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Linkable clip

a linkable and clip technology, applied in the field of clips, can solve the problems of not being able to be attached to anything else, sealing the balloon, and generally regarded as fiddly and difficult to manage,

Inactive Publication Date: 2004-04-22
WAINOHU WARREN VERNDELL
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0016] Preferably the moulding process is a simple one-step moul...

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Until now, persons wishing to arrange festoons of decorative balloons about a venue have had to tie them together with string, rubber bands, or the like and the process is generally regarded as fiddly and difficult to manage.
It is especially difficult to modify such an arrangement once the balloons have been tied together, yet on many occasions a person will step back and wish to modify an arrangement in progress.
They seal the balloons, but are not also capable of being attached to anything else.
There is no evidence of means for joining these clips with any other thing.

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[0036] The clip shown in oblique view in FIG. 1 is an injection-moulded shape made of a stiff though bendable (that is, tough but not brittle) plastics material. A typical (example) length for the straight section 101 of FIG. 1 is about 39 mm. A typical cross section is about 2.5 mm square, or an equivalent area in circular profile. Although the profiles shown in the prototype Examples are for items of constant thickness the moulds may be shaped from point to point so that the stiffness of the resulting clips is optimised in relation to material consumed, preferably while retaining the easily releasable attributes of the designs shown.

[0037] Suitable plastics materials are selected from the available range of injection-mouldable polymers currently including polypropylene, ABS, polycarbonate or other blends (alloys) of polymers, as will be well known to one skilled in injection moulding. Fillers and dyes may be used, even fluorescent dyes and phosphors, in order to make the clips mor...

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[0045] This earlier version of the clip is a plastic item, preferably 55 mm long, 12 mm wide and 2 mm thick. FIG. 8 is a diagram of this version 800 of the clip showing a preferred shape, based on an elongated body 805. In this version we had constructed a separate form of holding structure 803 for balloon gripping as opposed to linking (by 802) to other clips (see FIG. 11 in which 5 clips (800) are shown linked together). An entrance to the gripping section is shown at 804. This version illustrates the variety of jaws that may be provided within the basic structure of the clip in order to hold different articles.

[0046] The functional characteristics of the elongated gap are defined partly by the shape of the clip and also by the physical characteristics (deformability) of the injection moulded plastics used to make the clip. As for the earlier set, the hook shape at 802 comprises either a second site to hold a balloon, or one member of a coupling to join to another linkable clip.

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Abstract

Clips of this invention are capable of being held by other, like clips and are capable of holding items such as balloons. Hence decorative objects such as latex party balloons can be strung together in various forms by means of their clips. Preferred clips are moulded in a plastics material. Extenders (lacking the means to hold objects) are also included in the invention. Complex assemblies of party balloons can be assembled on these clips and interlinked. Hundreds of balloons can be reversibly assembled in festoons. Distended balloons are attached by their necks, twisted a few times around holding structures on the clips. The open mouths of the necks are intentionally left trapped in tension against the holding structures so that they cannot unravel. No other seals are needed.

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FIELD[0001] This invention relates to a clip for holding items, the clip capable of becoming linked to other items, including other similar clips as in a daisy-chained arrangement, and more particularly the invention relates to linkable clips for use in holding one or more decorative items which may then be assembled into structures.[0002] The invention arose out of a realisation that it is difficult to blow up latex (party) balloons and then link them together in arrays or other structures, generally as part of a decorative activity. In the absence of any aids, people have been tying off the neck of each balloon with a knot, and then to rather slowly make assemblies of very limited size and also restricted configuration; perhaps two to four balloons sharing a common knotted-together neck. Until now, persons wishing to arrange festoons of decorative balloons about a venue have had to tie them together with string, rubber bands, or the like and the process is generally regarded as fi...

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IPC IPC(8): A63H27/10
CPCA63H2027/1041A63H27/10
Inventor WAINOHU, WARREN VERNDELL
Owner WAINOHU WARREN VERNDELL
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