Patent ID: 6546604
Filing Date: 2003-04-15
Classification: A44B,B65D,Y10T

Abstract:
A binding strap adapted to be wrapped around at least one article to bind the article comprising a base sheet and a multiplicity of parallel, narrowly spaced, elastically deformable ribs projecting from the base sheet; the ribs comprising a stem portion attached to and substantially upright from the base sheet and at least one flange attached to each side of the stem portion at points spaced from the base sheet; the cross-sectional profile formed by the ribs being substantially uniform over the length of the ribs, but in the direction transverse to the ribs having a regularly repeated deviation from the profile that would be formed by a full population of equally spaced, identical, undivided, symmetric ribs; the deviation from a full-population profile including the absence of structure, at a position adjacent to, and at the same height as, a flange on a plurality of regularly repeating ribs, that would impede movement of the flange during flexure of the rib while the fastener is interengaged with a mating fastener; and the ribs individually having a width that is accommodated between the stem portions of adjacent ribs but is greater than the gap between flanges of adjacent ribs, whereby the ribbed surface of one section of the strap constitutes a fastening surface that can be interengaged with an identical fastening surface on another section of the strap.