Abstract: The construction of a paneled door or the like suitable for installation in a doorway into a bathroom. The door includes a central rail having a member of I-shaped cross section adapted to define a horizontally extending recess on each face of the door. Each recess has a pair of brackets at both ends, between which a bar extends for use either as a handle or towel hanger. The bar can be at least partly accommodated in the recess.

Abstract: An adjustable fastening device comprises a slider and a rack which cooperate to adjustably fasten two parts of an article, or two separate articles, together. The slider has a guide ridge formed centrally on the internal surface of the top wall of its body, the guide ridge being adapted to be slidably received in a groove extending between two longitudinal rows of intersticed teeth on the rack.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for manufacturing helically coiled coupling elements for slide fasteners. There are provided a filament supply unit, a filament coiling unit, a filament drive unit interposed between the supply unit and the coiling unit, and a tension-applying unit disposed between the drive unit and the coiling unit. As a filament is formed into a fastener element in the form of a continuous helical coil at the filament coiling machine, the filament is unwound from a relatively large bobbin in the supply device and at the same time is rotated about its own axis by a rotor of the supply unit at the same rate and in the same direction as the filament is coiled at the coiling unit to thereby eliminate twists on the filament which would otherwise be produced at the latter unit. The drive unit is also adapted to rotate the filament about its own axis while positivey feeding the filament toward the coiling unit.

Abstract: A continuous coupling element is fashioned from an elongated synthetic resin filament or the like, which filament is bent to a zigzag or meandering configuration to provide a series of U-shaped transverse portions each having a coupling head and a pair of legs extending rearwardly therefrom. Parts of the legs of each U-shaped portion are deformed to provide tape gripping portions, respectively, which include laterally expanded, flat surfaces arranged in opposed relationship to each other. The continuous coupling element is to be anchored to a stringer tape as by bonding or fusing the tape gripping portions to the opposite surfaces of the tape.

Abstract: An exterior window unit is adapted to cover an opening in a building wall. A frame sill of the unit has a mounting fin secured to a fixed sill in the building wall and having a first flange. An adapter sill plate is placed on and secured to the top surface of the fixed sill. The adapter sill plate has at its outer marginal edge a second flange which interfits with the first flange.

Abstract: An exterior window unit for covering an opening in a building wall includes a frame sill which is slidable coupled with an elongated attachment plate member to be secured to a top surface of the fixed sill of a normally present window assembly in the building wall. To effect such coupling, the frame sill has a mounting fin having engaging means with a groove formed longitudinally therethrough. The attachment plate member has an engaging member which is complementary in cross-section to and received in the groove in the engaging means. The attachment plate member is thus positionable longitudinally relative to the mounting fin so as to be able to be interposed snugly between the side jambs of the normally present window assembly.

Abstract: In a shutter construction typically installed on the outside of a window and including one or more panel assemblies mounted within an outer frame for horizontal sliding movement into and out of a shutter box, each of the panel assemblies is composed of a supporting frame and a series of aligned elementary panels closely fitted in the supporting frame. The supporting frame consists of top and bottom rails and a pair of stiles, and the stiles are formed wth a tongue and a pair of clamping jaws, respectively, projecting toward each other. Each elementary panel also has a tongue and a pair of clamping jaws along its respective lateral edges which are exactly identical with the tongue and jaws of the stiles. The elementary panels are connected to each other and to the stiles solely by the clamping engagement of the tongues by the respective pairs of jaws.

Abstract: A warp-knitted tape for slide fasteners is provided with a web portion and a marginal edge portion extending longitudinally thereof and connected together integrally with a combination of different stitches. The marginal edge portion has two adjacent wales spaced one wale pitch apart to provide thread-free regions for unrestricted passage of sewing needles.

Abstract: A roller assembly including fixing means for securing the roller assembly to a bottom rail of a window sash or a door. The roller assembly has a hollow outer frame in which is provided a pair of vertical legs each having a ledge disposed in a slot formed through a side wall of the outer frame. A screw having a countersunk head in the outer frame upon clockwise rotation urges the ledges to be pressed against side panels of the bottom rail, thereby holding the roller assembly in place within the bottom rail in correct center alignment with the latter. There are also provided a pair of projections formed on the side walls of the outer frames and adapted to fit in cutaway recesses defined in the side panels of the bottom rail. Another embodiment includes a pair of indented formations drawn out of the planes of resilient plates of the outer frame and adapted to be urged away from each other by the countersunk screw head, thus pressing the outer frame plates against the side panels of the bottom rail.

Abstract: A window includes a sash movable between closed and open positions while pivoting on a pair of slides which are vertically movable along the respective side posts of an outer frame. For pivotally connecting the sash to each slide, a pair of axially aligned longitudinally spaced sleeves are mounted on the top edge of the sash, one of the sleeves slidably receiving a pivot pin projecting from the slide. Rotatably arranged between the sleeves is an adjustor ring having a key projecting into the interturn spacing of a helical compression spring mounted within the sleeves and secured at one end to the pivot pin. The contact force of the slide on the side post is adjustable by the rotation of the adjustor ring relatively to the sleeves.

Abstract: A driving mechanism for selvage forming knitting needles in shuttleless looms is a linkage comprising a pair of upper and lower horizontal links and a pair of front and rear vertical links, these links being pivotally joined togehter to provide a substantially parallelogramatic construction. A first link extension extends from the lower link and is pivotally coupled to a machine frame. A second link extension extends from the upper link and has mounted thereon a knitting needle which is provided with a hook and a shank and is located alongside of the fabric. A disk crank has a crank pin rotatably connected to the rear link and is coupled with a drive shaft of the shuttleless loom.

Abstract: An automatic slider lock mechanism releasable by a pull tab, comprising a locking leaf spring arranged under the island separator on the front end of the slider body, and an actuating lever received in an aperture formed through the separator. The actuating lever has a pair of shoulders at its bottom end which are urged by the leaf spring into engaging contact with the bottom edges of the separator. Upon exertion of a pull on the pull tab coupled to the top end of the actuating lever, the latter is pivoted within the aperture to cause retraction of a locking pawl at one end of the leaf spring away from the guide channel in the slider body.

Abstract: In a slide fastener stringer having a row of discrete fastener elements arranged along one longitudinal edge thereof and each comprising a coupling head at its front end and a pair of parallel spaced legs extending rearwardly from the coupling head, the rear end portions of the legs of each fastener element are flattened into plate-like shape, with steps formed between these flattened rear end portions of the respective legs and their remaining portions. The flattened rear end portions of the legs of each fastener element are embedded into the stringer tape from both surfaces thereof, to such a degree that the outer surfaces of the flattened rear end portions are flush with the corresponding surfaces of the stringer tape, thereby providing slideways for the marginal guide flanges of a slider traveling along the fastener elements.

Abstract: A slide fastener having an emergency opening zone at its intermediate point from which the fastener can be forced open in an emergency without pulling a slider along interengaged rows of fastener elements. To make this slide fastener reusable, a slider escape mechanism is arranged at its top end for causing the slider to ride on only one of the stringers by releasing the other stringer therefrom after the fastener has been forced open. Arranged at the bottom end of the fastener is a connect-disconnect terminal mechanism which may take the form of a box-and-pin separable coupling, such that the fastener stringer can be reconnected to permit normal slider movement after having been completely separated from each other.

Abstract: A stringer for a slide fastener is provided with a warp-knit tape having alternate wales and interwale grooves and a row of fastener elements secured thereto. The element has a recess in one of its legs for receiving a larger wale of the tape. The interwale grooves located on opposite sides of said larger wale are adapted to receive therethrough sewing threads and are widened such that the inner surfaces of the grooves are urged into intimate contact with said one leg under the influence of sewing pressure applied when sewing the element to the tape.

Abstract: A warp-knit tape structure is disclosed for use as a carrier tape for mounting thereon a row of fastener elements. The carrier tape has a web portion and adjoining marginal edge portion extending one longitudinal edge of the tape, said edge portion having a relatively wide interwale groove for the passage of a sewing machine needle and a plurality of wales adjacent to said interwale groove held closely together to provide a reinforced region disposed for sliding contact with a slider of the slide fastener.

Abstract: A balustrade having a series of balusters connected to both top and bottom rails or, if desired, to a top rail only is disclosed which can be completed by assembling standardized parts. The top and bottom rails each includes a horizontal baluster mounting plate facing inwardly, and this mounting plate has an aperture extending along one of the longitudinal edges thereof and a series of longitudinally spaced recesses open to the aperture. The end portions of the balusters are inserted into the respective recesses of the mounting plate, either directly or via the aperture. Means are provided in several forms of construction for locking the baluster end portions within the recesses. The aperture can be closed by a separate filler plate, which is adaptable either to snap into position in the aperture or to slide longitudinally therein.

Abstract: There is disclosed a slider fitting and end stop applying machine wherein a combination unit includes an end stop anvil mounted on an arm and a slider jig supported by a support member. The arm and the support member are mounted for pivotal movement about respective axes which are spaced apart laterally from one another. The arm and the support member are operatively interlocked in crossing relation, so that the anvil and the jig move automatically toward and away from each other during the travel between the slider fitting station and the end stop applying station. The jig is provided with means for automatically releasing the slider from the jig when the combination unit reaches the end stop applying station.

Abstract: A sliding clasp fastener is disclosed which is provided with a stop means at an end thereof for limiting the reciprocal movement of a sliding member. This stop means particularly adaptable at a top end of the fastener is comprised of an arcuately shaped prong extending on the base side of fastener elements and substantially flush with the plane of these fastener elements for engagement with a flanged portion of the slider.

Abstract: A stringer tape is made of a woven fabric the warp and/or weft of which is constituted of yarns composed of synthetic fibers or filaments or of blends of synthetic and other fibers or filaments. At each end of the stringer tape, formed by severance of the tape from a continuous length of such fabric tape, there are formed a plurality of thermally fused regions to prevent the unraveling of the fabric. The thermally fused regions are spaced from each other in the transverse direction of the tape.