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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 7275290 | Touch fasteners Molded male touch fastener components, and methods of making such components are disclosed. Components include multiple, discrete features that extend laterally from a common side of an upper end of a formation, for engagement of loops. ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7254874 | Molded surface fasteners and attachment methods Molded surface fasteners are provided which include a fenestrated base structure with sets of at least three undercut segments extending laterally over at least one window, thereby allowing fastening elements of diverse designs to be precisely molded by a set of bip... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7181812 | Fastener elements and methods of manufacture A male fastener element extends integrally from a planar base and includes a primary engagement hook and a secondary engagement structure (e.g., a hook). The primary engagement hook has a stem portion that is integrally molded with the planar base and that extends f... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7182992 | Hook fiber The present invention is directed at a hook strand. These hook strands have a base layer with first top face and a second bottom face and two side faces. Hook elements on the strand extend from at least one face and the hook elements have engaging arms that extend a... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7052638 | Hook and loop fastener Forming a fastener component having heads constructed to engage loops formed e.g. of fibers of a mating component, comprises forming, from a thermoformable material, a preform product having a sheet-form base and an array of preform stems integrally molded with and ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 6996880 | Fastener elements and methods of manufacture A male fastener element extends integrally from a planar base and includes a primary engagement hook and a secondary engagement structure (e.g., a hook). The primary engagement hook has a stem portion that is integrally molded with the planar base and that extends f... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6980666 | Headphone assembly A headphone assembly includes a pair of headphones that are operationally coupled together. Each of the headphones includes a housing having a first wall, a second wall and a peripheral wall extending between the first and second walls. A plurality of openings exten... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6526633 | Hook fasteners and methods of manufacture A hook fastener member having rows of molded hook-shaped fastener elements that lie in planes aligned with the rows, with generally planar plate portions at the outermost ends of at least some of the fastener elements, the plate portions lying generally p... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6487759 | Engaging member and manufacturing method thereof The present invention provides an engaging member which enables a male member and a female member to be engaged with each other easily by sliding them relatively along the longitudinal direction and having a high engaging force, and a manufacturing method... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6460228 | Monofilament interlaced loop surfaced and thin-profile fastener strip base material A monofilament interlaced loop surfaced and thin-profile fastener strip base material that replaces the multifilar nap surfaced and thicker profiled conventional base material and is fabricated into a unitary structural entity by a knitting machine. Among... | 10/08/2002 |
| 6238765 | Vehicle floor mat A floor mat is disclosed which is releasably attachable to loop-pile fibers of a carpet of the carpeted floor board of a vehicle. The floor mat includes a generally planar member having a top surface, a carpet material attached and/or bonded to the top su... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6000106 | Superimposed embossing of capped stem mechanical fastener structures There is provided a method of capping mechanical fasteners from a web having an array of upstanding stems. A heated surface member is positioned opposite a support forming a nip into which the web is fed. The heated surface member has a series of laterall... | 12/14/1999 |
| 5997522 | Item of wear having an enhanced flexibility fastener An enhanced flexibility fastener product has a base and hook elements extending from the base. Rip-stops integrally molded with the base and with the hook elements are offset relative to the hook elements to reduce widthwise stiffness of the fastener prod... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5755015 | Molded surface fastener, and method and apparatus for manufacturing the same A molded surface fastener comprises: a substrate sheet; and a multiplicity of engaging elements standing on one surface of the substrate sheet, each of the engaging elements being composed of a stem rising from the one surface of the substrate sheet, and ... | 05/26/1998 |
| 5715581 | Hook structure for a molded surface fastener In a molded surface fastener, a hook structure has on at least one surface of a stem an upright reinforcing rib extending from the base of the stem to part of a hook-shape engaging portion. The reinforcing rib projects upwardly with respect to the rear su... | 02/10/1998 |
| 5692271 | Enhanced flexibility fastener, method and apparatus for its making, and product incorporating it An enhanced flexibility fastener product has a base and hook elements extending from the base. Rip-stops integrally molded with the base and with the hook elements are offset relative to the hook elements to reduce widthwise stiffness of the fastener prod... | 12/02/1997 |
| 5685050 | Hook structure for molded surface fastener In a molded surface fastener composed of male and female members, each of hook-shape engaging elements of the male member comprises a stem standing substantially perpendicularly from a flat plate-like base, a hook-shape head extending forwardly from a par... | 11/11/1997 |
| 5657517 | Hook structure for molded surface fastener In a molded surface fastener, a hook has vertical multi-step reinforcing ribs on opposite side surfaces of a stem, and it is therefore possible to make the hook-shape engaging portion adequately soft and to increase the rate of engagement with loops. Furt... | 08/19/1997 |
| 5604963 | Hook structure for molded surface fastener In a hook structure for a molded surface fastener, in an arbitrary cross section of each of a stem and a hook-shape engaging portion of a hook, the cross-sectional area is divided into front and rear side cross-sectional areas with respect to the center l... | 02/25/1997 |
| 5551130 | Hook structure of molded surface fastener In a hook structure for a molded surface fastener, each of hooks is composed of a rising portion, which has a rear surface rising obliquely in a smooth curve from the substrate, a front surface rising upwardly from the substrate, and side surfaces from at... | 09/03/1996 |
| 5473800 | Separable fastening component A male separable fastening component has a base and, provided thereon, a multiplicity of independent fastening elements, the fastening elements each comprising a bundle of raised fibers with a grape cluster-like aggregate of swollen heads consolidated tog... | 12/12/1995 |
| 5396687 | Mechanical fastener Fastener elements (10, 12) each include a base (14) and a multiplicity of prongs (16). Each prong (16) includes a head (18) and flange (20) defining an inner stem portion (22) and outer neck portion (24). Heads (18) include inner flat surfaces (25) that a... | 03/14/1995 |
| 5315740 | Hook for hook and loop fasteners A plastic molded hook for use with a hook and loop fastening system especially adapted for use with low profile loops. The hook design includes a base, a stem and a crook whereby the volume of the portion of the hook penetrating into a pile of loops is de... | 05/31/1994 |
| 5133112 | Closure device A closure device for joining two surfaces, which is easily engageable and disengageable but provides a firm lock when closed, comprises two substrates, one of the substrates having a plurality of expandable and contractible openings which lie in the plane... | 07/28/1992 |
| 5131119 | Hook structure for integrally molded surface fastener Hook elements of a surface fastener can intermesh reliably with the loop elements of a companion surface fastener and can be unfastened from the loop elements very smoothly. The integrally molded hook element has softness and strength similar to those of ... | 07/21/1992 |
| 4980003 | Method for producing zigzagged plastic strand and forming into multiple-hook fastener media U.S. Pat. No. 4,615,084 disclosed and claimed a method for making multiple-hook fasteners and the resulting multiple-hooks. A strand of stiffly flexible bendable settable polymeric plastic material is zig-zagged back and forth cross a centerline, with sha... | 12/25/1990 |
| 4680838 | Device for detachably connecting two elements One or the female part of two releasably connected parts has a recess, cavity or the like, the second or male part is a couterpart insertable therein. Engaging elements are formed by at least one layer of elastic, vertically extending bristles, short fibe... | 07/21/1987 |
| 4672721 | Strip fastener material Strip fastener material comprising a first flexible strip of material having a surface of loose-weave fiber wool, the first strip of material being configured as a narrow strip having a plurality of identical, spaced first projections extending sidewards ... | 06/16/1987 |
| 4670960 | Strip fastener material Strip fastener material comprising a first flexible strip of material having a surface of loose-weave fiber wool, the first strip of material being configured as a narrow strip having a plurality of identical, spaced first projections extending sidewards ... | 06/09/1987 |
| 4531733 | Fastener and base using said fastener A fastener includes a pad element having number of connecting prongs having two locking ridges disposed thereon. The top locking ridges, which are disposed closest to the tip of the prongs, are smaller than the lower locking ridges, thereby facilitating e... | 07/30/1985 |
| 4330907 | Velvet type fastener tape and method of producing the same A velvet type tape for use as closing means or fasteners for garments, curtains and the like. The fastener tape comprises a woven foundation structure, and a number of material-engaging elements carried on one side of the foundation structure. Each of the... | 05/25/1982 |
| 4198734 | Self-gripping devices with flexible self-gripping means and method Self-gripping devices having a base with a plurality of the gripping element attached are disclosed. The gripping elements are capable of releasably self-gripping fibrous materials without damaging same include a stiffly rigid stem with at least one flexi... | 04/22/1980 |
| 4180890 | Linear element with grafted nibs and method therefor Linear elements such as filaments having grafted nibs are disclosed. The grafted nibs are generally fibrils and/or scales which can be flexible or rigid. The nibs can be randomly grafted onto the linear element or they can be inclined or oriented in one d... | 01/01/1980 |
| 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 |
