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No. 712,952. Patented Nov'. 4, I902. a. w. McGlLL.-

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GEORGE W. MCGILL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

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$PEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 712,952, dated November 4, 1902. Application filed February 21,1901. Serial 116.48.341. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE \V. MOGILL, a citizen of the United States,residing at River-j dale-on-Hudson, in the city of New York and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Pins, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to pins adapted for use in pinning fabrics, as well as and especially to pins for store and office and other use, the purpose being to providea T-shaped pin of novel construction which will operate to hold open or spread in a flat condition tabs or papers attached by the pin to fabrics or articles of fibrous material or packets that are secured together by the pin or to secure together papers and prevent their being folded or subjected to strain along the line of fastening of the pin where the material is weakened by the pin-holes; to pin and bear laterally-upon bands securing together packages of paper money put up by bankers; to attach tidies to chairs, sofas, and the like; to serve as a convenient means for draping curtains and dressing shop-windows, and to admit of their ready bending or booking for such purpose and for various and numerous other useful employments.-

To these ends my invention consists in a novel pin constructed in the manner hereinafter shown and described, and particularly. pointed out generically and specifically in the claims following the description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, wherein- Figure 1 is a view of one of my completed pins, showing its most approved construction. Fig. 2 is a view of the pin proper before the attachment thereto of the tubular cap forming-its,cross-head. Fig. 3 is a view of the blank from which the tubular cap or crosshead isformed. Fig. 4 is a perspective View of the tubular cap forming the cross-head before itsattachment to the heading or capping end .of the pin. Fig. 5 is'a View of a blank 'from which amodified form of tubular oapcon'stituting the cross-head is formed. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of such modified tubular cap or cross-head before its attachment to the pin. Fig. 7 is a View of a modified form of the heading or capping end of the pin before the tubular cap has been applied thereto. Fig. 8 is a view of such modified form of the heading or capping end of "the pin with the tubular cap applied thereto.

Fig. 9 is a view of a blank for providing a still further modified form of the tubular cap forming the cross-head. 10 is a view of a pin with such modified form of tubular cap or cross-head applied thereto. Fig. 11 is a view illustrating one method of applying the pin, andFigs. 12 and 13 are similar views illustrating the completed pin adapted to hanging draperies and displaying goods.

My invention provides a novel fabric-pin of material secured intermediate its ends to the other end of the shank and constituting a cross-head for the shank arranged to bear laterally upon the fabric.

What I consider the cheapest and most practical mode of constructing my fabric-pin is fully shown in the accompanying drawings, in which, referring to Figs. 1 to 4, the numeral 1 indicates the body or shank of the pin,comprising a relatively longstraight piece of wire of suitable length and having a pointed end 2. The opposite end of the pin is bent laterally to one side at a right angle, as at 3, to form a relatively short heading or capping part, as shown most clearly in Fig.

2 of the drawings. Secured to the heading or capping end of the pin 2 is a tubular cap 4, that projects laterally at right angles to the shank of the pin and preferably at equal distances on each side of the latter. This tubular cap is shorter in length or spread than is the body or shank of the pin in length and may be conveniently formed by providing a rectangular blank of sheet metal (shown in Fig. 3) and having a central perforation 5 therein of a size to receive the shank of the pin. This blank is bent up into substantially tubular shape, as shown in Fig. 4, after which the shank of the pin is passed through the perforation 5 until the heading part 3 of the pin rests within the tubular cap. The tubular cap is then bent or closed about the heading part until its edges meet or abut, thus forming a completed cylindrical tube that entirely surrounds the heading part and is tightly clamped about the same and about the shank of the pin, as shown in Fig. 1 and other figures of the drawings, providing a fasteningpin having a relatively long and pointed penetrating shank or prong projecting from one side of the central part of a relatively short tubular cross-head or cap. Instead, however, of forming the tubular cap in the manner above described it may be formed from the rectangular blank shown in Fig. 5, which instead of being provided centrally with a per foration is provided on its opposite edges midway between its ends with two semicircular notches or recesses 6. The said blank so recessed is bent into substantially tubular shape, as shown in Fig. 6, and is closed upon the heading end 3 of the pin with the body part or shank of the pin occupying the recesses 6 in its abutting edges,the blank formiuga completed cylindrical tube,thatis tightly clamped about the head and shank of the pin. In both forms of construction above referred to there is provided a pin having a straightpointed and relatively long shank 1, a relatively short heading part 3, bent laterally to one side at a right angle, and a tubular cap 4, through which the shank of the pin passes and which is tightly clamped about the heading end and shank of the pin, said tubular cap extending equally on each side of and at right angles to the shank of the pin, providing the device a relatively short cross-head having a penetrating shank or prong of a length greater than that of such cross-head projecting laterally from one side of the central part of such cross-head intermediate its ends.

In Figs 7 and 8 the pin is shown formed with an extension or continuation of its laterally-bent heading-end part in manner to provide a depending loop 7, the base of which lies and bears laterally against or substantially against the shank 1 of the pin below its cross-head and which at its extremity or free end is bent inward toward the opposite side of the shank and in alinement with the heading part 3, as most clearlyshown at 8 in Fig.

7. After the heading part 3 has been thus provided either of the tubular capping-blan ks shown in Figs. 4 and 6 may be placed over the heading or capping parts 3 and 8 and be clamped tightly thereon and about the shank of the pin, as shown in Fig. 8, in the manner before set forth. Vith the heading end of the pin so fashioned a portion of the article pinned by it will be clamped between the base of such depending loop and the shank of the pin, assisting the retention of the pin in such article and permitting a marking card or tag being slid in between the article and such clamping-loop and held therein by the natural resiliency of such loop. This modified construction of the heading end of the pin providing it with a dependent loop bearing against the shank of the pin is the subject-matter of a division of this application, filed August 11, 1902, Serial No. 119,340.

The blanks shown in Figs. 3and 5, forming the tubular cap or cross-head, may be further modified by serrating the opposite ends thereof, as shown at 9 in Fig. 9 of the drawings, and when said blank is bent up into tubular form and clamped or closed about the head the serrated ends 9 are turned or closed in, so as to close the ends of the tubular cap, as best shown in Fig. 10. By thus constructing the tubular cap the ends are tightly closed, effectually preventing the entrance and retention of foreign substances and avoiding all sharp edges.

In some instances in using the pin it may be found useful and desirable to permit the free or pointed end of the shank of the pin to protrude through the front surface of the article pinned and to bend back such portion of the pin, as shown at 10 in Fig. 11, and hook its pointed extremity under one end of the tubularcap,whichmaybeknurled,asshownat 11,thus shieldingthe point,the shank or prong of the pin being of sufficient length to admit of its being so pinned or laced through the fabric, and thus bent or folded, as shown in said figure. In this manner the accidental withdrawal of the pin is positively and effectively guarded against. Furthermore, the pointed end of the shank of the pin after or before being inserted and pressed through a fabric or other article may be bent to form a hook 11, as shown in Figs. 12 and 13, to form a convenient means for suspending articles, as, for example, curtains and other draperies, articles displayed in show-windows, and the like.

Numerous other uses for the pin might be set forth herein; but various different useful purposes to which it can be advantageously and conveniently applied will continuously suggest themselves, and it is deemed unnecessary to further refer to the Varied different ways in which the pin may be utilized, as it is the pin itself which I claim and desire to cover by Letters Patent and not the manner of its employment, which will suggest itself in many ways.

Having described my invention, what I claim is 1. As a new article of manufacture, a fabric-pin consisting of a penetrating-shank composed of a single wire pin-pointed at one end, and a separate piece of material secured intermediate its ends to the other end of the shank and constituting a cross-head for the shank arranged to bear laterally upon the fabric.

2. As a new article of manufacture, a fabric-pin consisting of a penetrating-shank composed of a single, relatively long wire pinpointed at one end, and a relatively short separate piece of material secured intermediate its ends to the other end of the shank and constituting a cross-head for the shank arranged to bear laterally upon the fabric.

3. As a new article of manufacture, a fabric-pin consisting of a relatively long, penetrating-prong, bent laterally at one end; and

a relatively short, tubular, metal head with free or unattached ends extending laterally at opposite sides of said prong and constituting a cross-head for the shank, arranged to bear laterally on the fabric, said head secured upon the laterally-bent end of the prong and having an opening intermediate its ends through which the prong projects.

4. As a new article of manufacture, a single-pronged T-shaped fastening-pin consisting of a penetrating-prong made of suitable wire having one of its ends pointed and a portion of its other end bent to project laterally and at a right angle from the body part of said prong, in combination with a pin cap or head consisting of a cylindrical tubular metal case or cap provided with an aperture intermediate its opposite ends, the unpointed and laterally-projecting bent end part of the pinprong being inclosed in and occupying part of such cylindrical tubular heading case or cap, securing it thereto, and the other part of such prong extending out through the central aperture in said case or tubular cap intermediate its opposite ends and at right angles thereto, providing a cylindrical tubular cross-head to the pin-prong, the ends of which are free and unattached, substantially as described.

5. Apin for use in pinning articles of fibrous material having a single prong or shank made from a single piece of suitable wire,'pointed at one end and having a portion of its other end bent laterally at a right angle from the rest of the prong, in combination with a split metal cylindrical tubular case one half of which is closed upon the unpointed bent and laterally-projecting part of the prong attaching it thereto, and the other half closed upon itself into a corresponding cylindrical form,

each end of said tube extending from opposite sides of the prong, the said ends being free and unattached, in the same plane with each other and at rightangles to said prong, providing the device with a cylindrical tubular cross-head at right angles with its prong and imparting to it a T shape.

6. A garment or fastening pin consisting of a piece of suitable wire having a short portion of one end of the same bent at a right angle to the remaining or longer portion,such longer portion being straight and terminating in a pin-point,in combination with a tubular metal case or cap having free and unattached ends and closed in part uponthe short bent portion of the wire, said tubular case being of a length or spread less than the length of the longer and pointed portion of thewire and having such longer and pointed portion of the wire projecting laterally through and from its cenportion of the wire projecting laterally ends, the said ends of the tubular case or cap being free and unattached, substantially as described.

8. A garment or fastening pin consisting of a piece of suitable wire having a portion of one end of the same bent at a'right angle to the remaining portion, the latter portion being straight and terminating in a pin-point, in combination with a cylindrical tubular metal case or cap having free and unattached ends and closed in part upon the bent portion of the wire and said case having the unbent or straight and pointed portion of the wire projecting laterally through and from its center intermediate its ends, the extremities of such ends being serrated and folded inwardly closing the tubular case, substantially as described.

9. A garment or fastening pin consisting of a piece of suitable wire having a portion of oneend of the same bent at a right angle to the remaining portion, the latter portion be ing straight and terminating in a pin-point,

in combination with a cylindrical tubular metal case or cap closed in part upon the bent portion of the wire and said case having the unbent or straight and pointed portion of the wire projecting laterally through and from its center intermediate its ends, the extremities of such ends being closed and unpointed.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE W. MOGILL.

Witnesses:

W. HARRY MoGILL, THOMAS H. BAROWSKY.

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