Clip

Claim 1

A clip, comprising: a piece of flexible sheet material having a common base portion at one end; a center leg projecting from the base; and two outer legs projecting from the base in the same general direction as the center leg and flanking the center leg at the base; means connecting the outer legs together in laterally stressed condition, distally of the base, with the outer legs, as a corollary to their being connected, being maintained closer together distally of the base than the width of the center leg at the same distance from the base, whereby the outer legs and base assume a concavo-convex condition which may be snapped to a reverse concavo-convex condition in order to bring the center and outer legs, distally of the base, alternatively into resilient mutual engagement, i.e. a "closed" condition, and substantial separation, i.e. an "open" condition; said clip being provided with the improvement wherein: said base, on the face thereof from which the center leg curves toward the observer when the clip is in said open condition, being provided with two impressed bend lines which respectively proceed from where the two outer legs flank one another and join the base and extend generally longitudinally and generally parallel to one another across the base to the opposite extent of the base, the impressed bend lines being sufficiently strongly impressed as to produce visually apparent changes in the spatial disposition of the base on opposite flanks of each bend line.