Buckles – buttons – clasps – etc. – Clasp – clip – support-clamp – or required component thereof – Including pivoted gripping member
Reexamination Certificate
1999-04-30
2001-07-31
Brittain, James R. (Department: 3626)
Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
Clasp, clip, support-clamp, or required component thereof
Including pivoted gripping member
Reexamination Certificate
active
06266854
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
1. Field of the Invention
The invention relates to molded plastic articles such as clothespins for suspending laundry from such as a clothesline, or multipurpose clamps such as bag clips, hobby clamps or ice tongs.
2. Description of Related Art
Wooden clothespins of the unitary simple split type and of the double jaw, spring-loaded type are well known.
However, the wood in both types is subject to rot and deterioration and the springs of the springloaded type are subject to rust and easy breakage, twist and disassemble and pinch the user.
Molded plastic clothespins and clamps are also available.
However, most are expensive or complicated in their construction and unreliable in their use and, when used as clothespins, allow the articles which they are intended to hold suspended from such as a clothesline to fall to the ground or floor.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
It is an object of the invention to provide a simple, inexpensive reliable, unitary, clothespin or multipurpose clamp which may be molded as an integral unit fabricated from a resilient plastic.
Another object is to provide such a clothespin or multipurpose clamp having a hairpin like configuration to include a loop allowing its suspension from a line or the like and a pair of pivotally related jaws which may be moved between a gripping,confronting position wherein the jaws are in contact with one another and an open position wherein the jaws are separated by the application or release of a squeezing pressure on the loop.
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Ancona Bruce E.
Henry Louis F.
Brittain James R.
Ekco Housewares, Inc.
Ross, Ross & Flavin
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