Securement Clip for Pipe and Scaffold Engaged Fabric
OwnerCarl Stoneinventor
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Abstract
A clip configured for compressive engagement of fabric to pipe or similar elongated members such as those of a scaffold. The clip has a body with opposing sidewalls separated by a gap. The sidewalls are formed of elastic or flexible material which will temporarily deflect to temporally increase the diameter of the gap, to allow passage of the pipe through the gap. The sidewalls thereafter return to the original position wherein interior surfaces of the sidewalls and an axial cavity of the body compressively engage with the pipe and any fabric adjacent thereto to hold the fabric in a compressive sandwiched engagement between the clip and the pipe.
Claims20
A clip, comprising:
- a body of said clip extending between a first side edge and a second side edge, said body having a central portion;
- two sidewalls extending from said central portion in-between said first side edge and said second side edge to respective distal edges of each of said two sidewalls;
- said body having an interior surface extending in a curve within said central portion to said distal edges of said two sidewalls;
- said interior surface defining a curved axial passage communicating through said body along an axis;
- said axial passage having a first diameter;
- a projecting portion formed on at least one of said two sidewalls at a central area thereof located in-between said first side edge and said second side edge of said body;
- each said projecting portion defining a respective curved distal edge section, located along a respective said distal edge of said sidewalls;
- a first gap running between said distal edges of said sidewalls, said first gap being smaller than said first diameter;
- each said projecting portion having an outwardly curved portion of said interior surface of a respective said sidewall which extends to a respective said curved distal edge section;
- each said curved distal edge section defining a ledge;
- said two sidewalls being flexible and adapted for a temporary deflection in opposing directions expanding said first gap during forced contact of said distal edges against a pipe;
- said temporary deflection forming a temporary increase of said first gap to a size substantially equal to or larger than said first diameter;
- said clip being removably engageable to a compressed engagement with said pipe communicated through said gap during said temporary deflection, to form a contact of said interior surface against said pipe upon a cessation of said temporary deflection;
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- each said ledge adapted for contact against one or both of said curved portion of said interior surface of said sidewall and said curved distal edge section, to pull said clip from said compressed engagement with said pipe.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.