Patent ID: 7469515

Claim:
A concrete reinforcing bar clip comprising: a pair of crossed arms oriented at an angle of φ 1 relative to one another; wherein a top body surface of a central body is formed by a juncture of said pair of crossed arms; one of said pair of crossed arms having at least one clamp mounted adjacent to an end of said arm, said at least one clamp sized to mount onto a first concrete reinforcing bar; said at least one clamp of said one of said pair of crossed arms having an opening, said clamp opening facing away from a top surface of the central body; the other of said pair of crossed arms having at least one clamp mounted adjacent to an end of said arm, said at least one clamp sized to mount onto a second concrete reinforcing bar; wherein said other of said pair of crossed arms supports said at least one clamp at a distance, allowing for at least one concrete reinforcing bar to pass adjacent therethrough; said at least one clamp of said other of said pair of crossed arms having an opening, said clamp opening facing away from the top surface of the central body; wherein a pair of crossing concrete reinforcing bars can be about simultaneously or consecutively joined by fixing said at least one clamp of said one of said pair of crossed arms and said at least one clamp of said other of said pair of crossed arms to crossing concrete reinforcing bars using a force against said top body surface of said central body; and wherein said top body surface of said central body has a convex shape with each arm of said pair of crossed arms curved to continue the convex surface to an outbound end of each arm, said clamps all ending at each outbound end of its respective arms.