公开(公告)号：US6145170A

公开(公告)日：2000-11-14

申请号：US266103

申请日：1999-03-10

申请人： Edward Helmut Bernard ,  Gordon Alan Bernard

发明人： Edward Helmut Bernard ,  Gordon Alan Bernard

IPC分类号： B60R7/00 ,  B60P7/00

CPC分类号： B60R7/005 ,  Y10T24/31 ,  Y10T24/314 ,  Y10T24/3904 ,  Y10T24/3916 ,  Y10T24/3918

摘要： A fastener bead removably affixed to a flexible tension element of a cargo holder and used by removably inserting the bead in the wider portion of a keyhole-type slot in a support structure. The bead in use is trapped and held by the margin of the narrow portion of the keyhole slot. The bead has a through-passageway with axially opposite loop-entrance and loop-exit ends thereof located respectively at first and second opposite end surfaces of the bead. In one bead embodiment an external groove in a bead first side surface is sized for retaining a portion of each two runs of a free-end loop of the tension element disposed in side-by-side contacting relationship after exiting the passageway and lead in the groove toward engagement with trailing portions of the runs that trail back out the entrance end of the passageway as they extend back toward cargo holder attachment. To achieve this bead-held knotting, the loop bight and runs are trained over a second side surface of the bead until the loop bight contacts and crosses over the trailing run portions on the side thereof remote from the bead first side surface and generally where the trailing runs are leading toward entry into the bead passageway. While the bight remains caught by crossing over the trailing portions of the tension element runs, the exited portions of the loop runs are straddle spread back over the bead until they are seated into the bead groove. In another bead embodiment, the bead has a neck-like protrusion lassoed by the tension element loop after it is passed through the bead passageway. Retrograde tension force is exerted on the trailing run portions while restraining the bead cause snug engagement with the bead groove(s) due to the loop bight being caught across the trailing runs or neck-like protrusion to thereby securely but detachably affix the bead to the flexible tension element.

摘要翻译： 可拆卸地固定到货物保持器的柔性张紧元件的紧固珠，用于通过将支撑件可拆卸地插入支撑结构中的键孔型狭槽的较宽部分中。 使用中的小珠被锁孔狭窄部分的边缘夹住并保持。 胎圈具有通道，其具有轴向相对的环形入口和环形出口端，分别位于胎圈的第一和第二相对端表面处。 在一个珠子实施例中，胎圈第一侧表面中的外部沟槽的尺寸被设计成用于保持在离开通道之后并排布置的张紧元件的自由端环路的两个部分的一部分，并且引导在 凹槽朝向与行程尾部接合的凹槽，当后退到通道的入口端时，它们向后朝向货架附件延伸。 为了实现这种珠保持打结，环形弯曲和运行在胎圈的第二侧表面上被训练，直到环形弯曲部接触并且越过远离胎圈第一侧表面的侧面上的尾部延伸部分，并且通常在 拖尾运行导致进入珠通道。 当弯头仍然通过穿过张紧元件行程的尾部而被卡住时，循环的退出部分跨过胎圈跨过去，直到它们落入胎圈槽中。 在另一个珠子的实施例中，珠粒在其通过珠粒通道之后具有由张力元件环套索的颈状突起。 逆行张力施加在尾部行驶部分上，同时由于环形弯曲被卡在横向拖尾或颈状突出部上而限制胎圈与胎圈槽紧贴接合，从而牢固但可拆卸地将胎圈固定到 柔性张力元件。