Spring clip retainer

Claim 1

IN COMBINATION, AN ELONGATED, CYLINDRICAL MALE MEMBER; A FEMALE MEMBER HAVING AN ELONGATED CYLINDRICAL HOLE DIMENSIONED FOR CLOSELY FITTING AND RELEASABLY RECEIVING SAID MALE MEMBER; AND A MANUALLY RELEASABLE SPRING CLIP BETWEEN THE MALE AND THE FEMALE MEMBERS FOR RELEASABLY LOCKING AND MALE MEMBER IN SAID HOLE AND FORMED SEPARATE FROM THE DISCONNECTED FROM EACH OF SAID MEMBERS; SAID MALE MEMBER HAVING AS TRANSVERSE EXTERNAL ARCUATE GROOVE NEAR ITS LOWER END AND A LONGITUDINALLY EXTENDING UPWARDLY EXTENDING EXTERNAL ELEMENTAL ELONGATED GROOVE WHOSE LOWER END MERGES WITH THE CENTER PORTION OF THE ARCUATE GROOVE AND WHOSE UPPER END IS ABOVE THE UPPER END OF THE FEMALE MEMBER HOLE; SAID FEMALE MEMBER HOLE HAVING AN INTERNAL ARCUATE RECESS AT ITS LOWER END LOCATED COMPLEMENTARILY TO SAID ARCUATE GROOVE OF THE MALE MEMBER WHEN THE MEMBERS ARE ASSEMBLED RELATIVELY; AND A SMALL SOCKET AT THE UPPER END OF THE HOLE IN THE FEMALE MEMBER AND EXPOSED ABOVE SAID HOLE AND ALINED LONGITUDINALLY WITH THE CENTRAL PART OF SAID RECESS; SAID SPRING CLIP HAVING AN ARCUATE GRIPPING PORTION OF C-SHAPE AT ITS LOWER END LOCATED AND SHAPED TO BE RECEIVED IN THE ARCUATE GROOVE OF THE MALE MEMBER AND ENGAGE AROUND IT; SAID SPRING CLIP ALSO HAVING AN OUTWARDLY EXTENDING PROJECTION LOCATED IN THE CENTER OF THE GRIPPING PORTION AND SHAPED TO BE RECEIVED IN THE ARCUATE RECESS OF THE FEMALE MEMBER; SAID CLIP ALSO HAVING A LONGITUDINALLY AND UPWARDLY EXTENDING ELEMENTAL SHANK PORTION CONNECTED TO THE INTERIOR OF THE ARCUATE GRIPPING PORTION AND LOCATED AND SHAPED TO BE RECEIVED IN THE ELEMENTAL GROOVE OF THE MALE MEMBER; AND AN EXPOSED ACCESSIBLE HANDLE PORTION AT THE UPPER END OF SHANK PORTION OF THE MALE UPPER END OF THE FEMALE MEMBER AND RECEIVED IN THE SOCKET AT THE UPPER END OF THE HOLE IN SAID FEMALE MEMBER TO BE ACCESSIBLE FOR MOVEMENT OF THE SPRING CLIP TOWARDS THE MALE MEMBER IN THE ELEMENTAL GROOVE OF THE LATTER; SAID HANDLE PORTION EXTENDING RADIALLY AWAY FROM THE MALE MEMBER INTO SAID SOCKET; SAID MALE MEMBER, WITH THE SPRING CLIP THEREON, AND THE FEMALE MEMBER, BEING IN ASSEMBLED RELATIONSHIP, WITH THE MALE MEMBER BEING INSIDE THE FEMALE MEMBER, AND WITH THE ARCUATE RECESS AND ARCUATE GROOVE BEING DISPOSED IN OPPOSED RELATIONSHIP TO EACH OTHER; AND WITH THE CENTER OF CURVATURE OF THE ARCUATE RECESS BEING LATERALLY SPACED FROM THE CENTER OF CURVATURE OF THE ARCUATE GROOVE; AND WITH THE RADIUS OF CURVATURE OF THE GROOVE RECESS BEING PROPORTIONED SO THAT THE ENDS OF THE ARCUATE RECESS MERGE SMOOTHLY WITH THE ENDS OF THE ARCUATE GROOVE; AND WITH THE UPPER SURFACE OF THE ARCUATE RECESS OVERHANGING THE SPRING CLIP GRIPPING MEMBER PROJECTION AT THAT TIME IN THE CENTER OF SUCH RECESS; WHEREBY, AS THE MALE MEMBER AND THE SPRING CLIP GRIPPING PORTION THEREON ARE ROTATED TOGETHER IN THE FEMALE MEMBER, THE SPRING CLIP PROJECTION, WHICH AT THE START IS WITHIN THE ARCUATE RECESS CENTER IS GRADUALLY MOVED WITH A CAMMING ACTION, AROUND THE ARCUATE RECESS TOWARDS AN END THEREOF AND OUT OF SUCH ARCUATE RECESS INTO THE CLEAR ANDUNRECESSED PART OF THE FEMALE MEMBER HOLE, BECOMING THUS FREE TO BE LIFTED, WITH THE MALE MEMBER, OUT OF SUCH HOLE; THE GRIPPING PORTION BEING SPRINGY WITH AN INHERENT TENDENCY TO CONTRACT.