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2. Plastic handcuffs - Wikipedia

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   Plastic handcuffs (also called PlastiCuffs, FlexiCuffs, zip cuffs, flex cuffs or Double Cuffs) are a form of physical restraint for the hands made of plastic straps. They function as handcuffs but are cheaper and easier to carry than metal handcuffs, and they cannot be reused. The device was first introduced in 1965. [1]

3. Snap-fit - Wikipedia

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   Snap-together connectors have been used for thousands of years. The first ones were metal. Some of the oldest snap-fits found are snap fasteners, or buttons, shown on the Chinese Terracotta Army featuring soldiers from the late Warring States period. Metal snap fasteners, spring clips, and other snap-type connectors are still in broad use today.

4. Hook-and-loop fastener - Wikipedia

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   Video of snowboarding gloves with an integrated plastic element (white) as wrist protection. The pouch for the element on the back of the hand is closed by a hook-and-loop-fastener, as well as the wide bandage-style fastener around the middle section. They serve for stabilizing the wrist of the snowboarder in case that he falls onto his hands.

5. Velcro Companies - Wikipedia

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   The fastener consisted of two components: a lineal fabric strip with tiny hooks that could 'mate' with another fabric strip with smaller loops, attaching temporarily, until pulled apart. [7] Initially made of cotton, which proved impractical, [ 8 ] the fastener was eventually constructed with nylon and polyester .

6. Snap fastener - Wikipedia

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   The two halves of a riveted leather snap fastener. The top half has a groove which "snaps" in place when "pressed" into the bottom half. A snap fastener, also called snap button, press button, [1] press stud, [1] press fastener, dome fastener, popper, snap and tich (or tich button), is a pair of interlocking discs, made out of a metal or plastic, commonly used in place of traditional buttons ...

7. Bread clip - Wikipedia

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   He rummaged through his wallet and found an expired credit card and hand-carved his first bag clip with a small pen knife. When a fruit packer, Pacific Fruit, wanted to replace rubber bands with a better bag closure for its new plastic bags, Paxton remembered his bag of peanuts. He hand-whittled another clip from a small sheet of Plexiglas ...