Sentence examples for fasteners. from inspiring English sources

Shortly afterwards Keen bought Nettlefolds, which made screws and fasteners.

Late last year it was discovered that thousands of fasteners on the early test aircraft had been installed incorrectly.The 787 has been a huge sales success with orders for more than 860 planes the most Boeing has ever had for a new plane before it even takes off.

To this end Dr Swain has developed a novel form of suturing that involves poking folded T-shaped fasteners through the tissue on either side of a tear or incision, each connected to thread.

USGI has developed a similar approach which uses umbrella-like fasteners, and Olympus Medical Systems, another firm working in the field, has devised a system based on curved hooks.Hooks and graspers are also being used to manipulate tissue.

The 787 should have flown by now, but is running late because of a shortage of aluminium fasteners and problems with its flight-control software.

It spans high- and low-tech: Axell designs microchips for pachinko (roughly, pinball) machines; Nifco makes plastic fasteners to attach car parts.

But the snap-fasteners were de rigueur: topped with pearl and backed with tin, square or circular or diamond-shaped, strong enough to pass without cracking through the wringer of a 1940s washing-machine, and flash enough to turn heads on the streets of Denver on a Saturday night.

And he, his grandson liked to say, had become the Henry Ford of the western look, snap-fasteners and all.

Like the wheel, the zip fastener and other breakthrough technologies, it looks deceptively basic at first sight.

Meanwhile, a central piece of evidence in the case against Mr Sollecito was a bra fastener belonging to Ms Kercher on which was found a (contested) trace of his DNA.

IN THE annals of fashion the snap-fastener, or press-stud, holds a humble place.