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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7350274 | Removable hat accessory An accessory device that can be removably attached to the button of a hat. The device includes a base with an opening that extends at least partially through the base. The device can be attached to the hat by pushing the button of the hat into the opening of the dev... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7251865 | Button The present invention provides a button including a button body 10 and a fixture 40 for fixing the button body to fabric. The button body 10 includes a shell member 11 constituting a button outer shell and an accommodation member 31 | 08/07/2007 |
| 7203999 | Button protector for laundering, dry-cleaning and ironing operations A detachable, heat resistant, flexible button protector protects against button degradation during laundering, dry-cleaning or hot ironing operations. The protector has an enclosure for forming a cavity surrounding at least one button. A slit in the side of the encl... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7073876 | Exchangeable components for color customizing of appliances An appliance, such as a refrigerator, is provided with a door handle with colored caps for covering the door handle fasteners. The caps are exchangeable with other caps having different colors, as chosen by the consumer. The refrigerator also includes storage bucket... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7065841 | Magnetic fastener A magnetic fastener (10) for fastening a first flap (12) of material to a second flap (14) of material. A magnet (26) is attached to one of the flaps (12, 14) while a magnetic element (28) is attached to the other flap (1... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7008435 | Surgical stapling device and method A surgical stapling device is provided having an elongate housing and a surgical staple slidable longitudinally within the housing towards a free forward end thereof, the staple having a back and two forwardly pointing legs. The housing contains a staple-firing mech... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6953076 | Partition mount In a spring-loaded curtain mount, the mount includes a pole interface at a proximal end, a compressive mechanism, and a head at a distal end. The pole interface is adapted to receive the end of a standard length adjustable pole or a painter's pole. The compression m... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6942004 | Partition mount In a spring-loaded curtain mount, the mount includes a pole interface at a proximal end, a compressive mechanism, and a head at a distal end. The pole interface is adapted to receive the end of a standard length adjustable pole or a painter's pole. The compression m... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6857167 | Necktie restraining device A necktie restraining device is disclosed having two flexibly connected covers. The first cover is placed on the shirt button located above the necktie label on a necktie panel. The second cover and flexible connector are dropped through the opening between the neck... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6618909 | Child-proof button A child-proof button includes a base formed with a tubular portion at one end thereof, and a disc portion at another end thereof, the tubular portion being used for riveting, the disc portion having a plurality of notches, a metal body portion made of zin... | 09/16/2003 |
| 6508295 | Partition mount In a spring-loaded curtain mount, the mount includes a pole interface at a proximal end, a compressive mechanism, and a head at a distal end. The pole interface is adapted to receive the end of a standard length adjustable pole or a painter's pole. The co... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6305627 | Fastener and retainer A fishing reel including a crank handle retained to a threaded end of a crankshaft by an attachment which comprises a nut for threadedly fixing the crank handle to the crank shaft, wherein one end of the nut has a hexagonal cross section and the other end... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6266853 | Non-rotatable enclosing buckle of fabric article A not rotatable enclosing buckle of fabric article, including a female buckle body formed with a shaft hole passing through a bottom end thereof and a male buckle body including a main body and a nail post upward projecting from the main body. The nail po... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6247209 | Capped rivet A capped rivet has a cap 10 with an exposed topside 14 and an inside 18 and further has a rivet part 20 with a rivet shank 22 and a rivet flange 24. The rivet shank 22 extends away from the inside 18 of the cap 10 and the rivet flange 24 extends transvers... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6170129 | Press fastener The press fastener comprises, in addition to a press fastener ball fixed to a first carrier web, a press fastener eyelet firmly connectable to a second carrier web by a rived shaft emanating from a rivet cap and passing through a central perforation. A si... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6058573 | Fastener system for ornaments for leather type fabrics A fastener system which can be utilized with leather type fabric, such as shoes for attaching decorative pieces which consists of a flat disk shaped member which has a protruding component which interlocks with another flat disk shaped component which has... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6047449 | Capped rivet In a capped rivet comprising a cap having an exposed upper surface and a lower surface, and a rivet having a rivet shaft extending in a direction away from the lower surface of the cap, a rivet flange extending in a horizontal direction away from an axis ... | 04/11/2000 |
| 6035494 | Button A button (10) consists of a base (12) for securing to a garment or the like, and a removable cover (14). The cover defines a pair of resilient arms (22, 24) adapted for releasable engagement with a mounting profile (16) on the rear of the base (12). In a ... | 03/14/2000 |
| 6029922 | Retainer element for a securing element used to maintain a crank handle on a fishing reel A crank assembly for a fishing reel. The crank assembly has a first element that is capable of being driven in rotation to effect operation of a fishing reel, a crank handle for imparting a rotational drive force to the first element, a securing element t... | 02/29/2000 |
| 5956816 | Elastomer coating for buttons, and method therefor An elastomer coating for buttons, snaps, caps, and other metal fasteners, is provided by applying a bonding agent or primer coat to the fasteners, and then applying the elastomer material in solid sheet form to the tops or heads of the primer coated faste... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5940940 | Button attaching fastener A button attaching fastener consisting of a button cap and an attachment plug. The button cap has centrally in its rear surface a socket, and the attachment plug has on one end a flange fitted in the socket with a clench portion provided along an outer pe... | 08/24/1999 |
| 5901417 | Button protector A new button protector for protecting a button on an article of clothing from breakage and other damage, especially when washing the article of clothing. The inventive device includes a housing having an interior space adapted for receiving a button on a ... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5838534 | Electronic appliance having an easy to disassemble fastener cap In the installation and removal of a fastener cap for covering a fastener which makes a front cover constructed as a first cover and a back cover constructed as a second cover fixed to each other by a fastener such as screw, which would appear on the exte... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5745964 | Push-button closure part A push-button closure part including a contoured button, a metallic rivet part having a rivet shank projecting from the underside of the button and an approximately radially extending, round rivet flange. The closure part includes a push button eyelet for... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5655271 | Pinless clothing attachable image holder button A clothing accessory includes a molded plastic plate and a molded plastic ring. The periphery of the plate is provided with a first engagement surface and the interior of the ring is provided with a second engagement surface. The relative dimensions of th... | 08/12/1997 |
| 5644820 | Crown button of a cap A cap crown button comprises a female retaining body, a decorating cloth, a fastening element, and a male retaining body. The female retaining body has an arcuate top, a periphery and a receiving space provided centrally with a projection having an axial ... | 07/08/1997 |
| 5621951 | Device for covering and concealing buttons A plastic device for detachably covering and concealing a button employs a first horizontal plate having at least one opening therein. A second horizontal plate spaced from the first plate is secured to one end of a hollow cylinder having opposite open en... | 04/22/1997 |
| 5615463 | Sealed button This invention provides a simply constructed sealed button (1) having an elastic spring (2) defining a pair of end portions (4) with respective hook members (6, 7) formed on the opposing end portions (4). A main body housing (5) defining an internal chamb... | 04/01/1997 |
| 5606780 | Button for adjusting article size Button and slit arrangements for adjusting the size of a cloth article or the like, particularly characterized in that the joined size of the article is made variable by using one or more dismountable/remountable buttons so as to achieve the size correspo... | 03/04/1997 |
| 5557830 | Fastener A fastener comprising a retainer and a collar wherein one or more sheets of material may be secured between the retainer and collar, and wherein the fastener may be weighted or attached to a variety of objects.... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5542157 | Decorative multi-part button assemblies and use thereof Ornamental assemblies for buttons and athletic shoes are formed by snap-type action securing elements formed respectively on bases and ornamental caps so that a number of different caps can be removably attached to a single base to make a number of differ... | 08/06/1996 |
| 5526551 | Decorative multi-part assemblies having an interconnector Ornamental assemblies are formed by a snap-type action interconnector formed respectively on bases and ornamental caps so that a number of different caps can be removably attached to a base to produce a composite assembly. The assembly has a decorative ca... | 06/18/1996 |
| 5517730 | Crown button of a cap A cap crown button comprises a female retaining body, a decorating cloth, a fastening element, and a male retaining body. The female retaining body has an arcuate top, a periphery and a receiving space provided centrally with a projection having an axial ... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5513422 | Crown button of a cap A cap crown button comprises a female retaining body, a male retaining body and a covering body. The female retaining body is provided with a retaining hole having at the upper end thereof a receiving space in which a connection portion, a receiving porti... | 05/07/1996 |
| 5462170 | Autograph button cover An autograph button cover system comprising a button cover formed of a transparent elastomeric material having a circular upper surface with a cylindrical side wall extending at right angles from the upper surface and with an in-turned circular flange wit... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5414910 | Decorative multi-part ornamentations having a collar element Ornamental assemblies are formed by snap-type action securing elements formed respectively on ornamental bases and caps so that a number of different caps can be attached to a single base to fabricate a number of different assemblies. The assembly has a h... | 05/16/1995 |
| 5394719 | Ornament for buttons This invention relates to an improvement in an ornament for buttons and in particular to one which includes a circular member formed with a U-shaped bracket having an upper edge and two lugs, a base plate provided two pin portions hingedly connected with ... | 03/07/1995 |
| 5340086 | Protective barb coverings for barbed wire A protective device for covering a barb in a strand of barbed wire is disclosed. The barb has a plurality of outwardly extending points disposed around the strand with the strand extending axially outwardly from opposing sides of the barb. In a first embo... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5315739 | Decorative multi-part ornamentations and the fabrication thereof Snap-type action securing elements are formed respectively on ornamentation bases and caps so that a number of different ornamentation caps can be disposed for co-action with a single base to fabricate a number of different ornamentation assemblies. The i... | 05/31/1994 |
| 5285557 | Snap fastener and tooling therefor A snap fastener having a stud with a pear-shaped head has a grommet assembly for removable mounting on the stud with the grommet assembly comprising a metal tooth cap and an annular plastic retainer with the fabric squeezed therebetween and prongs of the ... | 02/15/1994 |
