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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 1997
Filed:
Sep. 28, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Michael L Bowen, Arlington, TX (US);
Assignee:
Tecnol Medical Products, Inc., Fort Worth, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
24 3 / ; 24543 ;
Abstract
The invention relates to an ice pack clip for sealing an ice bag having a blade, a trough, a hinge and a latch. At the hinge end of the clip, the trough has a cam and the blade has a cam follower surface. At the latch end, the trough has projecting nubs and the blade has laterally extending stops. The cam, cam follower surface, nubs and stops cooperate to prevent longitudinal movement of the blade relative to the trough, even if the hinge should fail. Also, the nubs and stops may serve as a secondary latch to prevent unintentional opening of the latch upon bumping the latch release knob.