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AssigneeAvery Dennison Corporation
InventorsCharles L. Deschenes, Terence J. Jones, William J. Cooper
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A fastener clip having a plurality of fasteners for use in attaching a button to a garment or a piece of fabric. In a preferred embodiment, the fastener clip comprises a plurality of fasteners, each fastener being a flexible U-shaped filament having a foot at each end. The filament portion of the fastener is preferably rectangular in cross-section and has a non-uniform thickness, i.e., being thinner at the ends and thicker in the arcuate region, to maximize the strength of the fastener. The feet are appropriately dimensioned so that they may be inserted into a desired garment through a pair of button holes of conventional size and thereafter be retained by the underside of the garment. Each foot has rounded ends, a flat top surface and a compact size to minimize irritation with a person's skin. The fastener clip also comprises a pair of runner bars, each fastener being connected to the pair of runner bars by a pair of severable connector posts. The connector posts are attached to the outer sides of the fastener feet, as opposed to the bottoms thereof, so that, when they are severed, they will not create burrs in areas where they are likely to come into contact with a person's skin.
A fastener for attaching button to a piece of fabric, the button having two or more holes, said fastener comprising a flexible filament U-shaped prior to use in connection with attaching said button to said piece of fabric, a first transverse bar at one end of said flexible U-shaped filament and perpendicular thereto, and a second transverse bar at the opposite end of said flexible U-shaped filament and perpendicular thereto, said flexible U-shaped filament and said pair of transverse bars being appropriately dimensioned so that said pair of transverse bars may be inserted through a corresponding pair of holes in the button and then through the piece of fabric in such a way as to be retained by the underside of the piece of fabric, with said U-shaped filament looping between the pair of holes.
A fastener clip adapted to be fed into a fastener attaching tool, said fastener clip comprising:
A fastener adapted for attachment to a sheet of material, said fastener comprising a unitary plastic member shaped to define a flexible filament U-shaped prior to attachment to said sheet of material, a first traverse bar at one end of said flexible U-shaped filament, and a second traverse bar at the opposite end of said flexible U-shaped filament, said first and said second traverse bars extending generally parallel to one another, said flexible U-shaped filament and said pair of traverse bars being appropriately dimensioned so that said pair of transverse bars may be inserted through the sheet of material in such a way as to be retained by the underside of the sheet of material, with said U-shaped filament looping over the top of the sheet of material.
A fastener clip adapted to be fed into a fastener attaching tool, said fastener clip comprising a molded plastic structure shaped to define:
A fastener clip adapted to be fed into a fastener attaching tool, said fastener clip comprising a molded plastic structure defining:
A fastener clip comprising a unitary structure made of a flexible plastic material and shaped to define:
A fastener clip adapted to be fed into a fastener attaching tool, said fastener clip comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.