Shell box holding clip

Claim 1

A shell box holding clip adapted to attach a standard box of shotgun shells to a shooter's belt or clothes and support the shells in a readily accessible position, wherein said clip comprises a planar outer portion adapted to extend full height along the wall of the box, an adjacent generally planar inner portion, joining means for joining adjacent ends of said inner and outer portions with said portions in face-to-face relationship and for resiliently biasing said inner and outer portions toward each other, a ledge portion at the end of the outer portion opposite its end joined to the inner portion which ledge portion projects from the side of the outer portion at which the inner portion is located and is adapted to engage the bottom surface of the box of shells, and means attached to said outer portion on its side opposite said ledge portion adapted for engagement with a shooter's belt or clothes; said inner portion extends the majority of the distance from said adjacent ends to said ledge portion; said joining means affords resilient separation and sliding of said inner and outer portions along opposite sides of one wall of the box with the ledge portion moved along its outer surface until the ledge portion moves along and is held adjacent the bottom surface of the box by the inner portion and the biasing of said joining means; and said inner portion has a part with a width generally the same as that of a said box located within a distance from said ledge portion equal to the height dimension of a said box to restrict movement of a said box with which the clip is engaged along said ledge portion transverse of said inner portion.