Buckles – buttons – clasps – etc. – Button with fastener
Patent
1977-10-28
1978-11-07
Gelak, Bernard A.
Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
Button with fastener
242305TP, 5356, A44B 118, A44B 1300
Patent
active
041238257
ABSTRACT:
A plastic collet for locking fabric around a shell member and with the plastic collet including a base portion for insertion into the open end of the shell member for locking fabric around the shell member, a hook portion extending from the base portion and with the hook portion including an eye extending through the hook portion for receiving a string member, an elongated lead-in ramp extending from the exterior of the hook to the eye for providing a passageway for a string member, the lead-in ramp formed with an open area adjacent the exterior of the hook for providing easy access to an elongated restricted area leading into the eye and with the restricted area formed between the body of the hook portion and a lever section extending from the base portion and with the lever section flexible to move forward the base portion as the string is pulled through the restricted area and with the lever section snapping back to its initial position when the string is pulled into the eye, and the eye of the hook having a configuration substantially coextensive with the outer configuration of the string.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3829935 (1974-08-01), Critchfield
patent: 3879807 (1975-04-01), Casale
patent: 3972093 (1976-08-01), Aimar
patent: 4012812 (1977-03-01), Black
Messler Frederick B.
Neville Donald
Gelak Bernard A.
Plastiglide Manufacturing Corporation
Schwartz Charles H.
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