Partially Blocking Separate, Nonresilient, Access Opening Of Cavity Patents (Class 24/671)
  • Patent number: 11653724
    Abstract: Provided is a snap button including a male snap button (30) made of metal and a female snap button (10). The male snap button (30) includes a base portion (31) and an engaging protuberance (32) which projects from the base portion (31). The female snap button (10) includes: a ring member (20, 120) made of soft resin, defining an engagement space (20a) which detachably accepts the engaging protuberance (32); and a female snap body (11) made of metal, accommodating the ring member (20, 120). The ring member (20, 120) is provided with a protruding portion (24) which projects further out to one side than an end (12a), on said one side, of the female snap body (11) facing the male snap button (30) in an axial direction, and which is provided in circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: YKK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kota Kanno, Kazunori Somai
  • Patent number: 10278457
    Abstract: A snap button includes a female snap body and a socket ring. The female snap body includes a bottom portion and a side wall rising from a peripheral edge of the bottom portion, the side wall provided with a holding portion for holding the socket ring. The socket ring includes a flange portion arranged radially outward and held by the holding portion and an engaging portion arranged radially inside the flange portion. The engaging portion protrudes downwardly toward the bottom portion side of the female snap body and below the flange portion, in the axial direction of the socket ring. An inner diameter of the socket ring may be gradually increased from an intermediate point in the axial direction of the engaging portion to one end and other end in the axial direction of the engaging portion. The engaging portion of the socket ring may be provided with a plurality of slits along the radial direction in the circumferential direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: YKK Corporation
    Inventor: Daisuke Hayashi
  • Patent number: 9334889
    Abstract: A method of providing, by high-frequency welding of at least two construction parts (4,4?) containing polymer material weldable by high-frequency welding to an assembled large unit in which said construction parts are comprised, fastener means (1) on said unit, said fastener means being intended for anchoring and building up said unit. The fastener means (1) are made of an electrically conductive material, and a primer layer (2) is arranged on a surface of the fastener means (1) and is bonded by means of a first hardening. A material weldable by high-frequency welding is arranged on top of said primer layer and is bonded thereto by means of a second hardening for building up a connecting layer (3). The invention also relates to anchoring parts (5) for use for that purpose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: FORSSTROM HIGH FREQUENCY AB
    Inventor: Ronny Forsström
  • Patent number: 9216629
    Abstract: A vehicle enclosure (14) and method and system of installation using an adhesive-backed attachment device (1) having a base (4) with an adhesive backing (10) and a stud (12) or a socket (2) that engages a conventional snap (8). The adhesive-backed attachment device is preferably flexible so that it may be attached to uneven surfaces of a vehicle, such as a golf cart (15). The adhesive-backed attachment device eliminates unsightly brackets, drilling or screwing into the golf cart and cuts down on installation time of golf cart enclosures. The studs and sockets may also be integrated into a new roof (14) for retrofitting an existing golf cart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: Nivel Parts & Manufacturing Co., LLC
    Inventor: Eric R. Schneider
  • Patent number: 8261417
    Abstract: A buckle includes a male member, a female member for engaging with the male member and having a first portion and a second portion, a first engaging portion provided on the first portion, and a second engaging portion provided on the male member for engaging with the first engaging portion. The second portion can bend so as to receive a part of the male member between the first and second portions. The second portion presses the male member toward the first portion to engage the first engaging portion with the second engaging portion when the male member is inserted between the first and second portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Nifco Inc.
    Inventor: Manabu Yoshiguchi
  • Patent number: 8042238
    Abstract: Snap fastener part comprising an axis (30), a coupling means (10) for coupling with a complementary coupling means of the other snap fastener part, a fixing means (14) for fixing the coupling means (10) to a carrier material (32), a cap (12) for covering the coupling means (10) on a side facing away from the carrier material (32) and a protrusion (28) on the side of the coupling means (10) facing away from the carrier material (32), said protrusion (28) encircling the axis (30), the fixing means (14) comprising at least one leg (16, 18, 20, 22, 24) which engages behind the coupling means (10) on the side facing away from the carrier material (32) when assembled and which is placed between the surface of the coupling means (10) facing away from the carver material (32) and the cap (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: YKK Corporation
    Inventor: Thomas Pferdehirt
  • Publication number: 20040107551
    Abstract: A device and method for forming an indented female connector where the dimension of the indented female connector provides for removing a male molding component without damaging a set of internal ribs formed inside the female connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2002
    Publication date: June 10, 2004
    Inventor: David J. Lipniarski
  • Patent number: 6209175
    Abstract: A locking device includes a projecting member and a retaining member. The projecting member has a bulbous head which is securely retained by the retaining member which includes a body portion having a passageway or void formed therethrough. An interference defined by at least one embossment is disposed within the passageway to provide a reduced diameter portion which precludes separation of the projecting member from the retainer. Depending on the materials of construction the interlocking relationship between the projecting member and the retainer can be permanent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2001
    Inventor: Bruce Gershenson
  • Patent number: 6116804
    Abstract: The rings of a loose leaf ring binder are selectively locked and unlocked by a locking member which travels within a slot on the spine of the ring binder. The leaf springs of the loose leaf ring binder have notches formed below a portion of the slot. Therefore, when a W-shaped locking prong of the locking member is aligned with the notches, the leaf springs can freely flex upwardly and downwardly allowing the rings of the loose leaf ring binder to open and close. However, when the W-shaped locking prong is not aligned with the notches, the W-shaped locking prong is urged against the leaf springs thereby maintaining the leaf springs in a downward position thereby locking the rings of the loose leaf ring binder in a closed position. The locking member further includes a locking tab to maintain the locking member within a locked position within the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2000
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventor: Nandan R. Mehta
  • Patent number: 5433930
    Abstract: A screen basket is provided for sterilizing containers, having a bottom with openings therein. Holding elements are fixed on the bottom, each having an extension which extends through at least one opening of the bottom. A releasable fixing member provided for each extension is placed on the underside of the bottom, to facilitate the installation and removal of the holding elements. Each extension has at least one recess on a side surface thereof. The fixing members carry a detent element which engages the recess in the corresponding extension. The detent element is held on the fixing member for removal from the recess by elastic deformation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1995
    Assignee: AESCULAP AG
    Inventor: Wolfgang Taschner
  • Patent number: 5226360
    Abstract: The bundling device of the present invention employs a molded plastic strap formed to present three sides, with the ends of the projecting sides having ridges for engaging a clamp member. Strap engaging channels are provided at each extremity of the clamp member and internally carry pawl members to ratchet against the strap ridges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1993
    Inventor: Thomas R. Kramka
  • Patent number: 5179765
    Abstract: In a preferred embodiment a plastic paper clip having a generally flat, horizontal, relatively rigid, base gripping member having an opening defined therein and a generally flat, generally horizontal, relatively rigid, upper gripping member fitable within said opening, the proximal end of said upper gripping member being attached to said lower gripping member by a vertical joining member such that said proximal end of said upper gripping member and said lower gripping member are spaced apart at the throat formed therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 19, 1993
    Inventor: Carl B. Sungberg
  • Patent number: 4977648
    Abstract: An arrangement for a snap lock includes a first component having a projecting part that is capable of being introduced into a corresponding cavity in a second component. An indentation in the projecting part is oriented transverse to the direction of introduction into the cavity. A snap device, e.g., a piece of profile strip made of flexible material such as plastic or rubber, is introduced into an undercut groove in the wall of the cavity, wherein a portion of the strip corresponding to the indentation extends into the cavity, thereby producing a snap locking function between the components when introduced one into the other. The components are preferably formed of pieces cut to identical lengths from two extruded profile strips made of rigid material, such as plastic or light metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 18, 1990
    Assignee: Conforex AB
    Inventor: Ove Eckerud
  • Patent number: 4949436
    Abstract: A two piece flat, low-profile separable fastener comprising a clasp and a receptacle, the clasp comprising a base and a rigid tongue having a release tab with a first shoulder that is a first stop means protruding therefrom; the receptacle comprising a body that defines a cavity and an aperture on an upper surface of said receptacle, the aperture having a second shoulder that is a second stop means disposed for cooperative engagement with said first stop means, means for urging said release tab into said aperture such that said first and second stop means abut one another and said receptacle and clasp are engaged, and means for releasing the engagement so that the receptacle and clasp may be separated. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention the fastener is in the form of a buckle and the means for urging the first and second stop means into abutment are located in the receptacle portion of the buckle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 21, 1990
    Inventor: Joseph A. Anscher
  • Patent number: 4921506
    Abstract: A rotary cam member (24) has a peripheral surface disposed about an axis. The peripheral surface includes first, second, and third portions that are, respectively, first, second, and third radial distances (R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3) from the axis. R.sub.1 is greater than R.sub.2 and less than R.sub.3. The third portion is positioned circumferentially between the first and second portions. Cam member (24) has an open position in which the second portion contacts the clamp (2, 4) with which lever (22) is being used and a closed position in which the first portion contacts clamp (2, 4). A handle (26) projects from cam member (24) for pivoting cam member (24) back and forth between its open and closed positions. A barrel nut (28) is received in a cylindrical axial hole in cam member (24) and engages pull member (8, 10) that closes clamp (2, 4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 1, 1990
    Assignee: David A. Clayton
    Inventor: Richard G. Poulton
  • Patent number: 4864700
    Abstract: A buckle assembly composed of three components, i.e. a socket, a main plug and an auxiliary plug for releasably connecting three straps or belts. The socket includes a cantilevered resilient locking arm interlockingly engageable with a resilient locking tongue of the main plug when the locking tongue is received in a guide chamber in the socket to thereby couple the socket and the main plug. The auxiliary plug is slidably mounted on the main plug and having two resilient, inwardly deformable locking legs snappingly engageable with respective retaining projections of the socket when the locking legs are received in the guide chamber. The auxiliary plug further includes a resilient releasing leg extending parallel to the locking legs and having a releasing cam projection engageable with the resilient locking arm to flex the latter outwardly away from the guide chamber for releasing the locking arm from interlocking engagement with the locking tongue, thereby uncoupling the main plug and the socket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1988
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1989
    Assignee: Yoshida Kogyo K.K.
    Inventor: Kazumi Kasai
  • Patent number: 4847959
    Abstract: A female member of a snap fastener comprising a holding part to be retained on material and a fitting part provided with a through-hole substantially at its center for closely contacting a fitting head of a male body of the snap fastener. The holding part includes an upper edge inclined to accept the fitting head of the male body and is molded with an elastic synthetic resin in one unit. Since the fitting convex part is inclined in the direction for receiving the fitting head of the male body, it is easy for the fitting head of the male body to slip into the through-hole when inserting the fitting head of the male body, thereby facilitating engagement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1989
    Assignee: Kane-M Industrial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Tsuneyuki Shimada, Masaru Iguchi
  • Patent number: 4836389
    Abstract: A rotary cam member (24) has a peripheral surface disposed about an axis. The peripheral surface includes first, second, and third portions that are, respectively, first, second, and third radial distances (R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3) from the axis. R.sub.1 is greater than R.sub.2 and less than R.sub.3. The third portion is positioned circumferentially between the first and second portions. Cam member (24) has an open position in which the second portion contacts the clamp (2, 4) with which lever (22) is being used and a closed position in which the first portion contacts clamp (2, 4). A handle (26) projects from cam member (24) for pivoting cam member (24) back and forth between its open and closed positions. A barrel nut (28) is received in a cylindrical axial hole in cam member (24) and engages pull member (8, 10) that closes clamp (2, 4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1983
    Date of Patent: June 6, 1989
    Assignee: David A. Clayton
    Inventor: Richard G. Poulton
  • Patent number: 4773641
    Abstract: Collars are provided for yieldingly restraining weights from leaving the ends of a barbell. Each collar surrounds the barbell shaft and contains a set of grooves which receive snugly O-rings made of resilient material. In the unstressed condition of each O-ring, the interior diameter is less than that of the barbell shaft. Preferably, the grooves have a generally square or trapezoidal cross-section, with a slightly widened mouth. A part of the collar can be gripped with the fingers to remove friction-platelock collars from the barbell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1988
    Inventor: Charles L. Metz
  • Patent number: 4748727
    Abstract: A snap fastener including a conventional first headed part and a second receptor part. The receptor is of sheet-like construction and includes a planar spring panel captured within a housing. The spring panel includes a central cut-out into which fingers extend from opposite sides to form an undersized opening which upon contact with the stud distorts the spring panel to provide the desired closing action therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1988
    Inventors: Stephen F. Bert, Raymond R. Bert
  • Patent number: 4745662
    Abstract: An improved clip for clamping papers has a pair of generally T-shaped clamping members each having a clamping portion and two lugs, a pivot pin for interconnecting pivotally the lugs of the clamping members, and a torsion spring mounted on the pivot pin for biasing the clamping portions of the clamping members to abut against each other. The improvement wherein an end of the pivot pin has two axially spaced annular flanges between which the pivot pin passes through a lug of a clamping member and a lug of the other clamping member. The pair of lugs disposed between the flanges are biased by the torsion spring to move in opposite directions and in turn to clamp tightly the pivot pin between the flanges, thereby preventing one of the flanges from outward movement by the obstructing action of the lugs between the flanges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1988
    Inventor: Shih-Ho Chang
  • Patent number: 4594754
    Abstract: An improved clamp apparatus for storing sheets, for example of paper or foil, including especially maps and drawings, the sheets being neither rolled nor folded so that they can be readily inspected, and a considerable number of sheets can be stored without interfering with each other. The sheets are held from above from any convenient rail, by being inserted, singly or multiply in a clamp that may be comparable in length with the sheet the pressure of the clamp being adjusted gradually by means of wing nuts on self locking bolts and being biased by leaf springs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1984
    Date of Patent: June 17, 1986
    Assignee: Planhorse International (NZ) Limited
    Inventor: Victor R. Spicer
  • Patent number: 4543695
    Abstract: A clutch is disclosed consisting of two parts, the first part being a tubular shell closed at one end, the shell having therein a resilient female clutch member that is held in position by lips on the open end of the shell. A male member is provided which is adapted to be received within the resilient member. The resilient member within the shell is cylindrical of a longitudinal dimension less than the space within the shell and of an outside diameter less than the inside diameter of the shell. The male member is made of a size so that the sum of its diameter plus the wall thickness of the resilient clutch member is greater than the inside diameter of the tubular shell, so as to create an airtight joint when the male member is inserted within the resilient member, but yet permitting air to escape around the outside of the resilient member and retarded ony when disengagement is attempted, at which time the resilient clutch member will seal against the lip of the tubular shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1983
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1985
    Inventor: Edmund Dorsey
  • Patent number: 4503979
    Abstract: A two piece binder is disclosed having substantially symmetrical clamping members hinged together along first edges thereof so as to be rotated to grasp sheet material between second edges thereof by the rotation of wing nuts mounted on one side of the two piece binder and operably coupled to the two clamping members. The two piece binder disclosed advantageously provides a symmetric two piece binder with a side mounted tensioning wing nut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 12, 1985
    Assignee: Norman Wade Company Limited
    Inventor: Joseph E. D. M. Morand
  • Patent number: 4434534
    Abstract: A clamping device for shackle mechanisms which can also be used as a tear-open safeguard and as a sheet turner consists of a flat body (8) with two L-shaped apertures (9,9'), one leg (10,10') of each aperture (9,9') extending parallel to the plane of the sheet shackels (17,17') and the legs (11,11') extending transversely thereto being arranged in line, also on the flat body (8) there are two hook-shaped portions (12,12') with a mouth (13,13'), this mouth (13,13') extending, over the distance of the sheet-shackle legs (4,5), parallel to the transverse leg (11,11') of the aperture (9,9') and the mouth (13,13') and transverse leg (11,11') being clampable firmly to the sheet-shackle legs (4,5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1982
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1984
    Inventor: Anthony Handler
  • Patent number: 4147257
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided for retaining lamellar material in stacked form. The device includes a sectional rail with a J-shaped cross section, which rail forms the main body of the device. The retaining action of the device is provided by a clamping rail with an L-shaped cross section. In the vicinity of its apex, the L-shaped clamping rail is pivotally mounted at the end of the shorter leg of the J-shaped sectional rail so that the longer legs of the two rails are in opposed, spaced relationship with the shorter leg of the L-shaped rail extending therebetween. An actuating member is coupled to the shorter leg of the L-shaped clamping rail and includes a threaded shaft which extends through a hole in the arcuate or web portion of the J-shaped sectional rail. The threaded shaft is capped with a wing nut which permits adjustment of the device. In operation, the stack of lamellar material is inserted between the longer legs of the two rails and the wing nut is screwed down onto the threaded shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1977
    Date of Patent: April 3, 1979
    Assignee: Herbert Zippel GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Herbert Zippel