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UNITED STATESPATENT OFFICE.
JOHN L. BUCKLEY AND JAMES W. COIN, OF WEATHERFORD, TEXAS.
WIRE CLOTHES-PIN.Specification of Letters Patent. Patented July 28, 1914.
Application filed November 27, 1912. Serial No. 733,889.To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that we, JOHN L. BucKLEY
and JAMES W. CoIN, citizens of the United
States, residing at Weatherford, in the
5 county of Parker, State of Texas, have in-
vented certain new and useful Improvements
in Wire Clothes-Pins; and we do hereby de-
clare the following to be a full, clear, .and
exact description of the invention, such as
10 will enable others skilled in the art to which
it appertains to make and use the same.
This invention relates to new and useful
improvements in wire clothes pins.
The principal object of the invention is to
15 provide a novel form of wire clothes pin
which will have a spring clamping action
and which can be readily applied or removed
from a clothes line. -
Another object of the invention is to pro-
20 vide as an article of manufacture, a novel
form of clothes pin formed from a single
length of spring wire which is bent soas to
form an opposed pair of spring actuated
clamping jaws.
25 A further object of the invention is to pro-
vide as an article' of manufacture, a novel
form of clothes pin which is extremely sim-
ple in construction, and is cheap to manu-
facture.
30 With these and other objects in view, the
invention consists in the construction and
novel combination of parts hereinafter fully
described, illustrated in the accompanying
drawing and pointed out in the claim hereto
35 appended; it being understood that various
changes in the form, proportion, size and
minor details of construction within the
scope of the claim. lnay be resorted to with-
out departing frorn the spirit or sacrificing
40 any of the advantages of the invention.
In the drawing: Figure 1 is a side eleva-
tion of the invention. Fig. 2 is an elevation
at right angles to Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a section
on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.
45 Like reference numerals designate cor-
responding parts in all the figures of the
drawing.
Referring to the drawing, the preferred
form of our invention comprises a clothespin which is formed from a single length of 50
wire centrally bent to form a coil 5, the ends
.thereof being bent to form an opposed pair
of elongated loops 6-6 constituting clamp-
ing jaws. The ends of the loops 6-6 re-
spectively extend inwardly, as at 7-7, from 55
opposite sides of the coil 5 and thence extend
outwardly in a direction opposite the jaws 6,
as at 8-8, and have their end portions 9-9
bent inwardly to form consequent spaced
finger pieces. These ends 9 are so arranged 60
that the terminals of the wire are bent to
form complete loops having extremities 14
that extend into the coil 5 so that by these
means protection of the clothes when using
the device is afforded as well as protection 65
of the fingers of the user from the sharp
ends' of the wire. The jaws 6 are arranged
to move in a general radial direction with
respect to the axis of the coil. The connect-
ing portions of the loops 6 are bent out- 70
wardly to form guides 10-10. The loops
6-6 are also corrugatedas shown in Fig. 1
of the drawings, the same being converged
to contact adjacent to the coil 5 and then
spaced apart to accommodate the clothes 75
line in a loop 11 thus formed. One loop 6
is also formed outward as shown at 13, to
provide a second space for the line when the
loop 11 will accommodate the clothes.
What is claimed is: 80
A clothes pin formed from a single length
of wire centrally bent to form a coil, the
ends of the wire beyond the coil being looped
to form opposed jaws arranged to move
transverse the axis of the coil, the ends of .85
the loops extending through the coil from
opposite ends thereof and terminating be-
yond the coil in spaced finger pieces the ter-
minal portions of the loop ends being rebent
and lying within the coil. 90
In testimony whereof, we affix our sig-
natures, in the presence of two witnesses.
JOHN L. BUCKLEY.
JAMES W. COIN.
Witnesses:
K. B. WOOLEr,
J. T. HuNr.1,104,871.
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Buckley, John L. & Coin, James W. Wire Clothes-Pin., patent, July 28, 1914; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth857950/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.