Patent ID: 6481942
Filing Date: 2002-11-19
Classification: F16B

Abstract:
A clip comprising:a male member having a head portion, and an inserting shaft extending from the head portion, a female member having a flange with an inserting hole, a plurality of leg pieces extending from the flange and disposed in a substantially cylindrical shape, and slits dividing the leg pieces, said female member partly receiving the inserting shaft inside the leg pieces to take a temporarily fastened state and further receiving the inserting shaft to take a finally fastened state so that the leg pieces are widely opened and fastened to the inserting shaft, engaging projections formed at the inserting shaft and located between the leg pieces at least at the temporarily fastened state as a correcting device for correcting postures of the leg pieces, when extracting the male member from the finally fastened state to the temporarily fastened state said engaging projections engaging and pushing the leg pieces opened outwardly at the finally fastened state to move radially inwardly to the temporarily fastened state so that the postures of the leg pieces are urged to return to the initial temporarily fastened state.