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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
WILLIAM EVANS, OF .UVALDE, TEXAS.
KEY-RING CLIP.Specification of Letters Patent.
Patented July 6,1920.
Application filed October 15, 1919. Serial No. 330,693.
To all whom it may concern:
Be it known that I, WILLIAM EVANS, a
citizen of the United States, residing at
Uvalde, in the county of Uvalde-and State
5 of Texas, have invented certain new and
useful Improvements in Key-Ring Clips;
and I do hereby declare the following to be
a full, clear, and exact description of the in-
vention, such as will enable others skilled in
10 the art to which it appertains to make and
use the same.
This invention relates to new and useful
improvements in key ring clips and has for
one of its objects the provision of a device
15 of this character for attaching a key ring to
a belt or some portion of a garment and
which will prevent the key ring from be-
coming detached when the wearer is occu-
pying a sitting position as is frequent with
20 clips of the well known type now on the
market.
Another object of this invention is the
provision of a key ring clip of the above
stated character, which shall be simple, dur-
25 able and efficient and which may be manu-
factured and sold at a comparatively low
cost.
With these and other objects in view as
will become more apparent as the descrip-
30 tion proceeds, the invention consists in cer-
tain novel features of construction, combi-
nation, and arrangement of parts as will
be hereinafter more fully described and
claimed.
35 For a complete understanding of my in-
vention, reference is to be had to the follow-
ing description and accompanying drawing,
in which
Figure 1 is a side elevation partly in sec-
40 tion of a key ring clip constructed in accord-
ance with my invention, and illustrating the
same applied to a belt.
Fig. 2 is an edge elevation of the same,
illustrating the overlapping ends of the
45 clip,
Fig. 3 is a similar view of the other edge
of the clip.
Referring in detail to the drawing, the
numeral 1 indicates as an entirety a clip con-
50 sisting of loops 2 and 3. The loop 2 is of
a smaller size than the loop 3 and is adapted
to receive or have passed therethrough a
belt 4 for attaching the clip to the wearer.
The loop 3 is considerably larger than theloop 2 and has an open portion to permit a 56
key ring 5 to be placed on the loop 3 for
supporting keys thereon.
The clip 1 is constructed from a single
length of resilient material, which mate-
rial is first bent upon itself to form the 60
loop 2 and the ends are extended laterally
of the loop 2 to form the loop 3. The end
6 of the material is tapered as illustrated at
7 and abuts a flat face 8 formed on the end
9 and which end is enlarged as illustrated at 65
10 and disposed slightly laterally of the end
6 so that a key ring can be readily inserted
between the ends 6 and 9 for placing and
removing a key ring from the loop 3. The
end 6 is disposed downwardly while the end 70
'9 is disposed upwardly when the device is
applied to the belt 4. By having the end
6 disposed downwardly a comparatively
smooth face is provided to the loop 3 so that
after the ring has been applied onto the 75
loop an upward movement of the ring
caused by a person occupying a sitting posi-
tion will not catch or pass between the ends
6 and 9. To remove the key ring from the
loop 3, a downward and lateral pull is made 80
upon the ring causing the same to pass be-
tween the ends 6 and 9 and the replacing of
the ring on the loop is accomplished in the
same manner.
While I have shown and described the 86
preferred embodiment of my invention, it
will be understood that minor changes in
construction, combination and arrangement
of parts may be made without departing
from the spirit and scope of the invention as 9o
claimed.
Having thus described my invention,
what I claim is:-
1. A key ring clip comprising a loop mem-
ber adapted to receive a belt, a second loop 95
member formed integrally with the first
loop member and having its ends overlapped
to receive a key ring.
2. A key ring clip comprising a single
length of material bent upon itself to form 100
an elongated loop adapted to receive a belt,
the ends of said material being disposed
laterally of the loop and in overlapping re-
lation to form a second loop adapted to re-
ceive a key ring. 105
3. A clip comprising a single length of
material bent upon itself to form an elon-
gated loop adapted to receive a belt, the1,345,357.
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Evans, William. Key-Ring Clip., patent, July 6, 1920; [Washington D.C.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1259388/m1/2/?rotate=90: accessed June 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.