Buckles – buttons – clasps – etc. – Clasp – clip – support-clamp – or required component thereof – Having either discrete flaccid or thin – nonbiasing,...
Patent
1987-05-11
1988-08-16
Sakran, Victor N.
Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
Clasp, clip, support-clamp, or required component thereof
Having either discrete flaccid or thin, nonbiasing,...
24557, 24562, 223 93, E05D 700
Patent
active
047633905
ABSTRACT:
A one piece plastic clamp has a generally U-shaped outer structure including two outside legs and a thinned and downwardly curved upper bridging region from which the legs integrally depend. The clamp further includes a live hinge toggle joint for spanning the upper outside ends of the legs. The toggle joint has a release position peaking freely above the upper bridging region as the legs move relatively together and apart in the release position, and has a stable snap lock position directly adjacent to the upper bridging region thereby forcing the outer legs together in a clamped position. Two oppositely facing inner clamping jaws are relatively moveable freely with respect to each other and with respect to the outer structure in the release position. The jaws are for clamping an article between opposite faces when the clamp is in its snap lock position. Two live hinge beams join the jaws to opposite inside walls of the outer legs, with each beam having a leg live hinge means at a fulcrum location at a midregion of the inside wall of its corresponding leg and having a jaw live hinge means at a midregion of an outside wall of its corresponding jaw. When compressive force is applied to urge the lower open ends of the outer legs together, the legs are thereupon caused to bend about the fulcrum points, thereby spreading apart the thinned and downwardly curved upper bridging region which results in the live hinge toggle being snap released from its stable snap-lock position to its freely upwardly peaking release position.
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Harrison David B.
Sakran Victor N.
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