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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2020
Matthew Rimmel, Northville, MI (US);
Matthew Rimmel, Northville, MI (US);
Other;
Abstract
A push pin, which has a position in which the pin is stowed to avoid unintended pin pricks and a fully-deployed position, is disclosed. The push pin includes: a main body with a trough and a pin, a pin body rotatably coupled to the main body; and a tension member coupled between the main body and the pin body. The tension member biases the pin body toward a stowed position in which the pin of the pin body is stowed in the trough of the main body. With a thumb-actuated nub on the pin body, the user of the push pin pushes against the tension member to rotate the pin body into the fully-deployed position for use. The tension member is an elastic loop in some embodiments and a torsion spring in other embodiments.