Abstract: In a slide fastener in which the row of coupling elements is woven into the tape, the warp yarns are formed in part with binding warp yarns in two or three groups. The warp yarns of the first group pass under double weft insertions between coupling members then over two or three coupling members and then under a coupling member and a double weft of the ground weft yarn underlying same. The binding warp yarns of the second group or arrangement pass over the double wefts between the coupling members and then under the coupling members and the double weft underlying same. A third group or arrangement can also be provided in which the double weft between the coupling members is lifted thereby into a loop and the coupling members are overshot by the binding warp of the third group.

Abstract: In a slide fastener in which the row of coupling elements is woven into the tape, the warp yarns are formed in part with binding warp yarns in two or three groups. The warp yarns of the first group pass under double weft insertions between coupling members then over two or three coupling members and then under a coupling member and a double weft of the ground weft yarn underlying same. The binding warp yarns of the second group or arrangement pass over the double wefts between the coupling members and then under the coupling members and the double weft underlying same. A third group or arrangement can also be provided in which the double weft between the coupling members is lifted thereby into a loop and the coupling members are overshot by the binding warp of the third group.

Abstract: A slide fastener has a pair of longitudinally extending and parallel textile tapes having thickened longitudinal edges that are transversely juxtaposed and formed with throughgoing holes at transversely aligned locations and that are provided with respective longitudinally extending rows of transversely projecting and interleavable coupling teeth. A slider having slots fittable over the edges is displaceable along the edges over the teeth in one longitudinal direction for interleaving the teeth and coupling the tapes together transversely and in the opposite direction for disengaging the teeth from each other and decoupling the tapes from each other. Thickened synthetic-resin reinforcement tabs are integrally molded onto the tapes at the locations of the throughgoing holes and extend thereat transversely up to the edges.

Abstract: A slide-fastener stringer half has a coupling coil having a row of turns defining a longitudinal passage and each formed with a coupling head, an upper leg and a lower leg extending transversely from the head and flanking the passage, and a bight extending from one of the respective legs to the other leg of the adjacent turn. A knitted tape against which the lower legs engage and from a longitudinal edge of which the heads project is formed of a plurality of outer warp chains adjacent the coil, an upper warp chain overlying both the upper and lower legs of the coils, and a lower warp chain overlying only the lower legs of the coil and extending along the passage between the upper and lower legs of the coil. Thus with this system the group of filaments forming the lower warp chain takes the place of the normally provided filling cord.

Abstract: A slide fastener is made from a workpiece formed of a pair of longitudinally extending parallel tapes having confronting edges provided with longitudinally extending and transversely couplable coupling elements. This workpiece is passed along a treatment path through a gapping station, a bottom-stop installing station, a slider-mounting station, a top-stop installing station, and a cutting station. The elements are removed from the tapes at gaps spaced longitudinally of the workpiece in the gapping station and a bottom stop is fitted to the elements at one end of each of the gaps in the bottom-stop installing station. A slider is mounted on the elements at the slider-mounting station between each gap and the following gap and a top stop is fitted to the elements in the top-stop installing station at each gap. Finally the tapes of the workpiece are transversely cut at the gaps at the cutting station into individual slide fasteners.

Abstract: A method of producing a continuous slide fastener strip by weaving on an automatic needle loom, warp yarns for support tape and warp yarns for tying-in being guided to form sheds, weaving needles being used to pick weft yarns for the support tape and a plastics monofilament yarn. A weaving needle which reciprocates continuously between an outside position and an inside position is operative to loop the plastics monofilament yarn around a former for forming coupling members, a row thereof being formed continuously from the latter yarn, the coupling members of such row each comprising a coupling head and connected arms which form a coupling loop and being joined together by connecting parts.

Abstract: A coupled slide fastener strip is gripped by at least one clamping member adjacent where a cut is to be made in it on one side at the beginning of a leading coupled slide fastener and on the other side at the end of a trailing coupled slide fastener and then the leading coupled slide fastener is separated from the slide fastener strip held by the clamping members by cutting. Then subsequently, the end piece is mounted at the end position the trailing coupling slide fastener with a clamping member and substantially simultaneously, the leading coupled slide fastener separated from the coupled slide fastener strip is moved with that or another clamping member from a cutting position into a slider drawing position. In the slider drawing position the slider is drawn in the opening direction of the coupled slide fastener and optionally the beginning piece is mounted. After that, the slider is drawn in the closing direction.

Abstract: In the process for mounting a slide fastener segment or slide fastener near the opposing edges of two pieces of material, particularly on a slit in a piece of clothing, a slide fastener strip, the slide fastener segment or the slide fastener and the pieces of material are fed to the sewing stations of a two needle sewing machine. The pieces of material in the region between the sewing stations are positioned to form a gap and are curved so that a portion of each hangs substantially vertically from two fold edges or creases in an intervening space between both of the sewing stations. Both slide fastener halves of the open slide fastener segment or the open slide fastener are sewn on from above on the horizontal portion of the pieces of the material along the fold edges. Apparatuses for performing the process according to my invention are also described.

Abstract: A slide fastener slider has a reversed bend spring member mounted on the slider body and having a spring tongue bend reaching through a window in a fastening portion thereof which is opened in one side. This increases the resilient force with which the tooth or pawl engages the coupling member and also allows the spring element to be thinner than the earlier system in which a sheet metal spring is used.

Abstract: A slide fastener stringer of the woven type in which the tape has a ground weave provided with warp threads and a weft formed of double-weft passes on a needle loom. The coupling element is of the continuous, preferably coil, monofilament synthetic-resin type in which the shanks of each coupling member are formed as a double-weft connected in the weaving process with the ground weave of the tape. According to the invention, the warp passes receiving the double-weft of the ground weave are separate from the warp passes receiving the double-wefts of the monofilament and are spaced or offset therefrom in a direction orthogonal to the slide fastener plane. Some of the warp threads form the passes over the double-weft of the ground weave and run over the shanks to form the passes for the double-weft of the monofilament.

Abstract: A method of making a slide-fastener stringer in which a continuously woven tape and a coupling element interwoven with the tape are formed continuously and the coupling elements of the resulting continuous web are gapped to permit insertion of the slider onto the web which can then be subdivided into individual slide-fastener stringers. According to the invention, weft yarns pass beneath the bight connecting the coupling members of the continuous coupling element and over warp yarns which are thereby held over the shanks of the coupling members by these wefts so as to be drawn away from the bights and so as to lock the warp yarns thus bunched together preventing them from raveling upon gapping of the web.

Abstract: A slide-fastener stringer has a tape formed from a ground weave with double wefts interwoven with a warp and a coupling element disposed along the edge of the tape and held thereto by binding warps. The coupling element is of the type in which a synthetic resin monofilament is coiled to form coupling heads whose shanks are disposed one above the other so that they have a common projection in the slide fastener plane. The shanks are connected to those of successive heads by bights. The coupling warp comprises a plurality of warp yarns whose patterns are offset by two picks and which each pass over two coupling elements, under a double weft between coupling elements, over another coupling element and then under the next coupling element in a repeating pattern.

Abstract: A slide fastener stringer of the woven type in which the tape has a ground weave provided with warp threads and a weft formed of double-weft passes on a needle loom. The coupling element is of the continuous, preferably coil, monofilament synthetic-resin type in which the two shanks of each coupling member are formed as a double-weft insertion connected in the weaving process with the ground weave of the tape. According to the invention, the warp sheds interwoven the double-weft of the ground weave are separate from the warp yarns interwoven with the double-weft insertions of the monofilament and are spaced or offset therefrom in a direction orthogonal to the slide fastener plane. Some warp yarns are interwoven with the double-weft of the ground weave and run over the shanks of monofilament.

Abstract: A slide-fastener stringer is formed by weaving a weft in a warp and simultaneously forming a continuous coupling element along each of the confronting edges of a pair of tapes simultaneously produced by the weaving operation. The synthetic-resin monofilament forming the coupling element is passed around a mandrel between the warp stretches so that the heads of the two coupling elements are produced in interdigitated form. The ground weft yarn is carried from the coupling element side of each set of warps through the shed to the opposite edge of the tape where it is locked into other loops of previous passes of weft by knitting.

Abstract: A weaving process and apparatus for producing a slide fastener from two continuous plastic filaments (synthetic-resin monofilament), each with a multiplicity of generally helicoidal coupling elements for interlocking with the coupling elements of the opposite filament, each filament being woven integral with the threads of its respective support tape to form a tape-like unit. Each coupling element has a coupling head on a loop and a pair of shanks terminating in bight portions which connect elements of the same tape-like unit. The shanks of each coupling element, which separate the bights from the loops, are held in close abutment by warp threads, with or without weft threads which pass over and under the successive paired abutting shanks of adjacent elements. Even stronger bracing can be obtained with bulbous projections on the shanks and bights, and by extending the coupling elements the entire width of the tape-like unit, replacing all or part of the weft threads.

Abstract: A slide fastener comprises two continuous plastic filaments, each with a multiplicity of helicoidal coupling elements for interlocking with the elements of the opposite filament, each filament being woven integral with the threads of its respective support tape to form a single tape-like unit. Each coupling element has a coupling head on a loop end and a long shank and a short shank extending from opposite sides of the loop end. The long shank terminates in a first bight portion connecting it with a long shank of one adjacent coupling element, while the short shank terminates in a second bight portion connecting it with a short shank of another adjacent coupling element. The coupling elements are arranged in rows of mirror-image pairs, each including two long shanks and two short shanks. Warp threads are interwoven with the coupling elements, with even stronger bracing possible with bulbous projections on the long shanks, short shanks, first bight portions or second bight portions using textile weft threads.

Abstract: A slide fastener comprises a pair of tape-like units each secured to one edge of an article whose edges are to be connected by movement of a slider along the units. Each tape-like unit comprises a row of interconnected coupling elements formed by a synthetic-resin monofilament, each coupling element having an eye or loop-shaped portion deformed to constitute the coupling head which can be received between coupling heads of the other row. From the eye-forming monofilament segments, shanks extend across the tape-like unit and are received in pockets of a multiplicity of longitudinal threads (e.g. as the weft of a weave in which the longitudinal threads form the warp, or in courses of the warp knit in which the longitudinal threads are loop chains).

Abstract: A slide fastener comprises two continuous plastic filaments (synthetic-resin monofilament), each with a multiplicity of generally helicoidal coupling elements for interlocking with the coupling elements of the opposite filament, each filament being woven integral with the threads of its respective support tape to form a tape-like unit. Each coupling element has a coupling head on a loop end and a pair of shanks terminating in bight portions which connect elements of the same tape-like unit. The shanks of each coupling element, which separate the bights from the loops, are held in close abutment by warp threads, with or without weft threads which pass over and under the successive paired abutting shanks of adjacent elements. Even stronger bracing can be obtained with bulbous projections on the shanks and bights, and by extending the coupling elements the entire width of the tape-like unit, replacing all or part of the weft threads.

Abstract: A slide fastener comprises a pair of coiled coupling rows of synthetic-resin monofilament with each coupling element having a coupling loop or eye formed with a coupling head, a pair of monofilament segments extending away from the head, and connecting shanks joining adjacent coupling elements together. The shanks are received in pockets formed by longitudinal threads which pass alternately over and under the shanks so that the longitudinal threads and the shanks form a tape-like unit or support structure. Preferably the longitudinal threads constitute a warp with the shanks acting as a weft for the tape-like unit. The coupling elements have a generally elliptical or flattened cross section whereby the coupling eye has its axis generally parallel to the major axis of the cross section of the monofilament.

Abstract: A slide fastener comprises two continuous plastic filaments, each with a multiplicity of helicoidal coupling elements for interlocking with the elements of the opposite filament, each filament being woven integral with the threads of its respective support tape to form a single tape-like unit. Each coupling element has a coupling head on a loop end and a long shank and a short shank extending from opposite sides of the loop end. The long shank terminates in a first bight portion connecting it with a long shank of one adjacent coupling element, while the short shank terminates in a second bight portion connecting it with a short shank of another adjacent coupling element. The coupling elements are arranged in rows of mirror-image pairs, each including two long shanks and two short shanks. Warp threads are interwoven with the coupling elements, with even stronger bracing possible with bulbous projections on the long shanks, short shanks, first bight portions or second bight portions using textile weft threads.