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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 11, 2014
Avery Dennison Retail Information Services, Llc, Westborough, MA (US);
Thomas Shilale, Douglas, MA (US);
Charles Burout, Bedford, NH (US);
Avery Dennison Retail Information Services, LLC, Mentor, OH (US);
Abstract
A fastener assembly for coupling together two or more articles includes a plastic fastener and an anchoring member. The plastic fastener includes a pair of parallel cross-bars that are interconnected by a transverse filament. The anchoring member is constructed as a unitary, solid, plastic disc with opposing flattened surfaces. In use, the anchoring member is disposed against an outer surface of the articles to be coupled together. During the fastener dispensing process, the ejected cross-bar penetrates through the articles as well as the anchoring member. Upon completion, the ejected cross-bar lies directly upon the exposed surface of the anchoring member. As such, the stiffened anchoring member provides structural integrity to articles that are deformable in construction. In this manner, the anchoring member prevents intact removal of a dispensed fastener by either intentional or unintentional widening of the hole in the articles through which the fastener extends.