Patent ID: 6357796
Filing Date: 2002-03-19
Classification: B42D

Abstract:
A book clip formed of flexible elongated material that rebounds readily to its formed shape, comprisingright and left elongated legs for slipping behind the pages of a book such that the right leg is slipped behind the pages on the right and the left leg is slipped behind the pages on the left; a crosspiece which is positioned in front of said right and left legs, and which is approximately perpendicular to said right and left legs, the right and left legs being attached with said crosspiece by means of right and left approximately parallel separate arch pieces; said right and left legs each having a top end and a bottom end, the bottom end having a tip; said right and left legs being angled slightly towards said crosspiece for added pressure against the pages from the back; said right and left legs being slightly further apart at the bottom ends than at the top ends for easy insertion between pages; said right and left legs being rounded at the tip; wherein said right and left approximately parallel separate arch pieces do not meet or cross over; said right and left legs extending sufficiently beyond said front crosspiece to enable retention of said legs between pages of the book when the book clip is repositioned for the pages to be turned; whereby the book clip moves more freely in and out of the book, without the thickness resulting from the crossover of the prior art at the center of the crosspiece, and whereby the book clip fits flat inside a closed book serving as a book mark without the thickness of the crossover, and whereby the book clip has increased flexibility, not being held rigid by the crosspiece in prior art, and whereby increased flexibility results in the book clip being inserted more easily, less clumsily, into a book.