FR2547488A1 - SELF-GRIPPING RIBBON CLOSURE DEVICE - Google Patents

Abstract

IN THIS SELF-GRIPPING TAPE CLOSURE DEVICE INTENDED TO COOPERATE WITH A HANGING SURFACE, THE TAPE 1 IS PROVIDED AT ONE END 4 WITH AN ELASTIC BAND 3 OF WHICH THE OTHER END 5 IS FIXED TO THE INSIDE OF A SLEEVE 6, THE LENGTH OF ELASTIC BAND 3 AND OF SLEEVE 6 BEING SUCH THAT TAPE 1 CAN EXCEED OUTSIDE OF SLEEVE 6 WHEN ELASTIC BAND 3 IS IN STRETCHED CONDITION, AND EITHER INSIDE SLEEVE 6 WHEN BAND ELASTIC 3 IS AT REST. AT THE END OF THE RIBBON, A PREHENSION TAB EXTENDING THE SLEEVE 6 WHEN THE ELASTIC BAND 3 IS AT REST.

Description

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  SELF-AGRIPTING RIBBON CLOSURE DEVICE

  The invention relates to a self-gripping ribbon closure device intended to cooperate with a fastening surface provided for this purpose. Such ribbons, marketed inter alia under the trademark Velcro, comprise numerous hooks which come to grip the fibers. a velvet surface, and allow for an immediate catch, which can also be

discard immediately.

  The use of velcro fasteners 10 has become widespread in the field of clothing, and in particular for certain specialized articles used in particular in hospitals, such as incontinence briefs, surgeon gowns, etc. It appeared in use a disadvantage of these closures during machine washing: the hooks of the self-gripping tape tend to grip all the fabrics in the vicinity and may in particular cause the tearing of fibers of certain fragile fabrics possibly mixed washed articles; or else, and this is particularly the case in the machine washing of several articles with these types of closures, the self-gripping tapes cling to the hooking surfaces of other articles, and the clothes then form a conglomerate washing

  poorly, difficult to extract from the machine and requiring additional handling to separate at the end of washing each article.

  It is therefore necessary to provide a system where it is useful to neutralize the gripping power of the self-gripping tapes The systems known hitherto are unsatisfactory: either it is planned to have on each tape, before washing, a end of the attachment surface provided for this purpose, which requires additional handling; or it is planned to permanently hide each ribbon under a kind of fabric flaps, which requires, when it is desired to disengage the ribbon for attachment, a deformation of the neighboring fabric which is inelegant, uncomfortable, and, in a way, généralee,

  causing a decrease in the strength of the closure.

  The object of the invention is to provide a self-gripping tape closure device free from disadvantages

mentioned above.

  This object is achieved by the fact that the ribbon is disposed at one end of an elastic band whose other end is fixed inside a sheath, the lengths of the elastic band and the sheath being such that the ribbon can protrude out of the sleeve when the elastic band is in the stretched state, and 10 is inside the sleeve when the elastic band is at rest. It is therefore sufficient, when one wishes to proceed to the attachment of the ribbon on a hooking surface, to extract the ribbon from its sheath (a tab protruding from the sheath makes it possible to pull the ribbon immediately). When the ribbon of the ribbon is unhooked, area

  the ribbon automatically returns to its sheath.

  The invention will be better understood thanks to the description

  which will follow of a particular embodiment and not limiting. Reference will be made to the single appended figure which represents a front view of the device, the front wall of the

  sheath has been removed for clarity.

  The self-gripping tape 1 is generally under

  The shape of a relatively rigid wafer, one face of which is covered with numerous hooks 2 intended to catch in the fibers of a surface bearing a sort of velvet.

  The ribbon wafer 1 is attached to one end 4 of a longitudinally elastic band 3 The other end 5 of the band 3 is fixed to the bottom of a sheath 6 open at one end. The sheath 6 can be made by the layering 30. two rectangles of fabric joined by seams 7; these seams 7 can be used, in the region of the bottom of the sheath 6, to

  fix the end 5 of the band 3.

  The sheath is advantageously made of plasticized fabric (on the inner face) so as to give it sufficient rigidity not to deform when the ribbon wafer enters the sheath, and to provide a sliding surface facing the wafer. 1 c 6 T Hooks One can take advantage of the presence of plastic to replace the seams 7 by welds. To be able to easily remove the wafer 1 from its sheath 6, there is provided a tongue 8 always protruding

sheath 6.

  The device of the invention is particularly suitable for clothing of all kinds: blouses, panties, etc. An advantageous aspect of the invention lies in that the elastic band 3 also contributes to ensuring a good closure of the garment, leaving a game elastic, which is particularly appreciable

  for closures at the belt for example.

  The device may be designed as a completely independent form of the garment and may be attached thereto by sewing or other suitable fastening means. It may also be an integral part of the garment, the sheath then being made in the fabric of the garment.

clothing itself.

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Claims (2)

  1 closure device by self-gripping ribbon for cooperating with a hooking surface, characterized in that the ribbon (1) is disposed at one end (4) of an elastic band 05 (3), the other end (5) is fixed inside   a sheath (6), the lengths of the elastic band (3) and the sheath (6) being such that the ribbon (1) can protrude out of the sheath (6) when the elastic band (3) is at the stretched state, and is inside the sleeve (6) when the elastic band (3) 10 is at rest.   2 Device according to claim 1, characterized in that there is provided at the end of the tape a gripping tongue protruding from the sleeve (6) when the elastic band (3) is at rest.