Ring fasteners

Claim 1

A RING FASTENER COMPRISING: A BODY FORMED FROM A LENGTH OF WIRE AND INCLUDING A PAIR OF ARMS HAVING NORMALLY CONVERGENT ARM PORTIONS AND A RESILIENTLY FLEXIBLE BIGHT PORTION INTEGRALLY JOINING THE CONVERGENT ENDS OF SAID ARMS, SAID HOOK FORMATIONS BEING NORMALLY SPACED TO DEFINE AWAY FROM SAID BIGHT PORTION TO FORM INWARDLY DIRECTED SHOULDERS ON THE ARMS AND OUTWARDLY TURNED RESPECTIVELY, SAID ARMS BEING DISPOSED APPROXIMATELY IN A COMMON PLANE CONTAINING SAID BIGHT PORTION, THE OTHER END PORTIONS OF SAID ARMS EXTENDING INWARDLY TOWARD ONE ANOTHER AT APPROXIMATELY RIGHT ANGLES RELATIVE TO THE RESPECTIVE CONVERGENT ARM PORTIONS AND THEN LATERALLY OF THE RESPECTIVE INWARDLY EXTENDING PORTIONS AT AN ACUTE ANGLE RELATIVE THERETO AND HOOKED FORMATIONS ON THE INNER ENDS OF AND DISPOSED A GAP THEREBETWEEN, AND SAID SHOULDERS BEING ANGULARLY OFFSET TO OPPOSITE SIDES OF SAID PLANE AND SAID HOOK FORMATIONS EXTENDING TOWARD AND ACROSS SAID PLANE AT AN ACUTE ANGLE RELATIVE TO THE PLANE, WHEREBY WHEN SAID ARMS ARE SPRUNG TOWARD ONE ANOTHER, SAID HOOK FORMATIONS ENGAGE AND DEFLECT THE INNER ENDS OF SAID SHOULDERS LATERALLY AWAY FROM ONE ANOTHER TO PERMIT THE INNER ENDS OF THE SHOULDERS TO BE OVERLAPPED, AND WHEN SAID ARMS ARE RELEASED, SAID HOOK FORMATIONS INTERLOCK TO RETAIN THE ARMS AGAINST SEPARATION.