Abstract: A composite oven gasket includes a flexible hollow tubular member braided from a number of glass fiber yarn ends and a lesser number of wire ends and a plurality of separate, individual clip fasteners extending though the tubular members and captured only by the yarn and wire ends defining the tubular body. At least forty-four yarn and wire ends are used in the tubular members and less than twenty percent of the ends are wire.

Abstract: Sound absorbent fabric sleeves are formed from interthreaded, preferably braided, resilient, staple spun polymer yarns. Bulk and softness needed for sound absorption is provided through the staple fibers and resiliency desired for expansion capability and shape maintenance is provided through a resilient monofilament core. The yarns are sometimes referred to as dref mono/poly yarns. The sleeves can be heat set to better resist unraveling and maintain tubular shape. The yarns inherently resist fraying. A pressure sensitive or other adhesive layer or an elastomeric material or other material layer can be provided around all or part of the outsides of the sleeves. Spring clips can be provided extending through the tubes between the yarns to assist in mounting the sleeves or to modify them for uses other than sound absorption.

Abstract: Improved spring fasteners are formed from a single length of at least partially hardened wire bent to form a generally planar base and a generally diamond-shape engagement portion or dart extending generally perpendicularly from the center of the base. The length of wire is bent at its center to form the dart. Free ends of the wires are crossed past and partially around one another to provide a scissor action to arms forming either side of the dart. The free end portions of the wire are extended away from the dart in opposite directions. Each is curled into a circular loop in which the extreme end of the wire is overlapped or butted with an intermediate portion of the wire to form a fully closed loop at either end of the base. The configurations are actually less compact than previous configurations and, as a result, is less likely to nest with identical fasteners.

Abstract: Thermally insulative sleeves include a seamless, hollow, flexibly resilient inner tubular member woven of strand material including at least one metal wire strand, a separate, integral, at least essentially unbroken, metal surface member applied over the inner tubular member extending along and at least essentially completely surrounding the inner tubular member and a flexible outer cover also woven of strand material extending along and completely around the inner tubular member and metal surfaced member securing the metal surface member with the inner tubular member and offering some degree of protection. The inner tubular member may be knit from wire or from a combination of wire and glass fiber yarn, the latter providing some thermal insulative protection. The metal surfaced member may be foil or some other metal covered composite or laminate material sufficiently thin and pliable so as to be deformable by the inner member.

Abstract: A man-made, flexible, knitted member is formed from at least one continuous strand of a conventional knittable flexible material knitted in a tubular or circular form with at least two sets of interlocked stitches extending longitudinally along opposite sides of the tubular form with opposite ends of the stitches of each row of each set being connected by unstitched lengths of the strand material to the ends of stitches of adjoining rows of the remaining set. A planar member is made by flattening the original tubular form longitudinally through both sets of stitches. The resulting structure is thicker at both ends due to the overlap of the strand material in the stitches and thinner between the end where the unstitched length of the strand material is provided. When flattened, the structure has a ladder-like appearance with interlocked stitched portions forming side rails of the structure and unstitched lengths of the strand forming a rung portion of this structure interconnecting the side rail portions.

Abstract: A gasket-like device includes an elongated core, an outer jacket woven, preferably braided entirely around and along the core, and a plurality of individual fasteners spaced along the device. Each fastener includes a base captured between adjoining portions of the core and the outer jacket and an engagement portion extending outwardly from the base through the outer jacket. An outer covering of a plastic polymeric material or other material may be provided, if desired, around and along part of all of the outer jacket.

Abstract: A gasket-like device includes an elongated core, an outer jacket woven and preferably braided around and along the core and a plurality of individual fasteners spaced along the device, each fastener including a base captured between the core and the outer jacket and an engagement portion extending outwardly from the base through the outer jacket. An outer covering of plastic or other material may be applied, if desired, around and along part or all of the outer jacket.

Abstract: A gasket assembly is made by securing together in a flexible, elongated gasket subassembly, a first, elongated, flexible tube of braided glass fiber and an adjoining, flexible, second, elongated knit wire mesh tube member by sewing together the first tube and the second tube member. Braid of the first tube permits elongation of that tube under tension. The adjoining tubes are secured together along their lengths in states of elongation such that the second tube member is fully elongated under tension, to the extent permitted by its metal wire fabric, before the first tube is stretched to a maximum elongation permitted by the braid. The resulting elongated flexible assembly is threaded onto an elongated, substantially rigid frame member, preferably by threading the frame member through a sleeve formed in the knit wire mesh tube member by the stitching.

Abstract: Flexible, composite tubular devices of the present invention include a flexible plastic tube and a reinforcing flexible, tubular member at least substantially embedded in the tube, the member having an outer side, an inner side opposing the outer side and surrounding a hollow interior of the member, and a multiplicity of macroscopic pores substantially uniformly distributed around and along the member and extending through the tubular member between the outer and inner sides before the tubular member is incorporated into the composite tubular device of the invention, and the plastic of the tube extending through the pores between the inner and outer sides of the tubular members.

Abstract: A welding backup tape assembly includes a flexible, elongated, heat resistant ribbon, such as a metal foil strip, with a flexible, elongated, heat resistant, fibrous rope having a flexible reinforcing core, preferably metallic, attached to one major side of the ribbon, suggestedly by stitching with a glass fiber thread, to form a substantially unitary assembly. Pressure sensitive adhesive layers are applied to the ribbon on either side of the fibrous rope to allow that side of the assembly to be adhered to the weldable workpiece. In the preferred embodiment, the fibrous rope is formed by a knitted, multistrand stainless steel wire core supporting a sheath of knitted, texturized, untwisted fiberglass yarns. Untexturized, low or no twist, continuous, glass fiber thread is used to stitch the rope to the ribbon.