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US 9,862,223 B2Granted
Binder clip
AssigneeJeff Klein
InventorJeff Klein
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Abstract
A binder clip includes a generally triangular clamp, a catch arm, and a hook arm. The catch arm includes a linear segment having a catch width, and the hook arm includes a hook configured for secure but releasable connection around the linear segment of a matching binder clip. The hook has a hook width less than the catch width of the linear segment.
Claims16
A binder clip, comprising:
- a generally triangular clamp, including:
- a first side between a first vertex and a first mouth end;
- a second side between a second vertex and a second mouth end;
- and
- a third side between the first vertex and the second vertex;
- a catch arm pivotably connected to the first mouth end, the catch arm including a linear segment having a catch width, the linear segment being parallel to the third side and being distal from the first mouth end;
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- a hook arm pivotably connected to the second mouth end, the hook arm including a hook configured for secure but releasable connection around a linear segment of a matching binder clip, the hook having a hook width less than the catch width of the linear segment;
- wherein the first side, the second side, and the third side cooperate to bias the first mouth end toward the second mouth end for clamping items between the first mouth end and the second mouth end, and wherein pivoting the catch arm against the first vertex and pivoting the hook arm against the second vertex separates the first mouth end from the second mouth end to admit items for clamping between the first mouth end and the second mouth end.
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A binder clip, comprising:
- a generally triangular clamp, including:
- a first side between a mouth and a first vertex;
- a second side between the mouth and a second vertex;
- and
- a third side between the first vertex and the second vertex;
- a first arm pivotably connected to a first hinge of the generally triangular clamp such that the first arm pivots about a first pivot axis of the first hinge;
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- a second arm pivotably connected to a second hinge of the generally triangular clamp such that the second arm pivots about a second pivot axis of the second hinge, the first pivot axis and the second pivot axis being substantially parallel, at least the first hinge having three troughs, each trough separated from an adjacent trough by a crest, the troughs and crests cooperatively configured such that, as the first arm pivots to approach a middle trough, an angular position of the first arm is increasingly biased toward stopping in the middle trough, and as the first arm pivots to approach a crest, the first arm is increasingly biased toward returning to the middle trough until surmounting the crest, the first arm changing bias to an adjacent trough on another side of the crest once having surmounted the crest.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.