Buckles – buttons – clasps – etc. – Clasp – clip – support-clamp – or required component thereof – With specific mounting means for attaching to rigid or...
Reexamination Certificate
1999-09-01
2001-06-12
Sakran, Victor N. (Department: 3626)
Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
Clasp, clip, support-clamp, or required component thereof
With specific mounting means for attaching to rigid or...
C024S297000, C024S453000, C411S508000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06243928
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
When a new peripheral device is added to a computer, a part of an engine is replaced, or a new piece of equipment is installed, the number of free cables, pipes, and the like also increases. Securing devices are used to hold cables to walls to avoid a tangled mess of cables, and to hold hoses in an engine to avoid them contacting a hot damaging surface or the like.
One type of holding device is an elongated plastic strip which can be looped around the object to be held, with the strip having teeth at one end and a locking mechanism at the other end that can move the teeth to tighten the loop. The strip can be passed through slits in the equipment wall to fix its position. Operation of the locking mechanism requires two hands, and it is easy to overtighten the strip and crush the cable or pipe that it holds. To remove a cable or pipe, the strip must be cut, so a replacement must be used. A clip that can hold a cable, pipe, or other object to a body wall, in a manner that enables easy one-hand operation, that avoids crushing the cable or pipe and that enables reuse, would be of value.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, a clip and a body are provided for fixing the position of an object gripped by the clip, that enables easy clip operation. The clip has a pair of jaws with upper ends that can be moved together and apart to grasp and release the object, lower ends that are pivotally connected, and middles. With the upper ends of the jaws moved against the object, the clip is inserted into a narrow portion of a slot so the middles of the jaws are pressed together to thereby press the upper ends of the jaws tightly against the object.
The body can include a slot with wide and narrow parts, so the clip can be initially inserted into the wide part and then slid along the slot into the narrow part to hold the object in place. The jaws are preferably integrally molded with a web at their lower ends that couples them in a hinge joint to pivotally connect them. The lower ends have upstanding foots that can deflect during insertion down into the slot, and which then press up against the body.
The novel features of the invention are set forth with particularity in the appended claims. The invention will be best understood from the following description when read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
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ITT Manufacturing Enterprises Inc.
Sakran Victor N.
Turner Roger C.
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