Bodkin
AssigneeClover Mfg. Co., Ltd.
InventorAtsuko Okuma
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Abstract
A bodkin includes first and second holding plates, an operation plate and an elongated bar member. The second holding plate overlaps with the first holding plate. The operation plate is rotatably supported by the first holding plate with a part of the second holding plate disposed between the first holding plate and the operation plate. The bar member is connected to the first holding plate so that the operation plate is operable independently of the bar member. Use of the operation plate enables the bodkin to selectively take an opened state and a closed state. In the opened state, the two holding plates are apart from each other, providing a gap into which an end of a string can be inserted. In the closed state, the two holding plates are brought closer to each other, thereby pinching the end of the string between them.
Claims10
A bodkin, comprising:
- a first holding plate including a base end portion and a first front end portion that are spaced apart from each other in a first direction;
- a second holding plate including a second front end portion and a base end portion opposite to the second front end portion, the second front end portion being arranged to overlap with the first front end portion as viewed in a second direction extending along a thickness direction of the first holding plate and perpendicular to the first direction;
- an operation plate including a base end portion rotatable relative to the first holding plate about a third direction perpendicular to both the first direction and the second direction, the operation plate being configured to switch between an opened state and a closed state, wherein in the opened state the first front end portion and the second front end portion are apart from each other and in the closed state the first front end portion and the second front end portion are in contact with each other;
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- a bar member connected directly to the base end portion of the first holding plate and elongated in the first direction, the bar member being formed separately from the operation plate,
- wherein the opened state is attained by the operation plate standing upright with respect to the first holding plate, and the closed state is attained by the operation plate overlapping with the first holding plate, thereby pressing the second holding plate toward the first holding plate, and
- the bar member includes an elastically deformable body portion elongated in the first direction, and the body portion has a cross section that is greater in size in the third direction than in the second direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.