US818905A - Wire spring-clip. - Google Patents

Description

No. 818,905. PATENTED APR. 24, 1906.

G. W. MoGILL.

WIRE SPRING CLIP.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 7, 1905.

IIE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 24', 1 906.

Application filed September 7,1905. Serial No- 277,861-

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. MoGrLL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Riverdale-on-the-Hudson, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wire Spring-Clips, of which the followingis a s ecification.

his invention relates to spring-clips made of wire, having for their object the holdin together of loose sheets of pa er, prints, ant l such like material, and providbs an improvement therein whereby the resilience or spring of its clamping members when impaired by usage or other causes may be immediately restored by the user without trouble to himself or injury to the cli In the accompanying drawings, orming part of this specification, and wherein like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts, there are illustrated some of many ways in which the improvement may be carried into effect, it being understood that the underlying rinci le thereof common to each ma be em odie in other forms of the clip an still be within the scope of the invention, which fundamentally consists in a wire spring-clip having a dplurality of clamping members so dispose therein that at the pleasure of the user and without injury to the clip two of such members may alternately be set to bear against either side of a third member with the object of restoring their clamping resilience.

In the drawings all six of the figures are views in elevation of forms of the clip, each differing more or less in eneral co ation, but all having embodled therein the important features herein set forth and having other features common to all.

In the drawin s the wire composing the clip is shown fol ed in manner to provide it' three clamping members, consisting of a central body member A and two wing members B B of equal dimension, disposed one on each side of the body member and having the terminals Z Z of the wire providin them set in resilient bearing against one si e of the lower part of the body member A.

In Figure 1 the body member A is provided by folding the composing wire from each en upon a central section of it in manner to provide a T configuration in reverse, the head of the T providing the lower or transversely-set part of the body member, with the wires providing the T-shank projected centrally above it and folded laterally outward from each other into the two win members B B, having looped terminals Z set in resilient bearing against one side of the lower or transverse part of the body member A.

The construction of F igl 2 is practically the same as Fig. 1, the exception eing that the terminals of the composing wire instead of bein carried up and set within the members B as in Fig. 1, are carried up and set outside those members.

Fig. 3 differs in construction from Fi 1 to the extent of having the body member A folded in trian ular formation instead of the reverse T configuration of the latter figure, such open angular formation being more readily provided by machinery than the close T configuration.

In Fi 4 the body member A presents a diamon -like or rhombus configuration and the wing members B B that of the numeral 8.

In Fig. 5 the body member presents a configuration similar to that of Fig, 4, the win members a polygonal configuration, an their looper-terminals that of rhomboids.

In Fig. 6 the terminals 1 l of the members B B instead of having loop formation, as in the other figures, are each provided with an open angular formation and are set in the same plane, one angle within the other, and in that position bear against the same side of the member A.

The clip is operated by inserting the material being clip ed between the member A and the free en s of the members B B, where it will be held and clamped by the resilience of all the members.

When from constant usage the insertion between the clips clamping members of excessively bulky material or through being subjected to other excessive strain the resilience of these members becomes impaired, it may be readily restored b3 the user sprin in laterally the terminals 0 the members B B around the member A to its opposite side, against which they may remain in springbearing, if desired, or be sprung back to the former side with their resilience revived by the movement and which movement may be repeated indefinitely Without injury to the clip. In practicing this operation, with the wing members B B: fashioned as shown in Fig. 6, their angular terminals are pressed transversely out of lane with each other and then sprung lateral y around the edges of the member A, as in the other forms.

The up er looped portions of the wing members B B, provided by the lateral outward'fol'ding from the axis of the body member of the wires composing them are, as

shown in all the figures of the drawings, provided'; with areassufliciently large relatively to admit of this operationbeing put inpractice= Without straining the normal springset of. the members as a whole or. impairing thenormal lateral resilient converging of their lower parts. The upward folding-of the terminals M of the wing members double thepoints of bearing between them and the body- -member-a-nd: guard thelends of the wire composing; the clipiand prevent them from punc-- timing and. defacing the papers or other ma 2i Arspringrclip of the. character herein de-.

scribed having the wire roviding its clampingmembersso disposed therein that two of such members may be moved laterally around the ed esof a thirdmemberand set alternately to ear: against eitherside of such third'member.

3.. A Wire. spring-clip of the character-de-.

scribed having three clamping members so disposed therein that two .0 themarein constant'resili'ent-bearingwith the third and are. adapted to be moved a art laterally and sprung from one-surface o the third member to itsop osite, surface so as to alternately beariagainsb either of 'such surfaces, for the purposes herein described.

4. A s ring-clip of the character described having t e. wire composin it folded in manner to provide it three 0 amping members consistingof aicentral body member extending. in part crosswise. theclip, and two wing members disposedone orneach side of such bodymember and havingtheir lower terminals setin'the same. plane and adapted to bear, in. that position, against either side of thebody member, and be moved from either side of. such member to its opposite side.

5. Aspring-clip of the character described in whichthewirecomposing it is folded into three unitary clamping members consistin oia transversely-dis sed. body member an two wing members p aced one on each side of I the body member in manner to admit of their lower terminals being alternately moved apart and sprung from one surface of the body member to its opposite surface in alternately bringing the terminals jointly into resilient bear1ng against one or other of such surfaces.

6'. A spring-wire clip of the character described having the Wire composing it folded at its central part into a body member transvefisely disposed therein and having the free en such, ody member in. opposite directions andthence downward across. its lower; part in manner to provide the clip" two. spring-bearing win members disposed one. on each side 'of the ody. member and; adapted. bear against it.

'7'. Ina spring-clip of the character described, Wherein the wire composing it is folded into three unitary clam ing members consisting of atransversely- 'sposed body member and two win -members.(plaoed' one on each side of the axis of the be y member in manner to admit of their lower terminalsbeing alternately moved a art and sprung from one surface of: the bod member toits opposite surface in alternately bringing the terminals jointly into resilient bearing againstone or other of such surfaces, means. admitr ting of such manipulation of the wing mem bers without straining the normal set of their looped upper parts or impairing the lateral converging resilience of their lower terminals.

8. In a spring-clip of the character described, the upper portions of the wing members B, B, provided with areas sufficiently large, relatively, to admit of their lower extremities being moved apart laterally and sprung from one surface of the body member to its opposite surface without straining the normal s ring set of such members orimpairing t e lateral converging resilience of their lower parts.

9. A s ring-clip of the-character-described having t e wire composing it folded ina manner'to provide three clampi members consisting of a central body mem er extend- {arts of the wire carried: outward; from IIO ing in part crosswise the clip with the wires composing it folded outward in the same plane from the axis of the clip and merging into two wing members disposed one on each side of such axis, with the wires providing them converging downwardly and having their terminals folded back upwardlyand set in spring-bearing with one side of the body member. v

10. A springclip of the character de scribed having the wire composing it folded in a manner to provide three clampin -members consisting of a central body mem or extending in part crosswise the clip with the wire composing it folded outward laterally from the axis oftheclip, and in the-same plane, and merging into two dependent wing members of equal dimensions set ad'acent to each other and bearing against t e body member at a plurality of its crossings, and having the terminals of the wires carried back upwardly and in the same plane across thehbody member and in spring-bearing wit it.

Signed atRiverdale-on-the-Hudson, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 24th day of Au st, A. D. 1905.

G ORGE W. MOGILL.

Witnesses:

W. HARRY MoGILL, CHAS. E. WARREN.

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