Patent ID: 7716792
Filing Date: 2010-05-18
Classification: A44B,B29C,B29L,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A touch fastener component having a sheet-form base and an array of fastener elements, each fastener element comprising: a molded stem extending outwardly from and integrally with the sheet-form base, and a head extending forward from a distal end of the stem to a tip, the head having a lower surface forming a crook for retaining loops; wherein the head has an overall height, measured perpendicular to the sheet-form base from a lowermost extent of the tip to an uppermost extent of the head, that is greater than 55 percent of an overall height of the fastener element, measured perpendicular to the sheet-form base, and wherein a ratio of an overall height of the crook, measured perpendicular to the sheet-form base from a lowermost extent of the tip to an uppermost extent of the crook, to an entrance height measured perpendicular to the sheet-form base below a lowermost extent of the tip, is greater than 0.6.