EP2547607A1 - Fermeture à boucles et crochets aux propriétés antistatiques améliorées - Google Patents

Fermeture à boucles et crochets aux propriétés antistatiques améliorées

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EP2547607A1
EP2547607A1 EP11705144A EP11705144A EP2547607A1 EP 2547607 A1 EP2547607 A1 EP 2547607A1 EP 11705144 A EP11705144 A EP 11705144A EP 11705144 A EP11705144 A EP 11705144A EP 2547607 A1 EP2547607 A1 EP 2547607A1
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velcro
pile
threads
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strip
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Johan Maria Albert Lecluyse
Jonathan Verstraete
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Velcro Belgium NV
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Alfatex NV
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A44—HABERDASHERY; JEWELLERY
    • A44B—BUTTONS, PINS, BUCKLES, SLIDE FASTENERS, OR THE LIKE
    • A44B18/00—Fasteners of the touch-and-close type; Making such fasteners
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A44—HABERDASHERY; JEWELLERY
    • A44B—BUTTONS, PINS, BUCKLES, SLIDE FASTENERS, OR THE LIKE
    • A44B18/00—Fasteners of the touch-and-close type; Making such fasteners
    • A44B18/0023—Woven or knitted fasteners

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  • the present invention relates to a Velcro fastener with improved antistatic properties.
  • a Velcro fastener generally consists of two Velcro strips that can attach to one another, whereby one Velcro strip is the male part of the fastener, which has hooks protruding out of the support at least on one side, while the other Velcro strip is the female part of the fastener, which has loops on at least one side.
  • Both parts primarily consist of a woven support formed by a matrix of warp threads and weft threads, between which pile threads are woven to form the pile protruding out of the support that forms the aforementioned hooks or loops.
  • the warp threads and the weft threads, as well as the pile threads, are generally made from a plastic material, such as polyamide, that is not electrically conductive.
  • Velcro fastener can become charged with static electricity, which constitutes a potential hazard from sparks, which, when the Velcro fastener is used in an explosive or inflammable environment, can lead to disastrous consequences.
  • Velcro fasteners are already known that have a conductive thread worked into the Velcro strips and which extends in the longitudinal direction of the Velcro strips.
  • This is used for example in fasteners for bags for the storage of bulk products, such as powders or similar, in which such explosive conditions may arise.
  • Such bags are often of a double-walled construction with an inner bag and an outer bag, in which the inner bag is secured to the outer bag by means of a Velcro fastener.
  • the invention is to provide a solution to at least one of the aforementioned disadvantages and other disadvantages.
  • the invention is a Velcro fastener with improved antistatic properties, and which fastener consists of a male Velcro strip with hooks on at least one side and a female Velcro strip with loops on at least one side, whereby the hooks and loops latch onto one another when the two Velcro strips are pressed together, and whereby the Velcro strips are formed as a support consisting of a matrix of woven warp threads and weft threads, between which pile threads are woven to form the pile protruding from the support in the form of hooks or loops, with the characteristic that for the male Velcro strip there is at least one electrically conductive warp thread and at least one electrically conductive pile thread woven in that are in contact with one another, while in the female Velcro strip there is at least one electrically conductive pile thread woven in whose loop-shaped pile, in a closed fastener, is in electrical contact with the
  • a Velcro fastener according to the invention has the advantage that not only can it conduct the static electricity away in the longitudinal direction of the Velcro fastener, but also in the transverse direction through the fastener via the contact between the conductive piles of the male and female Velcro strips and the conductive warp tread of the male Velcro strip.
  • Velcro fastener can also be used in cases where there is a risk of static electricity discharging between the fabrics or other objects that are joined together by the fastener, such as in the aforementioned case of the double-walled bulk bags.
  • a simple earthing of the fabrics or objects concerned, or of the Velcro fastener is sufficient to guide the static electricity away to earth and thus to rule out all risks of sparks.
  • the hooks of the male Velcro strip are formed by loops of the pile threads that are then cut through.
  • the conductive pile threads (7) and warp threads are formed by a plastic thread with a conductive coating, preferably a carbon coating.
  • the coating is fixed in the matrix of the material from which the thread is made, for example by burning in the coating. In this way the conductivity of the conductive threads is preserved and the conductivity is not affected by washing, for example .
  • the male Velcro strip Preferably only one conductive pile thread is provided in the male Velcro strip, flanked on one or both sides by a single conductive warp thread, such that the additional cost of such conductive threads for the male Velcro strip can be kept to a minimum.
  • the female Velcro strip on the other hand preferably has a band in which the pile threads are conductive pile threads, whereby this band extends in the longitudinal direction of the Velcro strip and over a certain width, for example approximately five millimetres.
  • figure 1 schematically shows in perspective a Velcro fastener according to the invention with a male part with hooks and a female part with loops
  • figure 2 shows a cross-section along the line II-II in figure 1.
  • figure 3 shows a top view on a larger scale of the part indicated by F3 in figure 3.
  • FIG 4 shows a cross-section such as that of figure 2, but for a different position.
  • the Velcro fastener 1 shown in figures 1 and 2 is formed by two Velcro strips, respectively a male Velcro strip 2 and a female Velcro strip 3, that are brought together to fasten to one another.
  • the Velcro strips 2 and 3 are primarily formed by a support 4 consisting of a matrix of warp threads 5 and weft threads 6 woven together, between which pile threads 7 are woven to form the pile in the form of hooks 8 for the male Velcro strip 2 or in the form of loops 9 for the female Velcro strip.
  • the hooks 8 and loops 9 are on one side of the support 4 and protrude out with respect to this side, although it is not excluded that both sides of the support 4 have such hooks 8 or loops 9.
  • the hooks 8 latch onto the loops 9 when the two Velcro strips 2 and 3 are pressed together and thus form an attachment that, as is known, can again be released by pulling the Velcro strips 2 and 3 away from one another.
  • the warp threads 5 and weft threads 6, as well as the pile threads 7 are made from a plastic that is not electrically conductive, for example a polyamide.
  • the pile threads 7 of the male Velcro strip are made from polyamide 6.6, for example, while all other threads of the male and female Velcro strips 2 and 3 are made from polyamide 6, for example.
  • a multifilament thread is generally used, while the other threads of the male and female Velcro strips 2 and 3 are generally monofilament threads.
  • the two Velcro strips 2 and 3 have pile threads 7G that are electrically conductive and are situated such that when the Velcro strips 2 and 3 are attached to one another, the hook-shaped pile 8 of the conductive pile threads 7G of the male Velcro strip 2 are in electrical contact with the loop-shaped pile 9 of the conductive pile threads 7G of the female Velcro strip 3.
  • the hook-shaped pile 8 of the male Velcro strip 2 is in fact obtained during the production process of the Velcro strip 2, from a loop-shaped pile that is cut.
  • the hook-shaped pile 8 of the conductive pile threads 7G of the male Velcro strip 2 are obtained in the same way by cutting through the originally formed loops of the conductive threads 7G.
  • an additional electrically conductive warp thread 5G is woven in, next to each electrically conductive pile thread 7G, that is in contact with the electrically conductive pile thread 7G or at least with the hooks of this pile thread 7G.
  • the male Velcro strip 8 only has one single electrically conductive pile thread 7G that is in the middle of the Velcro strip, and which is flanked by two electrically conductive warp threads 5G, one on each side of the pile thread 7G as shown in figure 3, although one single electrically conductive warp thread 5G in contact with the thread 7G could be sufficient, and thus could also belong to the possibilities .
  • the electrically conductive pile threads 7G are spread over a band 10 that is in the middle of the Velcro strip 3, and which extends in the longitudinal direction of the Velcro strip 3 over a width D of the Velcro strip 3, which for example is five millimetres. It is clear that when the two Velcro strips 2 and 3 are attached to one another, there is electrical conduction that can guide away the static electricity in both the longitudinal direction of the Velcro strips 2 and 3, as shown by the double arrow A in figure 1, and in the transverse direction through the Velcro fastener 1, as shown by the double arrows B in figures 1 and 2.
  • the conductive threads are obtained by giving the threads that are normally used a conductive coating, for example carbon, whereby this coating is preferably fixed in the matrix of the material from which the thread is manufactured, for example by burning in the coating.
  • a conductive thread is obtained in a relatively simple and cheap way from a basic thread that is available in any case.
  • warp threads of polyamide 6 can be used and pile threads of polyamide 6.6, that have been given a conductive coating or otherwise.

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  • Slide Fasteners, Snap Fasteners, And Hook Fasteners (AREA)
  • Woven Fabrics (AREA)
  • Treatments For Attaching Organic Compounds To Fibrous Goods (AREA)

Abstract

La présente invention concerne une fermeture Velcro constituée d'une bande Velcro mâle (2) dotée de crochets (8) sur au moins un côté et d'une bande Velcro femelle (3) dotée de boucles (9) sur au moins un côté, les bandes Velcro (2 et 3) étant formées comme un support (4) constitué d'une matrice de fils de chaîne tissés (5) et de fils de trame (6) entre lesquels des fils de poil (7) sont tissés pour former les crochets (8) ou les boucles (9), et pour la bande Velcro mâle (2), au moins un fil de chaîne électroconducteur (5G) et au moins un fil de poil électroconducteur (7G) étant tissés en contact l'un avec l'autre, tandis que dans la bande Velcro femelle (3), au moins un fil de poil électroconducteur (7G) étant tissé, lequel, dans une fermeture fermée (1), est en contact électrique avec le fil de poil conducteur (7G) de la bande Velcro mâle (2).
EP11705144.1A 2010-01-19 2011-01-19 Fermeture à boucles et crochets possedant des propriétés antistatiques Active EP2547607B1 (fr)

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PL11705144T PL2547607T3 (pl) 2010-01-19 2011-01-19 Element złączny typu haczyka i pętelki o właściwościach antystatycznych

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BE2010/0027A BE1019157A3 (nl) 2010-01-19 2010-01-19 Klittenbandsluiting met verbeterde anti-statische eigenschappen.
PCT/BE2011/000002 WO2011088528A1 (fr) 2010-01-19 2011-01-19 Fermeture velcro aux propriétés antistatiques améliorées

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WO2011088528A8 (fr) 2011-09-15
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