Patent ID: 7762390

Claim:
A wire-hook and hook carrying connector, consisting of: individual wire hooks separated from one another and which are arranged in series and are parallel to one another, each of said wire hooks including a buckling area and two hook legs that are unequal in length and that run at an angle to one another on either side of said buckling area, said hook legs including hook tips at ends thereof that are bent towards one another, one of the wire hooks being arranged centrally between a mutually adjacent pair of mutually parallel other ones of said wire hooks; and a carrier comprising film, fabric or plastic and a plurality of openings therein, said hook legs being positioned within said openings so that the wire hooks are carried by said carrier free from additional carrying structure, and so that on a surface of said carrier a shorter leg of one of said hooks alternates with a longer leg of each immediately adjacent one of said hooks so that a plane of symmetry of said hooks having a shorter leg on said surface of said carrier is also a plane of symmetry for a set of said hooks consisting of said hook having a shorter leg on said surface of said carrier and said two hooks immediately adjacent thereto.