Abstract: A roller assisted low friction reefing grommet that facilitates movement of a reefing line through the grommet. The roller assisted low friction reefing grommet includes a grommet ring having a roller therein that reduces friction of the line traveling through the grommet. A line channeling guide is formed within the interior of the grommet ring by a low friction material positioned on either side of the grommet, with a channel formed by the line channeling guide and the roller for receiving and guiding the reefing line.

Abstract: A tension buckle is provided and includes a slider body and a toggle body, including features that permit “locking” the positioning of a load. The slider body includes a head with a strap receiving passageway extending there through from lateral sides thereof and positioned along a proximal end thereof, and a distal end having a neck positioned opposite the proximal end and tie section extending from the neck. The toggle body includes a top bar, a bottom bar, a first joining element, and a second joining element to provide a toggle strap receiving passageway extending though the toggle body from lateral sides thereof.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a fastener element for attachment to a component, wherein the fastener element has a contact surface which contacts the component in the installed state. Furthermore, the fastener element has a mounting recess which faces the component in the dismantled state. The mounting recess is bounded by at least one sidewall and by a base section. The sidewall is, at least regionally, provided with at least one undercut which is effective in the axial direction of the fastener element. The base section is formed free of any aperture.

Abstract: A button includes a button body that is placed over a first main surface of a sheet having the first main surface and a second main surface opposing to the first main surface, the button body having a hole over the first main surface; a fixing member including a base that is placed over the second main surface, and a shaft that projects from the base and passes through the hole from the second main surface towards the first main surface side, in which a distal portion of the shaft includes: a plate-like base portion provided over the button body and covering the hole; and a plurality of ribs integrally formed with the base portion and onto a surface of the base portion, and radially extending from a center to a circumference of the base portion.

Abstract: A seatbelt system includes a buckle stay. The buckle stay is provided with an anchor for being fixedly fastened on a vehicle body and also with a buckle stay member fixed at an end thereof on the anchor and connected at an opposite end thereof with a buckle base of the seatbelt system. The buckle stay member is branched into a plurality of end portions on a side of its one end where the buckle stay member is fixed on the anchor. The branched end portions are fixedly secured in the anchor portions, respectively.

Abstract: A garment fastener, especially for brassieres, with a press-button action and configuration, utilizes a pair of circular members welded to the garment and through which the fabric is visible and a circular member attached to the strap and forming a press connection with either of the two circular members attached to the fabric.

Abstract: A watertight press fastener part formed of an eyelet part (1 or 3) including an eyelet body (2 or 4) or of a ball part (5) including a ball body (6) and a cap rivet (7) which is fixable to a flat material (9), preferably in the form of a climate membrane, in a watertight manner by riveting. An elastically deformable sealing element (11 or 13) which is constructed as a molded part contacts the flat material (9). This sealing element is penetrated by the rivet shank (8) of the cap rivet (7) and has, in the assembled state, due to the deformation of the rivet shank, a press face which is formed in an analogous manner by deformation and which surrounds the axial opening (10) of the press fastener part. Together with a counter-face at the eyelet part or at the ball part, the press face defines the clamping area for the flat material (9).

Abstract: A buckle for a safety belt has a housing with a recess, a cable to anchor the buckle to a vehicle or to a vehicle seat, and a cable fixing device. The cable has an end nearest to the buckle and the cable fixing device has a retaining section by which the cable fixing device is connected with the end of the cable. The cable fixing device is attached to the buckle. The retaining section extends at least partly into the recess.

Abstract: A push-button closure part including a contoured button, a metallic rivet part having a rivet shank projecting from the underside of the button and an approximately radially extending, round rivet flange. The closure part includes a push button eyelet for slipping onto the rivet shank through a central opening. The rivet shank is deformed in a shallow S-shape which causes flexible material clasped between the rivet flange and the eyelet to be pressed between the edge of the central opening of the eyelet and rivet flange and also between the surrounding outer edge of the eyelet and the rivet flange.

Abstract: A fastener assembly is adapted for releasably fastening a flap to a body sheet of a briefcase or the like with the flap having a through aperture formed therethrough. The fastener assembly has a male member attached to the flap having a through aperture formed therethrough and a female member attached to the body sheet and having a socket. The male member includes a male member proper mounted on one side of the flap and a separate attachment plate mounted on the other side of the flap. The male member proper has a plug protuberantly extending from the outer side thereof for locking engagement with the socket and a through hole formed therethrough. The attachment plate has a clinching stud protuberantly extending from the inner side thereof. The male member proper and the attachment plate are joined to each other with the flap clamped therebetween.

Abstract: A connector device for metal cables has a connector member and a coupling terminal, the connector member and the coupling terminal being attachable to corresponding free ends of different portions of a metal cable, the connector member including a main body having a hollow structure and provided with retaining slot for the coupling terminal and also a clamping bushing, the coupling terminal being formed as a solid connector body.

Abstract: A snap fastener stud (S) for accommodating receivers (R) of varying thickness has a generally pear-shaped head with latching and retaining seats (38 and 40) therebeneath on opposite sides of the stud with the retaining seat having a radius of curvature (t) substantially greater than the radius of curvature (r) of the confronting surface of the receiver (R). In a modification the stud is capable of receiving a plurality of receivers (R.sub.1 and R.sub.3). The receivers may be formed with an annulus (72) which is separate from the portions (86 and 88) which are crimped to the fabric (F). The stud (S) has ribs (116) for preventing rotation on a surface on which the stud is mounted and a saddle shaped adapter (110) enables mounting of the stud on a cylindrical support (TF).

Abstract: The magnetic button comprises magnetically cooperating male and female elements each having a rivet element for attachment to a respective flap of an article and at least one holed plate wherethrough the rivet element is passed and clamped between one face of the respective flap and an upsettable end of the rivet. The plate has a substantially crowned shape with peripheral radial cutouts defining peripheral tabs on the plate so as to enable an elastic deformation thereof.

Abstract: A button body of a tack button comprises a back member, a front member, and a backing core fitted securely in a space formed between the two members, the back member has a plurality of projections formed on the side in contact with the core. The projections are formed either directly on the back member or downwardly in a reinforcing groove formed in the member.

Abstract: A speed lace structure for footwear that allows the footwear to be put on and tightened up quickly. The speed lace structure comprises lacer assemblies and rivet assemblies combinatively secured to a footwear quarter. Each lacer assembly is formed with a lacer loop portion having peripheral lips and with opposed fastening portions provided with central openings surrounded by a plurality of gripping teeth. Each lacer assembly is made of metal provided with a fine coating of a plastic, so as to render it smooth and very slippery. Each rivet assembly includes a capped eyelet serving as an anchoring stem to fit in and though the opposed central openings of the lacer assembly, and a deformable eyelet designed to fit into one of the opposed central openings and over the capped eyelet.

Abstract: A ball-side piece of a snap fastener comprises two members; an inside member having a portion adapted to be in contact with one side of a fabric or the like and a guide face portion provided therearound to receive and guide curved tips, or claws, of a backing member, and an outside member extended over and secured to the periphery of the inside member. The outside member has a round head adapted to engage a socket-side piece of the snap fastener, a flat flange portion adapted to contact the same side of the fabric or the like and hold the deformed claws of the backing member as attached to the fabric or the like, and a curved guide face portion extending over the guide face portion of the inside member toward the periphery of the flat flange portion so as to receive and guide the claws of the backing member.

Abstract: A button includes a button body having a funnel-shaped button back and a cap mounted on a wide end of the button back, and a tack member adapted to be joined with the small end of the button back for attachment of the button to a garment fabric, the button as attached to the garment fabric defining a hollow interior. The button body includes at least one channel extending between an inclined outer peripheral portion of the button back and an annular rim of the cap secured to the inclined outer peripheral portion. A liquid which has entered in the button's hollow interior can be drained through the channel from the hollow interior.

Abstract: A snap fastener and method of attaching the same to a section of sheet material are disclosed. The snap fastener comprises an operative component and a securing component, both of these components being formed of plastics material. The operative component has a base wall with an opening therethrough and a tubular portion including a snap engaging portion formed thereon surrounds the opening and projects from one side of the base wall. The securing component has a pin and a cap flange at one end thereof, the pin being adapted to pass through the opening of the operative component so that the terminal end portion of the pin is located beyond the side of the base wall from which the tubular portion projects. The terminal end portion of the pin is deformable when so located relative to the operative component so as to secure the two components against separation. At least a peripheral portion of the cap flange slopes outwardly in a direction towards the terminal end of the pin.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a buckle assembly suitable for use in a vehicle seat belt. The buckle assembly includes a clinched anchor block fixed on a wire and having an interlocking portion projecting downwardly therefrom, a buckle base having a bottom wall defining a matching interlocking portion, which is in engagement with the interlocking portion of the anchor block, and a pair of side walls extending downwardly from the bottom wall. The anchor block is connected directly to both of the side walls of the buckle base. The interlocking portion of the anchor block is press-fit in the matching interlocking portion in the bottom wall of the buckle base. The clinch force of the anchor block against the wire is thus not reduced by the fixing work of the anchor block to the buckle base.

Abstract: A buckle assembly which comprises a clinched anchor block fixedly connected to a wire and provided with a first interlocking portion at an upper part and a second interlocking portion at a lower part, a buckle base having at least one bottom wall provided with an interlocking portion which is staked with the second interlocking portion, and a support member held on the buckle base and engageable with the first interlocking portion. Owing to the adoption of the above structure, the buckle assembly according to this invention is generally flat and can withstand relatively great loads.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a process for clinching a wire rope on a buckle base, which comprises the following consecutive steps:subjecting a starting anchor block material and the wire rope in combination to a first clinching operation to obtain a preformed anchor block bearing steps therein; andsubjecting the preformed anchor block and the buckle base in combination to a second clinching operation to clinch the resultant anchor block on the buckle base, which second clinching operation is applied in a direction different from the first clinching operation. Owing to the first and second clinching operations carried out in directions different from each other, the resulting stresses are scattered and the anchor block is thus protected from being overstressed.

Abstract: A fastening device for holding elements such as snap pins or clamps on a cover plate made of molded fiber which includes a holding plate spaced above the cover plate and having support plates fixed to opposite ends thereof by side walls. A separate intermediate plate is between the holding plate and support plates and the cover plate and has a plurality of claws adapted to penetrate the fiber plate. The intermediate plate and the holding plate are fastened together by hooks and/or snap fasteners.

Abstract: Fastener intended for canvas comprising a sleeve (10) with a tubular portion (11) which is intended to extend through a hole in the canvas material (22), also a flange portion (12,24) on each side of the material. Between these flange portions there is canvas material with an area around the said hole where a ring-shaped surface is arranged to press against the surface of the material so that a friction connection is formed. The surface, which is preferably located on a separate ring (1), is provided with projections which are arranged to be pressed into the material (22) under the influence of the force from the flange portions so that the positive connection is furthermore formed. A supporting ring (17) is arranged to be present on the opposite side of the material (22) as related to the surface provided with projections.