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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7351250 | Circumferential medical closure device and method A flexible medical closure screen device for a separation of first and second tissue portions is provided, which includes a mesh screen comprising tubular vertical risers, vertical strands with barbed filaments, and horizontal spacers connecting the risers and stran... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7326213 | Systems for securing sutures, grafts and soft tissue to bone and periosteum Devices for affixing sutures, grafts and tissues to bone, and soft tissue such as periosteum. Such devices are designed to be deployed and selectively positioned at a target site and remain seated thereat. The devices are further provided with attachment structures ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7225510 | Fastener product A hook member is provided that is capable of engaging fibers. The hook member includes a stem extending upwardly from a sheet-form base to a distal end. The stem has leading and trailing edges that form an apex angle therebetween. A crook is integrally formed with a... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7195369 | Safety light for aquatic garments An aquatic garment carries a safety light and circuit attached to the garment so that it may not be detached without damage. The circuit times an interval in response to change of state of an acceleration switch. The circuit causes the light to light at least once d... | 03/27/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7032278 | Hook fastener engaging zones A method for manufacturing a fastener includes forming a preform sheet having a sheet-form base and an array of hook-shaped fastener elements extending from a broad side of the base, and securing a cover sheet with an aperture across the array of fastener elements, ... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7021316 | Device and method for tacking a prosthetic screen A prosthetic screen tacking device includes a barbed filament with a perpendicular foot at one end and a loop at the other. The barbs are situated near the foot and angulated in such a manner that they permit movement of the device through tissue in one direction (t... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6994698 | Flexible mechanical fastening tab Disclosed is a mechanical fastening tab formed from a substrate adapted to be joined to a disposable absorbent product and a first mechanical fastener component. The fastening tab has a Gurley stiffness value of less than about 1000 milligrams in an area of the fast... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6921410 | Injection molded vaso-occlusive elements Compositions comprising injection-molded vaso-occlusive elements are described. Thus, one or more injection-molded elements are formed into a desired three-dimensional configuration. Each injection-molded element of the device may have a different shape, for example... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6737147 | Laminated hook fastener An extruded hook fastener strip is created on a roll having hook forming cavities in its surface by extruding plastic material into the interface between the forming roll and a second strip carried by a backing roll. The second strip is firmly bonded to the fastener... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6728998 | Woven hook and loop fastening A woven fastener product includes an array of hook elements and an array of loop elements that extend from the surface of different respective regions of a common fabric base. The arrays are formed by warp yarns, the arrays being separated in the warp direction of t... | 05/04/2004 |
| 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 |
| 6470539 | Releasable touch fastening system A fastening system that has a first planar surface with a front side and a back side and a plurality of fasteners. Each fastener is engaged with the first planar surface. Each fastener has a stem or member with a body, preferably in the shape of a sphere,... | 10/29/2002 |
| 6460230 | Mold-in fastening member and production of molded resin article having mold-in fastening member The mold-in fastening member, that can be molded into a resin article, of the present invention comprises (a) a substrate having a front surface and a back surface; (b) a plurality of engaging elements provided on the front surface; (c) a plurality of anc... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6248419 | Laminated hook fastener An extruded hook fastener strip is created on a roll having hook forming cavities in its surface by extruding plastic material into the interface between the forming roll and a second strip carried by a backing roll. The second strip is firmly bonded to t... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6209177 | Molded surface fastener, and molding method and molding apparatus of the same Molten resin material is continuously extruded from an extruding hole including a plurality of engaging-element-molding portions disposed with a constant pitch in a width direction of an extruding nozzle and a substrate-molding portion with which lower en... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6086973 | Adhesive film strip composite and its use Adhesive film strip composite comprising a) an adhesive film strip (2) which can be released by pulling in the direction of the bond plane (B), and which b) on one of its adhesive sides is bonded to one side of a touch-and-close fastening (4,7), while c) the o... | 07/11/2000 |
| 5945193 | Touch fastener with porous metal containing layer A fastening component of a separable fastener has some portion that is necessary for its fastening function, such as the space adjacent the fastening elements, the base to which the fastening elements are attached or a substrate that is used for another p... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5875527 | Fastener element arrangement A hook-type fastener product for engaging loop elements is disclosed, having parallel rows of hooks having differently constructed first and second sides. The hooks are arranged such that, when engaged with loops, they resist disengagement from the loops ... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5867876 | Male-to-male connector apparatus having symmetrical and uniform connector matrix A separable plastic male-to-male connector includes a pair of connector units each having a planar base and a plurality of protrusions extending outward from the base and being oriented on the base so as to form a matrix. The matrix has a plurality of lat... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5827589 | Strap devices, and methods of constructing and utilizing same A strap to hold wires or other components permanently or semi-permanently, using a flexible high strength carrier member as the main component of the strap. The strap replaces mechanically retained wire clips. To apply the wire strap, first the back liner... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5763041 | Laminate material A laminate suitable for use as the hook component of a hook-and-loop fastener. The laminate comprises a first extensible substantially non-elastic layer and a second layer comprising a nonwoven material. The nonwoven material is prebonded by a number of f... | 06/09/1998 |
| 5702797 | Molded surface fastener and method for manufacturing the same Molten resin is continuously extruded from an injection die or an extrusion die toward the circumferential surface of a die wheel having in its circumferential surface a multiplicity of hook-element-forming cavities and, at the same time, one or more yarn... | 12/30/1997 |
| 5669900 | Spunbond loop material for hook and loop fastening systems A loop material for a hook and loop fastening system composed of: 1) a backing material; and 2) a layer of a nonwoven spunbond web attached to the backing material, the nonwoven spunbond web comprising a plurality of continuous intertwined filaments, each... | 09/23/1997 |
| 5664301 | Molded surface fastener In a structure of the surface fastener of this invention, a substrate sheet has on its surface a plurality of dimples each defining a hollow large enough to receive a companion loop, and engaging elements are integrally molded and stand from the bottom su... | 09/09/1997 |
| 5615460 | Female component for refastenable fastening device having regions of differential extensibility A female component for a refastenable fastening device having an elastomeric adhesive backing and a multiplicity of fibrous elements extending from the backing. The female fastening component is formed by a method comprising the steps of: providing a firs... | 04/01/1997 |
| 5598610 | Interengaging fastener member, method of producing same, and affixation member with such interengaging fastener member An interengaging fastener member 10 having a base 12 and a plurality of headed elements 14 arranged on the base 12. A plate member 26 is connected to the base 12 as fixing means. The plate member 26 includes a baseplate section 30 embedded in a back surfa... | 02/04/1997 |
| 5596794 | Plastic surface fastener A plastic surface fastener whose surface fastener members can be engaged by a small force includes two surface fastener members each having a plastic base and multiple projecting members having identically sized engagement heads and standing upright on th... | 01/28/1997 |
| 5586372 | Fastening device A fastening device of the invention is formed of two fastening members. Each fastening member has a flat base portion, and a plurality of engaging projections fixed on the base portion laterally and vertically. Each engaging projection has at least one le... | 12/24/1996 |
| 5518795 | Laminated hook fastener An extruded hook fastener strip is created on a roll having hook forming cavities in its surface by extruding plastic material into the interface between the forming roll and a second strip carried by a backing roll. The second strip is firmly bonded to t... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5040275 | Strip material used for forming fasteners A strip material from which portions may be severed and used together as a releasably engageable fastener. The strip material comprises a bonding layer in which are embedded a plurality of U-shaped monofilaments. Each U-shaped monofilament includes two he... | 08/20/1991 |
| 4912819 | Hook element for surface fasteners A hook or male element for surface fasteners has peripheral surface irregularities in the form of protuberances and/or grooves, affording increased surface area for a given material. This hook element is capable of holding itself in the shape and posture ... | 04/03/1990 |
| 4861364 | Method for using stained glass revolving work station with removable work surface A method for assembling and soldering pieces of stained glass involves placing a template to outline a mosaic fit of glass pieces on a workboard by nailing flat sided nails to the outer perimeter of the glassware as defined by the template in which glass ... | 08/29/1989 |
| 4706914 | Attaching assembly An attachment assembly for releasably attaching an object such as a wire bundle to a surface such as on the firewall of an automobile. The assembly comprises a flexible polymeric strap, fastener portions adapted for releasable engagement attached at the e... | 11/17/1987 |
| 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 |
| 4541154 | Hooked fabric fastener tape A hooked fabric fastener tape has on one surface of a foundation structure a number of material engaging hooks which have been produced from and by cutting one of loops of synthetic resin threads woven into the foundation structure. One of the hooks is la... | 09/17/1985 |
| 4488335 | Hot melt adhesive attachment pad The invention relates to a hot melt adhesive attachment pad for releasably securing distinct elements together and particularly useful in the construction industry or a spatial vacuum environment. The attachment pad consists primarily of a cloth 11 select... | 12/18/1984 |
| 4322875 | Two strip materials used for forming fasteners Two strip materials from which portions may be severed and used together as a releasably engageable fastener. Each strip material comprises a bonding layer in which are embedded a plurality of U-shaped monofilaments. Each U-shaped monofilament includes tw... | 04/06/1982 |
| 3981051 | Bristle-like gripping device A self-gripping device is disclosed and includes a plurality of thin bristle-like gripping elements attached in close proximity to each other to a base. Each of the gripping elements have self gripping means spaced along the length thereof and they extend... | 09/21/1976 |