US Patent: 6,281
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Dress-pin
Safety pin
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Patentee:
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| Walter Hunt (exact or similar names) - New York, NY |
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| Not known to have been produced |
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Patent Dates:
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| Granted: |
Apr. 10, 1849 |
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Wikipedia particle on invention of the safety pin
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Description: |
| This patent shows the first modern safety pin. Only a few months later, a British patent was issued to Englishman Charles Rowley for an independently developed similar idea; see patent GB-184,912,796. Hunt reportedly sold this invention to W. R. Grace & Co. |
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