DE1231662B - One-piece clothes peg or the like made of resilient material - Google Patents

Description

FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY

GERMAN

PATENT OFFICE

EDITORIAL

Int. CL:

D06f

German class: 8 d- 14/02

Number: 1231662

File number: O 8770 VII a / 8 d

Filing date: May 22, 1962

Opened on: January 5, 1967

The invention relates to a one-piece clothes peg or the like made of resilient material, whose two elongated clamping legs, which are spaced parallel one above the other, are an endless stretched one Form loop with semicircular ends, the loop ends wedge-like as gripping parts for the clothesline are formed.

A known clamp of this type has a straight design. When holding a left of the Or the like, the clip would have to be inclined accordingly, if the item of laundry to be clipped or the like is on the right. The part of the loop that is below the Otherwise it would prevent the object to be clamped from hanging down smoothly.

The invention avoids these disadvantages, namely in that the two gripping parts at both ends the loop at right angles to the leash are laterally offset from one another and that both gripping parts through an inclined middle part are connected to one another, forming an S-shape.

As a result, the clamp retains the position it has assumed with the clamped item of laundry the leash. The S-shaped bend of the clip allows you to simply turn the loop around the leash either an object located on the left or right of the clamp on the leash attach. Since the end parts of the loop are perpendicular to the line for either type of use, an increased clamping effect is achieved, with the free hanging down of the clipped Item of laundry or the like. Is not affected. Since the loop is endless, it stays on the leash when she was once threaded onto her. The sides of the loop are far enough apart so that the loop can easily be moved over the leash to any desired location. Since the bracket which is formed by the loop is pivotable about the clothesline, it can also be reversed Location to be used. The clamp can grasp the laundry either from the left or from the right.

According to a preferred further embodiment of the invention, the gripping parts of the clamp are known Way formed with corrugations arranged transversely to its length.

An exemplary embodiment of the invention is described below with reference to the drawing. In this shows

F i g. 1 the clothes peg in the position of use with an item of laundry on the line,

F i g. 2 the side view of the clamp and

One-piece clothes peg or the like
resilient material

Applicant:

John Alfred Oppenheimer,

Totteridge, Hertfordshire (UK)

Representative:
Dipl.-Ing. F. Weickmann,

Dr.-Ing. A. Weickmann,

Dipl.-Ing. H. Weickmann

and Dipl.-Phys. Dr. K. Fincke, patent attorneys,
Munich 27, Möhlstr. 22nd

Named as inventor:
John Alfred Oppenheimer,
Totteridge, Hertfordshire (UK)

F i g. 3 several brackets in their positions of use.

The clip consists of an endless loop 11 made of a resilient, resilient polymer, e.g. B. Polymethyl methacrylate (trade name "Perspex"). An elongated piece is bent from this material and the ends of this piece are united. The resulting loop is shaped in such a way that it has a hairpin-shaped bend 12 in order to bring the loop 11 with its gripping parts 13, 14 over a line 20 . This loop 11 then hangs down from the line. At a distance below the line, the two gripping parts 13, 14 are bent away at 15 in a direction parallel to one another, so that they run inclined to the line and are then bent down at 16 away from the line. This creates an S-shaped bend. The portion of the loop 11, which points away from the clothesline 20 , forms a second hairpin 18 which surrounds the line 20 and connects the two legs.

Preferably, the loops are threaded onto a line 20 which is coated with plastic material. Instead of a polymer, the loops can also be made of stainless, resilient material, for example wire covered with plastic.

The loops can be used for linen as well as for laundry in a slightly smaller form on which photographs are hung to dry. The gripping parts 13 and 14 of the

609 750/68

hairpin ends of the loop are wavy and pointed. Therefore the loops are thick or put on thin lines, and they can hold thick or thin objects.

The dash-dotted line 21 in FIG. 1 it can be seen that the bracket is also reversed Can be arranged on the leash.

The clip of the invention is cheap and easy to manufacture. A plurality of loops 11 can stay on a line 20 and is always ready for use there,

Claims (2)

Patent claims: 1. One-piece clothes peg or the like. Made of resilient material, both of which with Distance parallel one above the other elongated clamping legs an endless stretched Form loop with semicircular ends, the loop ends wedge-like as gripping parts are designed for the clothesline, thereby characterized in that the two gripping parts (13, 14) at both ends (12, 18) of the loop (11) at right angles to the line (20) are laterally offset from one another and that both gripping parts (13, 14) are connected to one another by an inclined middle part, forming an S-shape are. 2. Clip according to claim 1, characterized in that the gripping parts (13, 14) in known Way are hairpin-shaped with corrugations arranged transversely to their length. Considered publications:
German utility model No. 1762 540;
Swiss patents No. 95 646, 86 018; U.S. Patent No. 2536719. 1 sheet of drawings 609 750/68 12.66 © Bundesdruckerei Berlin