Clamp

Claim 1

A CLAMP COMPRISING SUPERPOSED ELONGATED TOP AND BOTTOM PLATES, EACH PLATE COMPRISING A HANDLE PORTION AND A CLAMPING PORTION INTEGRAL THEREWITH, THE HANDLE PORTION OF AT LEAST ONE OF SAID PLATES BEING ANGULARLY RELATED TO THE CLAMPING PORTION THEREOF WHEREBY TO PROVIDE ROCKING MOVEMENT OF THE SUPERPOSED PLATES RELATIVE TO ONE ANOTHER ABOUT THE LINE OF JUNCTURE OF SAID ANGULARLY RELATED PORTIONS WHEN THE HANDLE PORTIONS OF THE PLATES ARE MOVED TOGETHER AND APART, CORRELATED PIVOT MEANS INTEGRAL RESPECTIVELY WITH SAID PLATES IN THE GENERAL AREA OF SAID LINE OF JUNCTURE TO PREVENT RELATIVE LONGITUDINAL AND TRANSVERSE MOVEMENT BETWEEN SAID PLATES, A SPRING TONGUE STRUCK FROM ONE OF SAID PLATES, SAID TONGUE BEING ATTACHED TO SAID PLATE AT ONE SIDE OF SAID PIVOT MEANS AND EXTENDING LONGITUDINALLY OF SAID PLATE ACROSS SAID PIVOT MEANS, THE SAID TONGUE HAVING AN ENLARGED END PORTION WHICH EXTENDS LATERALLY OUTWARDLY FROM THE LONGITUDINAL CENTER THEREOF TO A GREATER EXTENT THAN THE ADJOINING PORTION OF THE TONGUE, THE SAID OTHER OF SAID PLATES INCLUDING CUT-OUT PORTIONS AND ABUTMENTS ADJACENT THE OPENINGS FORMED BY SAID CUT-OUT PORTIONS, SAID ABUTMENTS BEING ABOVE THE PLANE OF SAID OPENINGS, THE ENLARGED END PORTION OF SAID TONGUE BEING INSERTED INTO SAID CUT-OUT PORTIONS AND ENGAGING SAID ABUTMENTS WHEREBY TO HOLD THE PLATES IN ASSEMBLED RELATION AND TO CONSTANTLY URGE THE CLAMPING PORTIONS TOWARD THEIR CLOSED POSITION.