Locking pin assembly having a spring clip

Claim 1

A LOCKING PIN ASSEMBLY COMPRISING AN ELONGATE PIN HAVING AN ENLARGED HEAD AT ONE END AND HAVING A TRANSVERSE BORE AT ITS OPPOSITE END, AN ELONGATED FLEXIBLE MEMBER HAVING ONE END SECURED TO SAID HEAD, A SPRING CLIP COMPRISING A COIL AND TWO DEPENDENT LEGS, SAID COIL COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF TURNS, ONE END OF THE COIL EXTENDING IN A CLOCKWISE DIRECTION AND MERGING INTO A STRAIGHT LEG WHICH EXTENDS THROUGHOUT ITS LENGTH TANGENTIALLY THEREFROM, THE OTHER END OF SAID COIL EXTENDING IN A COUNTERCLOCKWISE DIRECTION AND MERGING INTO A CURVED LEG WHICH IN THAT PORTION THEREOF ADJACENT THE COIL EXTENDS IN A TANGENTIAL DIRECTION FROM A POINT SPACED CIRCUMFERENTIALLY FROM THE POINT FROM WHICH SAID STRAIGHT LEG EXTENDS FROM THE COIL, SAID PORTION OF THE CURVED LEG EXTENDING ACROSS SAID LEG AT A POINT SPACED FROM THE COIL TOWARD THE FREE END OF SAID STRAIGHT LEG AND MERGING INTO A PORTION COMPRISING TWO SUBSTANTIALLY 90 DEGREE ANGLE TURNS WHICH TERMINATE IN SAID CURVED LEG EXTENDING PARALLEL TO ITS INITIAL TANGENTIAL DIRECTION IN A PLANE CONTAINING THE SAID STRAIGHT LEG, SAID CURVED LEG NEXT COMPRISING A GENERALLY SEMI-CIRCULAR PORTION WHICH LIES IN THE SAID PLANE AND WHICH PORTION ENDS IN CONTACT WITH THE STRAIGHT LEG, SAID CURVED LEG TERMINATING IN A LOOP WHICH FORMS A V-SHAPED NOTCH WITH SAID STRAIGHT LEG AND TURNS BACK ON AND ENDS IN CONTACT WITH THE SEMI-CIRCULAR PORTION, THE OTHER END OF SAID FLEXIBLE MEMBER BEING CONNECTED TO THE LOOP OF SAID SPRING CLIP.