Clasp device for sheet materials

• US 6,199,247 B1
• Filed: 07/07/1999
• Issued: 03/13/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 07/07/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kuo Yang Tsai
• Original Assignee: Kuo Yang Tsai
• Inventors: Tsai, Kuo Yang
• Primary Examiner(s): Sakran, Victor N.
• Application Number:
  US09/354,911
• Time in Patent Office: 615 Days
• Field of Search: 243/43, 244/59, 24/905, 243/69, 247/16
• US Class Current: 24/343
• CPC Class Codes: A47K 10/14 Self-holding grips
• CPC Class Codes: D06F 55/00 Clothes-pegs
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/3449 and hook
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/44034 Dissociable gripping members

Abstract

A clasp device includes a frame and a button for clasping a sheet material between the frame and the button by women and children without a great force. The button is engaged in an opening of the frame and includes an annular flange having a size greater than the opening of the frame for engaging with the frame and for preventing the button from being disengaged from the frame. The frame has one or more stops engaged with the annular flange of the button for securing the button to the frame and for preventing the button from being disengaged from the frame.

Claims

1. A clasp device for clasping a sheet material, said clasp device comprising:

a frame including an opening formed therein and including a notch formed therein and communicating with said opening of said frame, said frame including an upper portion having a peripheral shoulder formed therein and communicating with said opening of said frame, said frame including at least one stop extended upward from said upper portion thereof and extended radially inward of said opening of said frame, and

a button including a body received in said opening of said frame for clasping the sheet material between said body of said button and said frame, said body including an upper portion having an annular flange extended radially outward therefrom and having a size greater than that of said opening of said frame, said annular flange of said body being engaged in said peripheral shoulder of said frame and engaged with said frame for preventing said button from being disengaged from said frame and for further clasping the sheet material between said annular flange of said body and said frame, and

said at least one stop of said frame being extended radially inward of said opening of said frame to engage with said annular flange of said button for securing the sheet material and said button to said frame and for preventing the sheet material and said button from being disengaged from said frame.

2. The clasp device according to claim 1, wherein said frame includes a serrated peripheral surface formed therein for defining said annular shoulder of said frame and for stably securing the sheet material between said annular flange of said button and said serrated peripheral surface of said frame.

3. The clasp device according to claim 1, wherein said frame includes an inner peripheral surface for defining said opening thereof, and includes at least one depression formed in said inner peripheral surface thereof for receiving the sheet material when the sheet material is engaged between said button and said frame.

4. The clasp device according to claim 1, wherein said frame includes at least one bulge extended upward beyond said upper portion of said frame, said at least one stop of said frame is extended from said at least one bulge of said frame and extended radially inward of said opening of said frame for engaging with said annular flange of said button.