Patent ID: 6823565
Filing Date: 2004-11-30
Classification: A01G,Y10T

Abstract:
An agricultural sheeting fastening component capable of connecting a length of elongated resiliently extensible flexible material to a section of agricultural sheeting, textile or film under tension for stretching the resiliently extensible material in anchoring agricultural sheeting, textile or film to a support, said component including two arms, each arm including one or more prongs having a tip adapted to pierce the sheeting, textile or film to connect the component to the sheeting, textile or film, the two arms also being joined at an attachment eye having an entry to the attachment eye defined between two intermediate portions of the two arms, a remote portion of each of the two arms extending away from the intermediate portions at the entry to the attachment eye to thereby position the prong tips outside of an area bounded by a proximal portion of the arms substantially surrounding the attachment eye, and the two arms being resiliently movable at least one away from the other when a hook or loop on one end of said length of resiliently extensible material or a length of inextensible material is manually pulled through said entry and into the eye to connect the hood or loop to the fastening component.