Woven fastener product
AssigneeVelcro Industries B.V.
InventorDer-Shi Wang
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Abstract
A woven hook-and-loop fastener product includes a base fabric and at least one edge extending in the warp direction that serves as a load-dissipating structure. The edge is a resilient tube structure or a fabric woven to be thicker than the base fabric.
Claims20
A woven fastener product having a main fabric body comprised of a woven base having warp and filling yarns extending respectively in warp and filling directions and
- an array of fibrous fastener elements anchored to and projecting from the woven base for engaging cooperating fastener elements of an overlying layer,
- the fastener product having at least one integral edge portion, extending in the warp direction, that, in cross-section, is enlarged relative to the woven base, to serve as a load-dissipating structure.
A method of weaving a woven fastener product having a main fabric body comprised of a woven base having warp and filling yarns extending respectively in warp and filling directions and an array of fastener elements that project from and are anchored to the woven base comprising:
- forming an enlarged edge portion, in cross-section, of the fastener product relative to the woven base that is capable of serving as a load-dissipating structure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.