Having Inserted And Receiving Interlocking Members Connected By Bendable, Nonbiasing Strap Patents (Class 24/464)
  • Patent number: 11811959
    Abstract: A mount for a handheld electronic device is adapted to be attached to a flat vertical glossy environmental surface, such as a mirror, with suction cups. A shelf with an upwardly concave center section holds electronic devices of various sizes and will hold an electronic device in a vertical orientation even if the mount is attached to the mirror at a small angle to the vertical. The shelf may hold the electronic device in either portrait or landscape orientation. The shelf permits a cable to be plugged into the bottom of the electronic device by being routed through a central notch in the shelf and an opening in a lip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: MACNEIL IP LLC
    Inventors: David S. Iverson, David F. MacNeil
  • Patent number: 11154106
    Abstract: A helmet can comprise an outer shell comprising an outer surface and an inner surface opposite the outer surface, wherein the inner surface of the outer shell comprises an integrally formed locking mechanism. The helmet can also comprise a locking liner formed of a foam material and disposed within the outer shell adjacent the inner surface of the outer shell. The locking liner can further comprise at least one side piece sized to fit between a lower edge of the outer shell and top portion of the outer shell, a top piece disposed at the top portion of the outer shell and comprising a central opening, and a rotatable foam locking piece sized to fit within the central opening and comprising a tab that is sized to mateably couple with the integrally formed locking mechanism of the outer shell to releasably couple the locking liner to the outer shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Bell Sports, Inc.
    Inventors: Ben D. Pritz, Eamon Briggs, Benjamin W. Penner, Brian W. Eisman
  • Patent number: 9873977
    Abstract: A sock tie is used when laundering socks, in order to keep a pair together. Formed of a comparatively high temperature polymer, the elastomeric loop may be drawn around a pair of socks one or more times to bind them together. The tension in the loop need not be excessively high. The nearer to the center of the length of a pair of socks the loop is placed, the less tension is required, inasmuch as the socks themselves by their random motion will resist self removal of the band or loop. Logos, labels, text, instructions, images, colors and the like may be formed into tabs attached at one or more points about the circumference of a sock tie loop. The tab provides an ease of removal while also providing space for advertising, logos, instructions, or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Inventor: Carole Farnsworth
  • Publication number: 20150013119
    Abstract: The invention is directed to an interlocking device for releasably connecting ground a first and a second ground cover mats each having tubular members. The device includes two clamping arms and a securing means. The clamping arms each have a collar member to engage one of the tubular members. The collar members are adjustably connected to each other to move the device from an open installation position into a closed restraining position in which the concave surfaces restrain the tubular members and are opposed to each other. The securing means releasably locks the clamping arms in the closed restraining position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2013
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventor: Shawn Beamish
  • Patent number: 8857775
    Abstract: A camera system is configured to detachably couple to a camera mount, which in turn can be attached to an apparatus. The camera mount is a spring clamp including two arms, each include a handle component and a jaw component. The spring clamp can be attached to an apparatus when the two jaw components are closed around the apparatus. A strap is adjustably coupled to the spring clamp and is tightened around the apparatus to further secure the apparatus. In some cases, a flexible neck is fastened to the camera mount, and the camera system is detachably coupled to the flexible neck. This allows a mounted camera system to be situated at any desired angle for taking photographs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Aaron Clearman, Nicholas Streets
  • Publication number: 20140069352
    Abstract: A slider device includes a slider frame having a top rail and a bottom rail. A first parallel member connects the top and bottom rails and arranges generally perpendicular to the top and bottom rails, but lies in a common plane. A second parallel member disposes or arranges at an end of the frame opposite from the first parallel member. The second parallel member links or connects between the top and bottom rails. A third parallel member arranges intermediate to the first and second parallel member. A D-shaped ringlet couples to the frame adjacent to the first parallel member. The ringlet and frame lie in a common plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Inventor: Paul Fidrych
  • Publication number: 20140047864
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the application discloses a connecting assembly for connecting a wearable band comprising at least one connector body, at least one linker, at least one slot, wherein the slot is configured on the connector body or configured on the linker; wherein the linker is configured to accept the protrusion to reversibly connect the linker to the connector body; and wherein the linker and the connector body comprise of material selected from silicone or a silicone composite. The connecting assembly may be used to carry or store personal and safety or security items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2012
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Inventors: Yung-Cheng Lo, Yung-Fen Lo, Ching-Fu Lo
  • Patent number: 7992263
    Abstract: To connect a belt connecting member (4) of a first member (1) with a snap hook (5) of a second member (2), a neck portion (21) having a circular cross section is provided so as to project from a connecting portion of the snap hook (5), a bulging portion (22) is provided on a tip end of the neck portion (21) so as to radially bulge to define an engaging portion (23), a fitting hole (13) is provided on a connecting portion of the belt connecting member (4) with an engaged portion (15) that is engageable with the bulging portion (22), the engaged portion (15) and the engaging portion (23) are formed in an oval shape having a long axis (L, L?) in a flush plane of the belt connecting member (4) and the snap hook (5) and a short axis (S, S?) in orthogonal planes of the belt connecting member (4) and the snap hook (5), and the engaging force can be largest when the snap hook (5) is in its most general state in use where the belt connecting member (4) and the snap hook (5) are orthogonal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: YKK Corporation
    Inventor: Ryoichiro Uehara
  • Patent number: 7681843
    Abstract: A display and mounting clip, particularly adapted to mount flatware to a display board, has a shank supporting a closed loop through which the displayed item is inserted. Opposed support arms, coupled to the shank, support the item within the loop. The shank is adapted to extend through the mounting board. Flexible locking means extend from the shank and can be placed into a splayed orientation below the mounting board to retain the clip in position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Cambridge Silversmiths Ltd., Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas P. McQueeny
  • Publication number: 20090070969
    Abstract: A pair of brassiere wings having ends meeting on a longitudinal centerline are interconnected by a closure having a flexible first patch fixed to on of the wing ends and provided with a plurality of fastener members and a flexible second patch fixed to the other of the wing ends and provided with a fastener member engageable with the members of the first patch. A stiff bar extending transversely of the centerline is fixed to the second patch and concave toward a wearer of a brassiere having the wings. One of the patches is of a shape that is longest parallel to the centerline than transversely offset therefrom so that it reduces longitudinal elastic deformation of the respective wing end at the centerline more than offset therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2007
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Inventors: Gerhard Fildan, Karl Wanzenbock
  • Publication number: 20090007400
    Abstract: A holding apparatus, including an accommodation unit, at least a clapping unit, and at least a stopping unit, is provided. The accommodation unit includes a surface on which the electronic device can be placed. The clapping unit is located at the sides of the accommodation unit, and is a bendable element. The stopping unit is located at the lower part of the accommodation unit surface to stop the held electronic device from sliding off. When the electronic device is placed on the surface of accommodation unit, the clapping units can be bended to embrace the electronic device snugly to hold the device in place.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2007
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Inventor: Eagle Fan
  • Publication number: 20080148535
    Abstract: This invention provides a clip for joining tubular members that employs living hinges that are part of a unitary clip including jaws and a base spring. The jaws are joined by a center living hinge and each jaw is also joined along a surface opposite its gripping surface to a cantilevered end of the base spring by a side-mounted living hinge. When the clip jaws are in a fully open orientation, with the center hinge at a maximum distance away from the base spring, the user biases the central hinge toward the base spring. The base spring ends are thereby biased away from each other, and after the jaws rotate about their living hinges through a position of maximum spread in the base spring ends, the spring ends rebound, forcing the jaws downward toward the base spring, and into a fully closed orientation. The clip includes a base that can be an anchor that embeds in foam of an upholstery cushion, or can have an adhesive that allows it to be secured to a structure, in the case of a pipe or conduit clamp.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2006
    Publication date: June 26, 2008
    Applicant: HOPE GLOBAL, DIVISION OF NFA CORP.
    Inventors: Andrew W. Santin, Pasquale Rossi
  • Patent number: 7219405
    Abstract: A fabric attaching clip (10) consisting of a garter grip button end (20) attached to a loop tape strap (24) positioned on an outer surface of a fabric (26). A garter grip wireform (22) is attached to a hook and loop tape strap (30) that is positioned on an inner surface of the fabric, aligning with the garter grip button end (20) and tightly engaged with the fabric drawn compressably between. The fabric attaching clip (10) permits fabric, to be swagged by gathering the fabric with the loop tape strap, which has the end threaded into the wireform and by pulling the extending end for adjustment. The loop tape strap (24) is joined to the hook and loop tape strap (30) for closure therebetween. A theme decoration (38) having a hook tape segment (40) is attached on a front surface of the loop tape strap (30), providing both a decorative effect to a table and covering the clip (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2007
    Inventor: Susan E. Nevens
  • Patent number: 7077595
    Abstract: The present invention provides an unitary spine binder which comprises an elongated dorsal hinge bearing pairs of opposing and complementary male and female ring elements having known male fastener and female fastener, respectively. Each pair of ring elements also comprise a concave distal end on one element, and a complementary convex distal end on the other element. When the distal ends of the ring elements are moved towards each other, the male and female fasteners reversibly engage with each other so that each pair of ring elements, in cooperation with the dorsal hinge, forms substantially a ring to secure sheet paper by occupying a pre-punched hole in the paper. At the same time, the concave and convex distal ends also engage, so that the sidewalls of the concave distal end engages the convex distal end to protect the fasteners against disengagement by torsional and lateral forces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2006
    Assignee: General Binding Corporation
    Inventor: Colin Knight
  • Patent number: 6978522
    Abstract: A clasp device for attaching to a sheet material includes a male member having a piercing member for piercing through the sheet material, and a female member having a bore to receive the piercing member of the male member, and to secure the male member and the female member to the sheet material, and to prevent the male member and the female member from being disengaged from the sheet material. The piercing member of the male member and the female member include engaging elements engageable with each other, to solidly secure the male member and the female member together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2005
    Inventor: Eric Liao
  • Patent number: 6701586
    Abstract: A sheet gripping assembly comprises an elongate member having a side defining inwardly extending wall portions defining confronting channels, and a gripping member of generally zigzag configuration manually manipulable to engage into said confronting channels to secure sheet material between the elongate members and the gripping member. The elongate member may have an elongated slot for positioning therealong a threaded fastener to secure the elongate member to a second structural member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignee: John L. Conley, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas L. Conley, Howard L. Davis
  • Patent number: 6575411
    Abstract: A curved portion 1g of a lead line set 1e is received in a recessed portion 13d that is formed in an inner face 13c of a base piece 13 in the open state. An inner face 17a of a first folded piece 17 is folded on the inner face 13c of the base piece 13, and the curved portion 1g of the lead line set 1e is sandwiched between the base piece 13 and the first folded piece 17. Thereafter, an inner face 21a of a second folded piece 21 is folded on an outer face 17e of the first folded piece 17, and the lead line set 1e portion that is slightly nearer the distal end than the lead line set 1e portion that is folded along a folding line X is sandwiched between the first and the second folded pieces 17 and 21.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2003
    Assignee: Yazaki Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuyoshi Serizawa, Minoru Kubota
  • Publication number: 20020088098
    Abstract: A quick fastener provides for the securing together of a plurality of thin sheets of material, and is especially well suited for securing together multiple sheets of paper of a document or the like. The present fastener essentially comprises two resilient components, with a first component having a post extending therefrom and the second component having a mating receptacle formed therein. The post includes a bulb on the distal end thereof, with the receptacle having a relief formed therein for accepting the bulb of the post. The post resiliently snaps into the receptacle to secure the two components together. The outer surfaces of the two fastener components are essentially identical and form a symmetrical external configuration when assembled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2001
    Publication date: July 11, 2002
    Inventor: Roger R. Bouley
  • Patent number: 6098356
    Abstract: An apparatus for sealing an intermediate anchorage of a post-tension anchor system having a cap with an attachment section thereon. The attachment section is adapted to allow the cap to be connected to an end of the anchor body. The cap has a tubular member extending outwardly from the attachment section. The tubular member has an opening at an end opposite the attachment section. The cap has a grease fitting formed thereon. The grease fitting is adapted so as to allow grease to be introduced into the interior passageway of the tubular member. The attachment section and the tubular member are integrally formed together of a polymeric material. A seal is affixed to the open end of the tubular member so as to form a liquid-tight seal over the sheathed portion of a tendon extending therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2000
    Inventor: Felix L. Sorkin
  • Patent number: 5870806
    Abstract: A bistable member including a bistable, invertable dish- or dome-shaped base portion and an engaging projection extending therefrom. A male member is engaged with the bistable member by pressing the male member against a central apex of the bistable member that is surrounded by the engaging projection, thereby inverting the bistable member from a first stable form to a second stable form. In the second stable form, the engaging protrusion and a portion of the bistable member wrap around a knob of the male member, thereby securing the male member to the bistable member. A subsequently applied triggering energy re-inverts the bistable member, thereby releasing the male member. This assembly is usable as a snap fastener by setting an equilibrium point of the bistable member such that a relatively large triggering energy is required to re-invert the bistable member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1999
    Inventor: Robert P. Black, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5768753
    Abstract: A deflection fitting for a safety belt is provided, comprising an attachment section having an eyelet, a deflection web, and bent connection sections provided at each axial end of the deflection web and connecting the deflection web to the attachment section so that a closed ring is formed which surrounds a feed-through slot for a safety belt. The attachment section, the deflection web and the bent connection sections are formed integrally as a diecast part made of aluminium or an aluminium alloy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1998
    Assignee: TRW Occupant Restraint Systems GmbH
    Inventor: Karl Mondel
  • Patent number: 5749185
    Abstract: An intermediate anchorage for post-tension system including an anchor member having an interior passageway extending therethrough, a tendon extending through the interior passageway and having a sheathed and an unsheathed portion extending outwardly from one side of the anchor member, and a split tubular member received at one end by the anchor member and extending over the sheathed portion of the tendon. The split tubular member has another end extending over the sheathed portion of the tendon. The split tubular member has a first longitudinal edge and a second longitudinal edge extending therealong. The longitudinal edges are separable for a distance greater than a diameter of the tendon so as to allow the tendon to be asked into an interior of the tubular member. A seal is formed between the longitudinal edges so as to prevent liquid intrusion into the interior of the tubular member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1998
    Inventor: Felix L. Sorkin
  • Patent number: 5291640
    Abstract: An article of flat pattern form providing a loop disengageably attached to a margin of flexible sheet material by manipulating a male member at one end of a strap and through a smaller opening of a female member at the other end of the strap, with a section of the flexible sheet material over the male member, by bending and twisting for passage of the male member through the female member, enabled by an adjoining access opening, followed by untwisting and with the male member overlying a peripheral portion of the female member and the flexible sheet material secured by bites over the inner edge of the female opening and over the periphery of the male member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1994
    Inventor: Leif Rise
  • Patent number: 5265293
    Abstract: In combination with an inflatable body support formed from a pair of plastic sheets joined together forming an air pressurizable chamber therebetween, the sheets having a plurality of aligned holes extending therethrough with the sheets being joined together around the circumference of each hole allowing body heat and moisture to flow through each hole but preventing air flow from the chamber into each hole, thereby providing an air cushion for supporting a person positioned thereatop that dissipates pressure, heat and moisture to prevent the onset of pressure sores and ulcers, the improvement which comprises: occluding the holes over which the torso, head and limbs of a person positioned atop the inflatable body support would not lie, thereby reducing the distension of the inflatable body support surrounding the occluded holes thereby volume centering the air within the air pressurizable chamber under a person positioned atop the inflatable body support; providing a pair of micro and macro adjustable, separa
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1993
    Assignee: Ehob, Inc.
    Inventors: James G. Spahn, Steven P. Langley
  • Patent number: 5231246
    Abstract: An apparatus for joining together two enclosures which both mechanically fastens the enclosures and provides shielding against electromagnetic emissions. A tubular electromagnetic shield formed as an endless loop is secured around the perimeter of an interface opening by a plurality of shield fasteners. At least some fasteners are of a fold-over type which encircles a portion of the shield and secures it to a surface. The apparatus includes fastener/spacer assemblies for joining the enclosures such that they exert a compressive force on the shield which is disposed between them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1993
    Assignee: Digital Equipment Corporation
    Inventors: John M. Benson, David M. Alessandrini, Wayne D. Rett
  • Patent number: 5199139
    Abstract: A fastening device or apparatus wherein mechanical connection and/or disconnection or electrical connection and/or disconnection is accomplished as a result of the deformation of an oval/ellipse shaped component--the deformable component--which may preferably have an elliptical aperture therethrough. Deformation may result from the application of a deforming force which causes the decrease in length of the major axis and a consequent increase in length of the minor axis of the ellipse. The deforming force may be applied by any known means such as by magnetic fields applied where the deformable component may have incorporated therein material which is sensitive and reactive to such magnetic fields or by the application of mechanical pressure from a piston driven by magnetic forces or hydraulic forces and/or forces created by temperature changes such as are known and found in a class of materials characterized as "SHAPE MEMORY ALLOYS".
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1993
    Inventor: T. Gordon Hutchinson
  • Patent number: 5113553
    Abstract: A fastening device or apparatus having at least two parts or components wherein reliance is on the deformation of an oval/ellipse shaped aperture which deformation results from the insertion of a stud component into the aperture which is formed within a socket component. The present invention permits the attachment of the two components and the release of such attached components both steps being achievable using the squeezing or pinching forces on only the periphery of so called socket component and exertable with the use of one hand; more specifically the use of the fingers of one hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1992
    Inventor: T. Gordon Hutchinson
  • Patent number: 5075938
    Abstract: A two part or component fastening device or apparatus wherein reliance is on the deformation of an oval/ellipse shaped aperture which deformation results from the insertion of a stud component into the aperture which is formed within a socket component. The present invention permits the attachment of two components and the release of such attached components both steps being achievable using the squeezing or pinching forces on only the periphery of a so called socket component and exertable with the use of one hand; more specifically the use of the fingers of one hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1991
    Inventor: T. Gordon Hutchinson
  • Patent number: 5020193
    Abstract: Straps having a rigid buckle are removably attached to a unitary flexible mounting lug comprising a substrate, a web extending vertically from the substrate, an elongate flange extending from one side of the web and a lip extending from the opposite side of the web, whereby the lug can be deformed to receive the buckle and secure it between the substrate and the flange and lip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1991
    Assignee: Mine Safety Appliances Company
    Inventor: Harry A. Kunze
  • Patent number: 4996752
    Abstract: A stud and eyelet fastener is positively locked together by pivoting the eyelet on the stud in an eyelet pivot seat to an askew position requiring the eyelet to snap past a latching shoulder, and wherein the stud and/or eyelet deforms within the elastic limit as the eyelet passes the latching shoulder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 5, 1991
    Inventor: Charles D. Clendinen
  • Patent number: 4688304
    Abstract: The tarp fastener is a device consisting of a metal ring used in conjunction with a rubber ball to attach to and secure plastic tarps or any flexible material such as cloth, rubber, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1987
    Inventor: Roger F. Marcott
  • Patent number: 4527313
    Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement in a loop fitting or locking tongue for retractor-type safety belts, forming a slot (13) for the passage of the belt strap and reorientation of the path of the strap over an edge of the slot. The loop fitting or locking tongue is coated with a layer (11) of plastic material, and an edge lining (14) of another plastic material than said plastic layer and having low-friction properties is mounted as a separate element on said edge. The edge lining is let into the surface of the plastic layer, and hook-shaped marginal portions (15) of the lining engage shoulders (16) formed by the plastic layer at the front and rear sides of the loop fitting or locking tongue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1983
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1985
    Assignee: AB Stil-Industri
    Inventors: Hans Sylven, Leif Ennerdal, Lars-Eije Berg
  • Patent number: 4472862
    Abstract: A film fastening system including a rigid base extrusion, and a locking member which fits into the extrusion to securely hold a sheet such as polyethylene or the like along edges or at its midportions relative to a support. The fastener includes a hinged locking cover which places a clamping force on the sheet being held. The cover also covers the free edge of the sheet material when installed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 1983
    Date of Patent: September 25, 1984
    Inventors: Roger D. Bloomfield, Stephen R. Kenin