Adhesively securable fastener
AssigneeTheodore J. Sweeney & Company, Inc.
InventorTheodore J. Sweeney
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Abstract
Described is an adhesively securable fastener comprising a body having an opening; an adhesive positioned within said body and registering with the opening of the chamber, a plunger means for applying pressure to said adhesive such as against an anvil means thereby adhesively securing the fastener to a substrate. Also described is a method for securing a substrate using the fastener described herein.
Claims18
a self-contained adhesively securable fastener for securing an article to a substrate wherein there is a body member containing an adhesive reservoir with plunger means for expelling adhesive therefrom and wherein the body member also has a surrounding surface portion adapted to substantially mate with a substrate when the body member is urged there against, the invention characterized by:
- channel means in said surface portion radiating from adjacent said reservoir toward the periphery of the surface portion for distributing adhesive in the reservoir uniformly into the interface between such surface portion and substrate when the body member is urged thereagainst.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.