Clip
AssigneeNifco Inc.
InventorTsutomu Tanaka
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Abstract
A clip is formed of a male and a female members, and can take a temporarily fastened state by inserting an inserting shaft of the male member into an inner side of leg pieces of the female member and a finally fastened state by further inserting the inserting shaft. In the finally fastened state, the leg pieces are widely opened and fixed to the inserting shaft. The clip includes a correcting device disposed between the adjacent leg pieces facing each other and allowing the widely opened leg pieces to reduce the size thereof when the male member is moved to the temporally fastened state. Thus, the clip can be easily fastened and removed.
Claims7
A clip comprising:
- a male member having a head portion, and an inserting shaft extending from the head portion,
- a female member having a flange with an inserting hole, a plurality of leg pieces extending from the flange and disposed in a substantially cylindrical shape, and slits dividing the leg pieces, said female member partly receiving the inserting shaft inside the leg pieces to take a temporarily fastened state and further receiving the inserting shaft to take a finally fastened state so that the leg pieces are widely opened and fastened to the inserting shaft,
- a correcting device formed between the leg pieces situated adjacent to each other, said correcting device allowing the leg pieces opened outwardly at the finally fastened state to move radially inwardly when extracting the male member from the finally fastened state to the temporarily fastened state.
A clip comprising:
- a male member having a head portion, an inserting shaft extending from the head portion, and libs formed on an outer periphery of the shaft to extend along a longitudinal direction thereof and engaging projections formed at forward ends of the libs, and
- a female member having a flange with an inserting hole, a plurality of leg pieces extending from the flange and disposed in a substantially cylindrical shape, and slits dividing the leg pieces and slidably receiving the libs therein, said leg pieces situated adjacent to each other having step portions on side edge portions facing each other, said step portions having thicknesses to form spaces in the leg pieces for receiving the engaging projection therein, said female member partly receiving the inserting shaft inside the leg pieces to take a temporarily fastened state where the engaging projections engage the step portions at an end thereof, and further receiving the inserting shaft to take a finally fastened state so that the leg pieces are widely opened and fastened to the inserting shaft.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.