Stickpin

Claim 1

A STICKPIN INCLUDING AN ORNAMENT, A PIN PROJECTING FROM THE ORNAMENT, AND A GRIPPING MEMBER FOR RELEASABLY GRIPPING THE FREE END PORTION OF THE PIN AND HAVING FORMED THEREIN A CENTRAL HOLE THROUGH WHICH THE PIN EXTENDS, WHEREIN SAID GRIPPING MEMBER INCLUDES THEREIN A LONGITUDINAL HOLLOW SPACE TAPERED DOWN TOWARD THAT SIDE THEREOF HAVING THE HOLE FORMED THEREIN, A CHUCH ELEMENT DISPOSED COAXIALLY IN SAID LONGITUDINAL HOLLOW SPACE FOR LONGITUDINAL MOVEMENT AND HAVING A CENTRAL BORE EXTENDING THERETHROUGH, A PLURALITY OF SPHERICAL BALLS HELD BY ONE END PORTION OF SAID CHUCK ELEMENT ADJACENT SAID HOLE AND THE ADJACENT PORTION OF THE TAPERED WALL SURFACE OF THE HOLLOW SPACE IN SUCH A MANNER THAT, WHEN THE CHUCK ELEMENT IS IN ITS FIRST POSITION NEARER TO THE REDUCED END OF THE HOLLOW SPACE, THE BALLS TIGHTLY GRIP THAT PORTION OF SAID PIN EXTENDING THROUGH SAID CENTRAL BORE AND THAT, AND THE ADJACENT PORTION OF THE TAPERED WALL SURFACE OF FAR AWAY FROM SAID REDUCED END OF SAID HOLLOW SPACE, THE BASE RELEASE THE PIN, A HELICAL SPRING DISPOSED BETWEEN THE OTHER END PORTION OF SAID CHUCK ELEMENT AND THE BOTTOM OF SAID HOLLOW SPACE TO TEND TO URGE SAID CHUCK ELEMENT TO ITS FIRST POSITION, SAID CHUCK ELEMENT INCLUDING AN INTERMEDIATE PORTION HAVING AN EXTERNAL PERIPHERY IN THE FORM OF A TRUNCATED CONE REDUCED TOWARD SAID ONE END PORTION THEREOF, AND A PAIR OF RELEASING ELEMENTS EACH INCLUDING AN INNER END PORTION ABUTTING AGAINST SAID INTERMEDIATE CONICAL PORTION AND A SHORT OPERATING PROJECTION LOOSELY EXTENDING OUTWARDLY OF SAID GRIPPING ELEMENT AND ALIGNED WITH SAID INNER END PORTIONS, SAID RELEASING ELEMENTS BEING MOVABLY DISPOSED IN OPPOSING RELATIONSHIP SUCH THAT THE RESPECTIVE INNER END PORTIONS THEREOF DIAMETRICALLY SANDWICH THE ADJACENT PORTION OF SAID CONICAL SURFACE OF SAID CHUCK ELEMENT.