Abstract: A plastic zipper for use in a reclosable package or bag. The zipper includes a pair of fastener strips respectively having male and female interlockable members formed thereon. The male member has a profile with an expanded head. The female member has a profile with a groove for receiving the expanded head of the male member. The female member preferably includes a base, first and second walls extending from the base, first and second hooks respectively extending from the first and second walls toward a center plane of the female member, and first and second wings respectively extending from the first and second walls away from the center plane. The wings have surfaces for guiding an impinging male member toward an opening defined by the hooks of the female member. Preferably, the plastic zipper has a target width to zipper height ratio substantially equal to or greater than unity.

Abstract: A slider-zipper assembly for reclosable packaging in which the slider is mounted inside the zipper. Each zipper part comprises a base and a closure element connected to the base, the respective closure elements being mutually engageable. The slider comprises a body having one end where the zipper is open and another end where the zipper is closed, a first direction being directed from the closed end to the open end and a second direction being opposite to the first direction. A pair of camming surfaces on the slider have respective fixed positional relationships to the body and are divergent in the first direction. These camming surfaces are disposed so that the zipper parts are respectively cammed toward each other as the slider is moved in the first direction and cammed away from each other as the slider is moved in the second direction. No part of the slider confronts the exterior surfaces of the bases of the zipper parts.