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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:
Sep. 29, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 09, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Thomas Wilson Robertson, Merrimack, NH (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A44B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
24442 ; 24306 ; 24452 ;
Abstract
The following invention details how two surfaces can be bound together. One surface (23) contains loosely spaced pins (24) with heads (25) which can be engaged into an array of tightly packed bulbous elements (22) upon another surface (20). The pins are then retained by constraining the array in various ways. The surfaces can be released by un-constraining the array of bulbous elements. This procedure may be repeated a multitude of times.