Attachment device

• US 4,615,081 A
• Filed: 06/01/1984
• Issued: 10/07/1986
• Est. Priority Date: 06/02/1983
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: AB Fixfabriken
• Original Assignee: Ab Fixfabriken
• Inventors: Lindahl, Per-Olof
• Primary Examiner(s): Lyddane, William E.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Brittain, James R.
• Application Number:
  US06/616,136
• Time in Patent Office: 858 Days
• Field of Search: 24/265 R, 24/265 BC, 24/265 EC, 24/265 H, 24/90 R, 24/102 R, 24/102 A, 24/102 E, 24/102 FC, 24/102 P, 24/698, 24/699, 24/659 , 24/598, 24/599, 24/600, 24/72.7, 24/150 FP, 24/41, 24/322, 24/342, 24/700, 24/701, 24/43, 24/47, 24/367, 24/378, 24/379, 24/614, D 2/405, D 2/409, D 2/422, D 2/442, D 2/444, D 2/449
• US Class Current: 24/90.1
• CPC Class Codes: A41H 37/08 Setting buckles A41H37/001, A41H37/005 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A44B 11/006 Attachment of buckle to strap for safety buckles A44B11/2553
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/36 Button with fastener
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/45524 including resiliently biased projection component or surface segment
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/45969 Hook-shaped projection member passing through cavity

Abstract

A device for mounting the attachment part of an element, for instance a button, buckle, clamp, etc., into an opening, preferably a slot shaped opening of the button hole type in a piece of garment.

The attachment part is formed with a neck dimensioned for being tightly encompassed by the opening in the operative position of the neck. A disc shaped fixing member of the attachment part is arranged for being placed inside the opening. An angled slot is formed in the disc shaped fixing member and at the bottom thereof there is a distance across the fixing member which is to an external end point of said member at a maximum equal to the length of the opening, between the area of contact of the bottom against the edge of the opening and the area where the external end point passes the opening.

Claims

1. A fastener having a mounting device receptive into a slot-shaped opening of predetermined length in a piece of garment, said device comprising:

(a) an attachment portion secured to the fastener and having a neck portion of plate-shaped configuration and of a dimension such that it is tightly surrounded by the margins of the slot-shaped opening when the attachment portion is in an operative position with said neck-portion disposed in said slot-shaped opening;

(b) a fixing member integral with said attachment portion and of plate-shaped configuration generally coplanar with the neck portion and of a length in a direction cross-wise of said neck longer than the length of the slot-shaped opening and defining wings for projecting beyond both ends thereof; and

(c) a slot in one of said wings extending from the edge of the wing adjacent to said neck portion into said one wing, and angled toward the other of said wings, whereby both wings and the open end of said slot, in the operative position of said attachment portion, would extend beyond the slot-shaped opening in the garment, the inner end of said slot being a contact portion on an edge of said fixing member and being a guide for engaging an end of the slot-shaped opening, said contact portion being engageable with the end of the slot-shaped opening during insertion of said fixing member into the slot-shaped opening, said fixing member having such an extent that at least at one point along said contact portion there is a distance between said one point and an extreme end point of said other wing which, at a maximum, is equal to the length of the slot-shaped opening, whereby said fixing member is placeable through the margins of the slot-shaped opening by a rotational movement of said fixing member in its one single plane.

2. A fastener having a mounting device receptive into a slot-shaped opening of predetermined length in a piece of garment, said device comprising:

(a) an attachment portion secured to the fastener and having a neck portion of plate-shaped configuration and of a dimension such that it is tightly surrounded by the margins of the slot-shaped opening when the attachment portion is in an operative position with said neck-portion disposed in said slot-shaped opening;

(b) a fixing member integral with said attachment portion and of plate-shaped configuration generally coplanar with the neck portion and of a length in a direction cross-wise of said neck longer than the length of the slot-shaped opening for projecting beyond both ends thereof;

(c) a contact portion on an edge of one of said plate-shaped attachment portion and said fixing member and being a guide for engaging an end of the slot-shaped opening, said contact portion being engageable with the end of the slot-shaped opening during insertion of said fixing member into the slot-shaped opening, said fixing member having such an extent that at least at one point along said contact portion there is a distance between said one point and an extreme end point of said fixing member which, at a maximum, is equal to the length of the slot-shaped opening, whereby said fixing member is placeable through the margins of the slot-shaped opening by a rotational movement of said fixing member in its one single plane; and

(d) said fixing member having a pair of oppositely directed wings for projecting beyond the ends of the slot-shaped opening, each of said wings having a resilient support leg extending from the distal end of the wing toward the other support leg.