US 12,082,661 B1
Male touch fastener elements
Antoli Fauria Torrent, Mataro (ES); Luis Parellada Armela, Palafrugell (ES); Emili Pubill Piera, Mataro (ES); and James L. Tardiff, Manchester, NH (US)
Assigned to Velcro IP Holdings LLC, Manchester, NH (US)
Filed by Velcro IP Holdings LLC, Manchester, NH (US)
Filed on Dec. 15, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/541,824.
Application 18/541,824 is a continuation of application No. 18/383,499, filed on Oct. 25, 2023.
Application 18/383,499 is a continuation of application No. 18/195,451, filed on May 10, 2023, granted, now 11,889,903.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/453,226, filed on Mar. 20, 2023.
Int. Cl. A44B 18/00 (2006.01)
CPC A44B 18/0065 (2013.01) [A44B 18/0049 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A male touch fastener product, comprising
a resin surface;
an array of spaced-apart male touch fastener elements carried on the surface, each touch fastener element extending above the resin surface and comprising
an elongated stem extending from the surface; and
a head disposed at a distal end of the stem and forming with the stem and the surface a contiguous mass of resin, the head extending laterally from the stem to a distal edge overhanging the surface, the head defining an overall lateral extent at the distal edge; and
wherein for each of at least most adjacent pairs of fastener elements of the array, the two heads of the fastener elements of the pair are separated by a lateral distance of between 0.9 and 4.0 times an average of the overall lateral extent of the two heads along a line including the lateral distance; and
wherein the head overhangs the resin surface farthest on one side of the stem.