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US 5,473,800 AGranted
Separable fastening component
AssigneeMagictape Co., Ltd.
InventorsIsamu Hatomoto, Yukitoshi Higashinaka
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Abstract
A male separable fastening component has a base and, provided thereon, a multiplicity of independent fastening elements, the fastening elements each comprising a bundle of raised fibers with a grape cluster-like aggregate of swollen heads consolidated together by fusion of the fiber ends and a trunk having a shape tightening at the root and broadening towards the swollen heads-aggregate; and a separable fastener utilizes this type separable fastening component.
Claims8
A separable fastener for a male-female separable fastener comprising:
- a base, and
- provided on said base, a multiplicity of independent fastening elements, said fastening elements each comprising a bundle of fibers having bottoms raised from adjacent one point on the surface of the base,
- wherein pairs of said bundles are located close to each other and are oriented so as to form an X-shape, thereby producing a high engaging force, and
- wherein fibers constituting said bundles each have a fineness of 5 to 100 deniers and a swollen head, a part of the swollen heads of said fibers being a least partially consolidated, such that said fibers are flexible between the bases of said fibers and the at least partially consolidated swollen heads.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.