Clip-type hook fastening device
OwnerWalter L. Larseninventor
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Abstract
This invention pertains primarily to supplementary fastening devices in the form of jawed openable clips having a slot in one or both jaws used for fastening the hook of a garment hanger or other hook including device to a clothesline or other generally linear member. Certain embodiments can additionally be used for fastening two linear members together in a crossing relationship.
Claims57
A fastening device for fastening a hook to a generally linear member, to which the hook is hooked, comprising two primary members which are connected together to form a generally lever-type clip which permits generally hinged-type angular relative movement between the primary members;
- a pair of jaws, one jaw being so combined with each primary member that the two jaws are generally openable with respect to each other as a function of the generally angular relative movement between the primary members, one jaw having a generally slot shaped opening of sufficient width and extending a sufficient distance into the jaw to accomodate at least part of the hook when said fastening device is in its fastening position with respect to the hook and the linear member, the other jaw being without a primarily radially oriented generally slot shaped opening of sufficient size to accomodate the hook;
- means for biasing the jaws toward a generally closed position;
- and means, involving the shape of the jaws and their position with respect to the primary members, for clasping the hook and the linear member in their hooked-together position with the linear member passing transversely through the jaw region of the fastening device;
- whereby the fastening device can be put into a fastening position with respect to the hook and the linear member such that said slotted jaw accomodates the hook within its slot shaped opening and the jaws conjointly clasp the hook and the linear member, thereby constraining them to their hooked-together position.
A device for fastening an object to a generally linear member comprising the combination of a hook which is generally and at least temporarily connected to the object and a jawed openable clip, wherein the jawed openable clip comprises two primary members which are connected together to form a generally lever-type clip which permits generally hinged-type angular relative movement between the primary members;
- two jaws, one jaw being so combined with each primary member that the two jaws are generally openable with respect to each other as a function of the generally angular relative movement between the primary members, one jaw having a generally slot shaped opening of sufficient width and extending a sufficient distance into the jaw to accomodate at least part of the hook when the device is in its hereinafter described fastening position;
- means, involving the shape of the jaws and their position with respect to the primary members, for the jaws to clasp the hook and the linear member when said device is in its hereinafter described fastening position;
- and means for biasing the jaws toward a generally closed position;
- wherein the fastening position and assembled configuration of said device is that in which the object is at least temporarily connected to the hook, the hook is hooked to the linear member in the normal manner, and the jawed openable clip is positioned with respect to the hook and the linear member such that at least part of the hook is accomodated within the generally slot shaped opening of said jaw which has said opening, the linear member passes transversely through the jaw region of the clip with at least one jaw, that being said jaw having said slot shaped opening, being in proximity to the linear member, and the hook and the linear member are clasped by the jaws, thereby constraining them to their hooked-together position.
A method for fastening a hook to a generally linear member to which the hook is hooked in the normal manner comprising putting a jawed openable clip having a pair of jaws with a generally slot shaped opening in one jaw and surfaces in the jaws for conjointly grasping the hook and the linear member into a fastening position with respect to the hook and the linear member such that said slotted jaw accomodates the hook within its slot shaped opening and the jaws clasp the hook and the linear member, thereby constraining them to their hooked-together position.
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