Support clip for a dropwire or the like

As an article of manufacture, a support clip for a dropwire or the like, comprising a formed unitary blank of ductile metal sheet, the planiform of the blank being a peripherally continuous elongate rectangular frame surrounding a central open rectangular window region, said frame comprising two elongate parallel legs and two short end legs integrally connecting the longitudinal ends of said elongate legs, the length of said elongate legs along the length of said window region being at least twice the length of said short end legs along the width of said window region, like longitudinally central obtuse-angle bends in each of said elongate legs, whereby the span between end legs is less than the length of said elongate legs but is nevertheless greater than the length of said short end legs, the width of said window being sized for accommodation of the width of dropwire to be secured to a support and said span between end legs being greater than the combined double thickness of the dropwire, whereby a loop of the dropwire may be inserted through the window within said span with portions of the dropwire on both sides of the loop in adjacency to the combined extent of double the dropwise thickness, further whereby the clip may then be secured by crimping said end legs toward each other to reduce said span and in compressed squeezing engagement with said dropwire portions to permanently retain the loop, with said longitudinally central bends permanently reduced from said obtuse angle.