However he was constructed, he just really needed to know. De Mestral realized that if he could create a synthetic form of this fabric, it would allow for a new way to fasten things, a middle ground between buttons, zippers, and simply sewing stuff together.
His idea was to take the hooks he had seen in the burs and combine them with simple loops of fabric. The tiny hooks would catch in the loops, and things would just, well, come together. But it was far easier said than done. De Mestral took a tour of fabric manufacturing plants in Europe.
But eventually he found a manufacturer in Lyon that was combining relatively tough nylon with cotton — a fabric with the ability to hold its shape that was exactly what he was looking for.
But while de Mestral had found his material and proven that it would indeed work, the problem was that he could only make the hooks by hand — mass-manufacturing remained beyond his grasp. Krivsky told Hamilton. Spurred on by competitors beginning to make and sell Velcro, the company worked to get its product into as many niches as possible.
By the s, Velcro was showing up on shoes and replacing screws and glue in car interiors. But many people still weren't totally sure what it was. Army as a client. The hook-and-loop material became used on the Army Combat Uniform, a lighter version of their original battle attire.
However, soldiers disliked the material and caused much uproar through complaints over the noise it created and how the fabrics collected dust. After an internal inspection of these claims, the Army moved away from the use of Velcro to instead rely on buttons.
0コメント