US 7,607,203 B2
Clip ornament for a barrel, clip with an ornament and method for attaching an ornament to a clip
Hidehei Kageyama, Kawagoe (Japan); and Sachio Arai, Kawagoe (Japan)
Assigned to Kotobuki & Co., Ltd., Kawagoe-Shi (Japan)
Filed on Dec. 18, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/612,124.
Claims priority of application No. 2005-365755 (JP), filed on Dec. 20, 2005.
Prior Publication US 2007/0192999 A1, Aug. 23, 2007
Int. Cl. B43K 25/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 24—11HC  [24/11 R] 5 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A clip ornament for a barrel of a writing instrument, comprising:
an ornament main body to be inserted into an attachment hole of a clip piece, the attachment hole being an elongate hole having a semicircle at each end thereof,
wherein the ornament main body is provided with an upper portion and a lower portion, the lower portion of the ornament main body is provided with a lower surface, the ornament main body is provided with a press-protrusion at the lower surface of the ornament main body, the upper portion of the ornament main body is projectingly provided with first grip portions at only longitudinally opposite circumferential ends of the upper portion, the lower portion of the ornament main body is projectingly provided with second grip portions at longitudinally opposite circumferential ends of the lower portion and with third grip portions at traversal opposite circumferential ends of the lower portion in such a manner that the third grip portions are separated from the second grip portions, the first grip portions and the second grip portions having semicircular shapes, and the first grip portions, the second grip portions, and the third grip portions grip the clip piece.