Document holder clip
AssigneeCurtis Manufacturing Company, Inc.
InventorThomas W. Judd
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Abstract
A document holder clip which comprises a right angle support bracket to be secured to the side of a monitor screen, an extending arm pivotably engaged with the support bracket and a document holder clip adaptable for slidable movement on the upper edge of the extending arm, which clip has two generally parallel clip arms and opposing jaw edges and includes a resilient spring finger at one end of one arm and a retainer at the one end of the other arm, the spring finger resiliently holding the jaw elements at the other end in a biased, closed position and on the application of finger pressure, the end of the spring finger moves slidably inward to open the jaws to an open position to permit the insertion of a document.
Claims9
A document holder clip adapted to hold a document adjacent a monitor screen, which comprises in combination:
- (a) a support bracket means to be secured adjacently to a monitor screen or other fixed support;
- (b) an extending arm having a one and other end and an upper edge with a front and back surface and having slightly raised flange elements extending outwardly from the front and rear surfaces and substantially the length of the extending arm and slightly below the upper edge of either side of the arm;
- (c) means to provide for the pivotable movement of the extending arm at the one end thereof so as to permit the extending arm to be pivotably moved between a use and a non-use position;
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- (d) a slidably mounted document clip means to retain a document, which holder means comprises:
- (i) a pair of generally parallel clip arm elements having a one and an other end, that the one end forming opposing jaws on either side of the extending arm;
- (ii) a resilient hinge means generally intermediate the generally parallel clip arm elements;
- (iii) a clip retaining means between the clip arm elements and below the hinge means which extend and fit over flanges of the arm to retain the clip means on the arm and to permit the slidable movement along the upper edge of the arm of the document clip in use;
- (iv) a resilient, bent spring finger at the other end of one of the clip arm elements, the spring finger inclined inwardly toward the hinge means;
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- (v) a spring finger retainer at the other end of the other arm clip element whereby the one end of the resilient spring finger is engaged in the spring finger retainer so that the opposing jaw elements are biased in closed, inward, document retaining position adjacent to the surface of the extending arm so as to retain a document between at least one jaw end and the surface of the extending arm and whereby upon the application of finger pressure on the ends of the clip arm element, one end of the spring finger moves downwardly toward the hinge means and away from the retaining stop to place the opposing jaws in an open position for the removal of the document.
The clip of claim 3 wherein the extending arm includes a solid section and is characterized by a surface on the solid portion to aid frictionally in the retention of a document thereon.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.