MEANS FOR ATTACHING PENCILS TO TEMPLATES

• US 3,827,152 A
• Filed: 06/11/1973
• Issued: 08/06/1974
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/1973
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Clifford P. Dailey
• Original Assignee: Clifford P. Dailey
• Inventors: Dailey, Clifford P.
• Primary Examiner(s): Haroian, Harry N.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Shepperd, John W.
• Application Number:
  US05/368,600
• Time in Patent Office: 421 Days
• Field of Search: 33/174B,104,107 24/73RM,73SA,221L,221R 248/74A,73,DIG.3,113,316D,226E 211/69.1,69.9,69.8 281/30
• US Class Current: 33/563
• CPC Class Codes: B43K 23/001 Supporting means bracelets with means for attaching a writing instrument or a memo pad A44C5/0046

Abstract

A plastic clip of generally lyrate configuration has a pair of arms upstanding from a neck portion which overlies the base of the clip. An instrument to receive the clip has a T-shaped cutout void for the clip base on the instrument underside, with the clip neck snugged between inwardly directed shoulder flanges of said instrument overlying the cutout. The resulting T-shaped void is somewhat elongate with the span between the shouldering flanges being substantially equal to the thickness of the arms for inserting the clip arms there through from the bottom side of the instrument.

Claims

1. A drafting guide comprising:

a template having normally upper and lower surfaces and containing at least one undercut slot having a relatively wide lower portion opening through said lower surface and a relatively narrow upper portion opening through said upper surface, whereby said slot forms shoulders at opposite sides of said upper slot portion spaced from said lower template surfaces by said lower slot portion, a clip of generally Y-shape removably fitted within each template slot including a central neck extending through said upper slot portion, a lower end portion comprising an enlarged base at the normally lower end of said neck extending laterally under said shoulders in contact therewith and having a thickness normal to the plane of the template approximating or less than the depth of said lower slot portion, and an upper end portion comprising a pair of resilient arms at the normally upper end of said neck normally disposed in a transverse plane of said slot and projecting above said upper template surface and laterally of said shoulders in contact therewith, whereby said clip is retained in said slot by said shoulders, said arms of each clip being shaped to yieldably grip a marking implement therebetween, each clip being rotatable in its slot about the longitudinal axis of its neck to a position wherein its arms are disposed in the plane of its slot, and one of said end portions of each clip being sized relative to the dimension of its respective slot to pass through said upper slot portion for removal and replacement of the clip when it occupies said latter portion in the slot.

2. A drafting guide according to claim 1 wherein:

said one clip end portion comprises said upper clip end portion.

3. A drafting guide according to claim 1 wherein:

said template has a pair of said undercut slots, a pair of said clips disposed in said slots, Respectively, and said slots are co-linear whereby in the normal positions of said clips their arms are disposed in substantially parallel planes to grip opposite ends of said marking implement.

4. A drafting guide according to claim 3 wherein:

said one clip end portion comprises said upper end portion of each clip.