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Sep 27, 2012 18:48
11 yrs ago
English term

spring fastener

English to French Art/Literary Other Office material
A first draft was nearly finished, the manuscript in two cardboard boxes with **spring fasteners** on the shelf nearest her desk. (...) The snap fastening caught and bit her skin as it closed, leaving a thin smudge of red on the page.

Je ne trouve pas grand-chose dans les dictionnaires, et je ne visualise pas du tout ce que sont ces “spring fasteners", surtout placés sur des cartons... Et Google images ne m'y aide pas, on y voit des articles très différents (et dont j'ignore le nom en français [sigh])
Un indice donné par la dernière phrase citée : visiblement, ça pince.

Toute aide sera précieuse, merci d'avance.
Proposed translations (French)
3 Attache à ressort
2 grenouillère à ressort

Discussion

JulieM (asker) Sep 27, 2012:
suppl contexte This novel, though contemporary, takes place in the 1930s in Germany
(Tony, you said the spring fastener as you see it might be out of date, mine too).
JulieM (asker) Sep 27, 2012:
Tony, you seem to know it all! ... but I must admit I can't figure what the thing looks like. And so it's not among the many images given by Google? Espérons que la nuit porte conseil
Christophe Delaunay Sep 27, 2012:
Mushrooms, mushrooms?... that reminds me I've got to eat!
Tomorrow is another day! :)
Tony M Sep 27, 2012:
@ Christophe I've been trying all evening, but so far, without success; similar spring clips are used to hold papers within folders, but it's not quite the same as the spring-wound-round-mushroom things I've seen on box files.

I guess they're just too out of date now to have made it onto the internet :-(

I think this shows a similar sort of thing, except that the windy thing here is just a piece of string, not an actual spring:

http://c.shld.net/rpx/i/s/pi/mp/8194/2405549503p?src=http://...
Christophe Delaunay Sep 27, 2012:
Tony, do you think you could find a picture of the little devil thing and post it?
Tony M Sep 27, 2012:
I think I know what these are There's a sort of round thing on the fixed part, and a longish spring on the moving part (= lid); When you close the lid, with a little bit of latitude in the degree of closure, you then wind the spring about ½ a turn round the round thing, and it holds.

I've seen these on box files, but I think they also exist(ed?) on larger things like archive boxes.
JulieM (asker) Sep 27, 2012:
:-) Certes, mais vous voyez ce que c'est, vous, des fermoirs à ressort sur des cartons ?
Alain Boulé Sep 27, 2012:
Il y a toujours la possibilité de dire fermoirs à ressort.

Proposed translations

14 hrs

Attache à ressort

Je pense que cette expression est suffisamment compréhensible et qu'elle exprime les données essentielles : c'est une attache (plus souple qu'un fermoir) donc elle permet de fermer le carton et elle est à ressort, donc on peut se blesser légèrement en l'utilisant.
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18 hrs

grenouillère à ressort


Je vois bien un carton à dossiers fermé comme ceci dans les années 30, mais qui sait si mon imagination ne m'emmène pas trop loin :
http://www.manufactum.de/kleinteilekoffer-pappe-p1405967/

--- fermés par des grenouillères à ressort....
http://www.savigny-sas.com/rubrique-19-grenouilleres-ressort...

- fermeture à grenouillère
http://www.google.de/imgres?q=fermeture&um=1&hl=de&qscrl=1&r...

- banal : fermeture à levier
http://www.accastillage-fips.fr/fermeture-a-levier--207--n.h...

- plus ímagé : fermeture grenouille
http://www.itraque.fr/a-1630811-fermeture-grenouille-cadenas...


Note from asker:
Piste très intéressante, qui pourrait coller. J'attends encore un peu d'éventuelles propositions. Merci pour tous ces liens, en tout cas
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