Patent ID: 7516524

Claim:
A hook component for hook and loop fastening, comprising a laterally-extending common portion of thermoplastic resin having a pattern of individual, substantially raised bases distributed over an area of the common portion and comprised of thermoplastic resin integral with resin of the common portion, each raised base carrying an individual fastener element and being spaced laterally from other raised bases and their fastener elements such that loop space extending to the common portion substantially surrounds each raised base and its fastener element, each fastener element formed of thermoplastic resin integral with resin of the respective raised base and comprising an upwardly projecting stem and a head that is joined to the stem, the head extending laterally beyond the stem in at least one direction to provide a loop-engageable overhanging portion that ends in a tip, wherein the lower end of the stem and the respective raised base are portions of a single, seamless mass of resin, a substantial, laterally contiguous portion of an upper surface of the raised base lying beneath the overhanging portion of the respective head, forming a lower bound to a loop region lying immediately beneath the overhanging portion of the fastener element, wherein the upper surface of each raised base defines at least a slight depression adjacent the respective stem.