Abstract: Provided is a snap button in which a swaged portion of a to-be-swaged pin is not visible from users. The snap button comprises a snap button body and a cap to be connected to the snap button body with a cloth interposed between them. The snap button body includes a base; a pin to be swaged, which protrudes from an inner surface of the base, the inner surface being placed to face the cloth; and an engaging portion provided on an outer surface opposite to the inner surface of the base. The cap comprises a cap body including a cap base; and a metal eyelet attached to an inner surface of the cap base, the inner surface being placed to face the cloth. The eyelet comprises a cylindrical portion for receiving the pin which has pierced the cloth and swaging the pin on the inner surface of the cap base.

Abstract: Disclosed are an eyelet member and a method of manufacturing the same. The eyelet member includes a first decoration unit, a second decoration unit having at least a portion inserted into the first decoration unit, and a stopper coupled to the first decoration unit and configured to allow the portion of the second decoration unit to pass therethrough, and the stopper is elastically in close contact with the portion of the second decoration unit and fixes the second decoration unit so as to prevent the second decoration unit from moving in a direction opposite an insertion direction thereof.

Abstract: A method suitable for anchoring an anchoring element in an object, which anchoring element is compressible in the direction of a compression axis under local enlargement of a distance between a peripheral anchoring element surface and the compression axis. The anchoring element has a coupling-in face which serves for coupling the mechanical vibrations into the anchoring element, which coupling-in face is not parallel to the compression axis. The anchoring element further includes a thermoplastic material which in areas of the peripheral surface enlargement forms at least a part of the surface of the anchoring element, the method includes the steps of: providing a bore in the object; positioning the anchoring element in the bore; and coupling the compressing force and the mechanical vibrations through the coupling-in face into the positioned anchoring element.

Abstract: A fitting system for securing a panel to a wall frame having a first member removably secured to a second member. The first receiving member includes an outer flange with a center aperture and a ring-like member extending backwards from a bottom surface of the flange to define a receiving passageway. The flange has a plurality of apertures for securing the first member to the wall frame with the ring-like member disposed within a recess in the wall frame. The second insertion member includes an outer flange and a male insertion portion. The outer flange is used to secure the second member to the panel. The male member is adjustable making its insertion within the receiving passageway easier. Attachment clips of the second member mate with an inner ledge of the receiving passageway to lock the two members together and thus secure the panel to the wall frame.

Abstract: Snap fasteners are attached to a fabric or substrate and resist water migration from one side of the fabric or substrate to an opposite side of the fabric or substrate. The water migration resistant snap fasteners resist water migration through the fabric to which the snap fastener is attached while maintaining secure attachment to the fabric. The water migration resistant snap fasteners have radially offset patterned circles of gripping protrusions which do not penetrate through the fabric. Also, the radial patterned circles of gripping protrusions securely grip the fabric and maintain the snap fasteners in the proper location on the fabric.

Abstract: To provide a catch base capable of firmly attaching a catch of a snap fastener to a cloth. The catch base includes six claws for attaching the catch formed at regular intervals. The catch is put on one side of the cloth, and the claws are fitted into catching portions formed at the backside of the catch from the other side of the cloth. The catch base and the catch are then swaged together. With this, the strength in attaching the catch is increased by 20% due to the effect of the six claws, and the catch is not removed during the use, resulting in an improved safety.

Abstract: The present invention provides a button including a button body 10 and a fixture 40 for fixing the button body to fabric. The button body 10 includes a shell member 11 constituting a button outer shell and an accommodation member 31. The shell member 11 includes a button cover 22 and a neck 14 formed cylindrically on the back side of the button cover 22 and having an opening 17 at an outer edge thereof. The accommodation member 31 has a shaft 33 accommodated in the neck with a portion thereof protruding from the opening, and an insert hole 34 formed on the protruding end face of the shaft for the fixture to be inserted therein. Crimping parts 18 are formed on one of the inner periphery of the opening or on the outer peripheral surface of the shaft at specified positions with a prespecified space therebetween along the circumferential direction so as to crimp into the other.

Abstract: An easy-locking buckle structure is composed of a male buckle element and a female buckle element having a smaller area than that of the male buckle element. A post extends downwardly from the bottom of one end of the male buckle element for engagement with a socket with a cylinder, while an upwardly raising holding tab is provided at the other end of the male buckle element. A conical recess with a through hole is provided in the center of the female buckle element. Said conical recess is provided with slots at its sides for connecting with a socket. Holes are pre-punched on the articles to be applied with the buckle such that the post of the male buckle element can pass through and engage with the socket, while the connecting pins of the female buckle element pass through the punched holes on the article such that the conical recess with the hole can aim at and pass through the punched hole on the article before the socket under the article is locked with the female buckle element.

Abstract: A stud snap system includes a pin, a receiver, and a stud. The receiver fixedly engages with the pin and also fixedly engages with the stud to attach of the stud snap system to a material. The material can include apparel, clothing, sportswear, outdoor gear, fabrics, coverings, and textiles. Use of the receiver affords a large selection of options for materials and geometries to be used for the stud since the pin is not directly engaged with the stud.

Abstract: A capped rivet has a cap 10 with an exposed topside 14 and an inside 18 and further has a rivet part 20 with a rivet shank 22 and a rivet flange 24. The rivet shank 22 extends away from the inside 18 of the cap 10 and the rivet flange 24 extends transverse to the axis 23 of the rivet shank 22. The rivet flange 24 is firmly attached to the cap 10, and a reinforcing element 26 is arranged at the underside 25 of the rivet flange 24.

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: In a capped rivet comprising a cap having an exposed upper surface and a lower surface, and a rivet having a rivet shaft extending in a direction away from the lower surface of the cap, a rivet flange extending in a horizontal direction away from an axis of the rivet shaft for fixedly attaching the rivet to the cap, and a pair of support portions disposed between the rivet shaft and the cap, extending substantially parallel to the lower surface of the cap, and formed by making a pair of apertures in the rivet flange and bending two portions of the rivet flange along bending lines respectively extending between the apertures and the rivet shaft, one support portion covers the other support portion by bending in such a manner that a surface of the one support portion that faces away from a lower surface of the cap at least partly contacts a surface of the other support portion that faces toward the lower surface of the cap.

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: The male component of a press-stud has a dome that extends, so as to form an undercut region, from a first base that is formed by blanking and plastic deformation from a metal plate.An intermediate tubular element, which is also formed by blanking and plastic deformation from a metal plate, is inserted axially in the dome, affecting part of its internal extension. The intermediate tubular element extends from a second base to be seamed to the first base by folding the perimetric edge of the first base.A stem protrudes from a third base and has such a cross-section and length as to pass through the intermediate element, perforating the fabric to which the male component of the press-stud is fixed, and to deform against the dome, interposing a wider region between the dome and the end of the intermediate element.

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 detachable decoration system including a first releasably interlockable fastener permanently connected to an article to be decorated and second releasably interlockable fastener permanently connected to a decoration adapted to selectively interlock with the first fastener. Once the interlockable fasteners are disengaged, the decoration is wholly disconnected from the article, thus permitting the article to be washed without damaging the decoration.

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 a male element and a female element which cooperate magnetically with one another, and fixing elements for rearwardly fixing the male and female elements to flaps of fabric. The male element comprises a disk-like body in material sensitive to magnetic attraction and the female element comprises a disk-like body and a magnetic element for attracting the male element. The male element has, on its rear side, a recess tapering towards a hole for the insertion of a tubular end of a fixing element which has, on the opposite side to the tubular end, a collar adapted to retain a flap of fabric, or of other material, arranged on the rear side of the male element. On the bottom of said recess, at the hole, there is a substantially conical protrusion which penetrates into the tubular end pushed into the recess, through the hole, to open out and upturn the tubular end along the walls of the recess to rigidly associate the fixing element and the male element to one another.

Abstract: A female component of a hook-and-eye fastener is assembled from an eye body and an eyelet. The eye body of a hollow configuration having opposite end openings into which a hook body of a male component is inserted to engage the eye body of the female component, which body is provided with, in its bottom wall: upward-and-inward sloping portions in the opposite end openings; a recessed portion interposed between the sloping portions; and an aperture through which is passed a distal end part of a hollow shank portion of the eyelet. In assembling of the female component, the distal end part of the shank portion of the eyelet is staked so as to be plastically deformed into an annular curled edge abutting against an inner surface of the bottom wall of the eye body.

Abstract: An arrangement for mounting sealing strips on motor vehicles and the like comprises: at least one structural member of the vehicle having projecting rivets formed integrally from the member along a gap to be sealed; and, a sealing strip pressably affixed to the projecting rivets along the gap, obviating the need to provide separate studs or rivets for affixing the sealing strip. In a preferred method, at least two structural members of the vehicle are joined to one another by rivets formed integrally from one or both of the members and extending through one of the members, along the gap to be sealed.

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 socket element assembly for snap fasteners is composed of a socket member and a capped eyelet adapted to be joined together with a garment fabric sandwiched therebetween. The socket member and the capped eyelet have substantially the same outside diameter and include respective annular gripping portions of arcuate cross-section projecting from the outer peripheries thereof. In assembled condition, the socket member and the capped eyelet are firmly retained on the garment fabric against rotation with the garment fabric firmly gripped by and between the annular gripping portions. With the annular gripping portions located remote from the joint between the socket member and the capped eyelet, the garment fabric is free from any wrinkle.

Abstract: A capped eyelet, for attachment of a snap fastener member to a garment fabric, comprises an eyelet body including a shank with a flange, a cap covering over the flange and secured to a periphery thereof, and at least one punched buffer wing projecting from the flange and having at least one rib. The buffer wing is resiliently deformable to absorb an endwise force applied to the shank when the eyelet is axially compressed for being joined with a snap fastener member. At that time the rib is engageable with the upper end portion of the shank to assist in absorbing the riveting force.

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 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 fastening device comprises a base portion and a key portion, the base portion having a socket opening therein with a radial shoulder. At least an axial portion of the socket opening is in the form of a regular polyhedron, preferably 12 or 16 sided. The key portion has a furcated post, axial portions thereof being generally conformed to at least portions of the polyhedral socket. The post has a radial shoulder which snaps behind the shoulder of the socket to retain the key in position. As the key is rotated the post interferes in a periodic manner with the socket wall, thereby precluding the key from being accidentally turned. The device may suitably be molded from a resilient thermoplastic resin. The device may also comprise an eye within which the key is received, the eye comprising opposed washer like members the one having serrated posts upstanding therefrom, the other openings for receiving the posts therein in locked relationship.