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IN A CLIP NUT ASSEMBLY: A TWO-PART CLIP COMPRISING A PAIR OF JAWS OF GENERALLY FLAT PLATE FORM, NORMALLY PARALLEL TO ONE ANOTHER, ONE OF SAID JAWS HAVING A BOLT APERTURE ADJACENT ONE END OF THE ASSEMBLY, THE OTHER JAW HAVING A NUT IN SUBSTANTIALLY COAXIAL RELATION TO SAID APERTURE; ONE OF SAID JAWS HAVING, AT THE OTHER END OF THE ASSEMBLY, A TAIL PORTION OF CLOSED-LOOP FORM DEFINING AN OPENING IN THE PLANE OF THE BODY OF SAID ONE JAW, SAID TAIL PORTION INCLUDING A TRANSVERSELY ARRANGED RIGHT-DIHEDRAL ANGLE BEND EMBODYING LATERALLY SPACED WEBS, AND A BRIDGE INTEGRALLY CONNECTING SAID WEBS AND DISPOSED IN A TRANSVERSE PLANE NORMAL TO THE PLANE OF THE LAST-MENTIONED JAW, AND THE OTHER JAW HAVING AN ARM EXTENDING THROUGH SAID OPENING, DISPOSED IN A PLANE ADJACENT AND PARALLEL TO SAID BRIDGE AND BEARING AGAINST THE SIDE THEREOF WHICH FACES TOWARD SAID NUT AND BOLT APERTURE, SAID ARM BEING INTEGRALLY JOINED TO SAID OTHER JAW BY A RIGHT DIHEDRAL ANGLE BEND, SAID ARM HAVING ITS LATERAL MARGINS CONFINED IN THE LATERAL EXTREMITIES OF SAID OPENING AND ENGAGED BETWEEN SAID WEBS TO PROVIDE A FREELY SLIDABLE COUPLING CONNECTION BETWEEN SAID JAWS SUCH AS TO ACCOMMODATE BODILY SPREADING MOVEMENT BETWEEN SAID JAWS IN A DIRECTION PARALLEL TO THE AXIS OF SAID BOLT APERTURE AND NUT FOR RECEIVING BETWEEN SAID JAWS, WORK SHEETS OF VARIOUS THICKNESSES; AND A RESILIENT FINGER RETURN-BENT FROM THE END OF SAID ARM REMOTE FROM SAID JAWS TOWARD SAID ONE JAW AND YIELDINGLY ENGAGING THE LATTER TO SPRING-LOAD SAID JAWS TOWARD ONE ANOTHER FOR SELF-ALIGNING ENGAGEMENT THEREOF AGAINST OPPOSITE FACES OF A WORK SHEET TO EFFECT TEMPORARY ATTACHMENT OF THE ASSEMBLY TO SAID WORK SHEET PENDING INSERTION OF A BOLT.