Top mounting wire clip

A clip system comprising:

• a clip component comprising:
• first and second clip eyelets spaced apart from each other;
• first and second clip legs extending downward from respective first and second clip eyelets;
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• a clip return formed by forming a clip return bend in each of the first and second clip legs, angling each of the first and second clip legs upward, and interconnecting ends of the first and second clip legs;
• and
• first and second clip retaining washers comprising:
• a mounting hole formed through a thickness of each of the first and second clip retaining washers;
• and
• a cutout formed by partially removing the thickness of each of the first and second clip retaining washers from one side to an opposite side thereof, thus forming a channel with the cutout, wherein:
• the first and second clip eyelets are formed in an oblong shape, the oblong shape having a major axis extending along a vertical direction of the clip;
• each of the first and second clip retaining washers fit over each respective ones of the first and second clip eyelets, with each of the first and second clip eyelets fitting into the cutout, and the mounting hole aligning with the first and second clip eyelets, permitting a fastener to be inserted through the mounting hole, through respective first and second clip eyelets, and to an object on which the clip system is mounted;
• the first and second clip legs have a clip leg spacing between the clip legs that narrows from the first and second clip eyelets to the clip return;
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• the first and second clip legs each have a clip leg bend that bend each of the first and second clip legs as a clip leg bend angle.

A fastening system for retaining a first object on a second object, comprising:

• a clip component comprising:
• first and second clip eyelets spaced apart from each other;
• first and second clip legs extending downward from respective first and second clip eyelets;
• and
• a clip return formed by forming a clip return bend in each of the first and second clip legs, angling each of the first and second clip legs upward, and interconnecting ends of the first and second clip legs;
• first and second clip retaining washers comprising:
• a mounting hole formed through a thickness of each of the first and second clip retaining washers;
• and
• a cutout formed by partially removing the thickness of each of the first and second clip retaining washers from one side to an opposite side thereof, thus forming a channel with the cutout;
• first and second fasteners operable to extend through the mounting holes, through respective first and second eyelets, and into the first object to mount the clip component to the first object;
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• a space defined between the first and second legs, the clip return, and the first object, the space operable to removably receive the second therein to attach the first object to the second object, wherein:
• the first and second clip eyelets are formed in an oblong shape, the oblong shape having a major axis extending along a vertical direction of the clip;
• each of the first and second clip retaining washers fit over each respective ones of the first and second clip eyelets, with each of the first and second clip eyelets fitting into the cutout, and the mounting hole aligning with the first and second clip eyelets.