Claims
- 1. A clipboard, comprising:
- (a) a board having a plurality of edges;
- (b) a clip for holding workpieces to the board, the clip being detachably mountable to the board's edges; and
- (c) positioning means attached to the board, the positioning means for detachably mounting the clip at a particular position along each of the edges of the board, wherein the positioning means includes preformed grooves in the board's rear surface.
- 2. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the clip has projections which interact with the preformed grooves to hold the clip in place.
- 3. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the preformed grooves have a long portion and a side portion.
- 4. The apparatus of claim 3 wherein a locking projection is molded between the side portion and the long portion.
- 5. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein the grooves positioning means is a tortuous path.
- 6. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein positioning means are centrally located along a top edge and along a side edge of the board.
- 7. The apparatus of claim 1 further including writing utensil locking means for separately securing a writing utensil to the clipboard.
- 8. The apparatus of claim 1 further including hooking means for hanging the clip in place during storage.
- 9. A clipboard, comprising:
- (a) a board having a plurality of edges;
- (b) a clip for holding workpieces to the board, the clip being detachably mountable to the board's edges;
- (c) positioning means attached to the board, the positioning means for detachably mounting the clip at a particular position along each of the edges of the board;
- (d) a writing utensil locking means for separately securing a writing utensil to the clipboard, the writing utensil locking means including projections attached to the clip which interact with an indentation in the board to frictionally secure a writing utensil.
- 10. A clipboard, comprising:
- a board having a top surface and a bottom surface, the board defining two longitudinal edges and two lateral edges;
- a clip for holding workpieces to the board, the clip being detachably mountable at the board's edges, the clip having a top portion and a bottom portion, the top portion and the bottom portion being hingeably attached by a plurality of pivot mechanisms allowing resilient pivotable rotation of the top portion with respect to the bottom portion, the resilient rotation being biased to maintain the clip in a closed position, a top surface of the bottom portion having at least one securing projection extending upwardly; and
- positioning means attached to the board, the positioning means allowing the clip to be detachably mounted to the board at a particular position along each of the edges of the board, the positioning means including preformed grooves in the board's bottom surface for detachably accepting the projection on the top surface of the clip's bottom portion, the groove including a long portion, a side portion and a locking projection between the long portion and the side portion, the locking projection resiliently securing the clip in place when the securing projection is engaged within the side portion.
- 11. The clipboard of claim 10 wherein the pivot mechanisms include a pivot base attached to the bottom portion and a pivot attachment attached to the top portion, the pivot base and the pivot attachment being secured by a pin allowing pivoted rotation of the top portion with respect to the bottom portion, and a spring means for biasing the pivotable rotation to maintain the clip in a closed position.
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application is a continuation-in-part of copending Design Application Ser. No. 536,489 filed Jun. 12, 1990.
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