Abstract: An attachment for the pull tab of a slide fastener for enhancing manipulation of the slider and for serving as an ornamental and identifying element generally comprises a clip of very hard and stiff, yet resilient, material, such as spring steel, molded into a body of soft, tactile, elastomeric material. A channel leading to the clip in the body receives the pull tab. The elastic side walls of the channel expand to accommodate pull tabs of varying sizes and stabilize the attachment on the tab. The clip has a locking tongue which projects into the channel in a direction away from the channel entrance and terminates in an engaging end for engaging and locking the tab in the channel. The engaging end is curved such that considerable pressure is exerted by its point onto the tab surface. Body material directly overlies the tongue such that deflection of the tongue also compresses and deflects the body material.

Abstract: The shoe construction generally includes a closure component having a set of interleaved, opposed stretchable fingers, and a stretchable cord securing the ends of the fingers together. The fingers are composed of stretchable material to grip the foot in a yieldable manner. Such a shoe construction and closure component is comfortable, due to the stretchable cord and fingers which expand during walking or running. Moreover, the resilient and stretchable closure component of the present invention, at the same time, aslo fits snugly against the upper contours of the foot to provide a new form of comfortable support. At the same time, in some forms of the novel construction of the present invention, it can be slipped on or off the foot, without undoing, or otherwise altering the closure component.

Abstract: The line retension device includes a relatively thin plate having means defining an elongated passageway for receiving the line in a friction tight manner. The cross-sectional area of at least a portion of the passageway is complementary shaped and sized relative to the cross-sectional shape and size of the line. In one form of the invention, the passageway extends in a tortuous or non-linear configuration in the unstressed condition of the plate to grip the line frictionally. The plate is adapted to be flexed manually to deform it to a position where the configuration of the passageway is closer to that of a straight line, thereby permitting the line and the plate to be moved relative to one another in a much more facile manner.

Abstract: An elongated rigid wall mounted strip with a shelf receiving non-yielding channel or groove along the length thereof has resilient spring means acting on the bottom face of the shelf to fixedly retain the shelf in the channel. The strip has an upstanding backwall with apertures for receiving fasteners to secure the strip to a vertical wall or the like. The shelf receiving channel projects outwardly from this back and has a bottom leg wider than the top leg to underlie the shelf. This bottom leg has a resilient spring deflected and loaded by the shelf to wedge lock the shelf in the groove. A raised rib on the free end of the bottom leg bottoms the shelf as it is pushed into the groove permitting the shelf to be tilted so that its top face will fit under the top leg as the shelf is pushed into the groove to depress the spring on the bottom leg to a loaded level flush with the top face of the rib thereby securing the shelf to project perpendicularly or horizontally from the wall on which the strip is mounted.

Abstract: A stretchable tie-down device includes an elongated resilient stretchable tube, which is thin walled and pliable to collapse and flatten readily when pressed against a surface for gripping it frictionally and snugly. At least one hook member is fixed to the tube at one end thereof by means of a plug, which is disposed within the tube and for fixing it to the tube. The tube has a non-circular cross-sectional configuration throughout its length to provide a substantial surface area for facilitating the gripping of surfaces with the cord device. The hook member includes a flat metal hook having an outer coating of thermoplastic material thereon.

Abstract: A lash device constructed according to the present invention includes a stiff flexible plate adapted to be attached to a substrate in overlying engagement therewith. The plate has a strap restraining device, in the form of a cross bar, on the upper face thereof, and has an outwardly flared peripheral wiper edge defining a recessed surface area on the underside of the plate. An attaching area on the plate is adapted to be fixed to the substrate to attach the plate thereto with the recessed surface area disposed in overlying engagement with the substrate, thereby flexing the plate to press the wiper edge firmly against the substrate along a continuous line of engagement therewith.

Abstract: A buckle includes separable cooperating receptacle and clasp members. The receptacle member includes a pair of locking slots formed in opposing sides thereof. The clasp member includes a pair of resilient arms having locking tabs thereon for releasably engaging the locking slots of the receptacle member. The receptacle member also includes a pair of grooves for slidably engaging cooperating raised ridges formed on a central arm of the clasp member for guiding said clasp member during insertion into and removal from the receptacle member. The central arm of the clasp member also includes a pair of laterally extending edges for defining a limit to the inward bending of the resilient arms. The receptacle also includes a belt end termination member including a slide member for adjusting the length of a belt looped around said slide member. The clasp member also includes a base member joining the three arms thereof and including a through slot for terminating a belt end or the like.