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Description

(No Model.)

P. G. WINNEK.

SAFETY HAIR BRAID PIN. No. 387,611. Patented Aug. 7, 1888.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIcE.

FREDERICK G. \VINNEK, OF LEAVEN\VORTH, KANSAS, ASSTGNOR ()F UNF- HALF TO JAMES HUNTER, OF SAME PLACE.

SAFETY HAIR-BRAID PIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent. No. 387,611, dated August 7, 1888.

Serial No. 258.695. (No modeh) To all whom it may concern.-

Beit known that I, FREDERICK G. \VINMJK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Leavenworth, in the county of Leavenworth and State of Kansas, have invented new and useful Improvements in Safety Hair-Braid Pins, of which the following is a specification.

My improvement is a spring-pin specially adapted to prevent the unbraiding and the loss IQ of the ribbon braid-tie worn by girls at the end of the hair-braid.

In braiding girls hair it is usual to tie the braid at the end and then to tie the ribbon on it in a knot with a how. The ribbon is liable 5 to slip off and the hair to become unbraided. I provide a pin which both fastens the braid and the ribbon and forms a braid ornament, as shown in the drawings, in which Figure 1 represents the end of a braid with the ribbon tied thereon and fastened by my improved springpin. Fig. 2 shows the springpin in closed and in open position. Fig. 3 shows sectional views, and Fig. 4 shows the manner of eyeleting the pin-shanks to the spring.

The pin consists of two pieces of wire, each preferably bent to form two parallel pins, 14, eachtcrminatingin a rightangled pin-point, I. These pin parts are connected at their shank ends, so that their rightangled pinpoints will stand toward each other, such connection being made by a spring, 0, which forms a hinge, and in its normal position will retain the pinpoints in lapping relation. I prefer to use a coil-spring, the ends of which I attach to the pinshanks by eyelets (Z in the manner of eye lctingpapers. The eyelet seatsI make in thin sheet metal, (2, which Icrimp ox'cr the bent shank ends ofthe pins. The ends ofthe spring are formed with eyes f, to receive the eyelets (I, and the metal seats (1 are formed with holes to receive said eyelets, so that when the metal seats are crimped over the pinshanks the spring is eyelcted to the seats between the shanks. The shank ends of the pin parts are so bent as to cause them to stand flaring in the normal position of the pin-points, so that in applying the pin the shank ends are pressed together by the thumb and finger to open the pin-points to receive the braid and its ribbon tie. The spring closes the pin, so thatit pierces the ribbon and the braid at their opposite sides and fastens them together and forms an ornament to the braid, and for this purpose it.

may be made of any desired finish and style.

Each pin part may form a single pin-point, having a bent shank for the eyeletscat.

I claim The spring-pin herein described, consisting of the pin parts, each having a bent shank and a right-angled pinpoint, each shank end having an eyeletseat, a spring, and the eyelets fastening the spring and the pin parts, in the manner shown and described.

In testimony whereof I haveherennto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

\VINNEK.

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