VELCRO Brand VEL60210 - Stick On Hook and Loop Fasteners | Perfect for Home or Office | 20mm x 1m Tape | White

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Body Beauty (2007-06-11). "Velcro Reinvented". InventorSpot.com. Archived from the original on 2010-01-26 . Retrieved 2008-05-10. Not only children who cannot tie shoelaces like to wear Velcro shoes. Older children and adolescents also regularly choose these types of shoes. If you can tie shoelaces, that doesn't mean you want to do that every day. In fact, how many young people don't wear sporty lace-up shoes where they don't tie the laces but hide them on the inside of the shoe?

The big breakthrough De Mestral made was to think about hook-and-eye closures on a greatly reduced scale. Hook-and-eye fasteners have been common for centuries, but what was new about hook-and-loop fasteners was the miniaturisation of the hooks and eyes. Shrinking the hooks led to the two other important differences. Firstly, instead of a single-file line of hooks, hook-and-loop fasteners have a two-dimensional surface. [7] This was needed, because in decreasing the size of the hooks, the strength was also unavoidably lessened, thus requiring more hooks for the same strength. The other difference is that hook-and-loop has indeterminate match-up between the hooks and eyes. With larger hook-and-eye fasteners, each hook has its own eye. On a scale as small as that of hook-and-loop fasteners, matching up each of these hooks with the corresponding eye is impractical, thus leading to the indeterminate matching. [7] Family Fundprovides grants for families raising disabled or seriously ill children and young people aged 0-18. They provide grants for a wide range of items, including clothing. Velcro brand fasteners were used on the suits, sample collection bags, and lunar vehicles during all Apollo program missions to the Moon. [19] The investigation board for the Apollo 1 incident cited the prevalence of Velcro—almost 34 square feet (3.2m 2)—near the ignition source as part of the combustible material near the fire in the command module, which caused the deaths of astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee. [20]How you manage toileting is very personal and different for everyone. Most people want to be as independent as possible, minimising the risks of ‘accidents’ at any time. Because of their ease of use, hook-and-loop fasteners have been used for a wide variety of applications where a temporary bond is required. It is especially popular in clothing where it replaces buttons or zippers, and as a shoe fastener for children who have not yet learned to tie shoelaces. Hook-and-loop fasteners are used in adaptive clothing, which is designed for people with physical disabilities, the elderly, and the infirm, who may experience difficulty dressing themselves due to an inability to manipulate closures such as buttons and zippers. Additionally, it is pretty much the simplest fastener out there. This simplicity is one of the reasons it’s so popular with children’s shoes. Velcro shoes are easier for children to secure in place than shoelaces. Velcro doesn’t require very much maintenance. Once it’s in place, it’s ready to go. The only maintenance it may need is replacing the Velcro after you have used it for a long time and has worn out. Ensure that the force is applied parallel to the plane of the fastener surface, such as bending around a corner or pulley.

a b c d e f g h Strauss, Steven D. (December 2001). The Big Idea: How Business Innovators Get Great Ideas to Market. Kaplan Business. pp.15–pp.18. ISBN 978-0-7931-4837-0 . Retrieved 2008-05-09. If you find dressing difficult, there are a number of things you can try to remain independent with dressing. Velcro works well for a versatile set of needs. From holding objects on spaceships in place, to fastening shoes, to holding a seat cushion to a chair, Velcro works. Unlike buttons, which can easily fall off due to weakening thread, Velcro is super strong and durable. The nylon or polyester materials used with hook and loop fasteners ensure that it remains intact, even after repeated uses.A sitting position will cause clothes to ride up, so look for trousers with a longer leg length, or longer dresses/skirts Certain conditions like diabetes or Raynaud’s can cause circulation problems, especially to the hands, lower legs and feet. It them becomes important to protect your hands and feet from cold and possible damage which you may not feel. Further information on footwear is available from our factsheet on Choosing footwear and dressing A zip aid is usually a piece of cord or fine chain with a hook on one end and a tab at the other to assist with doing up zips. Large rings or tape can also be attached to a zip tab to help make gripping easier. Using dots of velcro tends to be easier than two strips of velcro particularly for fly openings on trousers or waistbands of women's skirts (Pain, McLellan, and Gore, 2003)