Elastic fastening clamp for round bars or cables of various diameters

Claim 1

An elastic fastening clamp operable to secure round bars of various diameters onto a support plate, comprising two side walls joined together in U-shaped manner by a bottom plate, said side walls being provided at their free ends with a flexible holding tongue integral therewith and angled downwardly therefrom towards the center of a fastening space formed by the bottom plate and side walls, said tongues each being formed with a holding rim at the lower end thereof, each of said side walls being provided with a flexible support wall angled downwardly from the upper area of the side walls, said support walls having lower rims terminating approximately centrally between the holding rims of the tongues and the bottom plate, the adjacent holding rims of the tongues and the adjacent lower rims of the support walls being normally spaced apart from one another and defining a gap at the center of the holding space, said bottom plate having a relatively flat upper surface and provided with a groove at the center thereof parallel to the side walls, said groove being substantially less in width than the spacing between the side walls and wider than said gap and operable to laterally support a plurality of different sized round bars to be held in place in said clamp.