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AssigneeAvery Dennison Corporation
InventorsCharles L. Deschenes, Terence J. Jones, William J. Cooper
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A fastener for use in attaching a button to a garment or a piece of fabric and a fastener clip including one or more of said fasteners. In a preferred embodiment, the fastener comprises a U-shaped flexible filament and a pair of transverse feet, the transverse feet being disposed at opposite ends of the U-shaped flexible filament. The U-shaped flexible filament is generally rectangular in cross-section. The width of the filament is substantially uniform over its length whereas the thickness of the filament is greatest in its arcuate region (to maximize the strength of the fastener) and least towards the feet. Because of its U-shape, the filament is permitted to extend between adjacent button holes, thereby creating the appearance of thread. The transverse feet, which extend parallel to one another and perpendicularly to the plane of the filament, are sized and shaped both to fit through a button hole and, once inserted through the button hole and an underlying garment, to securely engage the underside of the garment. To minimize contact with a person's skin, the feet of the present fastener are preferably shorter than the transverse bars of existing button fasteners and are preferably comparable in overall size to a knot of thread used to secure a button to a sheet of clothing material. In addition, the feet preferably have rounded ends, a flat top surface, and a contoured bottom surface to minimize contact with, and hence irritation of, a person's skin.
A fastener for attaching a button to a piece of fabric, the button having two or more holes, said fastener comprising a flexible filament, a first transverse bar at one end of said flexible filament, and a second transverse bar at the opposite end of said flexible filament, said flexible filament having a bent shape prior to use in connection with attaching the button to the piece of fabric, said first and second transverse bars being parallel to one another and perpendicular to said flexible filament, said flexible 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 flexible filament extending between the pair of holes.
A fastener for attaching a button to a piece of fabric, the button having two or more holes, said fastener comprising a flexible filament, a first transverse bar at one end of said flexible filament, and a second transverse bar at the opposite end of said flexible filament, said first and second transverse bars being parallel to one another and perpendicular to said flexible filament, each of said first and second transverse bars having a flat top surface, said flexible 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 flexible filament extending between the pair of holes.
A fastener for attaching a button to a piece of fabric, the button having two or more holes, said fastener comprising a flexible filament, a first transverse bar at one end of said flexible filament, and a second transverse bar at the opposite end of said flexible filament, said first and second transverse bars being parallel to one another and perpendicular to said flexible filament, each of said first and second transverse bars having a bottom surface, said bottom surface extending downwardly furthest and having its greatest cross-sectional diameter at its midpoint and sloping upwardly and diminishing in cross-sectional diameter on opposite sides of said midpoint, said flexible 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 flexible filament extending between the pair of holes.
A fastener clip adapted to be fed into a fastener attaching tool, said fastener clip comprising:
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