Classifications

• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A44—HABERDASHERY; JEWELLERY
  • A44B—BUTTONS, PINS, BUCKLES, SLIDE FASTENERS, OR THE LIKE
  • A44B18/00—Fasteners of the touch-and-close type; Making such fasteners
  • A44B18/0069—Details
  • A44B18/0073—Attaching means
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  • Y10T24/00—Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
  • Y10T24/15—Bag fasteners
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  • Y10T24/00—Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
  • Y10T24/33—Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc. having adhesive fastener
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  • Y10T428/24017—Hook or barb
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  • Y10T428/2813—Heat or solvent activated or sealable

Definitions

• the invention relates to such fixing systems in which a component of a composite consisting of several parts is formed by at least one adhesive closure part.
• the procedure in these cases is that an adhesive bond is made in such a way that a liquid or spreadable solvent-containing adhesive applied to the fixing side of the adhesive closure part and the other part involved, for example, is brushed, after which, after a certain venting time, the adhesive closure part is laminated to the fixing side of the relevant part.
• a liquid or spreadable solvent-containing adhesive applied to the fixing side of the adhesive closure part and the other part involved, for example, is brushed, after which, after a certain venting time, the adhesive closure part is laminated to the fixing side of the relevant part.
• the object of the invention is to provide a locking system which avoids the aforementioned disadvantages of the prior art.
• a significant feature of the invention is accordingly that, instead of a bond between the fixing side of the fastener part and the system part to be attached thereto by means of solvent adhesive a fixing part is used as an intermediate element, which is provided on its active side with an active substance, the activation of a Establishing connection with the locking side of the relevant system part enters, with the adhesive closure part to be connected.
• the fixing part connected to the third part by activating its active substance thus forms a system element by which the problematic surface structure of the third part is conditioned so that the adhesive-coated in the usual way adhesive closure member can be attached by gluing to the free side of the fixing part, wherein the connection again is solvent-free.
• the fixing part on the surface of the fixing part is set on the activated active substance, it may be a support member, such as a foam pad part of a vehicle or passenger seat.
• the adhesive closure part connected via the fixing part to the upholstery foam part can serve, for example, as an anchoring element for a seat cover or the like.
• the third part may be a useful part, in particular a cover, preferably floor or wall cover, wherein the useful part has one of the Festlegeseite opposite usable surface.
• the fixing system can be used here as a laying system, whereby at least one carpet or a carpet tile with a carpet side forming the useful surface and a carpet backing forming the fixing side is provided as cover. Since the laying of covers such as carpets or tiles usually takes place in closed rooms, the possibility of solvent-free working is a particularly valuable advantage.
• the locking system according to the invention is not only suitable for covers of the aforementioned type, but for covers of any kind, such as mats for land and air vehicles, bathroom mats, boot mats and the like.
• a fixing part may preferably be provided in particular formed of a plastic film sheet, which is provided on at least one side with the active substance, in particular coated.
• the active substance can be activated by heating.
• the processing is particularly simple when the activatable by heating active substance is selected so that heating to a temperature of less than 15O 0 C, preferably less than 140 0 C, is sufficient to activate the active substance.
• a temperature of less than 15O 0 C preferably less than 140 0 C
• the thermal lamination of the fixing part can also be done in a particularly simple manner by ironing, which can be done without difficulty at the installation site
• the third parts in question may also be provided with the fixing part in advance by the manufacturer and thus be prepared for laying and brought to the installation site.
• a hot melt adhesive has proven to be well suited, which consists of a blend of two thermoplastic materials, which has a softening temperature of not more than 125 ° C.
• thermoplastic substances for this purpose can be selected from the groups of copolyamides, polyethylvinyl acetates, polyvinyl acetates, polyolefins, polyurethanes or copolyesters.
• the active substance may also be a hot melt adhesive based on synthetic rubber, although processing temperatures in the range of 170 ° C. may result.
• the active substance is preferably applied to the fabric provided as a fixing part in an application amount of 80 to 400 g / m 2 , preferably about 200 g / m 2 .
• the handling is particularly simple and convenient when the fixing part is provided so that it consists of two film webs or tapes, wherein the substance provided with the active substance side of a film is covered with the second film, which protects the active substance and removable for the exposure of the active substance.
• the invention also provides a method for laying covers using the fixing system according to the invention, wherein the method has the features specified in claim 14, as well as a system parts of system according to the invention exhibiting kit with at least the components specified in claim 16.
• the invention is explained in detail below with reference to the drawing. Show it:
• FIG. 1 is a highly schematically simplified schematic diagram for explaining the system according to the invention, wherein components are arranged at intervals from each other and details are exaggeratedly large and not drawn to scale to facilitate understanding;
• Figure 2 is a schematic simplified and broken drawn section of the components of the locking system according to the invention in an application as a laying system, wherein the components are arranged at intervals from each other and details are shown in greatly exaggerated scale.
• Fig. 3 shows a schematically simplified and broken drawn longitudinal section of the fixing part of the system according to the invention, wherein
• Fig. 4 is a highly simplified schematic and drawn in exaggerated scale perspective oblique view of a portion of a micro-fastener part of the system according to the invention.
• Fig. 5 is a simplified perspective oblique view of a bag with system components contained therein.
• a cushioning foam part 8 indicated schematically (for example polyurethane
• Foam of a passenger seat forms the third part of the system, which serves as a support member for a fastener closure part 9.
• This adhesive closure part 9, which is to be attached to the upholstery foam part 8 has a carrier 7, one side of which serves as a fixing side and on the other side interlocking elements. 1 (not all of which are numbered in FIG. 1), which can be hooked with hooking elements 22 (likewise not all numbered) of a further system element, for example with a seat cover 10.
• FIG. 2 shows an enlarged, highly schematically simplified illustration of a section of a cover part forming a third part in the form of a floor carpet, the useful surface of which has pile elements 1 of conventional type which extend upwards from a connecting layer 3.
• the utility area opposite carpet backing 5 is formed by a loopless material.
• materials come into question, which give the carpet structure a certain rigidity, directional stability and cut resistance. Here- they may be loose leno fabrics or smooth right / left knits or so-called non-woven materials.
• a fixing part 11 Between the back of the carpet 5 and the carrier 7 of a fastener part 9 is a fixing part 11, which is shown in Fig. 2 at a distance from the back of the carpet 5 and the carrier 7 of the fastener part 9, wherein in Fig.
• the fixing part 11 is shown in its processing state is, wherein a protective film 13, see Fig. 3, has already been removed.
• the fixing member 11 forms a ribbon-like sheet having a sheet forming the carrier for an active substance 15, which in the illustrated embodiment is a polyester heat-resistant plastic sheet 17.
• Fig. 3 shows the release or protective film 13 only partially detached from the active substance 15 having side of the film 17th
• Fig. 2 shows the state before forming a bond between the adhesive fastener part 9 and the backing 5.
• This composite is produced by pressing the fixing part 11 and the backing 5 against each other while heating the active substance 15 is carried out, whereby this is activated so that in one Solvent-free joining a firm connection between fixing part 11 and backing 5 takes place.
• a so-called hot-melt adhesive is provided as the active substance 15, the nature of which is selected such that activation takes place already by heating to a moderate temperature range in which no thermal impairment of the system components involved occurs. Suitable active substances which enable processing in temperature ranges of less than 150 ° C.
• blends of thermoplastic substances in particular blends which have softening properties. temperatures of not more than 125 ° C.
• Such blends make it possible to perform the activation of the substance 15 by pressing the fixing part 11 to the back of the carpet 5 with a heated tool or punch whose tool temperature is in the range of about 150 0 C. This means that the connection between the fixing part 11 and backing 5 can be made by ironing, which is possible without difficulty at the installation site.
• Thermoplastic substances which are suitable as constituents of such blends are, for example, copolyamides, polyethylvinyl acetates, polyvinyl acetates, polyolefins, polyurethanes or copolyesters.
• hotmelt adhesives those based on synthetic rubber may also be used, it being necessary to reckon with comparatively slightly higher processing temperatures.
• Application amounts of the hotmelt adhesives to the film 17 of the setting part 1 are preferably amounts applied by coating of from 80 to 400 g / m 2 , preferably of 200 g / m 2 .
• the fixing part 11 defined in this way on the back of the carpet 5 allows, on its free side 19, the adhesion of a fastener part 9, which is self-adhesive in the usual way to the back of its support 7.
• floor anchored further adhesive closure member adhesive elements in the form of loops 21.
• the adhesive closure with such a fastener part 9 come as a base-side or bottom-side fastener part several types of fastener parts in question, for example, micro-fastener parts, of which in Fig. 4 a exemplary embodiment is shown and designated by 23.
• Micro-adhesion closure parts as can be produced for example by means of the process described in DE 198 28 856 Cl, have a film-like carrier 25 which is formed for example of polyolefins or blends of polyamides and from the top projecting stems 27, which in Fig 4 are not all quantified.
• the thickened ends of the stems 27 form mushroom-shaped or plate-shaped heads 29, which are not all quantified in the figure and which form the releasable entanglement during the laying process with the loops 21 on the adhesive closure part 9.
• the packing density in which the stems 27 are provided on the carrier 25 depends on the mechanical structure and the fineness of the structure of the adhesive elements provided on the adhesive closure part 9.
• the packing density can be several hundred adhesive elements / cm 2 , wherein the thickness of the carrier 25 can be approximately in the range of 0.5 mm.
• Other packing densities and / or thicknesses of the carrier 25 may, of course, be considered depending on the particular circumstances.
• the selected different design of the adhesive elements on the base-side adhesive closure member 23 and the other adhesive closure member 9 makes it possible to adjust the adhesion as desired so that when a new installation of the cover is to be made, a lift is possible without the underground adhesive fastener 23 is lifted off , which allows a relocation to remaining adhesive closure member 23.
• adhesive drops 31 in Fig. 4 also not all figured
• Suitable adhesives are, for example, acrylate-based pressure-sensitive adhesives.
• ie adhesive elements which are formed from Einzelfasem extending from the free end of stems, where no hooking heads are formed extend.
• ie adhesive elements which are formed from Einzelfasem extending from the free end of stems, where no hooking heads are formed extend.
• per stalk preferably about 500 individual fibers are provided.
• plastic material from which the individual stems and their individual fibers are formed especially plastics with long molecular chains and a good orientation behavior come into question.
• FIG. 5 shows in a schematically simplified form a ready-to-sell kit which contains the main components of the system according to the invention in a shopping bag 33.
• This is designed in the manner of a conventional plastic bag with easily revealed closure strip 35.
• the bag 33 is rolled up to form a winding 37, the base-side adhesive closure part 23, rolled up to a second winding 39, the cover part associated adhesive closure part 9 and, rolled up to a third winding 41, a corresponding length of the fixing part 1 1 in its initial state, in which the active substance 15 carrying film 17 is considered with removable protective film 13.
• the described fixing system can also be embodied in the manner of a flame-retardant closure, the entire adhesive closure part 9 or constituents thereof being made of materials which are flame-retardant, wherein the pertinent flame-retardant materials can also be in the form of an active extinguishing medium or These include active extinguishing substances that can be applied to the respective adhesive closure part 9 in the manner of a coating. It has proved particularly advantageous to select such materials from the following substance groups:
• MDH Magnesium hydroxide
• PDP - resorcinol bis-diphenyl phosphate
• TBP Tri-n-butyl phosphate
• TCP Tricresyl phosphate
• TPP Triphenyl phosphate
• nano-particles may be incorporated, such as silicates or graphite, which also act flame retardant. Also, it would be possible to introduce entrapped nitrogen gas, such as nano-particles, into the fastener part 9 so as to obtain an active quenching medium via an inert gas.

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• Adhesives Or Adhesive Processes (AREA)
• Slide Fasteners, Snap Fasteners, And Hook Fasteners (AREA)
• Adhesive Tapes (AREA)
• Orthopedics, Nursing, And Contraception (AREA)
• Polarising Elements (AREA)
• Iron Core Of Rotating Electric Machines (AREA)
• Flanged Joints, Insulating Joints, And Other Joints (AREA)
• Carpets (AREA)
• Mattresses And Other Support Structures For Chairs And Beds (AREA)
• External Artificial Organs (AREA)

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