Pacifier clip

• US 8,806,726 B1
• Filed: 05/22/2013
• Issued: 08/19/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/22/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tien Chung Ent. Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Tien Chung Ent. Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Lo, Chin-Tien
• Primary Examiner(s): Batson, Victor
• Assistant Examiner(s): MORRELL, ABIGAIL E
• Application Number:
  US13/900,505
• Time in Patent Office: 454 Days
• Field of Search: 245/16, 245/04, 24/31.1, 24/31.2, 24/31.3, 244/99, 245/13, 244/98, 245/15, 606/234
• US Class Current: 24/516
• CPC Class Codes: A45F 5/02 Fastening articles to the garment
• 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 24/1394 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

Abstract

The present invention relates to a pacifier clip, which comprises a base sheet, a mobile clipping member, a pulling member and a tying tool. When the pulling member is pulled, in the rotating motion, an angled flange of the pulling member utilizes an eccentric action to optionally allow an angled part or an inclined cutting plane of the angled flange to be abutted against or adjacent to an oblique support arm of the mobile clipping member, so a passive sheet of the mobile clipping member is downwardly moved or upwardly raised, and tooth rows of the passive sheet and tooth lines of the base sheet are engaged for forming a clipping status or forming a gap in between for forming a releasing status.

Claims

1. A pacifier clip, comprising:

a base sheet, the top surface thereof being protrudingly formed with a pair of sheet columns, an accommodation slot being formed between said pair of sheet columns, and the top end of the sheet columns being axially connected to a shaft rod, the bottom end of said accommodation slot being axially formed with a shaft slot, and the rear end of said base sheet being formed with one or more tooth lines;

a mobile clipping member, formed as a step-shaped sheet member, two ends of an oblique support arm formed with a hook shape in the mid portion thereof being respectively connected to a pivotal shaft received in said shaft slot and a passive sheet, the bottom surface of said passive sheet being formed with one or more tooth rows corresponding to the locations where said tooth lines being formed; and

the top surface of said oblique support arm being axially and protrudingly formed with at least two ribs, and a through slot being formed between two adjacent ribs, each of said through slots being radially and protrudingly formed with a stop piece connected to said pivotal shaft;

a pulling member, the top surface at the rear end thereof being axially formed with a rod slot sleeved with said shaft rod, the bottom ends at two sides of said rod slot being protrudingly formed with a pair of angled flanges interacting with said oblique support arm, wherein the distance between an angled part at the bottom end of said pair of angled flanges and said shaft rod being greater than the distance between an inclined cutting plane at the rear end of said pair of angled flanges and said shaft rod; and

the bottom surface of the pulling member between said pair of angled flanges is formed with an angled stop tenon corresponding to each through slot and having a height higher than said pair of angled flanges and penetrating into said through slot; and

a tying tool, formed as an elongated member, one end thereof being fastened on said base sheet, the other end thereof being installed with a buckling ring;

when said pulling member is pulled, in the rotating motion, said angled flanges utilize an eccentric action to optionally allow said angled part or said inclined cutting plane of each angled flange to be abutted against or adjacent to said oblique support arm, so said passive sheet of said mobile clipping member is downwardly moved or upwardly raised, and said tooth rows of said passive sheet and said tooth lines of said base sheet are engaged for forming a clipping status or forming a gap in between for forming a releasing status;

when said mobile clipping member is in the releasing status, each angled stop tenon is abutted against said stop piece in each through slot.

2. The pacifier clip as claimed in claim 1, wherein the bottom end of said accommodation slot is backwardly and radially protruded with a bottom sheet, said shaft slot is formed on the top surface of said bottom sheet, and one free end of said bottom sheet is formed with an inclined plane allowing said bottom surface of said oblique support arm to be abutted against while being in the clipping status.

3. The pacifier clip as claimed in claim 2, wherein two lateral sides of said bottom sheet and said pair of sheet columns are integrally combined.

4. The pacifier clip as claimed in claim 2, wherein a slit is respectively formed between two lateral sides of said bottom sheet and said pair of sheet columns, said inclined plane at the one free end of said bottom sheet is formed with a protrusion allowing said bottom surface of said oblique support arm to be elastically abutted against the bottom sheet while being in the clipping status.

5. The pacifier clip as claimed in claim 1, wherein said one or more tooth rows and said one or more tooth lines are staggeringly engaged.

6. The pacifier clip as claimed in claim 1, wherein the bottom surface of said oblique support arm is axially and protrudingly formed with a stop rib which is adjacent to the inner wall at the rear end of said accommodation slot while being in the clipping status.

7. The pacifier clip as claimed in claim 1, further including a decoration sheet having the same dimension and style as said base sheet, said decoration sheet is combined on the bottom surface of said base sheet, and the bottom surface of said decoration sheet is printed or laminated with plane patterns or directly glued with three dimensional objects.

8. The pacifier clip as claimed in claim 7, wherein proper locations on said base sheet and said decoration sheet are respectively formed with at least a ventilation hole, and said ventilation holes are communicated with each other.

9. The pacifier clip as claimed in claim 7, wherein a proper location of said base sheet is formed with a connection part, the interior of said connection part is formed with a positioning slot allowing a ring unit at the one end of said tying tool to be sleeved and a positioning tenon, and the bottom surface of said positioning tenon is longitudinally formed with an insertion hole;

the top periphery of said decoration sheet is formed with a complementary connection part corresponding to the location where said connection part is formed, the interior of said complementary connection part is formed with a complementary positioning slot allowing said ring unit at the one end of said tying tool to be sleeved and an insertion tenon inserted in said insertion hole.

10. The pacifier clip as claimed in claim 1, wherein the installing location of said shaft rod is slightly lower than the top surface of said pair of sheet columns.