Integral Mechanical Attachment
Messler, Robert W., Jr. (Professor and Associate Dean of Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA) Integral Mechanical Attachment, highlights on one of the worlds oldest technologies and makes it new again. Think of buttons and toggles updated to innovative snaps, hooks, and interlocking industrial parts. Mechanical fasteners have been around as long as mankind, but manufacturers of late have been re-discovering their quick, efficient and fail proof advantages when using them as interlocking individual components as compared with such tradi...