Clip device

• US 3,131,449 A
• Filed: 06/12/1962
• Issued: 05/05/1964
• Est. Priority Date: 06/14/1961
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Chiyoichi Iida
• Original Assignee: Chiyoichi Iida
• Inventors: CHIYOICHI IIDA
• Application Number:
  US04/201,986
• Time in Patent Office: 693 Days
• US Class Current: 24/334
• CPC Class Codes: D06F 55/02 with pivoted independent clamping members
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/3428 having pivoted members
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/3437 Coil spring biased
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/3449 and hook
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/3453 having gripping configuration on clasp jaw

Claims

1. A SELF ENERGIZING CLIP DEVICE OF THE KIND DESCRIBED COMPRISING A PAIR OF JAWS, EACH JAW INCLUDING A CLIP END, A BODY PORTION AND A FREE END OPPOSITE TO THE CLIP END;

MEANS PIVOTALLY CONNECTING THE BODY PORTIONS OF SAID PAIR OF JAWS INTERMEDIATE ITS ENDS;

A SPRING MEAN SCONSISTING OF A STRIP OF ELASTIC METAL CURVED IN A V SHAPE AND HAVING TWO ENDS EACH OF WHICH ENGAGES ONE OF SAID FREE ENDS AND CONTINUALLY URGES SAID FREE ENDS APART AND SAID CLIP ENDS TOGETHER SO AS TO GRASP AN OBJECT FIRMLY BETWEEN SAID CLIP ENDS;

MEANS INTERMEDIATE THE ENDS OF SAID SPRING MEANS FOR ENGAGING A HANGAR;

AND HANGAR MEANS THE LOWER END OF WHICH IS SECURED TO SAID MEANS AT A POINT ABOVE SAID PIVOTAL CONNECTION AND INTERMEDIATE OF THE ENDS OF SAID SPRING, THE UPPER END OF SAID HANGAR BEING ADAPTED TO ENGAGE A SUPPORT, WHEREBY THE WEIGHT OF AN OBJECT SUPPORTED BETWEEN THE SAID CLIP ENDS ACTS TO DEFORM SAID SPRING AND TO INCREASE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SAID SPRING MEANS TO SPREAD THE FREE ENDS APART AND THEREFORE TO URGE SAID CLIP ENDS TOGETHER IN PROPORTION TO THE WEIGHTS OF SAID OBJECT.