Multiple button closure-fastener
OwnerLeo F. McGantyinventor
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Abstract
The multiple button closure-fastener is a separable strip closure-fastener made from a suitable plastic material comprising a multiple conical male button strip and a multiple conical female button strip. All male and female buttons are coaxial at point of engagement and when pressed together the male buttons snap into the female buttons engaging a like curve causing a pulling together of the male and female surfaces, thus making a mechanical closure with a liquid and hermetic seal. This closure-fastener can also be used in numerous instances where there is no need for a liquid or hermetic seal.
Claims7
A separable flexible closure-fastener means comprising a series of adjacent round, conical-shaped male buttons, such buttons protruding from an integral planar surface forming a button strip, said button strip being formed on a deformable plastic sheet, such male buttons coaxially opposing a strip of female buttons, such strip of female buttons being cavities in an integral planar surface having the same shape as the male buttons being round and conical, said female button strip being formed on a deformable plastic sheet;
- the male buttons on being pushed into said female buttons past an annular ridge in the female buttons to the fully engaged and closed position accomplish a liquid and hermetic seal, said seal being caused by the annular curves on the male buttons engaging the annular curves on the female buttons, said male button annular curves located at the largest diameter of the male buttons, said female button annular curves located at the largest diameter of the female buttons, said liquid and hermetic seal being created by having said annular curves on the male buttons of less distance from the planar surface of said male button strip, said planar of said male button strip being closest to the largest diameter on the male buttons, said annular curves on the female buttons a greater distance from the planar surface of said female button strip, said planar surface of said female button strip being closest to the largest diameter of the female buttons, said both male button annular curves and female button annular curves pulling against each other will cause the planar surface closest to the largest diameter of the male buttons and the planar surface closest to the largest diameter of the female buttons to become tightly engaged to effect a complete liquid and hermetic seal across the engaged male button strip and female button strip.
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