantially as hereindescribed and illustrated upon the drawings, and for
the purposes specified.
Dated this 25th day of July 1889.
CHARLES T. POWELL,
12, Cherry Street, Birmingham, Applicant's Agent.