WO1993012687A1 - A refastenable fastening, the engagement formed by it and the method of manufacturing the fastening - Google Patents
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- WO1993012687A1 WO1993012687A1 PCT/FI1992/000348 FI9200348W WO9312687A1 WO 1993012687 A1 WO1993012687 A1 WO 1993012687A1 FI 9200348 W FI9200348 W FI 9200348W WO 9312687 A1 WO9312687 A1 WO 9312687A1
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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
- A44B18/0023—Woven or knitted fasteners
- A44B18/003—Woven or knitted fasteners in which each part has similar elements
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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
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- This invention relates to a refastenable mechanical fastening, the engagement formed by it and the method of manufacturing the fastening.
- Refastenable mechanical fastenings usually consist of two parts that fasten onto one another time after time, one part containing hooklike components and the other containing loop ⁇ like components.
- This type fastener is commonly known by the name Velcro.
- Velcro These structures enjoy a wide variety of uses; e.g. in shoes, jogging shoes, sportswear, sports equipment, leg parts of scuba divers' suits, ends of sleeves, fastening of bottle to divers' balance vests, diapers.
- Various types of fasteners, strip sealers and the methods used to manufacture them are presented in publications such as US patent publica ⁇ tion 2717437, 3009235 and FI publication 59528.
- the US patent 3009235 describes, how to enhance the firmness of engagement of the separable fastener by forming loops in different heights. However, it is not decribed any teaching, how the non-desirable fastening could be avoided.
- the UK pater 1400080 it is described a separable fastener, in which the base or its background is formed to compress. The rigid hooks compress the base of the flexible loops to reach a fastening.
- Another known art strip is the one which has the loop part in front of the hook part as is employed in some shoes.
- the hook part and loop part have been sewn onto a stron- ger base material one after the other.
- the loop part is then turned over on top of the hook part to execute the fastening function.
- the problem with this solution is adjustability be ⁇ cause for the engagement to be sufficiently strong it is ne ⁇ cessary to have the entire loop part come into contact with the entire hook part or vice versa.
- the practice is to use unnecessarily long loop or hook strips which are never used for their entire length. This being so, the use of hook- and-loop strips is wasteful.
- the hook parts fasten onto not only the actual loop part, but also to other cloths such as wool, and cause wear and even tear in doing so.
- Another fastener may comprise a tape having a plurality of alternating strips of hook and pile.
- the foremost advantage offered by the invention may be seen in that non-desired fastening of the loop and hook parts can be prevented. In addition, waste pieces are avoided. Especially in the case of the preferable embodiment it is possible to use only one kind of strip and thus adjustability is improved.
- Figures la, b and c show the different fastening stages of two strips.
- Figure 2a, b, c and d show different forms of pieces, stoppers that can prevent the non-desirable fastening of loops onto the hooks.
- Figure 3 is a perspective view showing the refastenable strip with platelike pieces formed on the strip.
- the fastening device in accordance with the invention can be implemented by, for example, leaving loops at suitable intervals along the hooklike element, the said loops not being cut into hook form. Since the loops are at least as high as the hooks or preferably slightly higher with respect to the hooks, they prevent the non-desirable fas- tening of the hooks onto the loop implement, but in doing so they, nevertheless, bend readily when engaging is desired.
- the above can be implemented by, for example, moving back and forth the blades used to cut the loops.
- the blade When the blade is in the front position, it cuts a loop so that it becomes a hook; when in the rear position, it allows a loop past it without cutting it.
- every third - tenth loop for example, can be left uncut.
- Means such as those described below can also be used as pre- ventative means.
- the loops are firstly woven into the base material 2, 10, the said loops 3 being then cut as the next stage whereupon they become hooks 4.
- several loops are woven into the cloth, the said loops being made as high as tehe hooks or preferably higher than the hooks.
- An alternative method might, for example, be one in which the loops are made first and then the loops are bent, e.g. using wax, essentially to be in line with the base material.
- the hook material is woven at selected intervals into the base material. The ⁇ reafter the hook material is cut to form hooks. If present, bonding wax is washed off and the loop pile is brushed up- right.
- Figure 1 shows strip or tape 1 in accordance with the inventi ⁇ on, the base material 2 onto which loops 3 and hooks 4 are woven.
- the length of the loops 3 is slightly more than that of the hooks 4. Often a difference of only 1-2 mm or even less is sufficient. The length difference is indicated by h in Figure 1.
- the strips 1 and 10 act like normal cloths, that is to say, they do not become engaged to one another.
- the loop piles support one another and prevent the hooks from touching the opposite side's loop pile.
- the strips are pressed against one another on purpose, as if they were press fasteners, the loop pile bends, the opposite hooks penetrate among the opposite loop pile loops and an en ⁇ gagement is achieved.
- the number of hooks can be reduced because now there are hooks on two sides, without the tear strength being essentially changed.
- the hooks can be of any shape, e.g. mushroom shaped or hooks. they are positioned either asymmetrically or they are in rows.
- Closed loops, strips of plate or ring-shaped pieces and even triangular pieces made of various flexible plastics or rubber can be employed in place of the loop pile for the purpose of keeping the strips apart from one another.
- the bottom part of the said pieces can be executed to be such that the hooks can fasten onto them almost as onto loops (e.g. by executing groo ⁇ ves, recesses onto the outside surface) but so that the surfa ⁇ ce of their top part is such that hooks cannot fasten onto it.
- Figures 2 a to d show different types of pieces preventing premature fastening.
- Number 11 indicates a ball that is advan ⁇ tageously thin-walled os that it readily collapses.
- the trian ⁇ gular piece 12 is also possible and its walls too are advanta- geously thin, the third alternative in figure 2, the plate strip 13, can be either hollow or relatively thin, in which case it will readily give in under pressure, the ringlike pie ⁇ ce 14 is advantageously hollow in the centre.
- Pieces 11, 12, 13 and 14 can be placed at intervals of 5 - 8 mm, for example, or at even wider intervals.
- the plate strip 13 can be 10 mm long and it would be followed by a gap of 10 mm, for example.
- Figure 3 shows an example of the positioning of strips 13.
- the symbols o and x in figure 3 depict loops 3 and hooks 4 connec ⁇ ted to the strip, with only part of the said loops and hooks being drawn into the figure. The height of the loop
- ⁇ ity is the implementation of a solution accor ⁇ ding to which the loop and hook parts are executed into sepa ⁇ rate bases, the said bases being then cut into small pieces, and these pi •. es are then fastened onto the desired base mate ⁇ rial one after the other.
- loops may be anchored as the result of appropriate weaving technique and so on.
- the techniques are known to the skilled in the art as is described for example in the US patent No. 3009235.
- the hooks are normally in the form of J.
- the loops and hooks are resilient so that they can easily be connected together by pressing by the finger force or the like.
- the stoppers can be semi-rigid/flexible fibres that can be either straight or bent and the length is measured from the base material to the top of the hook or loop.
- the amount of the means (3,11,12,13,14) attached to the base (2, 10), preventing the non-desirable fastening of the hooklike element to looplike element depends e.g. on the size of the strip or tape.
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Priority Applications (3)
Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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EP93900199A EP0624067A1 (en) | 1991-12-20 | 1992-12-18 | A refastenable fastening, the engagement formed by it and the method of manufacturing the fastening |
JP5511459A JPH07506731A (en) | 1991-12-20 | 1992-12-18 | A re-adherable fastening, the engagement thereby formed, and a method of manufacturing this fastening. |
KR1019940702125A KR940703624A (en) | 1991-12-20 | 1992-12-18 | A refastenable fastening, the erigagement formed by it and the method of manufacturing the fastening |
Applications Claiming Priority (4)
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FI916056 | 1991-12-20 | ||
FI916056A FI96572C (en) | 1991-12-20 | 1991-12-20 | Reattachable fastener, its connection and method of manufacture of the fastener |
FI925753 | 1992-12-18 | ||
FI925753A FI925753A0 (en) | 1991-12-20 | 1992-12-18 | FACILITY FITTING, FOUNDATION FITTING AND FOUNDATION FRAMSTAELLNING AV DEN |
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WO1993012687A1 true WO1993012687A1 (en) | 1993-07-08 |
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PCT/FI1992/000348 WO1993012687A1 (en) | 1991-12-20 | 1992-12-18 | A refastenable fastening, the engagement formed by it and the method of manufacturing the fastening |
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EP (1) | EP0624067A1 (en) |
JP (1) | JPH07506731A (en) |
KR (1) | KR940703624A (en) |
AU (1) | AU3160493A (en) |
CA (1) | CA2125044A1 (en) |
FI (1) | FI925753A0 (en) |
WO (1) | WO1993012687A1 (en) |
Cited By (5)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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FR2714122A1 (en) * | 1993-12-21 | 1995-06-23 | Kimberly Clark Co | Resilient compression loop structure for hook and loop fastening system. |
EP0780066A3 (en) * | 1995-12-22 | 1998-10-21 | Ykk Corporation | Surface fastener |
US6443187B1 (en) | 1998-03-30 | 2002-09-03 | Velcro Industries B.V. | Aligning woven loop elements to form mounting sleeves |
US6546603B1 (en) | 1998-03-30 | 2003-04-15 | Velcro Industries B.V. | Woven hook and loop fastening |
US7344525B2 (en) * | 2002-11-22 | 2008-03-18 | Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. | Absorbent article with improved fastening system |
Citations (5)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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US3009235A (en) * | 1957-10-02 | 1961-11-21 | Internat Velcro Company | Separable fastening device |
FI34429A (en) * | 1958-01-29 | 1964-09-10 | Velcro Sa Soulie | Anordning for sammanbindning av två böjliga delar |
EP0226124A1 (en) * | 1985-12-05 | 1987-06-24 | Yoshida Kogyo K.K. | Mandrel for use with loom for forming loops of surface-type fasteners |
EP0229305A1 (en) * | 1985-12-12 | 1987-07-22 | Yoshida Kogyo K.K. | Method and apparatus for producing hooks on hook-and-loop fasteners |
US4707893A (en) * | 1985-05-08 | 1987-11-24 | Kanebo Bell-Touch, Ltd. | Fabric fastener |
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- 1992-12-18 FI FI925753A patent/FI925753A0/en not_active Application Discontinuation
- 1992-12-18 CA CA002125044A patent/CA2125044A1/en not_active Abandoned
- 1992-12-18 AU AU31604/93A patent/AU3160493A/en not_active Abandoned
- 1992-12-18 KR KR1019940702125A patent/KR940703624A/en not_active Application Discontinuation
- 1992-12-18 WO PCT/FI1992/000348 patent/WO1993012687A1/en not_active Application Discontinuation
- 1992-12-18 JP JP5511459A patent/JPH07506731A/en active Pending
- 1992-12-18 EP EP93900199A patent/EP0624067A1/en not_active Withdrawn
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Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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US3009235A (en) * | 1957-10-02 | 1961-11-21 | Internat Velcro Company | Separable fastening device |
FI34429A (en) * | 1958-01-29 | 1964-09-10 | Velcro Sa Soulie | Anordning for sammanbindning av två böjliga delar |
US4707893A (en) * | 1985-05-08 | 1987-11-24 | Kanebo Bell-Touch, Ltd. | Fabric fastener |
EP0226124A1 (en) * | 1985-12-05 | 1987-06-24 | Yoshida Kogyo K.K. | Mandrel for use with loom for forming loops of surface-type fasteners |
EP0229305A1 (en) * | 1985-12-12 | 1987-07-22 | Yoshida Kogyo K.K. | Method and apparatus for producing hooks on hook-and-loop fasteners |
Cited By (8)
Publication number | Priority date | Publication date | Assignee | Title |
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FR2714122A1 (en) * | 1993-12-21 | 1995-06-23 | Kimberly Clark Co | Resilient compression loop structure for hook and loop fastening system. |
WO1995017111A1 (en) * | 1993-12-21 | 1995-06-29 | Kimberly-Clark Corporation | Compressively resilient loop structure for hook and loop fastener systems |
AU685893B2 (en) * | 1993-12-21 | 1998-01-29 | Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. | Compressively resilient loop structure for hook and loop fastener systems |
EP0780066A3 (en) * | 1995-12-22 | 1998-10-21 | Ykk Corporation | Surface fastener |
US6443187B1 (en) | 1998-03-30 | 2002-09-03 | Velcro Industries B.V. | Aligning woven loop elements to form mounting sleeves |
US6546603B1 (en) | 1998-03-30 | 2003-04-15 | Velcro Industries B.V. | Woven hook and loop fastening |
US6728998B2 (en) | 1998-03-30 | 2004-05-04 | Velcro Industries B.V. | Woven hook and loop fastening |
US7344525B2 (en) * | 2002-11-22 | 2008-03-18 | Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. | Absorbent article with improved fastening system |
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KR940703624A (en) | 1994-12-12 |
JPH07506731A (en) | 1995-07-27 |
EP0624067A1 (en) | 1994-11-17 |
FI925753A0 (en) | 1992-12-18 |
AU3160493A (en) | 1993-07-28 |
CA2125044A1 (en) | 1993-07-08 |
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