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US 6,473,945 B1Granted
Flange clamp
AssigneeThe BOC Group, Inc.
InventorTimothy Charles Draper
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Abstract
A flexible clamp comprising a plurality of plastics links each link being a snap-fit with the next adjacent link thereby permitting a user to alter the length of the chain by the addition or subtraction of one or more links, and means for latching the free ends of the chain together.
Claims6
A flexible clamp comprising a plurality of plastic links, each one of the plurality of plastic links, comprising:
- a body portion,
- a pin extending from one side of the body portion, and
- a groove at another side of the body portion,
- wherein the groove of the body portion is sized and shaped to receive and maintain the pin from another one of the plurality of links in snap-fit releasable engagement for pivotal co-operation between the pin and the groove, thereby permitting alteration of a length of the flexible clamp by addition or subtraction of at least one of the links;
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- means for latching together free ends of the flexible clamp.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.