US1353350A - Hairpin - Google Patents

Description

L. H. KRICKEL.

HAIRPIN.

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1,353,350. S PatentedSept. 21, .1920.

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HAI PI Specification of tears Patent. P t nted S t, 21,'1920 Application filed April 8, 1920. Serial No. 372,213.

To all whom it may-concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS H. KRICKEL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Monroe, in the parish of Ouachita andState of Louisiana, have invented new and useful Improvements in Hairpins, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is an improvement in hair pins, and has for its object to provide a pm of the character specified, simple in construction and convenient to use, and which when engaged with the hair, will be held against accidental displacement, the pin having a positive lock for firmly gripping the hair to hold the pin in place, and wherein the head of the pin may be of ornamental construction.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a plan view showing the blanks from which the pin is formed,

Fig. 2 is a similar View showing the first operation in the formation of the pin,

Fig. 3 is a similar view showing the second step,

Fig. 4 pin, and

Fig. 5 is an edge view.

In the present embodiment of the invention the improved pin is composed of two similar strands of wire 1-2, of suitable length, each strand being of slightly greater length than the legs of the pin to be formed. Each strand has at one end a laterally bent portion 8 for a purpose to be presently described, and the strands are connected b arranging them as shown in' Fig. l, wit the ends provided with the lugs 3 overlapping, and then twisting the two strands together to form a twist 4 atthe center of the pin.

With this arrangement there is formed for the pin two relatively long arms and two relatively short arms, at each end of the twist 4, all of the arms lying in the same plane. After the strands have been twisted together as shown in Fig. 2, the

is a plan view of the completed arms are bent or corrugated as indicated at 5, the corrugations of the long and the short arms being opposite each other.

It will be noticed that by arranging the strands as specified, there is on each side will be noticed referring to Fig. 4 that each 7 pair of arms, that is, each relatively long and relatively short arm lie close together, so that they will grip the hair between them, and will furnish a positive lock against disengagement of. the pin.

The twist 4 and the corrugations provide an ornamental head for the pin, and when the pairs of arms are straight the twist alone will provide an ornamental head. The lock with the hair is on the inner sides of the long arms.

I claim:

A hair pin composed lapped together near one end of each strand and twisted together intermediate the ends of the lap to form at each side ofthe twist a relatively long and a relatively short arm, said pin being bent at the twist to cause the arms to lie alongside each other inthe same plane, with a relatively short arm adjacent to each relatively long arm, said arms being corrugated or roughened, and each relatively short arm having at its free end a portion bent in the opposite direction from the relatively long arm.

LOUIS HART KRICKEL.

of two strands

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