One-hand clip capable of preventing hanging object from dropping

• US 20050029421A1
• Filed: 07/29/2004
• Published: 02/10/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 08/07/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Shohachi Wakuta
• Original Assignee: Shohachi Wakuta
• Inventors: Wakuta, Shohachi
• Granted Patent: US 7,140,585 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 248/306
• CPC Class Codes: D06F 55/00 Clothes-pegs
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/44342 having rigid linking arm pivotally connected to each gripping member
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/45702 Plural, oppositely shifting, similar interlocking components

Abstract

A one-hand clip of the present invention is composed of a main body, a pair of semicircular hooks a pair of rotating pins and a pair of elastic bodies. The hooks each fixed by a rotating pin and an elastic body at each bottom end of the main body pinches an inserted object by the power created by the spring of the elastic bodies as well as by the weight of the inserted object to be hung. Inserting or detaching operation is accomplished by an upward movement of the inserted object thus requiring little power or skill of the user

Claims

1. A one-hand clip composed of a main body and a pair of hooks each fixed by a rotating pin and an elastic body at each bottom end of said main body, wherein an object to be hung is inserted between the tip ends of said hooks, pinched by said elastic body and by the weight of said object, and said power prevents said object from dropping.

2. A one-hand clip according to claim 1, wherein a pair of wide hooks are attached.