US1366260A - Pin-tray - Google Patents

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APPLICATION HLED FEB-4, 1920.

1,366,260.. Patented Jan. 18,1921.

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Sbehication of LettersJlitent.,` A

.Application led February 4, 1920. Serial No. 356,140.

To all whom it may conce/m Be it known that I, THOMAS HARRISON, of the town of Weston, in the county of York, Province of Ontario, Canada, iave invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pin-Trays, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to devices adapted to hold pins and the like in convenient position for use, and my object is to devise an article of this character by means of which a quantity of loose pins or the like may, without individual handling, bebrought to a substantially upright position and there-` afterheld in that position so that individual pins are readily grasped by the head when required for use.

I attain my object by means of the constructions hereinafter described and illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which- Figure l is a perspective view of the pin tray, partly broken away, to show a section of the device;

F ig. 2 a cross section showing the sorter raised; and

Fig. 3 a side elevation with the parts in the same position as in Fig. 2.

In the drawings like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different figures. i

l is the base of a tray recessed at its upper side to receive one or more holders 2. Preferably two are employed separated bv a central space for a purpose hereinafter described. In the bottom ofthe base is formed a hole provided with an suitable closure such as the plug 3. T e holders 2 are provided with apertures adapted to receive the pins and hold them in a substantially upright position. A preferred construction is to employ in each holder 2 spaced pieces of wire nettingv 'et arranged substantially parallel to one another. Twhese pieces of wire netting are supported on plates 5 inserted in grooves formed Vin the base or otherwise suitably supported thereon, the lower pieces of wire netting being spaced from said plates.V The wire netting being of comparatively fine mesh, it follows that the apertures in the two superimposed pieces of netting will be in substantial alinement with one another so that pins may be held in the holders in substantially vertical position as shown in Fig. l with their points resting on the plates 5.

`undersized pins or similar Onthe base is supported a sorter 6, which sorter has one or more slots 7 formed therein, each slot being longer than the pins with which the device is used and of such width as to permit of the passage ofthe stems of the pins, but not their heads. Preferably each slot is formed at the bottom of a shallow trough, and the preferred arrangement is to provide the upper surface of the sorter with a plurality of undulations forming shallow troughs 8 separated 4by ridges 9. The pins are thrown on the top of the sorter and naturally distribute themselves in the troughs 8. If the sorter be then raised, any of the pins which have fallen substantially parallel with the slots 8 will drop into the slots as shown in the drawings and will han in a substantially vertical position. If then the sorter be lowered, the point of the pins will pass through the apertures in the holder and the pins will remain in a substantially vertical position with their heads projecting sufliciently far above the sorter to be readily grasped. i A..

While the sorter might be entirely separate from the base carrying the holder or holders, I prefer to connect it thereto, as, for example, by the links l() pivoted at the under side of the holder and to the base. It will be understood, of course, that the proportions of the device may be varied to suit different lengths of pins, and also that the form and arrangement of the various parts may be materially varied without departing from the spirit of my invention. If any small objects fall through on tothe holders, they will roll down to the space between the same and may be shakenout through the opening closed by the plug 3.

`What I claim as my invention is Y l. A pin tray comprising an apertured holder adapted` to receive pins and hold them in a substantially upright position; and a sorter vertically movable relative to the holder having a slot formed therein longer than the pins with which the device is used and of such widthas to permit of the passage of the stems of the pins, but not their heads.

2. A pin tray constructed as set forth in claim 1 in which the sorter is provided with a plurality of undulations forming shallow troughs separated by ridges, a slot being formed lengthwise of the bottom of each trough.

3.' pin trayl constructed as set forth in of January, 1920, in the presence of the two claim 1 in which the holder comprises two undersigned witnesses.

spaced sheets of stili.2 mater'alhavino closely i v e set apertures therein7 the apeiture in one THOMAb HARRLON' 5 being in substamtiel alinement with the Witnesses:

apertures of thev other. A Y. GEO. P. MACKIE, S'gried atTorontq Canada, this 21st day N. R. TYNDALL.

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