Corner Fastened Patents (Class 24/67CF)
  • Patent number: 6018849
    Abstract: The subject invention is an improved paper clip member that comprises a back member having at least two edges that are disposed at substantially a right angle to one another, said back member having an extension member extending from a portion thereof that is structured to be the upper member that is placed in a clasping manner over the front or upper surface of the grouped papers with the back member placed against the back surface of the grouped papers, with the two perpendicular edges adapted to brace the adjoining perpendicular side edges of the grouped papers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2000
    Inventor: George R. Royer
  • Patent number: 5970584
    Abstract: Buckling plates are provided at comers or sides of a base plate. Each bucking plate selectively buckles between a fixing position, at which a corner or side of a sheet placed on the base plate is fixed, and a release position, at which the corner or side of the sheet is released. This reduces the number of parts and simplifies the structure, thus reducing cost. Further, this simplifies operation and fixes the sheet on a flat surface of the base plate in a stable manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1999
    Inventors: Buhei Akahane, Tosiki Akahane
  • Patent number: 5566566
    Abstract: The method of making a paper clip to secure a plurality of sheets of paper together which are located in a stacked relationship. The paper clip produced by the method of this invention comprises a rigid sheet material metallic or composite body which is bendable and when bent, remains in the bent position. The method includes placing the overall configuration of the paper clip on the exterior planar surface of a thin sheet of metal or composite with the configuration of the paper clip including a pair of spaced-apart, normally triangularly shaped wings. Severing the exterior edges of the wings from the sheet of metal. Partially deflecting of the wings from the sheet of metal to a canted position relative to the sheet of metal and with the further possibility of deflecting of the wings by forcing the wings to a side by side relationship with the remaining body of the paper clip. Severing the remaining exterior edge of the paper clip and removing of the paper clip from the sheet of metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 22, 1996
    Assignee: Scott L. Brotzman
    Inventor: Matthew C. Harper
  • Patent number: 5404622
    Abstract: A corner clip for clipping a plurality of sheets of documents or the like at their corner part without piercing the documents or the like, is made from a strip of bendable metallic material with a predetermined width, has an approximately trapezoidal substrate part and a pair of leg parts which are bent at approximate right angles from a pair of mutually slanted edge parts of this substrate part. In case after these leg parts are applied to outer edges of the corner part of the documents when the documents are to be bound, the leg parts are bent toward back side so that the substrate part of the corner clip presses the uppermost document from its surface side and the pair of legs press the lowermost document from its back surface side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 11, 1995
    Inventor: Hisao Sato
  • Patent number: 5390889
    Abstract: A poster clamp having a clam-shell clamp having an upper member and a lower member, the upper and lower members rotatable about a common hinge between open and closed positions, and when in the closed position a first clamp arm on the upper member overlaying a first clamp arm on the lower members, and when in the closed position a second clamp arm on the upper member, coplanar with the first clamp arm on the upper member, overlaying a second clamp arm on the lower member, the second clamp arm on the lower member coplanar with the first clamp arm on the lower member, the second clamp arms extending substantially at right angles to the first clamp arms, the first and second clamp arms having longitudinal outside edges, the hinge along the longitudinal outside edges of the first clamp arms, whereby when in the closed position the first and second arms of the upper member are in substantially parallel engagement with the first and second arms of the lower member to thereby releasably frictionally engage a sheet p
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 21, 1995
    Inventor: Anthony S. Hiscock
  • Patent number: 5272792
    Abstract: A paper clip to secure a plurality of sheets of paper which are located in juxtaposition. The paper clip includes a rigid sheet material metallic body which is bendable and when bent remains in the bent position. The body is to be bent into a pair of wings of substantially equal size that are to be located against the back side of the sheets of paper with the sheets of paper being bound between the wings and the front of the body. These wings are to be bent over toward the front clamping the sheets of paper between the wings and the front. The body includes a plurality of ridges for tightly pressing the sheets of paper facilitating securement. The body can be manufactured in any one of variety of colors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1993
    Inventor: Matthew C. Harper
  • Patent number: 5255458
    Abstract: Injection molded corners for framing pictures are designed to be attached to each corner of a picture and operate as both a hanger for a picture, as well as a means of providing a three-dimensional effect by holding the picture away from a supporting wall. The corners can be decorative so as to function totally as a frame, and a small injection molded pin is abuttable against the cardboard backing of a picture to effectively lock the corners in position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1993
    Inventor: Alan R. Piel
  • Patent number: 5212850
    Abstract: A device for holding a file of leaves, made of a single piece of resilient material, comprises a flat upper element, a flat lower element, and a hinge-forming part between the upper and lower elements. The upper and lower elements have interlocking components cooperating with each other elastically and removably. The device will grip the file at a corner only. One or both of the upper and lower elements may have on its inner face a non-slip zone facing the upper or/and the lower leaf of the file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 25, 1993
    Assignee: In The Pocket
    Inventor: Nathalie Rerolle
  • Patent number: 4590775
    Abstract: An earring which simulates an object piercing the wearer's ear lobe, having a low, wide, U-shaped rear part and spaced front parts. The base of the U-shaped part fits behind the lobe and its sides fit around the sides of the lobe and support the spaced front ornamental parts which represent the two ends of the simulated ear-piercing object. At the center of the base is a pressing part. The earring is made of a single piece of resilient material and may be flexed to fit around and grip the tip of the lobe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 27, 1986
    Inventor: Jose M. C. Rivaud