Abstract: A flexible, closed loop, closure gasket includes an elongated body having a resiliently flexible wall between opposing ends. The wall is formed by a resiliently flexible, core surrounded by a flexible outer jacket of interwoven glass fiber yarns. The opposing ends are brought together in a permanent joint formed by an permanent fastener-less physical bond between the opposing ends to provide the continuous closed loop. The gasket is typically mounted between a door and a cabinet or other housing of a device subject to modest to moderate heating and/or potential internal fire or explosion, like a home clothes dryer, certain ovens and trash compactors.

Abstract: A wicking device is an elongated tubular assembly having opposing ends and formed of an elongated, porous, tubular, heat resistant, metallic core suggestedly of interwoven resilient wire, a wicking layer of glass fiber yarns extending generally longitudinally along the outer surface of the metallic core, at least substantially surrounding the metallic core, and an exterior of interwoven glass fiber yarns forming an elongated tubular outer jacket running the length of the device surrounding the wicking layer of glass fiber yarns and the metallic core. The assembly is stripped of organic materials following assembly as part of the manufacturing process, preferably by heating the assembly.

Abstract: A hollow oven gasket has a flexible tubular member with tubular wall and fasteners in the form of clips that are captured within and extend through the wall. First and second free ends of a length of the gasket material are brought together in a termination to form a closed loop gasket member. The first end of the device is at least partially collapsed to form a male end. The second opposing end is left uncollapsed to form a female end. The male end is received within the female end to form a joint held together by engagement of the clips adjoining the joint with an oven face surrounding an oven mouth or an oven door.

Abstract: A hollow oven gasket has a flexible tubular member with tubular wall and fasteners in the form of clips that are captured within and extend through the wall. First and second free ends of a length of the gasket material are brought together in a termination to form a closed loop gasket member. The first end of the device is at least partially collapsed to form a male end. The second opposing end is left uncollapsed to form a female end. The male end is received within the female end to form a joint held together by engagement of the clips adjoining the joint with an oven face surrounding an oven mouth or an oven door.

Abstract: A hollow oven gasket has a flexible tubular member with tubular wall and fasteners in the form of clips that are captured within and extend through the wall. First and second free ends of a length of the gasket material are brought together in a termination to form a closed loop gasket member. The first end of the device is at least partially collapsed to form a male end. The second opposing end is left uncollapsed to form a female end. The male end is received within the female end to form a joint held together by engagement of the clips adjoining the joint with an oven face surrounding an oven mouth or an oven door.

Abstract: The present invention is a gasket comprising a length of rope formed at least substantially by a plurality of interwoven fibrous glass yarns and having at least two ends, and a soft wire mesh termination sleeve placed around and attached to the rope member at the joint that conforms to the shape of the gasket joint.

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: A hollow oven gasket has a flexible tubular member with tubular wall and fasteners in the form of clips that are captured within and extend through the wall. First and second free ends of a length of the gasket material are brought together in a termination to form a closed loop gasket member. The first end of the device is at least partially collapsed to form a male end. The second opposing end is left uncollapsed to form a female end. The male end is received within the female end to form a joint held together by engagement of the clips adjoining the joint with an oven face surrounding an oven mouth or an oven door.

Abstract: The present invention is a gasket comprising a length of rope formed at least substantially by a plurality of interwoven fibrous glass yarns and having at least two ends, and a soft wire mesh termination sleeve placed around and attached to the rope member at the joint that conforms to the shape of the gasket joint.

Abstract: A gasket-like device includes an elongated core, an outer jacket of glass fiber yarns, woven, preferably braided, entirely around and along the core. Each of the glass fiber yarns has an outer surface exposed to view with a polymeric resin coating in an amount sufficient to at least cover essentially all of an outer surface of each yarn exposed on the device and insufficient to obscure the plurality of individual glass fiber yarns from one another in the outer jacket. The outer covering may be coated with a colored polymeric resin to produce a desired exterior color. In a described embodiment for self-cleaning ovens, a plurality of individual fasteners are spaced along the device. Each fastener includes a base captured within the outer jacket and an engagement portion extending outwardly from the base through the outer jacket. A method of manufacturing and coloring the gasket-like device is also disclosed.

Abstract: A improvement to a gasket that includes an elongated seamless tubular member formed from at least a plurality of interwoven glass fiber yarn ends and a plurality of spring clip fasteners spaced along the tubular member, each fastener including a base located within the tubular member and an engagement portion extending outwardly through the tubular member away from the base. The free ends of the tubular member are coupled together at a joint so that the elongated tubular member forms a closed loop. A second tubular member is positioned around the joint, concealing the joint. The second tubular member may include one or more fasteners each having a base located between the elongated tubular member and the second tubular member and an engagement portion extending outwardly through the second tubular member away from the elongated tubular member. The second tubular member may be composed of at least a second plurality of glass fiber yarns interwoven together or a corrugated metal tube.

Abstract: A improvement to a gasket that includes an elongated seamless tubular member formed from at least a plurality of interwoven glass fiber yarn ends and a plurality of spring clip fasteners spaced along the tubular member, each fastener including a base located within the tubular member and an engagement portion extending outwardly through the tubular member away from the base. The free ends of the tubular member are coupled together at a joint so that the elongated tubular member forms a closed loop. A second tubular member is positioned around the joint, concealing the joint. The second tubular member may include one or more fasteners each having a base located between the elongated tubular member and the second tubular member and an engagement portion extending outwardly through the second tubular member away from the elongated tubular member. The second tubular member may be composed of at least a second plurality of glass fiber yarns interwoven together or a corrugated metal tube.

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: The gasket of the present invention includes a length of rope having a circumferential outer surface. The rope is formed at least substantially by a plurality of woven fibrous yarns. The gasket further includes an elastomeric coating adhered to the circumferential outer surface of the rope along the length of the rope. The coating is applied to more than one-half and less than all of the circumferential outer surface so as to expose part of the circumferential outer surface along a single side of the rope. A layer of contact adhesive may be applied directly to the exposed part of the circumferential outer surface to adhere the gasket to a non-adhesive surface. The gasket is beneficially employed between sections of a sectional boiler.

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: 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.