Safe pacifier clip

• US 8,156,616 B2
• Filed: 07/20/2009
• Issued: 04/17/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/15/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Tien Chung Ent. Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Tien Chung Ent. Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Lo, Chin-Tien
• Primary Examiner(s): SANDY, ROBERT JOHN
• Application Number:
  US12/505,929
• Publication Number:
  US 20100313390A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,002 Days
• Field of Search: 24/31.1, 24/31.2, 24/31.3, 245/04, 245/16
• US Class Current: 24/516
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 2005/006 comprising a suspension strap or lanyard
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 5/02 Fastening articles to the garment
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 5/022 within pockets
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 17/001 Baby-comforters
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 17/111 Holders therefor, e.g. to prevent loss or to hold in place
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/1391 Article held by clip with spring [e.g., leaf, coil] member
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/1394 Article held by clip
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/1397 Article held by flexible connector [e.g., chain]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/44419 Pivoted or rotated element
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/44521 Pivoted or rotated element
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/44564 having specific surface material or irregularity on or along engaging face

Abstract

A safe pacifier clip including a base sheet, a pulling member, a latching member, a clamping member and a tying tool. A connecting sheet is longitudinally connected between two protruding sheet columns and the height of the connecting sheet is lower than that of the sheet columns, a first flange is installed on the top end of the connecting sheet; a second flange provided on the top end of the latching member is installed in the connecting sheet and is provided adjacent to the inner surface of the first flange; an opening at the bottom end of the cap-shaped clamping member is provided to the first and the second flanges that are in a stacking status, and arc-shaped clamping sheets provided at the front and the rear ends of the clamping member clamp the two flanges.

Claims

1. A safe pacifier clip, comprising:

a base sheet, a connecting sheet is longitudinally connected between two protruding sheet columns and the height of the connecting sheet is lower than that of the sheet columns, a sheet slot is defined between the connecting sheet and the base sheet, a first flange is installed on the top end of the connecting sheet, at least one row of sheet teeth is adjacently installed at the lower portion of the connecting sheet;

a rack-shaped pulling member, distance between two wing sheets respectively installed at two lateral ends of the pulling member is corresponding to the sheet columns, and the pulling member is installed to the connecting sheet through the top end of the sheet slot, a sheet tenon is transversally installed at the bottom ends of the pair of wing sheets, a pressing sheet is installed at the bottom end of the sheet tenon, and a sheet button having a height at least equal to the heights of the sheet columns is installed on the top ends of the two wing sheets;

a latching member having a multi-folded shape, a second flange installed on the top end thereof is installed to the connecting sheet through the bottom end of the sheet tenon and is provided adjacent to the inner surface of the first flange, the second flange is bent then is connected to an engaging sheet having an arc-shaped block, the engaging sheet is bended then is connected to a clamping sheet, at least one row of clamping teeth is installed at the rear end of the clamping sheet;

a cap-shaped clamping member, an opening at the bottom end thereof is provided to the first and the second flanges that are in a stacking status, and arc-shaped clamping sheets provided at the front and the rear ends of the clamping member clamp the two flanges, and

an elongated tying tool, one end thereof is installed with a fastening unit fastened on the base sheet, the other end thereof is installed with a connecting unit;

when the pulling member is pulled, the pressing sheet of the sheet tenon is optionally moved and positioned at a top or a bottom oblique surfaces of the block, and the two arc-shaped clamping sheets connected to the two flanges release or store energy, so the clamping sheet at the other end of the latching member is outwardly raised or inwardly clamped, and a gap or an engaging status is formed between the clamping teeth and the sheet teeth.

2. The safe pacifier clip as claimed in claim 1, wherein two lateral ends of the first and the second flanges of the connecting sheet and the latching member are respectively installed with a pair of buckling hooks and a pair of tenon shafts, and two lateral ends of the clamping member is correspondingly installed with a pair of lock holes and a pair of shaft holes for being respectively buckled and positioned with the pair of buckling hooks and the pair of tenon shafts.

3. The safe pacifier clip as claimed in claim 2, wherein each lock hole is in a rectangular shape, each buckling hook is a wedge-shaped hook;

each shaft hole is a round elongated hole, so the tenon shaft is able to be moved and positioned inside the shaft hole with respect to the thickness of clothes to be clamped.

4. The safe pacifier clip as claimed in claim 2, wherein the connecting surfaces of the first and the second flanges of the connecting sheet and the latching member are respectively and oppositely installed with convex positioning bumps and concave positioning holes having the same quantity as the convex positioning bumps and able to accommodate the convex positioning bumps.

5. The safe pacifier clip as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of the two arc-shaped clamping sheets is defined by two rib slots arranged in a left/right means, and the first and the second flanges are respectively and protrudingly installed with a pair of convex ribs with respect to the locations where the rib slots are installed, so the rib slots can accommodate the convex ribs.

6. The safe pacifier clip as claimed in claim 1, wherein each inner end of the two arc-shaped clamping sheets of the clamping member is installed with a clamping buckle respectively buckled with buckling slots preset on the surfaces of the first and the second flanges.

7. The safe pacifier clip as claimed in claim 1, wherein a pair of sheet steps is longitudinally extended from the bottom ends of the pair of sheet columns for being connected to the bottom ends of the two wing sheets of the pulling member.

8. The safe pacifier clip as claimed in claim 1, wherein a wedge-shaped angled tenon is protrudingly installed at the inner end of the connecting sheet to let the sheet tenon of the pulling member pass through and serve as a limitation, a transversal tenon slot is adjacently installed below the angled tenon for receiving the top end of the sheet tenon.

9. The safe pacifier clip as claimed in claim 1, wherein further comprising an elongated tying tool, one end thereof is installed with a fastening unit fastened on the base sheet, and the other end thereof is installed with a ring unit.

10. The safe pacifier clip as claimed in claim 9, wherein a plurality of geometric decoration balls are installed between the fastening unit and the ring unit of the tying tool.

11. The safe pacifier clip as claimed in claim 1, wherein the base sheet is further installed with a decoration sheet having the same size and style as the base sheet;

after the two are connected, a high frequency wave operation or a gluing agent is used to combine the base sheet and the decoration sheet.

12. The safe pacifier clip as claimed in claim 11, wherein the front end of the decoration sheet is printed or laminated with plane patterns or is glued with three dimensional objects.

13. The safe pacifier clip as claimed in claim 11, wherein the base sheet and the decoration sheet are installed with a plurality of through holes that communicate with each other.