Abstract: The present disclosure describes clips for lanyards, such as hard hat lanyards. The clips include opposing teeth that move to a closed/clamped position to secure a lanyard to a user, such as to the clothes of a user. The clip includes a body, a lever and a grip. Opposing teeth are located on the grip and body. The clip includes multiple pivoting connections between the body, lever and grip. The teeth on the grip may lie along an arcuate path and/or may have a tooth depth that facilitates engagement with material such as clothing.

Abstract: A garment extender securable to a slide fastener of a garment. The garment extender includes an attachment at least partially covered by a foldable material.

Abstract: Gradient elution isotachophoretic apparatus, and systems for performing gradient elution isotachophoresis to separate, purify, concentrate, quantify, and/or extract charged analytes from a sample. The isotachophoretic apparatus include an electrophoretic assembly, a sampling assembly connected to the electrophoretic assembly, and/or a support structure connected to the electrophoretic assembly and/or to the sampling assembly. The system includes an isotachophoretic apparatus, and a controller communicatively coupled to the isotachophoretic apparatus. The controller includes a storage medium and a processor for executing computer readable and executable instructions.

Abstract: The invention relates to a unit for marking and/or sampling animal tissue, including a male portion (12) for marking and/or sampling tissue, and a female portion (13) for marking and/or receiving said tissue. According to the invention, such a unit includes an intermediate element (14) for connecting said male and female portions together, said intermediate connection element (14) having a first portion (141) for rigidly connecting to said male portion and a second portion (192) for rigidly connecting to said female portion, enabling said male and female portions to be supported along a single marking and/or sampling axis (AA1) before marking and/or sampling said animal tissue, wherein the intermediate connection element is releasable.

Abstract: A trailer coupler may be provided with an opening and socket for a hitch ball, and a clamping bar in an internal channel for locking the coupler and hitch together. The internal channel may extend horizontally and be positioned above the opening and below the socket. The channel may include a laterally-facing aperture adjacent the second end, out of which one end of the clamping bar may extend. That end of the clamping bar may include a bracket with an open channel to fit over a flange on the coupler body. The coupler may be assembled by inserting a first end of the clamping bar through the laterally-facing aperture, and moving the first end of the clamping bar into the coupler body channel while fitting the bracket over the flange at the open channel of the clamping bar.

Abstract: An attachment clamp for a utility vehicle cargo box with a cylindrical bar along a top surface of the sidewall. The attachment clamp includes an inner plate positioned inside the sidewall, and an outer plate hinged to the inner plate and positioned outside the sidewall. Each of the inner plate and outer plate including a bar gripping element to grip the bar along a top surface of the sidewall. A handle is connected to the plates and pivotable to move the inner and outer plates together to a clamped position around the bar or apart to an unclamped position. The handle may include a lobe that cams the plates together and enters a recess in the outer plate in the clamped position, and a spring urging the inner and outer plates apart toward the unclamped position.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pacifier clip, which comprises a base sheet, a mobile clipping member, a pulling member and a tying tool. When the pulling member is pulled, in the rotating motion, an angled flange of the pulling member utilizes an eccentric action to optionally allow an angled part or an inclined cutting plane of the angled flange to be abutted against or adjacent to an oblique support arm of the mobile clipping member, so a passive sheet of the mobile clipping member is downwardly moved or upwardly raised, and tooth rows of the passive sheet and tooth lines of the base sheet are engaged for forming a clipping status or forming a gap in between for forming a releasing status.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a pacifier clip, consists of a base board, a pulling sheet, a mobile clipping sheet and a connection tool. When the pulling sheet is pulled, through the leverage effect the swivel rod optionally abuts against the bottoms of the support arms or swivels the passive sheet while the swivel rod is rotated, so the mobile end of the mobile clipping sheet generates an upward or downward movement, and the teeth lines of the mobile end and the teeth rows of the base board are engaged or forms a slit. When the mobile clipping sheet of the pacifier clip is clipped on a thicker object, through the leverage effect, the pair of support arms of the mobile clipping sheet applies a clockwise force to the swivel rod disposed below the support arms, so the abutting force between the two components is enhanced and the clipping effect is also increased.

Abstract: A safe pacifier clip including a base sheet, a pulling member, a latching member, a clamping member and a tying tool. A connecting sheet is longitudinally connected between two protruding sheet columns and the height of the connecting sheet is lower than that of the sheet columns, a first flange is installed on the top end of the connecting sheet; a second flange provided on the top end of the latching member is installed in the connecting sheet and is provided adjacent to the inner surface of the first flange; an opening at the bottom end of the cap-shaped clamping member is provided to the first and the second flanges that are in a stacking status, and arc-shaped clamping sheets provided at the front and the rear ends of the clamping member clamp the two flanges.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a safe pacifier clip, mainly composed by a base sheet, a pulling member, a latching member and a tying tool.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a card attachment for holding cards. The jaws of the card attachment can be locking in a closed position to ensure a secure grip on a card. Plastic gripping pads are included to increase the friction between the card and the jaws. Side walls are included to limit the distance a card may be inserted into the card attachment. Limiting the insertion of a card in this manner allows a card to be held without covering large amounts of the card. The ratio of an insertion length to the length of the side wall is selected to allow a card to be held securely without covering excessive amounts of the card. Thus a card can be held without covering pictures, words, or indicia on the card.

Abstract: An artificial nail or decorative cover is used to cover a clip set. The clip set combines the nail cover or decorative cover with a plastic clip. The nail cover is a cover body with an outer surface curved like a human nail and has a wall running sideways at an inner surface of the cover. A fitting ditch between the inner surface of the cover and the thin plate wall is provided on the thin plate wall. This artificial nail cover or decorative cover can be also attached with the plastic clip to cover the clip set.

Abstract: An artificial nail or decorative cover is used to cover a clip set. The clip set combines the nail cover or decorative cover with a plastic clip. The nail cover is a cover body with an outer surface curved like a human nail and has a wall running sideways at an inner surface of the cover. A fitting ditch between the inner surface of the cover and the thin plate wall is provided on the thin plate wall. This artificial nail cover or decorative cover can be also attached with the plastic clip to cover the clip set.

Abstract: The present invention is to provide a clipping device made of plastic and which can surely grasp any good regardless a thickness thereof and which comprises a first clamping member 10, a second clamping member 11 rotatably supported at a part of the first clamping member 10, an elastically resilient member 13 integrally formed on a part of the first clamping member 10 and giving the second clamping member 11 a bias force to cause the second clamping member 11 to be moved to a direction whereby the second clamping member 11 to be opened, a coupling piece member 14 integrally formed on a part of the second clamping member 11, and an operation member 15 rotatably supported on a part of the first clamping member 10, and in that by coupling the coupling piece member with the operation member, the first and the second clamping members are fixed to each other.

Abstract: A compact plastic clip has a recessed auxiliary plate (23) in an upper clipping member (21) which is inserted into a fitting window (5) in a lower clipping member (1). A horizontal bar portion (27) is placed on a support shelf (6), and an axis receiver (46) of an operation member (41) is fitted into an axis support (8) formed in a side wall (4) of the lower clipping member (1) and when it is forcibly pressed downward, both the ends of the lower and upper members (1,21) are pinched together by the elastic power of a plastic material for a closed position, while when the rear area of the operation member (41) is moved upward, a contacting surface (28a) of a projection (28) is pressed forcibly toward the rear at a bottom end (47a) of a first actuation cam (47), so that this action causes an open position between the lower and upper clipping members thereof by the force of a fulcrum function of the horizontal bar portion (27).

Abstract: A compact and smart plastic clip has a recessed auxiliary plate (12) prepared in an upper clipping member (10) which is inserted into a square-like window (5) prepared in a lower clipping member (1). The arcuate bottom (14) is placed on a support shelf, pivot pin receiver holes (25) of an operation member (20) receive pivot pins (4) formed in a pair of side walls (3) for the lower clipping member (1) and is forcibly pressed downward, both top ends of the lower and upper clipping members (1,10) are pinched together in a closed position by elastic power of plastic material. When a rear area of the operation member (20) is moved up the rear wall (15) forcibly presses it onto a tongue-like actuation cam (24). This action causes opening between the lower and upper clipping members by the power of a fulcrum function of the arcuate bottom (14) of the upper clipping member (10).

Abstract: A pinch device for detecting a biomedical signal which pinches a measuring site of a living body in order to detect a biomedical signal, includes a pair of body members which are opposed to each other, said body members being rotatably coupled to each other via a shaft portion, a movable member mounted to a tip end of one of said paired body members so as to be rotatable, and said movable member having a contact face opposed to another contact face which is formed at a tip end of another one of said paired body members, and a spring member urging said contact face of said movable member and said other contact face of said body member which is opposed to said movable member, in an approaching direction.

Abstract: A wearable multi-purpose clamp includes a substantially planar base hingedly connected to a movable jaw and carries a spring clip, an L-shaped lever and a ring support. The base, movable jaw and L-shaped lever together bear a loose resemblance to a clamp for use with suspenders (e.g., for attachment to the waist band of the pants). The base includes a base jaw, a base central aperture and has first and second opposing perpendicular journal tabs, each with a coaxial journal hole therethrough. The base also preferably includes first and second elongate raised salient features which are disposed substantially parallel to the base sidewalls and to one another and are spaced apart by a selected spacing defining a groove or trough therebetween.

Abstract: A stand for supporting a cut tree for display includes an inner bowl with an outer surface in the form of a segment of a sphere. The inner bowl includes a tree-trunk engaging device for holding the tree trunk in a roughly vertical position in the inner bowl. The inner bowl is supported in a rotatable and tiltable manner within an outer bowl-like support member. The inner bowl can be clamped to the outer bowl-like member by clamps spaced about the periphery of the inner bowl. Each clamp includes a bearing member hinged to the inner bowl, which bears against the exterior of the outer bowl-like member. Each bearing member is forced against the outer bowl-like member by an over-center clamp. The tree trunk is held against a vertical support by a strap-and-buckle arrangement including a cam which simultaneously pinches the strap at two different locations in the clamped position of the cam, for providing continuous adjustment of the strap length.

Abstract: A plastic clip for use clothes such as a sudpender clip, kimono, or clohespin, has an all plastic three-part design incorporating an over center clipping action dependent upon the resiliency of plastic materials, and incorporates no metallic spring. An upper clipping member has a spindle plate established between side walls, and a pair of recess bearings on inner faces of the side walls. A lower clipping member has a ditch like bearing which engages the spindle plate of the upper clipping member, a projection which is narrower than protuberances formed on the sides of the projection, and an elastic tongue prepared on a central portion just under the projection which extends upward. The third portion of the clip is an operation stick having a box with outer walls which is established to be inserted between upper clipping member side walls and the lower clipping member projection.

Abstract: A device for holding up trousers (1), skirts, short or similar by attaching this item of clothing to a second item of clothing such as a shirt (2), blouse, top or similar includes a rigid base piece (3) less than fifteen centimeters in length and having a clip (4) at one end, one leg of said clip being secured to or integral with the base piece (3). The rigid base piece (3) is provided with an attachment device (5) at its end opposite the clip (4), the mobile leg (6) of said clip (4) being oriented, when the clip (4) is closed, towards the above-mentioned end fitted with the attachment device (5) in such a way that, when the clip (4) is attached to the edge (12) of the first item of clothing (1), the attachment device (5) at the opposite end can be positioned inside the first item of clothing (1), the attachment device (5) being designed for attachment to the second item of clothing (2) lying inside the first item.

Abstract: A clip mount air freshener assembly has an air freshening element, and a holder providing a channel which slidably seats the air freshening element, and a spring mounting clip for mounting the air freshener assembly on the grill of a ventilator so that a stream of air issuing therefrom will flow over the exposed surface of the air freshening element. In the preferred embodiment, the holder and the clip are separate members, with each of the members providing pivot surfaces. A connector between the holder and the clip provides pivoting elements, pivotable on the pivot surfaces to provide pivotal motion of the holder in two orthogonal axes of rotation with respect to the spring mounting clip.

Abstract: The plastic clip comprises a lower clipping member having bridging plate connected integrally to one end of a substrate so as to separate from the substrate and a support shelf formed between a pair of side walls for supporting the bridging plate, and an upper clipping member having a U-shaped auxiliary portion integrally connected with one end of another substrate and a hinge portion formed at a free end of an outer leg of the U-shaped portion. The clip also comprises an operation member having an actuation cam plate inserted between both legs of the auxiliary portion so that ends of the lower clipping member and the upper clipping member are opened and closed with each other when the upper clipping member is assembled into the lower clipping member by inserting the auxiliary portion of the upper clipping member into the gap situated below the bridging plate of the lower clipping member, and fitting the hinge portion of the upper clipping member to the support shelf of the lower clipping member.

Abstract: A clamp for gripping an elongate member comprises a mounting block having locating structures defining a desired position for the elongate member. Primary and secondary clamping yokes are each movable relative to the mounting block between a closed position, in which the clamping yoke engages an elongate member in the desired position, and an open position. A latch retains the primary clamping yoke in the closed position, and a force-transfer arm is effective between the primary clamping yoke and the secondary clamping yoke for retaining the secondary clamping yoke in its closed position when the primary clamping yoke is in its closed position.

Abstract: A clamp used in securing a tarpaulin over a truck which has upper, open entranceway closed off by clamping lever that is biassed for urging the clamping portion into its clamping state where the clamping portion is positioned in close juxtaposition to the upper open entranceway. Each side wall has an extended slot, each slot having a open end opening into the upper entranceway. Means accessible exteriorly of the main housing for causing rotation of the clamping lever into its unclamping position is also provided, whereby a skirt portion of a tarpaulin or the like, may be inserted into the entranceway and into the first open ends of the slots and clamped by the clamping portion of the clamping lever. The rear wall has a downwardly-extending portion and a hole formed in it for receiving a cord therethrough, whereby the clamp may be secured to the frame of a truck and the like.

Abstract: A rotary cam member (24) has a peripheral surface disposed about an axis. The peripheral surface includes first, second, and third portions that are, respectively, first, second, and third radial distances (R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3) from the axis. R.sub.1 is greater than R.sub.2 and less than R.sub.3. The third portion is positioned circumferentially between the first and second portions. Cam member (24) has an open position in which the second portion contacts the clamp (2, 4) with which lever (22) is being used and a closed position in which the first portion contacts clamp (2, 4). A handle (26) projects from cam member (24) for pivoting cam member (24) back and forth between its open and closed positions. A barrel nut (28) is received in a cylindrical axial hole in cam member (24) and engages pull member (8, 10) that closes clamp (2, 4).

Abstract: A latching device used to fasten a cable or a similar item to another surface is equipped with a spring-loaded, adjustable locking section. By using one motion, the item can be inserted and secured. As the connector is inserted in the receptacle, the locking section automatically rotates into place thereby retaining the receptacle. The connector can be released by unlocking a lever.

Abstract: A rotary cam member (24) has a peripheral surface disposed about an axis. The peripheral surface includes first, second, and third portions that are, respectively, first, second, and third radial distances (R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3) from the axis. R.sub.1 is greater than R.sub.2 and less than R.sub.3. The third portion is positioned circumferentially between the first and second portions. Cam member (24) has an open position in which the second portion contacts the clamp (2, 4) with which lever (22) is being used and a closed position in which the first portion contacts clamp (2, 4). A handle (26) projects from cam member (24) for pivoting cam member (24) back and forth between its open and closed positions. A barrel nut (28) is received in a cylindrical axial hole in cam member (24) and engages pull member (8, 10) that closes clamp (2, 4).

Abstract: A novel suspender fastener is disclosed. The suspender fastener comprises a first lever, a second lever, and a ratchet. The first and second levers are pivotally connected in a manner such that a fulcrum is formed therebetween. A first pair of mutually proximate end portions of the levers are longitudinally spaced from the fulcrum, and form a pair of jaws for engaging a garment therebetween. The ratchet preferably includes a loop for securing a suspender thereto. The ratchet is variably engageable with the first and second levers in a manner such that co-action between the ratchet and the levers causes the jaws to progressively tighten.

Abstract: The present invention provides a clamp which can be used to secure an accessory member to an abductor bar of an orthopedic-surgical table. The clamp includes a clamp block pivotally mounted on the clamp and oriented with respect to the clamp to clamp an object therebetween. A lever having a cam surface is mounted on the clamp so that the cam surface coacts with the internal mechanism of the clamp to orient the clamp block in an unclamped, intermediate and clamped position. When the clamp is in the intermediate position, the clamp loosely engages the clamped object so that relative motion of the clamp and clamped object can occur. Because the clamp can be stabilized on the clamped object by orienting it in the intermediate position the operator does not need to use a second hand to prevent the clamp from falling off the clamped object while the first hand positions and tightens the clamp. Thus, the clamp can be secured to the clamped object in a one handed operation.