US2873500A - Safety pin - Google Patents

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Feb. 17, 1959 J. E. GLOVER 2,873,500

SAFETY PIN Filed March 9, 1956 FIG. 3.

v INVENTOR JOHN E. GLOVER BYMM ATTORNEYS United States Patent SAFETY PIN John E. Glover, Los Angeles, Calif.

Application March 9, 1956, Serial No. 570,636

1 Claim. (Cl. 24-161) This invention has to do with improvements in safety pins.

Among the existing shortcomings of conventional safety pins have been that they are so constructed that in fants can swallow them, which they frequently do. Another shortcoming has been that the safety pin has been so constructed that when it is installed in a garment it is often relatively loose in its installation so that the pointed end is not properly held against the inner surface of the guard to prevent its accidental escape.

It is a primary object of my invention to provide an improved safety pin which is provided with lateral extensions or wings which render the safety pin of such configuration that it cannot be swallowed by an infant.

Another object is to provide a safety pin which has on its top arm laterally downwardly disposed wings or extensions which compress the fabric of a garment being pinned against the leg pin which engages the pin guard.

Other objects and advantages will appear hereinafter.

While I shall point out in the appended claim the features I believe to be new, I shall now, for the purpose of explaining my invention, describe in detail a presently preferred embodiment thereof for which purpose I shall refer to the accompanying drawing wherein, a

Fig. 1 is a side elevation;

Fig 2 is a top plan view;

Fig. 3 is an inner end elevation taken from the left of Fig. l; and

Fig. 4 is an enlarged sectional view taken on line 4-4 of Fig. 2 showing the fabric of the garment being pinned in compressed position between the top and bottom portions of the pin.

Referring now to the drawing, the numeral 5 generally denotes my improved safety pin which is comprised of a length of resilient wire bent to form a top leg 15 and a bottom leg 16 which intersect each other at one end in an integral loop 17. The free end portion of leg 15 has secured thereto, as by crimping, a conventional safety pin guard 18 while the free end of bottom leg 16 is pointed at 19 and engages in the guard.

Up to this point the construction described is conventional. However, in order to provide lateral wing-like extensions which form obstructions capable of preventing an infant from swallowing the safety pin, I form the portion of the top arm intermediate its ends into a pair of opposed laterally downwardly disposed wing-like extensions 20-21. Those extensions are formed by bending the top arm into a reversely curved position defining one looplike wing and then extending the bent portion into an oppositely disposed reversely curved position to define the second loop or wing-like extension 21, the wire then emerging from the wing-like extension. portions in a straight portion 23 terminating in the loop 17 from which it continues to form the straight leg 16.

The wings 20--21 are laterally downwardly disposed at opposite sides of the leg 15 (Figs. 2, 3; and 4) so that they function to tend to compress the fabric 25 of a garment being pinned against the lower leg 16 so as positively to yieldably hold the pointed end portion 19 of leg 16 in engagement with the guard 18, thus preventing the pointed end of the pin from accidentally escaping from the guard.

I claim:

A safety pin comprising a top leg portion and a bottom leg portion normally disposed in spaced juxtaposition to each other whereby to receive therebetween a portion of a garment to be pinned, said leg portions being resiliently secured together at one end, and releasably engageable with each other at their other ends, and said top leg portion presenting between its ends a pair of opposite, laterally downwardly and outwardly disposed resilient pr0- jections, whereby to yieldably press said portion of said garment downwardly towards the bottom leg portion to prevent loosening of said safety pin in said garment.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Great Britain June 9, 1927

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