Bread clip

[citation needed] A more complex bread clip design involves two articulated plastic parts mounted on a pivot with a spring between them to provide tension.

As he told it, he was flying home on an airliner in 1952 and opened a bag of peanuts, whereupon he realized he had no way to reclose it.

He rummaged through his wallet and found an expired credit card and hand-carved his first bag clip with a small pen knife.

At the same time a hurried population of consumers wanted a fast and easy way to open and effectively seal food bags.

Kwik Lok continues to be the main manufacturer of bread clips with Schutte as their European competitor.

[6] The parody website horg.com, created by John Daniel, coined the term occlupanids to describe bread clips,[A] and created a mock phylogeny of the different clip designs, as well as a formal taxonomy including "families" and binomial scientific names.