Clip for holding clothes, paper and the like

Claim 1

A CLIP COMPRISING A LENGTH OF RESILIENT WIRE OF FOLDED CONFIGURATION DEFINING PINCER ARM PORTIONS LOCATED ONE ADJACENT EACH END OF THE WIRE, A LOOP PORTION BETWEEN SAID PINCER ARM PORTIONS, SAID LOOP PORTION EXTENDING FOR ABOUT 360* AND DEFINING AN AXIS OF SYMMETRY AND INTERMEDIATE PORTIONS LOCATED ONE BETWEEN EACH PINCER ARM PORTION AND THE ADJACENT END OF THE LOOP PORTION, WHICH INTERMEDIATE PORTIONS MAINTAIN THE PINCER ARMS AT AN ANGLE OF AT THE MOST 20* WITH RESPECT TO THE AXIS OF SYMMETRY OF THE LOOP PORTION, SAID INTERMEDIATE PORTIONS HAVING, IN PROJECTION ON A PLANE AT RIGHT ANGLES TO THE AXIS OF SYMMETRY OF THE LOOP PORTION, THE CONFIGURATION OF AN ARC EXTENDING OVER FROM SUBSTANTIALLY SEMI-CIRCLE TO SUBSTANTIALLY THREE QUARTERS OF A CIRCLE AND BEING DISPOSE SYMMETRICALLY WITH RESPECT TO THE AXIS SYMMETRY OF THE LOOP, SAID CLIP BEING DEFORMABLE BETWEEN OPEN AND CLOSED POSITIONS BY EFFECTION OF RELATIVE ROTATIONAL MOVEMENT BETWEEN THE LOOP PORTION AND THE PINCER ARM PORTIONS OF FROM SUBSTANTIALLY 270* TO SUBSTANTIALLY 360* UNTIL THE INTERMEDIATE PORTIONS ENGAGE EACH OTHER, THE ARRANGEMENT BEING SUCH THAT AN OBJECT MAY BE HELD BETWEEN THE PINCER ARM PORTIONS WHEN IN THE CLOSED POSITION.