Buckles – buttons – clasps – etc. – Clasp – clip – support-clamp – or required component thereof – Including pivoted gripping member
Patent
1996-10-15
1998-01-27
Cuomo, Peter M.
Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
Clasp, clip, support-clamp, or required component thereof
Including pivoted gripping member
24 67R, 24 6711, 24518, 24498, 40793, A44B 2100, A47G 106, G09F 320
Patent
active
057110573
ABSTRACT:
A clamp apparatus including a support member and a clamping arm member detachably and hingeally secured to the support member. The support member includes a first mating member of a hinge mechanism and the clamping am member includes a second mating member of the hinge mechanism. The clamp apparatus can not only rotatably and compressively clamp an elongate panel, or sheet object, or other material, but can be assembled by longitudinal engagement of the component members in a flanked, snap-fit manner. To facilitate the flanked, snap-fit formation of the hinge mechanism, the first mating member includes a resilient socket structure having an expandable opening for receiving the second mating member. The second mating member is more rigid than the socket structure, and is shaped having a V-shaped end portion for expanding the expandable opening of the socket structure, and a body portion shaped for detachably fitting within the socket structure in a compressed state for producing tension that effects clamping an object with a clamp end, or provide multiple self-supporting open positions. During assembly, the longitudinal members are positioned longitudinally flanking each other such that the V-shaped end of the longitudinal clamping arm member is in contact with the expandable opening of the longitudinal panel support member. The V-shaped end portion is then forced into the expandable opening until compressively engaged within the socket structure. The V-shaped end portion can pivot about the socket structure to facilitate placement of a panel object for being clamped.
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Cuomo Peter M.
Sandy Robert J.
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