Chuck key clip and method for manufacturing
CA 2049184 A1 · Owner: Somers, Robert I. · Inventors: Dietzen, William H.; Moores, Robert G. Jr.; Somers, Robert I.
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A chuck key clip 11 has a pair of spaced parallel sidewalls 17, 19 connected by a web 21. A cord receiving channel 23 and a key handle receiving channel 61 are formed by the sidewalls 17, 19 and web 21. The key channel may have an inwardly converging handle clamp 67 and an inwardly converging key shank clamp 71 to securely and detachably retain the key 13 in the clip. For comfort and ease of use, thumb depressions 107 109 may be formed in the outer surface of sidewalls 17, 19. Web 21 may contain openings 99 101 opposite to a cord clamping means 27 formed in the cord channel 23. Openings 99, 101 result from the method for molding the clip in a mold movable only in a single direction (i.e. …
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- Filed August 14, 1991. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended August 14, 2011.
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