Spring clip

• US 3,313,009 A
• Filed: 03/12/1965
• Issued: 04/11/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/1965
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Frank S. Beckerer
• Original Assignee: Frank S. Beckerer
• Inventors: Beckerer, Frank S.
• Application Number:
  US04/439,267
• Time in Patent Office: 760 Days
• US Class Current: 248/74.2
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 3/13 and engaging it by snap action F16L3/1203 takes precedence

Claims

3. A RELEASING TYPE HOLDER CONSTRUCTION FOR OBJECTS, SAID CONSTRUCTION COMPRISING A GENERALLY FLAT WALL MEMBER AND A DUAL-PRESSURE RANGE, ONE-PIECE SPRING CLIP OF RESILIENT SUBSTANCE CARRIED BY SAID WALL MEMBER, SAID SPRING CLIP COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION:

(A) A CENTRAL BASE PORTION DEFINING A PLANAR REAR SURFACE ENGAGED WITH SAID WALL MEMBER, SAID SPRING CLIP (B) MEANS RIGIDLY SECURING SAID BASE PORTION TO THE WALL MEMBER AGAINST ALL MOVEMENT WITH RESPECT THERETO, (C) A PAIR OF RESILIENT CLIP ARMS EXTENDING FORWARD FROM OPPOSITE EDGES OF THE BASE, SAID ARMS BEING IN OPPOSED RELATION AND BEING ADAPTED TO EMBRACE BETWEEN THEM AN OBJECT WHICH IS TO BE HELD, AND (D) REINFORCING PROJECTIONS EXTENDING REARWARD FROM THE CLIP ARMS AT POINTS THEREON SPACED FROM THE BASE, SAID PROJECTIONS HAVING REAR EXTREMITIES WHICH ARE DIS POSED APPRECIABLY FORWARD OF THE PLANE DEFINED BY SAID WALL MEMBER AND SAID PROJECTIONS SHIFTING REARWARD WHEN THE ARMS ARE FLEXED APART BY THE OBJECT TO BE HELD, THEREBY TO LOCATE THE SAID REAR EXTREMITIES IN THE SAID PLANE FOR EFFECTING ENGAGEMENT WITH THE WALL MEMBER WHEREBY THE ARMS ARE BACKED-UP AND STIFFENED SO AS TO MORE SECURELY HOLD THE OBJECT.