Mounting clamps

Claim 1

A MOUNTING CLAMP SECURABLE TO FLANGES OR OTHER MOUNTING MEMBERS OF VARYING THICKNESSES AND FOR MOUNTING AND SECURING ELEMENTS THEREFROM COMPRISING A SHEET METAL BODY HAVING HARDENED AND RESILIENT CHARACTERISTICS BENT UPON ITSELF TO PROVIDE A BACK AND A PAIR OF COMPLEMENTARY ARMS PROJECTING THEREFROM IN SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL SPACED APART RELATION TO ONE ANOTHER AND TERMINATING IN FREE ENDS, SAID ARMS FORMING THEREBETWEEN A CHANNEL FOR RECEIVING SAID MOUNTING MEMBER WHEN SAID ARMS ARE CAUSED TO STRADDLE THE LATTER, SAID ARMS EACH HAVING A PAIR OF TONGUES STRUCK THEREFROM ADJACENT THEIR SIDE MARGINS, SAID TONGUES TERMINATING FREE ENDS PROJECTING IN A DIRECTION OPPOSITE TO THE FREE TERMINAL END OF SAID ARMS, EACH TONGUE BEING BENT SUBSTANTIALLY TO MEET THE FREE END OF ITS COMPLEMENTARY TONGUE OF THE OTHER ARM SUBSTANTIALLY MIDWAY BETWEEN SAID SPACED ARMS, THE FREE ENDS OF SAID TONGUES BEING ADAPTED TO GRIP SAID MOUNTING MEMBERS UNDER SUBSTANTIAL PRESSURE AND SECURELY RETAIN SAID CLAMP THEREON WHEN SAID ARMS ARE CAUSED TO STRADDLE SAID MOUNTING MEMBER, AND MEANS ON SAID CLAMP FOR RECEIVING AND SECURING ELEMENTS TO BE SUPPORTED FROM SAID MOUNTING MEMBER, ONE OF SAID ARMS HAVING A BAND STRUCK THEREFROM TO FORM A SOCKET BEYOND ITS OUTER PLANE FOR RECEIVING AND SECURING A SHANK OF AN ELEMENT TO BE SUPPORTED FROM SAID MOUNTING MEMBER AND TO LOCATE SAID MOUNTING MEMBER PROJECTING FROM SAID CLAMP NORMAL TO SAID BACK, SAID SOCKET CARRYING ARM BEING WEAKENED YIELDABLY ADJACENT TO SAID SOCKET AND SUBSTANTIALLY IN ALIGNMENT WITH THE AXIS OF SAID SOCKET TO ADAPT THE LATTER FOR THE RECEPTION AND SECUREMENT OF SHANKS OF DIFFERENT THICKNESSES.