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| The secret weapon of the laundromats. |
A clothes-pin (also C47, bullet, clothes peg, or
just peg) is a fastener used to hang up clothes
for drying, usually on a clothes line. Pegs often
come in many different designs.
Today, many pegs are manufactured very cheaply by
creating two interlocking plastic or wooden prongs,
which in between is often wedged a small spring.
This design was invented by David M. Smith of Springfield,
Vermont, in 1853. By a lever action, when the two
prongs are pinched at the top of the peg, the prongs
open up, and when released, the spring draws the
two prongs shut, creating the action necessary for
gripping... |
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