Laminated hook fastener

Claim 1

An elongated, strip-form hook and loop fastening member having a base member, a multiplicity of discretely molded hook-shaped engaging elements in the form of projections upstanding therefrom, and on the side of said fastening member opposite said hook-shaped elements, a fibrous surface configured for fastening engagement by said hook-shaped elements, said molded hook-shaped projections each having a stem supported at one end thereof on said base member and a radial extension on the unsupported end of said stem, said hook-shaped projections constructed to engage in fastening relationship with surface elements of said fibrous surface, said hook-shaped projections and said base member being unitarily formed from the same polymeric, resinous material, said fastening member comprising an in-situ laminate wherein said base member of resinous polymer is integrally and continuously joined over an extended region to form a continuous interface with a porous, fibrous, sheet-form material, without the use of adhesives, and on the side of said base member opposite the side containing said molded hook-shaped projections, said extended region at which said base member and sheet-form material are joined lying in part directly opposite effective upstanding molded hook-shaped projections, the resinous polymer which forms said base member on the side opposite said molded hook-shaped projections being co-mingled with and encapsulating at least some of the surface fibers on one side of said sheet-form fibrous material throughout the continuous interface while leaving fibrous surface elements on the opposite side of said sheet-form material free of said polymer and exposed for fastening engagement with hook-shaped projections of said fastening member.