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US 4,249,267 AGranted
Magnetic fabric fastener and closure means
OwnerClifford C. Vossinventor
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Abstract
A fastener means for fabrics and clothing and which includes a magnetic tape material which is sewn into or otherwise applied to next adjacent edges of cloth material intended to be overlapped. Such magnetic material being relatively thin and light weight, pliable and flexible, capable of being cut to desired lengths and having the general characteristics of a narrow strip of fabric or cloth material itself.
Claims5
Fastener means for fabric and like materials, and comprising:
- a relatively thin, pliable, light-weight polymer material, roll formed and provided in selected lengths and widths, being normally flat and plane surfaced, and of a composition capable of being permanently magnetized and having magnetic properties for relative attraction and holding engagement with other like and comparable materials similarly formed and provided,
- said material being of itself so formed, flexible and pliable as to allow overlapping engagement and attraction to next adjacent similar material and for selective progressive separation of said materials from each other beginning at a given end thereof,
- and means for providing said materials on fabrics and cloths along cooperating edges thereof to form and provide an operable closure therebetween.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.