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US 2024/0228137 A1Published application
Flexible fastening strap
AssigneeVelcro IP Holdings LLC
InventorsJerry G. Hodsdon, David D. Cianciolo, James L. Tardiff
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Abstract
An elongated fastening strap of touch fastener material has a head with a grommet defining a slot through which the other end of the strap is received. Selective interference at the ends of the slot with the width of the strap alter the resistance to motion within the slot. The grommet provides a smooth surface within the slot.
Claims20
An elongated fastening strap, comprising a length of flexible material with two opposite faces bounded by lateral edges extending along the length of flexible material;
- mutually engageable touch fastener elements carried on the faces of the flexible material to releasably fasten overlapping portions of the flexible material together with the fastening strap wrapped about an object;
- wherein the length of flexible material has a perimeter shaped to form a head and a tail extending from the head to a distal end opposite the head, the tail having lateral edges defining a nominal width therebetween;
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- a grommet of greater thickness than the flexible material and secured to overlay the head on two opposite sides thereof, the head defining, at the grommet, a transverse slot of a length sufficient to receive therethrough the distal end of the tail.
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An elongated touch fastening strap, comprising
- a length of flexible material with two opposite faces bounded by lateral edges extending along the length of flexible material;
- and
- mutually engageable touch fastener elements carried on the faces of the flexible material to releasably fasten overlapping portions of the fastener material together with the fastening strap wrapped about an object;
- wherein the length of flexible material has a perimeter shaped to form a head joined to a tail at a neck, the tail extending to a distal end opposite the head;
- wherein the head has an overall length, from the neck to an outer edge of the head opposite the tail, and defines therethrough a transverse slot with bounded ends, the slot sized to freely receive the distal end of the tail;
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- wherein the tail includes an interference section, extending from the neck toward the distal end of the tail a distance of at least half the overall length of the head and less than an overall length of the tail, in which the tail is of cross-sectional dimensions selected to define an interference fit with respect to the slot, such that when the interference section is manually pulled into the slot, friction in the slot retains the tail in the slot.
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An elongated fastening strap, comprising
- a length of flexible material with two opposite faces bounded by lateral edges extending along the length of flexible material;
- and
- mutually engageable touch fastener elements carried on the faces of the flexible material to releasably fasten overlapping portions of the flexible material together with the fastening strap wrapped about an object;
- wherein the length of flexible material is folded to have a perimeter shaped to form a head joined to a tail at a neck, the tail extending to a distal end opposite the head;
- wherein the head defines therethrough a transverse slot with bounded ends, the slot sized to freely receive the distal end of the tail;
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- wherein the head comprises two overlapping layers of the length of flexible material joined at a fold, with the slot extending through both of the two overlapping layers and with only one of the two overlapping layers extending to the distal end of the tail.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.