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US 4,883,397 AGranted
U-shaped fastening clip device with resilient tongue member
AssigneeRapid S.A.
InventorDominique Dubost
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Abstract
A fastening clip device which includes a resiliently deformable U-shaped clip having two legs connected by a base. An arc-shaped tongue originating from one of the legs has a free end which can exit through or co-operate with the edge of an opening. By virtue of this construction, the clip is maintained open before clipping and allowed to close after clipping.
Claims6
A resiliently deformable U-shaped fastening clip adapted to be clipped onto the edge of an article, the clip comprising:
- two resilient legs;
- a portion connecting the two resilient legs to one another;
- a resilient tongue, the tongue member comprising a first end integrally connected to a first one of the two legs and a second end which is free, the tongue extending between the two legs for maintaining the two legs in a spaced apart position before the clip is clipped onto the article and for allowing the two legs to remain in a closed position after being clipped onto the article;
- a tongue member receiving portion formed in the second one of the two legs;
- the free end of the tongue member contacting the second leg to maintain the two legs in a spaced apart position before the clip is clipped onto the article and the free end being movable to a position in which the tongue is received in the tongue member receiving portion of the second leg so as to allow the two legs to remain in a closed position after being clipped onto the article.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.