Abstract: An article holder configured for one-handed operation includes an upper arm pivotally connected at one end to a lower arm such that the upper and lower arms having opposing inner surfaces. A cushion may be attached on an inner surface of either arm and a spring member disposed near the hinge may bias the inner surface of the lower arm toward the cushion to form a clamping surface in a rested state. A clip disposed on an outer surface of may be included to attach the holder to a desired surface. In certain embodiments, the lower arm includes a toe portion on an end opposite of the hinge which extends beyond a corresponding end of the upper arm to provide a leveraging surface to open the clamping body from the spring-biased clamping position. Additional embodiments and variants are also disclosed.

Abstract: Described herein are several embodiments of a tool for use in making templates for countertops. For example, according to one embodiment, a countertop template clip includes a cabinet wall receiving portion and a template receiving portion. The cabinet wall receiving portion can be removably engaged with a cabinet wall. The template receiving portion is coupled to the cabinet wall receiving portion and can be removably engaged with a template piece. The cabinet wall receiving portion is removably engageable with a cabinet wall and the template receiving portion is removably engageable with a template piece such that the template piece is positionable to define a predetermined overhang relative to the cabinet wall.

Abstract: A clip having a main member with a first side, a second side, a first end, and a second end. A first substantially planar member has a first end connected to a first end of a second substantially planar member. The outside of the vertex formed by the substantially planar members is connected to the first side of the main member intermediate the ends of the main member. In use, the substantially planar members contact the rear and outside edge of a frame for a canvas. A short hook is connected to the first end of the main member and, in use, presses against the front of the frame. And a long hook is attached to a second end of the main member and, in use, presses against the inside edge of the frame. A variety of attachments may be made to the second side of the main member.

Abstract: A cable management device includes a clamping mechanism (110) suitable for attachment to a surface. The clamping mechanism comprises an annular portion (111) having an outside surface (114), an inside surface (115) that forms a perimeter of a cavity (118) interior to the annular portion, a first terminus (116), and a second terminus (117) disposed opposite the first terminus. The first terminus and the second terminus define a gap (151) between them. In one embodiment, the cable management device further comprises a membrane (120, 220) attached to the clamping mechanism at the inside surface, where the membrane contains a first opening (121). In the same or another embodiment, the cable management device further comprises a slot (140) in the annular portion of the clamping mechanism. Both the membrane and the slot enhance the cable management features of the cable management device.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to multipositional accessory shelf support mechanism for placing items (e.g., hand-held items such as a computer mouse) on a shelfing surface so that such items are readily accessible while a user is operating his or her computer. Specifically, the present invention comprises a first and second bracket means connected to each other by at least one pair of linkage arms. The first bracket means is attached to a work surface, preferably a keyboard support tray. The second bracket means is capable of supporting an accessory shelf. In one alternative embodiment, the first and second bracket means are pivotally connected to each other. This linkage enables the accessory shelf positioned thereon to be vertically maneuvered upwardly or downwardly. The first bracket means may be removably attached to the work surface. This enables the support assembly to be removed from one area of the work surface and then attached to another area.

Abstract: Accessory for a liquid container (20), in particular a beverage container, such as a glass or a cup, having a main body and two clamping members (2, 3, 13) to be placed on either side of the upper edge of the liquid container and integrally formed with the main body, which in unloaded situation leave an insertion opening (23) for the edge open, the first clamping member (5, 6) intended for engagement of the inner side of the liquid container being provided with at least two first clamping surfaces spaced apart in edge circumferential direction and the second clamping member (13) intended for engagement of the outer side of the liquid container being provided with a second clamping surface situated in between them, in which the first clamping member is provided with portions extending with a directional component in edge direction, on which portions the first clamping surfaces are situated, which portions are deformable, in particular bendable, in a plane parallel to the plane in which the edge of the liquid c

Abstract: A C-ring clips to an edge of tableware. The C-ring has a rearwardly extending shaft supporting a ball. A gripping device rotates on the ball and supports a shelf. A fixture capable of displaying an ornament or name card is attached to the shelf.

Abstract: A diaphragm valve module is mounted in the lower end of the outer housing of a pop-up rotor type sprinkler for controlling the flow of water through an inlet in response to actuation of a valve actuator component. A resilient deformable semi-circular snap ring is mounted on top of the module and has a pair of opposing peripheral annular portions. Upon removal of the sprinkler riser, the snap ring can be disengaged from an annular groove formed in the interior wall of the outer housing by manually squeezing the annular portions together. This permits removal of the module for repair or replacement. The annular portions of the snap ring are formed with angled slots that receive projections that extend from the cover of the module to produce a camming movement that uniformly retracts the snap ring out of the annular groove to more readily permit removal of the module.

Abstract: A machine having a machine tool operatively connected thereto by manually manipulatable fastening members. A fastening member receiving and retaining device is adapted for placement beneath the machine tool for catching fastening members when inadvertently dropped. A device for temporary attachment to the machine or machine adjacent surface, and a flexible cable device are provided for connecting the fastening member receiving and retaining device to the for temporary attachment. The flexible cable device is adapted to be manually positioned and shaped and to retain its shape and position in a self-sustaining manner while holding the fastening member receiving and retaining device beneath the machine tool.

Abstract: A wheeled line irrigation system has a water main supported on a plurality of towers and has a truss built of truss rods attached to the water main to support a plurality of drop hoses connected to the water main over the trusses for distribution of irrigation water from an irrigation system to the crops below. A truss rod hose sling is attached to a truss rod and to a hose for holding the hose to the truss rod to guide the hose over the truss rod.

Abstract: A wheeled line irrigation system has a water main supported on a plurality of towers and has a truss built of truss rods attached to the water main to support a plurality of drop hoses connected to the water main over the trusses for distribution of irrigation water from an irrigation system to the crops below. The improvement includes a truss rod hose sling having a body having a hose supporting clamp portion for clamping onto a hose. The hose supporting clamp portion has an axial opening for holding a hose in an expandable side opening for sliding a hose into the axial opening. The truss rod hose sling body has a pair of truss rod clamps for clamping the truss rod hose sling to a truss rod. Each truss rod clamp is generally perpendicular to the axial opening in the hose supporting clamp portion and is on an opposite side of the hose supporting clamp portion expandable side opening to prevent the side opening from expanding when the truss rod clamps are clamped to a truss rod.

Abstract: A partition mounting system a system mitigates or eliminates sag, or gaps, between an installed curtain and an abutting surface such as a wall or ceiling. The system accomplishes this in a manner that avoids permanent damage to the wall or ceiling surface. A clamp is mounted between an erected pole and a nearby wall, window, or other surface. The clamp interfaces with a head that urges the curtain against the wall over the length of the head, using the pole and wall for leverage. In this manner, the effectiveness of an installation is increased, by reducing or eliminating gaps in the curtain along the wall.

Abstract: Described is a method for decorating or attaching objects, such ornamental light strings, misting systems and the like, to surfaces of three-dimensional object. The method uses specially designed clips and obviates the need to use a ladder when attaching the linear systems to hard to reach locations.

Abstract: The invention relates to methods and apparatus for securing cables. To this end, a device is described including an attachment means adapted to be attached to a mounting point, and a cable enclosure mounted on the attachment means. The enclosure adapted so that one or more cables can be removably constrained therein. In one embodiment, the cable enclosure is formed in the shape of a resilient flat washer having a substantially radial cut or split thereby allowing the washer to deform in a direction substantially perpendicular to the plane of the washer while being rigid in a direction in the plane of the washer thereby allowing cables to be inserted or removed from within the washer when the washer is twisted and the split opened, but constraining the cables within the washer when the washer is flat and the split is closed.

Abstract: A bracket is designed to hold a small collapsible packet of tissues on an automobile visor, permitting ready access to individual tissues. The bracket has a generally S-shaped profile, forming clamps for the visor and the tissue packet. The clamping portions have sufficient clamping effect to assure the bracket is held on the visor even if the visor is turned down, and to assure the tissue packet is retained even if there is only one tissue left.

Abstract: The clip includes spaced hollow members each defining a channel adapted to receive the temple piece of an eyeglass frame. It also includes first and second inclined elements to support the bridge of the eyeglasses. A rod is engaged between the members. The rod may be provided with a stand for display on a surface or may be used with brackets attached to a flat or slotted wall.

Abstract: A rod-engaging support device (1) is formed from plastics material. The body (2) of the device (1) supports a fitting e.g. rod connector, suspension hook or munsen ring, which fitting may be integral or removably securable thereto. The device (1) further incorporates rod engagement means (4, 5) wherein the rod is received by the engagement means (4, 5) in a first position and following relative rotation of the device (1) with respect to the rod, the rod is gripped by the engagement means (4, 5) in a second position.

Abstract: A bracket removably attaches to the front wall of a U-shaped headrail of a horizontal blind assembly for supporting an elongate decorative valance in covering relation to the front wall in order to conceal the headrail from view. The bracket includes a vertically extending main body having a front face and a rear face. Upper and lower prong members project outwardly from the top and bottom ends of the main body, respectively, and are structured and disposed for accommodating a range of valance heights in grasped, captivated receipt between distal ends of the prongs and the front face of the main body. An integral arm member extends downwardly from the top end of the main body, in spaced relation to the rear face for removably clipping the bracket to the front wall of the headrail at select positions, including a raised position when the headrail is “outside” mounted and a lowered position when the headrail is “inside” mounted.

Abstract: With a device for the retention of an item of cutlery at the edge of an item of tableware, which has a retaining body (1) provided with a clamping mouth (2) delimited by two clamping jaws (4, 5), for the clamping of an item of cutlery, said device being capable of being supported at the edge of an item of tableware an universally applicable construction may be achieved in that the retaining body (1) can be applied loose at the edge of an item of tableware by means of a suspension device, and that the clamping mouth (2) has several clamping sections (2a, 2b, 2c) allocated to different thicknesses of items of cutlery.

Abstract: Described is a gutter clip that is useful for attaching linear systems, such ornamental light strings, misting systems and the like, to surfaces, such as gutters. The clip comprises a body with a clip portion and a linear system attachment portion that is on a side of the body opposite that of the gutter clip portion.

Abstract: Described is a clip that is useful for attaching ornamental light strings to surfaces, such as roofs, walls, fascia and the like. The clip can be attached to a variety of different surfaces, such as gutters, roofs, and roof fascia. The clip comprises a clip portion and two different light string attachment portions, one located on each side of the clip portion.

Abstract: A clip for retaining a power or extension cords for transport and to prevent damage to the cord. The clip has two sleeves (32, 34) that are created when an upper (12) and lower (14) member are coupled together by a spring clip (18). One sleeve (34) is closed and the other sleeve (32) has an opening for insertion of a power cord. A lever (16) is formed in the upper member (12) to allow for opening of the open end of the clip for the insertion of a cord. Within the closed sleeve (34) is a retaining mechanism that aids in the retention and positioning of a power cord. Integrally molded with the open sleeve (32) may be ribs (42, 44) that increase the frictional engagement between the clip and the cord. The clip can be constructed in one or two pieces and can be used with a variety of different tools and applications.

Abstract: Docket No. WR-602A bracket for mounting a push-button piezo igniter to a gas valve on a water heater, while also providing electrical ground connection of the piezo igniter to the gas valve. In particular, the present invention provides a bracket that snugly receives the push-button piezo igniter and contacts to an external conductive end of the piezo igniter to provide grounding through a clip that engages and securely attaches to the gas valve.

Abstract: A structural component for securing tiles onto a metallic housing of a ready-made chimney, wherein the tiles have side surfaces and wherein the side surfaces have grooves and tongues complementing one another, has hoops to be fastened on the metallic housing at a given distance from one another which distance matches the size of the tiles. Brackets are provided that are insertable into the hoops. The brackets are snapped into place between two adjacent tiles.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for securing a stepladder comprising in combination a clamp comprising two opposite walls formed of a substantially rigid material, said walls being arranged and constructed such that said walls are adapted to fixedly secure an article therebetween; and a retaining ledge with two ends, one said end is continuous with one said opposite wall of said clamp and the second end being parallel and adjacent to said opposite wall of said clamp, wherein said parallel and adjacent end is positioned with relation to the continous end to form an ledge for insertion, retention and retraction of the siding of a stepladder.

Abstract: A CD disk holding device that freely suspends a disk. The holder is made up of a singular homogeneous flat plastic or plastic like flexible material of a thin and uniform cross section that is formed into a trihedrally shaped structure. A flat base provides an area for attachment to a desired surface. Projecting from opposite ends in an inwardly biased folded plane of the base are two flexible symmetrical arms. Further projecting away from base at the end of the arms are related symmetrical tapered nose sections. The nose sections are arched further inward in a slightly open clamshell arrangement. Each nose section has a leading edge, which when viewed from the front form the diagonal edge of a near parabolic cone structure. This cone structures greatest diameter is normally slightly greater than the central mounting hole of a compact disk. When a CD is installed, the central hole of the CD rides the leading edge of the nose sections until seated.

Abstract: A flexible retainer for securing a web-like material, such as a table skirt, to a flat surface or table. The retainer has a frontwardly extending upper member, a substantially U-shaped lower member having a frontwardly extending first leg, and a primary member connecting the upper member to the lower member. The structure of the retainer and the configuration of its elements help to mask its appearance when used to retain a table skirt. In addition, extending into the lower end of the primary member are one or more vertical slots, which define one or more fingers. The configuration of the slots serve to improve the flexibility of the retainer, while maintaining the primary member's surface area for disposition of fasteners.

Abstract: A wire holder 1 is provided with a wire support member 10 and a cap member 20, and a wire 5 is inserted in a wire grasping part 14 of the wire support member 10 and is held. The wire grasping part 14 has a spiral part 142 where a linear member 140 in two lines is wound in coil shape, and an acting part 16 integrally connected to the spiral part 142 is rotated thereby the spiral part 142 is reduced in the diameter and the wire 5 is grasped. The acting part 16 is engaged with the cap member 20, and the cap member 20 is constituted to be rotated about the axial center thereby the acting part 16 is rotated. Further the spiral part 142, in the diameter reduced state, engages the diameter reduction position holding part 18 and the cap member 20 thereby the grasped wire 5 can be held.

Abstract: An electroplating rack includes a cathode flight bar from which depends an insulated rack bar over an acid bath. A clamp is fixed to the rack bar, and has a bridge electrically connected to the flight bar through a conducting core inside the insulated rack bar. The clamp has a main body made of plastic, which includes a slot in which protrudes the bridge. An electrically conducting spring clip is installed in the slot, and is formed of two arms continuously biased into a spreaded, opened condition in the slot. A screw carried by the main body, when rotated in a first direction, can force the spring clip into a closed condition, in which it can hold an article to be electroplated between its two arms, and in which one of the spring clip arms is forced against the bridge member. Thus, electrical current can pass through the rack flight bar and conducting core, then through the bridge member, the spring clip and finally into the article to be electroplated.

Abstract: A siding mounted light clip is described for releasable attachment to a lap type siding member. The clip includes a clip body with a light mount part and a siding mount part. The siding mount part includes a base member with a flange configured to slide under a lap type siding member. A leg member extends from the base member to the light mount part. A resilient clamp member is mounted to the leg member and forms an expandable siding receiving recess with the flange. A lap type siding member may be releasably gripped within the expandable siding receiving recess between the flange and resilient clamp member.

Abstract: A retainer clip assembly for securing a sun visor interiorly in an automobile. The retainer clip assembly includes a movable lever attached thereto which secures the retainer clip assembly to a vehicle ceiling panel. The lever includes a release member which is accessible from the exterior of the retainer clip, so that the lever may be disengaged and the retainer clip removed. A transportation clip is disclosed for use with the retainer clip assembly. The transportation clip connects the retainer clip to a headliner module during transportation to the final point of assembly. At the final point of assembly, the retainer clip can be pushed into its installed position and the transportation clip is concealed within the retainer clip and need not be removed.

Abstract: A mounting bracket for an electric switch is constructed of a single metal piece and does not require separate fasteners for holding the electric switch on the bracket.

Abstract: A bracket (10) constructed from a single metal blank (20) is generally L-shaped and includes a first arm (16) for attachment to a member (12) requiring reinforcement and a second arm (18) for snap-on affixation to a pillar (14). The arms interconnect via a connecting portion (40). A pair of tabs (36,38) on the second arm (18) each include a cantiliver spring (50) which locks to the pillar (14) when the tabs are received within the pillar slots (64, 66,70, 72). Typically, two brackets (10) are used to secure a fender (12) to a pillar.

Abstract: An auxiliary sun shield for use on a motor vehicle's windshield visor effectively blocks out sun rays which the visor itself is not capable of blocking. The auxiliary sun shield comprises a clip member and a glare reducing polymeric sheet element rotatably mounted on the clip member. The clip member has two elongated legs joined at lower terminuses by a connecting leg. The connecting leg has two opposed side wall recesses. The glare reducing polymeric sheet element is generally rectangular-shaped with a notch in an approximately centered upper edge. The notch is shaped to have two inwardly extending opposed ears. The notch and the opposed ears are dimensioned to fit over the connecting leg of the clip member and extend into the recesses of the connecting leg.

Abstract: A rod holder is provided with a holder main body having a rectangular holding portion therein, and an opening disposed at one side of the holder main body. The opening is enlarged when a rod member is inserted into the opening, and the opening is returned to an original condition when the rod member is held inside the rod holding portion. A window is provided at a side wall of the holder main body, and a rod receiving piece is formed in the window to project inside the holding portion. When a square rod member is held in the rod holding portion, the rod receiving piece can be elastically deformed by an outward pressing force of the rod member to be located inside the side wall. When a round rod member is held by the rod holder, the rod receiving piece engages a lower surface of the round rod member to hold the same. Thus, the rod holder of the invention can be used for holding both the square rod member and the round rod member.

Abstract: A coupling bracket for interconnecting an IV stand with a patient transport device includes a base having an attachment portion for connecting the coupling bracket to the transport device. An extension arm laterally projects from the base and terminates at an IV stand receiver portion that receives and positively retains an IV pole. Redundant IV pole retaining features are provided to eliminate risk of unwanted separation from the coupling bracket. In addition, pivotally collapsing and telescopically collapsing brackets are disclosed for improved storage of the coupling bracket on a patient transport device. The coupling bracket allows simultaneous movement of an IV stand and a patient transport device.