The modern Clothes Peg
Patent US365755
Invention Clothes-Pin
Filed Tuesday, 22nd March 1887
Published Tuesday, 28th June 1887
Inventor Solon E. Moore
Language English
CPC Classification:A41B3/08
- A41B3/08
Combined stiffening and fastening devices - A
Human Necessities - A41
Wearing Apparel - A41B
Shirts; Underwear; Baby Linen; Handkerchiefs - A41B3/00
Collars - Y
General Tagging Of New Technological Developments; General Tagging Of Cross-Sectional Technologies Spanning Over Several Sections Of The Ipc; Technical Subjects Covered By Former Uspc Cross-Reference Art Collections [Xracs] And Digests - Y10
Technical Subjects Covered By Former Uspc - Y10T
Technical Subjects Covered By Former Us Classification - Y10T24/00
Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc. - Y10T24/44
Clasp, clip, support-clamp, or required component thereof - Y10T24/44641
Clasp, clip, support-clamp, or required component thereof having gripping member formed from, biased by, or mounted on resilient member - Y10T24/44932
Clasp, clip, support-clamp, or required component thereof having gripping member formed from, biased by, or mounted on resilient member having specific surface material or irregularity on or along engaging face - Y
General Tagging Of New Technological Developments; General Tagging Of Cross-Sectional Technologies Spanning Over Several Sections Of The Ipc; Technical Subjects Covered By Former Uspc Cross-Reference Art Collections [Xracs] And Digests - Y10
Technical Subjects Covered By Former Uspc - Y10T
Technical Subjects Covered By Former Us Classification - Y10T74/00
Machine element or mechanism - Y10T74/20
Control lever and linkage systems - Y10T74/20396
Hand operated - Y10T74/20468
Sliding rod - Y
General Tagging Of New Technological Developments; General Tagging Of Cross-Sectional Technologies Spanning Over Several Sections Of The Ipc; Technical Subjects Covered By Former Uspc Cross-Reference Art Collections [Xracs] And Digests - Y10
Technical Subjects Covered By Former Uspc - Y10T
Technical Subjects Covered By Former Us Classification - Y10T74/00
Machine element or mechanism - Y10T74/20
Control lever and linkage systems - Y10T74/20576
Elements - Y10T74/20636
Detents - Y10T74/2066
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To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, Solon E. Moore, a citizen of the United States, residing at Swanton, in the county of Franklin and State of Vermont, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Pins; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.
This invention has relation to improvements in clothes-pins and clamps for other purposes; and it consists in the construction, novel arrangement, and adaptation of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.
The invention will be fully understood from the following description, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which—
Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings,
In practice I form this spring by coiling its intermediate portion, so as to form a movable coiled fulcrum,
When the coiled fulcrum of the spring is placed in the recesses of the clamps and the branches
I am aware that it is not new to form a clothes-pin with two arms having fulcrum-recesses on their inner sides, and having in connection with said arms a coil-spring having arms passing through apertures and their ends turned down upon the outer sides of the arms.
I am also aware that it is not new to employ a semicircular double spring in connection with two clamping-arms having transverse grooves on their outer sides to receive the ends of the said spring.
Having described this invention, what I claim is—
As an improved article of manufacture, the clothes-pin described, consisting of the two clamps having the fulcrum-recess on their inner sides about midway of their length, the line-grooves in the beveled jaws, and the transverse grooves
In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.
Solon E. Moore.
Witnesses:
Eugene A. Ayers,
Rigney Marvin.