Hair curl clip with floating pivotal connection

Claim 1

A CLIP COMPRISING, IN COMBINATION, A FIRST ELONGATED MEMBER AND A SECOND ELONGATED MEMBER, EACH OF SAID MEMBERS HAVING A JAW PORTION AND A HANDLE PORTION, THE BOTTOM OF THE HANDLE PORTION OF SAID FIRST ELONGATED MEMBER FACING THE TOP OF THE HANDLE PORTION OF SAID SECOND ELONGATED MEMBER, SAID FIRST ELONGATED MEMBER BEING OPPOSITELY POSITIONED WITH RESPECT TO SAID SECOND ELONGATED MEMBER, SAID FIRST ELONGATED MEMBER INCLUDING A TRANSVERSELY EXTENDING BEND PORTION, SAID HANDLE PORTION OF SAID FIRST ELONGATED MEMBER ANGULARLY EXTENDING FROM SAID JAW PORTION THEREOF ALONG SAID BEND PORTION, SAID FIRST ELONGATED MEMBER HAVING A SLOT THROUGH A PORTION OF ITS HANDLE PORTION, SAID BEND PORTION AND A PORTION OF ITS JAW PORTION, A SEPARATE SPRING MEMBER INCLUDING A FIRST PORTION IN CONTACT WITH THE BOTTOM OF THE HANDLE PORTION OF SAID FIRST ELONGATED MEMBER, A SECOND PORTION IN CONTACT WITH THE TOP OF THE HANDLE PORTION OF SAID SECOND ELONGATED MEMBER AND A BOW-SHAPED PORTION BETWEEN AND CONNECTING SAID FIRST AND SECOND PORTIONS, SAID BOW-SHAPED PORTION EXTENDING THROUGH SAID SLOT, SAID SPRING MEMBER HOLDING SAID JAW PORTIONS NORMALLY IN CLOSED POSITION, SAID HANDLE PORTION OF SAID FIRST ELONGATED MEMBER HAVING A FIRST OPENING THERETHROUGH ON ONE SIDE OF SAID SLOT AND A SECOND OPENING THERETHROUGH ON THE OTHER SIDE OF SAID SLOT, SAID JAW PORTION OF SAID FIRST ELONGATED MEMBER HAVING A THIRD OPENING THERETHROUGH AXIALLY POSITIONED WITH RESPECT TO SAID FIRST OPENING AND A FOURTH OPENING THERETHROUGH AXIALLY POSITIONED WITH RESPECT TO SAID SECOND OPENING, SAID HANDLE PORTION OF SAID SECOND ELONGATED MEMBER INCLUDING A PAIR OF SPACED-APART UPWARDLY EXTENDING HOOK-SHAPED MEMBERS, ONE OF SAID HOOK-SHAPED MEMBERS BEING RECEIVED IN SAID FIRST AND THIRD OPENINGS AND THE OTHER OF SAID HOOK-SHAPED MEMBERS BEING RECEIVED IN SAID SECOND AND FOURTH OPENINGS, A PORTION OF THE INNER EDGE OF ONE OF SAID HOOK-SHAPED MEMBERS AND A PORTION OF THE INNER EDGE OF THE OTHER OF SAID HOOKSHAPED MEMBERS CONTACTING THE TRANSVERSELY EXTENDING BEND PORTION WHEN SAID JAW PORTIONS ARE IN CLOSED POSITION, SAID PORTION OF THE INNER EDGE OF SAID ONE HOOKSHAPED MEMBER AND SAID PORTION OF THE INNER EDGE OF SAID OTHER HOOK-SHAPED MEMBER BEING SPACED FROM THE TRANSVERSELY EXTENDING BEND PORTION WHEN SAID JAW PORTION ARE IN OPEN POSITION, SAID SECOND PORTION OF SAID SPRING MEMBER BEING PIVOTED ABOUT A PLANE OF CONTACT, SAID PLANE OF CONTACT BEING BETWEEN THE SECOND PORTION OF SAID SPRING MEMBER AND THE TOP OF SAID SECOND ELONGATED MEMBER HANDLE PORTION, UPON APPLICATION OF PRESSURE AGAINST SAID HANDLE PORTIONS TO OPEN SAID JAW PORTIONS, SAID TRANSVERSELY EXTENDING BEND PORTION AND SAID INNER EDGES OF SAID HOOK-SHAPED MEMBERS DEFINING THE HINGE PORTION OF THE CLIP, WHEREBY SAID FIRST ELONGATED MEMBER IS AT ALL TIMES SPACED APART FROM SAID SECOND ELONGATED MEMBER AT THE HANDLE PORTIONS AND ADJACENT JAW PORTIONS THEREOF.