Abstract: A conjoining assembly for removably connecting a plurality of items such as, but not limited to clothing articles, to one another including at least two securing members removably attachable to one another. Each securing member includes a base and a retainer structured for connection to one another concurrent to the base and retainer of each securing member cooperatively disposed in retaining relation to a different one of the plurality of items. The removable connection of the securing members may include a snap-action connection between the bases, without the use of conventional or customized tools, concurrent to retention of the different ones of the plurality of items.

Abstract: A magnetic coupler for attaching a mattress to a bed foundation includes a magnet assembly, a target assembly, and a shunt. The magnet assembly includes a housing and a magnet, wherein the housing is configured to couple the magnet to the mattress. The target assembly is configured to couple a target to the foundation. The shunt is disposed within the housing of the magnet assembly or in the mattress. The magnet assembly and the target assembly are releasably attached when the magnet is magnetically coupled to the target.

Abstract: A physiological signal detecting device includes a carrier, an electrode layer fixed on the carrier for receiving a physiological signal, and a signal transmitter buckled on the electrode layer and the carrier. The signal transmitter includes a transmitting member and an external connector. The transmitting member includes a first sheet, a column extending from the first sheet, and a thorn curvedly extending from the first sheet. The external connector includes a ring-shaped second sheet and a hollow protrusion extending from an inner edge of the second sheet. The thorn has a sharp end piercing into the electrode layer, the column passes through the electrode layer and the carrier, and a free end portion of the column exposes from the carrier. The protrusion is sleeved at and fastened to the free end portion so that the carrier and the electrode layer are sandwiched between the first and second sheets.

Abstract: A snap button includes a male retaining member and a female retaining member. The male retaining member includes a base, a hollow cylinder, and at least one protrusion portion. The hollow cylinder is disposed on the base, the at least one protrusion portion is disposed on the base and at a periphery of the hollow cylinder. The female retaining member includes a main body which has a hollow tube body. The hollow cylinder is housed through the hollow tube body.

Abstract: An integrated rockably released leverage snap fastening system may be removably fastened to the male snap to hold at least one item such as a tarpaulin in place to a boat or the like. To facilitate unfastening, male snap and rockable lever snap assembly cooperatively combine to create a class 1 lever system which may permit a user to rockably release the snap while reducing risk of damage to the tarpaulin. Various embodiments are discussed.

Abstract: A two-part buckle is provided with springing structure associated with web securing structures of the buckle parts, and with structure allowing deflection within the buckle part to at least partly absorb tensile forces applied to the buckle.

Abstract: A buckle is composed of a buckle body and an insertion body. The buckle includes an engagement and disengagement system in which the insertion body is inserted into the buckle body. An elastic member provided with elasticity, which is made of, for example, natural rubber, synthetic rubber or thermoplastic elastomer, is integrally molded on a pressing surface formed on an operating portion for performing an engagement and disengagement operation of the buckle by bicolor molding means or insert molding means. The pressing surface of the operating portion may be disposed on the buckle body or may be disposed on the insertion body. In either case, it is possible to produce a buckle having a good touch. Consequently, since the operating portion is flexible and soft to the touch, a smooth engagement and disengagement operation of the buckle can be realized.

Abstract: A snap fastener (103) is disclosed having a pair of fastening members 100 each having bases (104) and mounting members (105). The base (104) defines a central opening (107) spaced-apart projections (108) are disposed in an annular pattern about the opening. The projections have lateral flanges (114) and adjacent recesses (116). The recesses 116 of one fastening member 100 receives the flanges 114 at an opposing fastening member to detachably connect the fastening members together. A method of detachably joining two substrates together is disclosed.

Abstract: A buckle of the invention is formed of a hollow female member, which is provided with an inserting hole and first engaging portions, and a male member provided with a collar portion and elastic pieces disposed at both end portions of a front surface of the collar portion. Each of the elastic pieces includes a second engaging portion at a distal end thereof, and the elastic pieces are disposed to face each other and inserted into the inserting hole of the female member. The both end portions of the front surface of the collar portion are respectively provided with concave portions, so that the collar portion and the elastic pieces are overlapped in a longitudinal direction thereof. Accordingly, an entire length of the male member is shortened while a length of the elastic piece and bending margin are obtained as required.

Abstract: Embodiments of restraining grommets for use with protective cowling of marine outboard drives through which various flexible elements such as control cables and hoses extend. The restraining grommet is formed with at least two openings made up of multi-part sections and at least one of which is slitted so as to permit ease of insertion and removal of the flexible element without kinking of them.

Abstract: A button for clothing, comprising a metallic dome associated with an equally metallic bell-shaped part, which contains a core and is associable with the fabric of the item of clothing by means of a nail. The core is provided with a disk-shaped portion with which an axial stem is associated; the free end of the stem has a square cross-section and is force-fitted inside the bell-shaped part, which becomes complementarily shaped by plastic deformation at least at its corners, producing an association in which mutual rotation of the parts is prevented. The stem is provided with a blind axial channel for the engagement of the nail and the front surface of its end is provided with first raised portions adapted to engage the fabric and to cooperate with second raised portions that extend from the facing surface of the head of the nail.

Abstract: A novel and improved slider with a yoke for a slide fastener and a novel and improved method for attaching or joining the yoke to the slider body, which may be carried out in simple operation to be attractive in appearance and to provide firm combination between the yoke and the slider body.The front and rear support posts the slider body are respectively provided with locking groove and the contact faces of the yoke are also provided with bulged portions opposite to the locking grooves. In a preferred embodiment, after the support posts are covered with the yoke, a press force is applied to the bulged portion in the forging process to flow the material of the bulged portion into the locking groove so as to provide the firm combination.

Abstract: Bag making material comprises a plastic film carrying a reclosable fastener or zipper male profile and with one or more alignment ribs in spaced parallel relation to the profile. Reinforcing ridge or ridges provide stabilizing beam effect in respect to the profile and/or the alignment rib or ribs on the film along the back of the profile and/or alignment rib base or bases.

Abstract: A plastic molded snap fastener including a stud head having solid thin annular base flange and a top, the top and the flange being held in spaced relation by radial ribs preferably in the form of a cross piece, the top being annular but "flattened" on the outer perimeter in the area of the ends of the cross piece. Where the plastic is compatible with the plastic of the fabric, the fastener parts may be molded directly on the fabric. In a modification the base flange is split by a plane perpendicular to the axis of the fastener part. The base fabric is sandwiched between the parts of the flange. This modification is useful where the plastic of the fastener is not compatible with the plastic of the fabric. The invention also includes a mold apparatus for forming the fastener on a stip of fabric wherein core pins on one side of the mold cooperate with spring-pressed ejection pins on the other side and with cavities in the mold retainer plates to shape the parts.

Abstract: A fastening assembly comprises a first internally open member such as a collar, and a second internally open member such as a bifurcated plug which is slidable realative to the collar to an assembled position in which the plug is located at least partially within the collar, at least one protrusion provided between the collar and the plug causing the plug to be deformed when in said assembled position, so as to create at least one inwardly directed jaw or fang for use in fastening engagement with a workpiece such as an externally threaded stud located at least partially within the plug, the advantage being that the amount of driving force which is transmitted in the driving direction to the stud through means of the fastening assembly can be minimized, so that the fastening assembly can have a knock-on/screw-off capability even if the stud is resiliently mounted on compressible foamed material.

Abstract: A safety helmet includes a helmet shell, at least one accessory, and at least one plug connection for connecting the accessory to the helmet shell being detachable with a given opening force, each plug connection including an elastic plug having a socket formed therein and being fixed in an opening formed in the helmet shell, and a plug nipple fastened to the accessory being insertible and lockable in the socket.

Abstract: An outboard motor comprising a propulsion unit having opposite first and second sides and including a lower unit including a rotatably mounted propeller, and a drive shaft housing including a drive shaft drivingly connected to the propeller, and a power head mounted on the drive shaft housing and including an internal combustion engine drivingly connected to the drive shaft, a cowl assembly enclosing the power head and including a first lower cowl member removably and resiliently mounted on the first side of the propulsion unit, a second lower cowl member removably and resiliently mounted on the second side of the propulsion unit, and an upper cowl member removably mounted on the first and second lower cowl members, and a bolt detachably connecting the first lower cowl member to the second lower cowl member.

Abstract: A housing (10, 12, 14) has first and second flexible membranes (32, 42) dividing it into two sealed chambers plus a third chamber from which the movable member (38) projects. Each membrane co-operates with a respective cup (40, 50) and return springs (54, 56) tend to urge both cups away from an end wall (26). The two cups are interconnected by a single piece member (58) which is inextensible but which can readily be bent in two to enable the cups to come into contact with one another. Each sealed chamber can individually be selectively connected to a source of reduced pressure via a respective orifice or pipe fitting (30, 28). The position of the movable member (38) can thus be changed.

Abstract: A hook-and-eye assembly includes an eye attached by a first fastener to a first fabric (FA), and a hook attached by a second fastener to a second fabric (FB). The eye has a base plate having a pair of arms projecting laterally from one surface of the base plate and defining an opening therewith, the base plate having a first embossed portion projecting away from the arms and having a center spaced from edges of the arms, the first embossed portion having a pair of first holes divided by a first bridge. The first fastener has a pair of first prongs inserted through the first holes, respectively, and bent around the first bridge with the first embossed portion directed toward the first fastener for positioning the first fabric (FA) therebetween. The hook includes a face plate for insertion into the opening and a back plate spaced therefrom, the back plate having a second embossed portion projecting away from the face plate and having a pair of second holes divided by a second bridge.

Abstract: A clip for releasable attachment to a stud having a screw thread or annular ribs comprises a mount, which is elliptical in cross-section and has transverse flanges on its long sides to engage the thread or ribs of the stud. Squeezing the mount by applying pressure onto the ends of its major axis forces the flanges apart and releases the clip. Such a deformation of the mount is checked by abutments at opposite ends of its major axis.

Abstract: A snap fastener for use on garment pieces comprises a male member attached by a first rivet to one of the garment pieces and a female member attached by a second rivet to the other garment piece. The male member includes a first cylindrical wall having an annular rim snapped in an annular groove defined in a second cylindrical wall of the female member. The male member and the first rivet have reinforcing ribs biting in the garment piece sandwiched therebetween, and similarly the female member and the second rivet have reinforcing ribs held in biting engagement with the garment sandwiched therebetween. The male and female members, and the first and second rivets are prevented by these reinforcing ribs from rotating with respect to the garment pieces, an advantage which manifests itself especially where the first and second rivets have directional ornamental patterns on their heads.

Abstract: A snap-fit buttom assembly comprises a female and a male member both molded and adapted to be coupled together with a snap-fit and a pair of tack members adapted to be joined with the female and male members for attachment thereof to a pair of fabric pieces separately. The female member, which is composed of a circular plate-like base and a cylindrical socket integral therewith, has along its periphery a plurality of openings each extending through the base and merging with the socket's bore receptive of a plug of the male member. The openings are angularly aligned, about the axis of the female member, with a plurality of inwardly directed locking projections of the socket. In production, the female member can be molded on a pair of mold halves; one mold half for shaping the base has a plurality of projections each having a contour corresponding to the shape of the individual opening.

Abstract: A fastener for locking two objects in a predetermined relationship. The fastener has a fastener body including a spacer which defines a predetermined distance between the two objects. A first locking element is on one side of the spacer and a second locking element is on the other side of the spacer. The fastener body is adapted to receive a plunger which is adapted to travel from a retracted position to a secured position. The plunger causes the first and second locking elements to rigidly affix the objects to the fastener body thus holding the objects a predetermined distance from each other.