초록

A resilient clip and a kit of components including such kits for marking mating parts with pairs of color-coded clips. In use a mechanic would remove color matching pairs of clips and apply them to mating parts of components, wires, or hoses of an engine being assembled or disassembled.

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A kit of components, comprising: a plurality of one piece unitary, integral, resilient clips; said plurality of clips are provided in color coded pairs of said clips so that the color of any particular color coded pair of said clips is different than the color of all the remainder of said color code

A kit of components, comprising: a plurality of one piece unitary, integral, resilient clips; said plurality of clips are provided in color coded pairs of said clips so that the color of any particular color coded pair of said clips is different than the color of all the remainder of said color coded pairs of said clips; and a holder for selectively and releasably securing and displaying said clips having an elongated shaft with a cross-section which substantially conforms to the shape of said plurality of clips, said shaft being integral with a base member substantially the length of said shaft. A kit of components, comprising: a plurality of one piece unitary, integral, resilient clips; said plurality of clips are provided in color coded pairs of said clips so that the color of any particular color coded pair of said clips is different than the color of all the remainder of said color coded pairs of said clips; a holder means selectively and releasably securing and displaying said clips having two end pieces for slidably and removably receiving an elongated shaft to which said plurality of color coded pairs of clips are selectively and releasably secured and displayed. A kit of components, comprising: a plurality of one-piece unitary, integral, resilient clips; each said clip comprises a one-piece unitary integral main portion provided with an integral first arm at a first end thereof and an integral second arm at a second end thereof: said plurality of clips are provided in adjacent color coded pairs of said clips so that the color of any particular color coded pair of said clips is different than the color of all the remainder of said color coded pairs of said clips; and said color coded pairs of clips are used to aid in the assembly and disassembly of automobile engines such that one of said pair of color coded clips is used to identify a first part and the other of said pair of color coded clips is used to identify a second part to be mated to said first part so that said first and second parts may easily be put together.