UNIVERSAL SPRING-CLIP MOUNTING DEVICE FOR OBJECT IDENTIFYING DEVICES
First Claim
1. A universal spring-clip mount for an object identifying device, comprising:
- a resilient body portion having at least two extending legs capable of being returnably displaced;
at least one object identifying device attachment portion; and
at least one object engaging portion designed to engage a portion of an object with which an object identifying device is to be associated;
wherein displacement of one or both of said extending legs prior to engagement of said device with an object of interest allows said legs to exert a subsequent retention force on said object of interest.
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Abstract
A universal spring-clip mounting device for attaching an object identifying device, such as RFID tag, bar code label, etc., to one or more objects of interest. Preferably, a device of the present invention is of resilient construction so as to be capable of exerting a retention force on the object of interest. One or more object engaging portions may be provided to engage structure on said object of interest, which may include external structure and/or holes, slots or other apertures thereof. Embodiments of a device of the present invention may be provided with object engaging portions that are designed to engage both substantially horizontally-oriented and substantially vertically-oriented sections of an object of interest, while maintaining substantially the same orientation of an attached object identifying device.
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31 Claims
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1. A universal spring-clip mount for an object identifying device, comprising:
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a resilient body portion having at least two extending legs capable of being returnably displaced; at least one object identifying device attachment portion; and at least one object engaging portion designed to engage a portion of an object with which an object identifying device is to be associated; wherein displacement of one or both of said extending legs prior to engagement of said device with an object of interest allows said legs to exert a subsequent retention force on said object of interest. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A universal spring-clip mounting device for a RFID tag, comprising:
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a resilient body portion having at least two extending legs capable of being returnably displaced; at least one RFID tag attachment portion; and a plurality of object engaging portions designed to engage a portion of an object with which an RFID tag is to be associated, at least two of said object engaging portions operative to engage with structure of an object of interest residing in different planes while maintaining substantially the same orientation of said RFID tag; wherein forced displacement of one or both of said extending legs prior to engagement of said device with an object of interest allows said legs to exert a subsequent retention force on said object of interest. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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26. A universal spring-clip mounting device for a RFID tag, comprising:
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a resilient wire body portion having at least two extending legs capable of being returnably displaced; an RFID tag attachment portion residing at one end of said body portion; a pair of object engaging portions residing near an opposite end of said body portion, one of said object engaging portions designed to engage a substantially horizontally-oriented section of an object with which an RFID tag is to be associated and the other of said object engaging portions designed to engage a substantially vertically-oriented section of said object with which said RFID tag is to be associated, such that said RFID tag is maintained in substantially the same orientation regardless of the orientation of the section of said object with which said device is engaged; and a coupler for attaching an RFID tag wherein forced displacement of one or both of said extending legs prior to engagement of said device with said object allows said legs to exert a subsequent retention force on said object once released. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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