A fastener (US English) or fastening (UK English) is a hardware device that mechanically joins or affixes two or more objects together. In general, fasteners...

A captive fasteners is an engineered fastener designed for a permanent hold within a target assembly or housing, including upon servicing. They provide...

Dzus fastener, also known as a turnlock fastener or quick-action panel fastener, is a type of proprietary quarter-turn spiral cam lock fastener often...

A snap fastener, also called snap button, press button, press stud, press fastener, dome fastener, popper, snap and tich (or tich button), is a pair of...

of metal (or wood, called a tree nail or "trunnel") which is used as a fastener, as a peg to hang something, or sometimes as a decoration. Generally, nails...

A molly or molly bolt (often misspelled moly) is a type of screw fastener that fastens objects to plaster or gypsum board hollow walls by providing an...

A bolt is an externally helical threaded fastener capable of being tightened or released by a twisting force (torque) to a matching nut. The bolt has an...

A brass fastener, butterfly clips, brad, paper fastener or split pin is a stationery item used for securing multiple sheets of paper together. A patent...

A torque to yield fastener (TTY) or stretch Bolt is a fastener which is torqued beyond the state of elasticity and therefore undergoes plastic deformation...

Hook-and-loop fasteners, hook-and-pile fasteners or touch fasteners (often referred to by the genericized trademark velcro, which was the original name...

hook-and-loop fasteners, which de Mestral invented. Swiss electrical engineer George de Mestral who studied at EPFL invented his first touch fastener when, in...

A screw is an externally helical threaded fastener capable of being tightened or released by a twisting force (torque) to the head. The most common uses...

slide fastener, a/k/a zipper, manufacturing company. It was founded in 1893 as the Universal Fastener Company, manufacturing hookless fasteners for shoes...

A cleco, also spelled generically cleko, is a temporary fastener developed by the Cleveland Pneumatic Tool Company. Widely used in the manufacture and...

A clevis fastener is a two-piece fastener system consisting of a clevis and a clevis pin head. The clevis is a U-shaped piece that has holes at the end...

could be fastened with a single zip of the hand, and soon the hookless fasteners came to be called "Zippers". A zipper consists of a slider mounted on...

Slot screw drives have a single horizontal indentation (the slot) in the fastener head and is driven by a "common blade" or flat-bladed screwdriver. This...

A martingale is a type of dog collar that provides more control over the animal without the choking effect of a slip collar. Martingale dog collars are...

for his invention of the zip fastener. It was originally called a clasp-locker. The first application was as a fastener for shoes and high boots. The...

A staple is a type of two-pronged fastener, usually metal, used for joining, gathering, or binding materials together. Large staples might be used with...

International Fastener Show (Fastener Taiwan; Chinese: 台灣國際扣件展) is one of the world's largest professional trade fairs focused on the fastener industry. It...

An angle bracket or angle brace or angle cleat is an L-shaped fastener used to join two parts generally at a 90-degree angle. It is typically made of metal...

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generally provides sufficient strength in most cases, particularly when fasteners are used. The butt joint is widely used in many applications due to its...

trades and manufacturing, each half of a pair of mating connectors or fasteners is conventionally assigned the designation male or female. The female...

prevents fasteners from falling out due to vibration and other forces. The presence of safety wiring may also serve to indicate that the fasteners have been...

standard for inch based threaded fasteners and washers. The USS standard is no longer supported. It, together with the SAE fastener standard, was incorporated...

in one end, and wood screw threads in the other Knock-down fasteners are a class of fasteners designed to allow for repeated assembly and disassembly. They...

Morris Abrams (1908–1981) was the founder of Arrow Fastener Co., Inc., a manufacturer of fastening tools that has been a subsidiary of Hangzhou GreatStar...

Loop-and-knot fasteners may have developed independently in other cultures. In Western Europe, military uniforms adopted a similar decorative fastener from Hungarian...