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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 1980
Filed:
Oct. 05, 1978
Applicant:
Inventor:
Winston C Pray, Lombard, IL (US);
Assignee:
Flexible Steel Lacing Company, Downers Grove, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
24 3 / ; 24 3 / ; 24 3 / ; 403-2 ; 474257 ;
Abstract
A plurality of belt fasteners are joined together by intermediate bridging portions which may break off and leave the adjacent belt fastener edges spaced from each other by the width of the bridging portions when the belt is in use. The preferred fasteners are plate fasteners joined together in a strip of these frangible bridge portions. Preferably, a pair of lines of weakness are formed by stamping parallel notches adjacent either edge of the plate fastener so that substantially all of the bridging material between adjacent fasteners may break off thereby leaving a sizeable gap between adjacent sides of adjacent fasteners.