Holder for recipe cards and the like

Claim 1

A pendant recipe card holder comprising a bracket member adapted for mounting on the underneath surface of a shelf or similar structure, and including a flange which extends generally downwardly when the bracket member is so mounted, a generally flat support plate having a front face and a back face, one end of said support plate being attached to the flange to pivot between a pendant position and a position in which the plate is generally parallel with said underneath surface to which the bracket is mounted, said support plate having an opening therein near said one end of the plate and a tab extending from the margin of the opening generally upwardly of the margin, and a clip member comprising an elastic strip of material having a pair of openings in the wall thereof and formed into a demi-cylinder so that the ends of the strip are generally contiguous, said strip being disposed so that one end of the strip extends through the opening in the support plate and curves downwardly to engage the back face of the support plate, so that the tab extends through one of the openings in the strip, and so that the other end of the strip curves forwardly and downwardly of the support plate, and a lever element having an engagement portion and a finger portion extending from the engagement portion, said lever element being disposed so that the finger portion thereof extends through the other opening in the strip and the engagement portion is positioned between said other end of the strip and the support plate and is forced by said other end to press against the front face of the support plate.