Patent ID: 7472460

Claim:
A clamping apparatus comprising a base body and two clamping straps, the clamping straps being arranged opposite one another on one side of the base body, the clamping straps being made flexible at least sectionally, the clamping straps extending convexly with respect to one another in a non-clamping state of the clamping apparatus, the clamping straps being formed by a plurality of respectively planar strap sections which are oriented, at least in the non-clamping state of the clamping apparatus, substantially at right angles to a surface of the base body, and the clamping straps capable of being brought into engagement to each other by being pressed together in order thereby to fasten an object located between the clamping straps and the base body to the clamping apparatus by means of a clamping fit and thereby to define a pressed-together state of the clamping straps.