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No. 608,986 Patented Aug. 9, I398. J. R. HUIT. DUPLEX CLOTHES PIN.

(Application filed May 19, 1897.) (N 0 M 0 d el .9

TNE NdRRIS PEYERS co. Puorauwa. WASHINGTON. u. c.

JACOB R. I-lOIT, OF DES MOINES, IOWA, 'ASSIGNOR TO THE HOIT SPECIALTY STATES COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

DUPLEX CLOTHES-PIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 608,986, dated August 9, 1898. Application filed May 19, 1897. Serial No. 637,274:- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JACOB RQHOIT, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Des Moines, in the county of Polk and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Duplex Clothes-Pin, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide improved means for attaching, temporarily and removably, articles of clothing and similar textile fabrics, commonly known as laundry-work, to a taut line.

My invention consists in the construction hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claim,

and illustrated by the accompanying drawlngs.

The clothes-pin forming the subject-matter of this invention is designed especially for use in conjunction with the clothes-line hanger patented to me June 13, 1893, and numbered 499,323, but it may properly and with the same degree of efficiency be employed with any common line.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective of one of my improved pins. Fig. 2 is a bottom plan of the pin shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an elevation illustrating the securance of two distinct sections or pieces of textile fabric by means of a single pin to a taut line, the dotted lines indicating the normal position of the pin when not employed to secure the pieces to the line. Fig. 4 is an elevation illustrating the normal position of a pin upon a taut line prior to the use thereof in securing pieces of fabric thereto, the dotted lines indicating the position of the pin in securing a single fabric to the line.

In the construction of the device for use as shown a single length or piece of wire of the character ordinarily known as spring-wire is employed, and said length of wire is bent upon its center to form a central loop or coil of a single convolution, (designated by the numeral 10.) The wire is extended in straight or curved lines diverging at an obtuse angle relative to each other downwardly from and tangential to the central loopor coil 10, forming what herein are termed branches 11 12. The longitudinal axes of the branches 11 12 are parallel with each other in one direction, and the central loop 10 is twisted or set obliquely relative to said longitudinal axes of the branches, whereby the completed pin is free to oscillate on a plane transversely of the line on which it is used, the plane of the axis of the coil forming an oblique angle with a plane common to said axes of the branches. By reason of the twisting or oblique positioning of the loop 10 relative to the branches 11 12 the wire is bent or offset at 13 14:. The extremities of the wire are formed into spirals or coils, each comprising three convolutions designated, respectively, 15 16 17 and 18 19 20 of like diameter. The convolutions 15 16 are positioned on one side and the convolutions 19 20 are positioned on the other side of a plane parallel with and between the longitudinal axes'of the branches 11 12 of the pin, and the space separatingthe convolutions 18 19 also being spread or widened to a greater extent than the space separating the convolutions 19 20. Three convolutions are formed in each of the spirals at the extremities of the length of wire. employed to form the pin in order to provide means of more convenient engagement therewith by the hand of the operator and approximately the same resistance in the outer coils of the spiral as is to be found in the inner coils and the branches of the pin, whereby when the device is positioned with a clothes-line 21, engaged in the widened spaces between the convolutions 16 17 or 19 20, or both, the lateral pressure of the convolutions mentioned relative to each other will clamp, clasp, and compress upon the line. The condition just described existing, it is obvious that a fabric or substance interposed between the contacting faces of the convolutions and the line will be held firmly, yet removably, in such position. It has been said that the branches 11 12 of the pin diverge downwardly relative to each other and from the central coil or loop 10, and such provision is made in the structure in order that when the spirals are engaged with the line 21 and fabrics thereon, the said line being drawn taut and the axes of the spirals and loop thereby positioned in a common plane, power or resilience will be stored in the loop 10, tending to depress or move downwardly the spirals relative to the line, thereby insuring the fabrics against accidental removal from or slipping upon the line, the tendency of the resilience of the coil and the lateral pressures of the spirals being the more firmly to seat the spirals on the line and retain the fabrics in the positions in Which they manually are placed.

'1 claim as my invention-- A duplex clothes-pin, consisting of a single length of Wire bent to form a loop 10 of a single convolution at its center and branches 11, 12 tangential to said loop and extending in opposite directions, which branches are spaced apart at the point of tangency, the wire being kinked or offset at 13, 14 to parallel the lines of direction of the branches from the central loop, thus positioning the said loop obliquely relative to the branches, whereby the completed pin is free to oscillate on a plane transversely of the line on which it is used and removable and replaceable relative thereto, and spiral clamps of a plurality of convolutions formed at the ends of the branches, the loop 10 normally being out of line with the spiral clamps, the clamps being spread between the convolutions thereof.

JACOB R. HOIT.

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