Fastener component
AssigneeKuraray Co., Ltd.
InventorsKunihiko Ogawa, Yoshio Noguchi
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Abstract
A fastener component is provided with hook-like interlocking elements on the front side of a substrate sheet and an anchor member on the back side. The fastener component is provided with at least one flat portion void of the interlocking elements on the front side to make the fastener component flexible or pliable to fit a curved or bent portion of a molded cushion body or other molded structures on which the fastener component is to be anchored. The fastening element-free flat portions may be provided along the longitudinal side edges of the fastener component for mounting thereon magnetic metal strips which are attracted by magnets embedded in a mold to fix the fastener component in position in the mold during a molding process.
Claims16
A fastener component comprising:
- (a) a substrate member having a multitude of hook-shaped fastening elements on one side thereof and anchoring means on the other side thereof;
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- (b) at least one elongate flat portion of said one side of said substrate member which is void of said hook-shaped fastening elements,
- (c) wherein said at least one elongate portion comprises a single longitudinal flat portion provided substantially at the center of said one side of said substrate member.
A fastener component comprising:
- (a) a substrate member having a multitude of hook-shaped fastening elements on one side thereof and anchoring means on the other side thereof;
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- (b) at least one elongate flat portion of said one side of said substrate member which is void of said hook-shaped fastening elements,
- (c) wherein said at least one elongate flat portion is in the form of a groove void of said fastening elements and having a smaller thickness than a remainder of said substrate member.
A fastener component comprising:
- (a) a substrate member having a multitude of hook-shaped fastening elements on one side thereof and anchoring means on the other side thereof;
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- (b) at least one elongate flat portion of said one side of said substrate member which is void of said hook-shaped fastening elements,
- wherein:
- (c) said hook-shaped elements are made of a monofilament;
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- (d) said at least one elongate flat portion comprises a single longitudinal flat portion provided substantially at the center of said one side of said substrate member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.