Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
024387000 | With distinct, stationary means for anchoring slider | 13 |
20090089983 | Device for creating a seal between fabrics or other materials - A device for forming a seal includes upper and lower seal members, and a slider, wherein mating surfaces of the seal members interlock. In at least one embodiment, a lifting rib and closure bar on the slider cooperate with a lifting wing and closure bar groove on the upper and lower seal members, respectively. By moving the slider in one direction, the lifting rib lifts the upper seal member from the lower seal member. Moving the slider in the opposite direction causes the upper and lower seal members to interlock. In another embodiment, a slider has an intermediate lateral member connected on one side the slider top, and connected on the other side to the slider bottom. A breakaway sealing device is also provided, allowing a person to break the closed seal. A beginning stop block is also provided that includes a means for securing the upper seal member. | 04-09-2009 |
20090178246 | Automatic zipper mechanism for clothing - An opening and closure mechanism for a zipper, the mechanism comprising a resilient elastic band or strap secured to the zipper handle with opposing ends of the resilient elastic strap being secured to at least one side of the waist band closure, and preferably opposing ends of the resilient elastic strap being secured to opposing sides of the waist band closure such that separating the waist band closure causes the resilient elastic strap to open the zipper closure mechanism by retracting the zipper handle downwardly; and closure of the waist band fastener releases tension on the resilient elastic strap allowing the resilient elastic strap to retract the zipper upwardly to a closed position. | 07-16-2009 |
20120017402 | Automatic Zipper - The automatic zipper is an apparatus that attaches to the pull tab or the slider of a zipper and a top of a tape or a fastener. The apparatus may attach with, for example, a flexible wire, a snap, a metal form or a flexibly jointed metal form. The apparatus opens the fly when the top tape is separated or the fastener is dis-engaged. The apparatus closes the fly when the top corners of the tape are pulled together to return to their starting (closed) position. The fastener may then be engaged. When the fastener is fastened, the zipper will not open. | 01-26-2012 |
20130255041 | Low Profile Insect-Proof Closure for an Encasement - A low-profile insect-proof closure is provided for an encasement of insect-impervious fabric. A zipper is provided for closing an opening in the encasement. The zipper is stitched to the encasement and has a zipper head, and a zipper track on a fabric zipper belt. A fabric backing panel is stitched to the encasement behind the zipper at a closure zone of the zipper. A finger-shaped insert is provided attached to the fabric backing panel. The insert, which is made of compressible elastomer, is arranged so as to physically block or apply pressure to the zipper head to keep the zipper head in closed position when the encasement is on the mattress. The insert has a width no greater than the width of the zipper belt and a thickness less than about 10 millimeters. | 10-03-2013 |
20140013548 | Slide Fastener and Slider with Simple Locking Mechanism - In a slide fastener, at least one stopping element including a resistance portion that increases sliding resistance by being brought into contact with an inner surface of a slider when the slider is sliding is locally disposed locally on an element chain row of a fastener stringer. Accordingly, the slider can be stopped at any position where the stopping element is disposed arbitrarily on the element row and an immobilized state of the slider can be maintained. By operating the slider with a force greater than the sliding resistance to the stopping element, the slider can be made to ride over the resistance portion of the stopping element and to slide along the element row. | 01-16-2014 |
20140123444 | Knitted Fastener Stringer - In a knitted fastener stringer, an element attaching portion of a fastener tape is configured by using at least a fixing chain stitch yarn which fixes a fastener element, and this fixing chain stitch yarn comprises a first needle loop which is knitted into a ground structure and a second needle loop which fixes upper and lower leg portions. Also, the one first and one second needle loops of the fixing chain stitch yarn is formed at each one pitch of the fastener element. As a result, it is possible to achieve an improvement of productivity and a large reduction of a manufacturing cost by increasing a knitting speed when knitting the knitted fastener stringer and further to stably obtain flexibility and a soft texture in the knitted fastener stringer. | 05-08-2014 |
20140143987 | UNIT AND ZIPPER DEVICE FOR BLOCKING HARMFUL INSECTS - A zipper device for blocking harmful insects: a pair of tapes; a plurality of teeth fixed to the tapes so as to longitudinally face the same; a slide to be inserted into the teeth so as to allow the teeth to be engaged or the engaged teeth to be released; and a blocking unit in which an insertion groove is formed at one end so as to allow one portion of the slide to be inserted, and the blocking unit is placed at one end point of the teeth so as to be fixed to the pair of tapes, wherein if one portion of the slide is inserted into the insertion groove of the blocking unit by moving the slide, the teeth are engaged and a space between the slide and the blocking unit is blocked, thereby preventing foreign material or harmful insects from entering the space between the teeth and between the slide and the blocking unit. Accordingly, the propagation of harmful insects is blocked by preventing the inflow of harmful insects. | 05-29-2014 |
024388000 | And for aligning surfaces or obstructing slider movement | 6 |
20090276984 | SECURITY ATTACHMENT AND METHOD OF USING SAME - A security attachment for helping to prevent unwanted access to a container slide fastener includes a retainer mounted in proximity to the slide fastener and an elongate toggle pull adapted to be removably secured in a fixed position by the retainer. | 11-12-2009 |
20100242236 | ANTI-THEFT ZIPPER HEAD - An anti-theft zipper head includes a head member and a handle. The head member includes a zipper groove for engaging a zipper. The handle is connected with the head member. The head member further includes an elastic piece. The elastic piece is configured for engaging the zipper and thereby confining the movement of the head member on the zipper. The handle includes a push switch. The push switch is configured to control the elastic piece to extend into the zipper groove so as to engage the zipper, or to withdraw from the zipper groove so as to be disengaged with the zipper. | 09-30-2010 |
20120124789 | LOCK SYSTEM WITH PROFILE STRIPS AND SLIDERS FOR CONNECTING AND SEPARATING - The proposed invention provides a lock system involves a first lock and a second lock each with two profile strips operable for engagement with an at least partially flexible bundle and effective to enable an environmentally-sealed connection of a first bundle with a second bundle in a closed docking position and for an environmentally-sealed guidance of a flow in a flow direction (D) through the lock members from the first bundle into the second bundle in an open docking position. The second bundle provides similar lock members facing toward the first bundle, which lock members in the opened docking position engage the lock members of the first bundle and jointly with the lock members of the first bundle forms a flow channel for flow in the flow direction. Additionally the invention relates to a slider for connecting and separating such locks. The slider has an insertion side on which the locks are insertable in insertion directions (A, B) which enclose an acute angle (γ) in which the slider is insertable, and opposite the insertion side an outlet side on which the locks connected there with each other can be removed in a joint sliding direction (C) from the slider. | 05-24-2012 |
20130160248 | Slider for Slide Fastener - A slider with a stop mechanism includes a slider body having first and second post positions on an upper blade, a pull tab, and a bent leaf spring member. The leaf spring member includes first and second restraining portions which abut against the first and second post positions, respectively, to restrain upward movement. The first and second restraining portions are respectively disposed at positions to be spaced apart from the first and second post positions when the inclined angle α of the pull tab is 0°. The first restraining portion is disposed in a relation to abut against the first portion and thus restrain the upward movement, when the inclined angle α is in a range of 0°<α<180° or when the axis of the pull tab is spaced apart from the upper blade. | 06-27-2013 |
20150351502 | SLIDER ASSEMBLY AND ZIPPER COMPRISING SAME - Disclosed are a novel slider assembly and a zipper comprising same. The slide assembly comprises: a slider comprising upper and lower plates provided with teeth guides, and a post connecting the upper and lower plates, the slider interlocking the teeth while advancing along the teeth arranged a set distance apart on each sides of first and second tapes, and separating the teeth while moving backwards therealong; a locking unit, disposed at the longitudinal-direction end of the first tape, for restricting the backward movement of the slider; and a bottom unit, disposed at the longitudinal-direction end of the second tape, elastically coupling with the locking unit by the vertical pressure (in the direction of the thickness of the tape) applied by the overlapping locking unit pressing down, and uncoupling therefrom by the force of moving the slider backwards. | 12-10-2015 |
20160157567 | SQUARE FOR ZIPPER AND ZIPPER - A zipper comprises a left zipper belt, a right zipper belt, and a square slider. Each of the left zipper belt and the right zipper belt is provided with a left stop member ( | 06-09-2016 |