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Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7340807 | Pouch and resealable closure mechanism therefor including a plurality of interlocking closure elements A resealable closure mechanism includes first and second closure strips. The first closure strip includes a plurality of discontinuous closure elements and the second closure strip includes a plurality of discontinuous closure elements. One or more of the discontinu... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7241046 | Watertight closure for a reclosable package A watertight closure for a reclosable package has first and second mutually interlocking profiles. Together, the profiles have two sets of interlocking members, one on either side of a central portion. There, at least one profile has a collapsible member in its cent... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7204704 | Wire harness including hook and loop shaped attaching members and a method of attaching a wire harness using the same A wire harness includes an insulating member that contains a conductor therein, the conductor extending along one direction, and the insulating member having a front face and a back face that is opposed to the front face and a plurality of hook-shaped members and a ... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7172008 | Hook fasteners and methods of making the same A method of making a touch fastener includes coextruding, side-by-side, a plurality of lanes of polymeric material to form a sheet-form base. The sheet-sheet form base includes a lane of a first polymeric material disposed between two lanes of a second polymeric mat... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7036192 | Separable end stop for slide fasteners Separable end stop comprises a retaining member and an insert member both made of synthetic resin, mounted on the lower ends of the fastener stringers, and adapted to come into and out of engagement with each other in the general plane of a slide fastener. The retai... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6842950 | Shieldless hook and loop fastener A fastener secures a trim cover to a foam pad. The fastener is positionable within a mold trench, which extends between a plurality of ends having stepped regions. The fastener includes a base having a mold surface and a foam surface opposite to the mold surface. Th... | 01/18/2005 |
| 6681457 | Fiber surface fastener and method for finishing same A finishing method for obtaining a fiber surface fastener, said method being capable of, with simple processes, firmly fixing entangling portions between a foundation cloth composed of knitted/woven structure or nonwoven fabric and base portions of engagi... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6678924 | Integral molded surface fastener, and continuous manufacturing method and continuous manufacturing apparatus therefor An integral molded surface fastener is provided having minute and peculiar engaging elements, with which a desired plasticity and tearing strength of the flat substrate are secured. The molded surface fastener may be formed together with the substrate by ... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6656563 | Segmented separable fastener A segmented hook and loop type fastener accommodates molding contours. Each segment may be surrounded by a gasket barrier, or covered, or unprotected. On the fastening face of a base member are a plurality of fastening elements, either hook-type or loop-t... | 12/02/2003 |
| 5853842 | Process for the production of a multi-layer composite article having fasteners affixed to a surface thereof and the article produced thereby A process for the production of a rigid multi-layer composite articles (20) prepared from reacting inter alia a sheet of an open cell foam material (22) impregnated with a binder resin, such as isocyanate resin, to fill the cells of the foam material (22)... | 12/29/1998 |
| 5833401 | Geoinsulation blanket and system for soil A system used to insulate soil, most practically in waste sites and the like, including a plurality of geoinsulation blankets and an anchoring means. Each blanket has a flexible plastic casing sealed around its perimeter with at least one air vent through... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5516183 | Automotive window assembly system A retention system for an automotive window assembly includes a window insertable onto a recessed generally L-shaped peripheral flange of a flanged window aperture formed in an automotive vehicle body, with the window being adhesively secured to the perip... | 05/14/1996 |
| 5429875 | Mounting object provided with a metallic heat-resistant two-dimensional fastener A mounting object comprises a combination of a body wherein elements of a metallic heat-resistant two-dimensional fastener in a mounting surface, and their engaging portions projecting therefrom have their base portions embedded and integrally molded, and... | 07/04/1995 |
| 5076288 | Double-lock friction fastener system A double-lock friction fastener system useful as a restraint for hospital patients includes separate flexible first and second straps affixed to one another at a juncture and extending adjacent one another in the same general direction so that cooperating... | 12/31/1991 |
| 4784890 | Fastener assembly with peripheral temporary attachment layer An elongate fastener assembly comprising an elongate flexible polymeric backing strip from which project a multiplicity of headed stems adapted to engage loops on materials pressed against the heads, and an open porous permanent attachment layer attached ... | 11/15/1988 |
| 4662037 | Method and apparatus for slitting and providing selvedge by ultrasonic means on hook and loop type fastener tapes An apparatus for ultrasonically providing selvedge on separable fasteners of the hook and loop-type. Portions of the separable fastener member are ultrasonically softened or melted and pressed toward the surface of the base member so as to be combined, or... | 05/05/1987 |
| 4646397 | Surface-type fastener A surface-type fastener comprising a pair of fabric fastener strips, one fastener strip having on its one surface a number of hook-shaped engaging elements engageable with a number of loop-shaped engaging elements on one surface of the other fastener stri... | 03/03/1987 |
| 4432513 | Gas-proof fastening system for a non-rigid airship A gas leak proof sealing panel system is disclosed for a non-rigid airship such as a gas balloon. The sealing panel system is especially useful as a rip panel for rapid deflation of the airship. The rip panel covers an aperture in an envelope of the airsh... | 02/21/1984 |
| 4426816 | Fastening means A fastening means utilizing, in combination, Velcro stripping and a sealing strip, thus providing that in releasably interconnecting a first panel member to a second panel member, the sealing strip carried between the panel members adjacent the Velcro str... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4012544 | Dust collection mat and method of manufacture A no creep dust collection mat having a laminated rubber backing which has a plurality of spaced sections of hook accommodating material projecting therethrough to accommodate an attaching member which secures the mat in a relatively fixed position on a c... | 03/15/1977 |
