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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 20, 2000
Nobuo Fujisawa, Macon, GA (US);
Craig Jay Graham, Eastman, GA (US);
Tsuyoshi Minato Minato, Macon, GA (US);
John Alexander Galbreath, Reisterstown, MD (US);
YKK Corporation of America, Marietta, GA (US);
Abstract
The invention is a hook fastener strip ( ), having magnetically attractable wires ( & ) which are located between, and retained by, hook members ( ) on the front face of the fastener strip ( ). Each hook member ( ) is comprised of a shaft ( ) and a split-mushroom-shaped head ( ). The outer edges of head ( ) protrude beyond the sides of shaft ( ), and the undersides of the outer edges form ledges ( & ) which serve to retain the magnetically attractable wires ( & ) within the hook layer of the fastener strip ( ). The magnetically attractable wires ( & ) within the fastener strip allow it to be secured to a correspondingly magnetically attractive object.