Clip-on paper holding system
AssigneeSuper Glue Corporation
InventorFrank Salacuse
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Abstract
The present invention provides a clip-on paper holding system for a snap-clamp device made in one piece of plastic. The system uses the snap-clamp device as a paper holder for receiving and holding sheets of punched hole paper. The device is used either with a note pad base to hole punched paper, or with a notebook where the snap-clamp device is mounted to an elongated mounting member that is affixed to the inner surface of the spine of a notebook. One, two, or more devices are used depending on how many holes are formed in the note paper.
Claims5
A clip-on paper holding system for paper sheets, each sheet, having an edge portion, said sheet forming at least one hole proximate to said edge portion of said sheet, said system comprising:
- a base member for mounting to an article, and
- a snap-clamp means made of one piece of plastic connected to said base member, said snap-clamp means comprising:
- a bending spring, arcuate in shape and connected to said base,
- a pair of control levers, arcuate in shape, and rotatably connected to said bending spring by first and second living hinges connected from the end portions of the arc of the bending spring directly to the mid-portions of the outer surfaces of the control levers,
- each control lever's upper portion diameter being less than that of said sheet hole, so that said sheet may be retained on one of the control levers by said hole,
- said control levers being rotatably joined to one another by one end of each, by a molded hinge, and being capable of being moved to an open position and a closed position, wherein in said closed position said control levers are held together by said bending spring to form an annular closed gripping space by said bending spring, and in said open position said control levers are held apart by said bending spring, said hole being adapted to receive either of said control levers, whereby in said closed position said sheet is held by said arcuate control levers, and in said open position said sheet can be removed from or placed into said arcuate control levers.
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