Abstract: A tape with snap fastener in which fixing strength of a fastener to a tape main body is secured and which is excellent in durability by eliminating a possibility that the fastener may contact directly the tape upon engagement and disengagement and has good external design performance. A base portion is fixed to front and rear surfaces of the tape main body of the male or female synthetic resin snap fastener, and a substantially cylindrical engaging protruding portion projects vertically from the base portion. A ring-like continuous concave groove portion, which has the same center as the base portion and an inner diameter exceeding the inner diameter of the engaging protruding portion, is provided on any one of front and rear surfaces of the base portion. The engaging protruding portion and the continuous concave groove portion have depth reaching the tape main body.

Abstract: A canister vent valve mounting structure for a canister vent valve is configured to prevent center deviation when the canister vent valve is connected to the canister and enables the canister to be shared by different vehicle models. The canister vent valve includes a connecting pipe part that fits into an insertion hole formed in the canister. Several mating projections are arranged in the circumferential direction of the connecting pipe part such that they are formed on the outside circumference of the connecting pipe part near the tip thereof. Several notches into which mating projections can be inserted are formed in the inside circumferential surface of the insertion hole. The canister vent valve mounting structure between the canister and the canister vent valve is configured and arranged to retain the canister vent valve in at least two different orientations relative to the canister.

Abstract: The present invention provides a string fastening device which allows a string to be threaded thereinto easily, facilitates tightening of the string and enables the string to be gripped softly and captured accurately. The string fastening device can be used with its main body only and the main body includes a penetrating hole comprised of a sliding passage portion which allows the string to be moved freely and a braking passage portion for restricting movement of the string such that they adjoin. A narrow portion is provided at a joint portion so as to prevent the string from changing its path freely. The main body is made of thermoplastic elastomer to have elasticity. A rear face of the main body is formed to be a flat face. An attachment groove or sewing holes for sewing operation are provided around the penetrating hole. The main body is placed on a string threading hole in the cloth to be attached by a sewing thread to be fixed securely.

Abstract: A concave row and a convex row of a meshing slide fastener are molded of resin having plasticity. The convex row has a terminal end where slider guide portions for guiding a slider are removed. A convex-row-meshing portion of the convex row is inserted through a side of the slider so as to be engaged with a concave-row-meshing portion of the concave row. An engaging device including a female fastening member and a male fastening member is attached to terminal ends of the concave row and the convex row. In operation, the female fastening member of the engaging device on a side of the convex row is engaged with the male fastening member of the engaging device on the side of the concave row.

Abstract: A main portion of a fastener tape is woven with transparent or semi-transparent synthetic fiber monofilament yarn as warp yarn and weft yarn. Plural flexible yarns are interwoven into a side edge portion of the fastener tape in a longitudinal direction of the tape so as to form a fastener-element-mounting portion for mounting fastener elements. The fastener-element-mounting portion may be formed of an interwoven portion having a flat surface, in which case continuous fastener elements are to be attached thereto. Alternatively, a swollen core portion may be formed on the surface of the fastener-element-mounting portion, in which case single-type separate fastener elements are to be attached thereto. As a flexible yarn, a finished yarn having a bulk and produced by textured processing multifilament yarn is used so that mounting of the fastener elements are facilitated and the configuration of the fastener tape is stabilized.

Abstract: The present invention intends to provide a zipper pull of a slider for slide fastener formed of- resilient body on which no unreasonable force is applied when the fastener is opened or closed and which is always kept in a stabilized condition that it is urged to be fallen onto a slider body without swinging freely. A yoke which is a zipper pull mounting portion is mounted on a top face of a slider body. A half-annular shaped zipper pull formed of resilient body is fixed to lateral bars at front and rear ends of a rectangular connecting body longer than the slide body. A lateral bar is provided in the center of the connecting body and inserted through an automatic locking pawl lever incorporated in the yoke. Neck portions are provided in the vicinity of a fixing portion at the front and rear ends so that the zipper pull is elastically deformable easily. A grip portion is provided at a position apart from the fixing portion so that the zipper pull is easy to grip.

Abstract: Dyed, colorless transparent, or semi-transparent yarns or dyed transparent or semi-transparent yarns are used in combination as composition yarns of a belt to be woven or knitted. Consequently, color of the dyed yarns can be seen through the transparent yarns at intersections of the both yarns, so that beautiful intersections are produced. Further, the belt having a specific color tone produced by mixing various colors may be obtained. If it is intended to change the color of the belt, the belt having a desired color can be produced easily only by changing part of the composition yarns.

Abstract: An object of this invention is to provide a zipper pull of resilient body which is attached to a slider in a lateral direction thereof and capable of sliding the slider by rotating the zipper pull slightly so that the zipper pull is held in a stabilized state. A zipper pull mounting portion is provided on a top surface of a slider body and a connecting body of a zipper pull is disposed in a lateral direction relative to the mounting portion. The connecting body is comprised of two lateral bars disposed in parallel and vertical bars connected to both ends thereof so as to be protruded longitudinally. One of the vertical bars is buried in the zipper pull of resilient body so as to form a fixing portion. The zipper pull has an annular shape for surrounding the slider body. The lateral bars of the connecting body are inserted into the mounting portion.

Abstract: A cylindrical ornamental body can protect a reflective member from being damaged and reducing production cost. The cylindrical ornamental body comprises a transparent cylindrical main body made of synthetic resin and a reflective member having a reflective face inserted into said cylindrical main body. An air layer is provided between the reflective face of the reflective member and an inner wall of the cylindrical main body. The reflective member is composed of a belt-like member having the reflective face on at least one face thereof and has a fixing portion which is fixed to the inner wall of the cylindrical main body at least along a side edge in the length direction thereof. A attaching portion may be provided integrally on part of an outer side face of the cylindrical main body along a longitudinal direction of the cylindrical main body.

Abstract: The present invention provides a snap fastener which, when an engaging head engages an engaging hole portion, allows a disengagement operation for releasing the engagement therebetween to be carried out accurately. In a pair of the snap elements capable of engaging with or disengaging from each other freely in an opposing direction, one base plate has an engaging head while the other base plate has an engaging hole portion. Respective base portions of the base plates are attached on attached bodies. The base plate of any one of the snap elements has a grip portion, provided at the side opposite to the attached body such that it protrudes outward of the other base portion. The other snap element has a receiving portion which makes contact with the base portion of the one snap element.

Abstract: This invention provides a slider for use in sport goods, and its surface is smooth without any protrusion thereby providing no danger to a user. On a top surface of an upper wing of a slider body for slide fastener, a thread attachment portion for attaching a thread body as a pull and a fixing portion for fixing molded resin body formed by insert-molding synthetic resin on the upper wing are formed integrally with the slider body. The thread attachment portion is formed by arranging tongue pieces each having a narrowed tip in the center of the upper wing such that they oppose each other. The thread body is placed between the tongue pieces and the tongue pieces are crimped so as to fix the thread body. Further, tongue pieces slightly smaller than the aforementioned tongue pieces having the same shape are formed back and forth of the thread attachment portion and the tips thereof are crimped inward so as to form the fixing portion.

Abstract: A concave row and a convex row of a meshing slide fastener are molded of resin having plasticity. The convex row has a terminal end where slider guide portions for guiding a slider are removed. A convex-row-meshing portion of the convex row is inserted through a side of the slider so as to be engaged with a concave-row-meshing portion of the concave row. An engaging device including a female fastening member and a male fastening member is attached to terminal ends of the concave row and the convex row. In operation, the female fastening member of the engaging device on a side of the convex row is engaged with the male fastening member of the engaging device on the side of the concave row.

Abstract: This invention intends to provide a snap with supports, the snap being formed of resin across a pair of tapes in a simple manner thereby leading to improvement of productivity and securing a solid structure and practical performance. Supports such as tapes are disposed in parallel with a gap. By using this gap, male bodies or female bodies of the snaps of thermoplastic resin are formed across opposing edges of the tapes opposing each other at a predetermined pitch by injection molding means or extrusion molding means. A string may be used as the support. Different from a conventional processing in which an attaching hole is made in the center of the tape and resin snap is formed therein, a boring step is not necessary. Thus, this snap with tapes is created through such a simple processing.

Abstract: The present invention provides a string fastening device which allows a string to be threaded thereinto easily, facilitates tightening of the string and enables the string to be gripped softly and captured accurately. The string fastening device can be used with its main body only and the main body includes a penetrating hole comprised of a sliding passage portion which allows the string to be moved freely and a braking passage portion for restricting movement of the string such that they adjoin. A narrow portion is provided at a joint portion so as to prevent the string from changing its path freely. The main body is made of thermoplastic elastomer to have elasticity. A rear face of the main body is formed to be a flat face. An attachment groove or sewing holes for sewing operation are provided around the penetrating hole. The main body is placed on a string threading hole in the cloth to be attached by a sewing thread to be fixed securely.

Abstract: The present invention provides a slide fastener having a three-dimensional reflecting function on faces of fastener tapes by simple structure and means. Each of reflective tapes is provided separately from a fastener tape and has a band-shaped attaching portion, a bulging edge portion integrally formed on a longitudinal edge portion of the attaching portion, and a reflective portion formed by providing a retroreflective film or the like on the bulging edge portion. Each the reflective tape is attached to the fastener tape beside fastener elements such that at least a distance corresponding to a thickness of a flange of a slider is maintained between the bulging edge portion and the fastener elements, the reflective portion of the bulging edge portion appears and protrudes from a surface of the fastener tape, and that the bulging edge portion can swing. Each the reflective portion is not damaged by a sliding movement of the slider and can exhibit a three-dimensional reflecting function.

Abstract: The present invention provides a slide fastener in which a normal engaging state of engaging elements can be maintained, even if right and left tensile loads are applied to the engaged elements having an engaging male portion and an engaging female portion which can be engaged with and disengaged from each other in upward and downward directions. The engaging element having the engaging male portion has a tape mounting portion at one end thereof an arc-shaped fitting face at an inner face of the tape mounting portion, and a projecting engaging tongue at an upper portion of the element, at a lower face of which a column is formed to have an engaging head is formed at a tip end thereof. A recessed groove is defined in the head, thereby providing resilience. The engaging element having the engaging female portion has a tape mounting portion at an end thereof, a vertical fitting face at an inner face of the tape mounting portion, a projecting engaging tongue at a lower portion of the element.

Abstract: A reflecting warp-knit slide fastener tape is knitted with several kinds of knitting patterns. A marginal portion onto which fastener elements are attached extends along one longitudinal edge of the tape. The marginal portion is formed by tricot-stitch yarns, weft-inlaid yarns, and chain-stitch yarns which prevent the marginal portion from stretching. In the web portion, in addition to the tricot-stitch yarns and the weft-inlaid yarns one or more reflective members, which is in the form of a strip of retroreflective or light-reserve reflective film, are knitted in between wales contiguous to the marginal portion. The reflective members are sandwiched between the weft-inlaid and tricot-stitch yarns. The tricot-stitch yarns are transparent synthetic fiber yarns in order not to obstruct the reflecting feature of the reflective members.

Abstract: In a slide fastener slider, a slider body includes a pair of cantilevered arch-shape attachment lugs spaced from each other by a uniform-width hollow having a bottom surface sloping down to a front side of the slider body and standing on an upper wing at its front end and extending toward its rear end so as to define with the upper wing a gap for passage of an axle of a pull tab, a vertical spring-receiving hole formed through inner surfaces of bases of the attachment lugs into a guide post, a catch lever pivotally mounted between the attachment lugs and having at one end a hook, and a spring received in the spring-receiving hole with its upper end resiliently touching with the other end of the catch lever for urging the catch lever to pivotally move so as to normally close the gap by the hook. The pull tab various in kind can be attached to the assembled slider body.

Abstract: A surface fastener comprising: a substrate sheet; a multiplicity of engaging elements projecting from on surface of the substrate sheet; and an elastic member laying over the one surface of the substrate sheet. The elastic member has an upper surface normally in contact with lower ends of locking portions of the engaging elements so as to support circumferential surfaces of stem portions of the engaging elements. The upper surface of the surface fastener is therefore less rough so that waste pieces of yarn and nap cannot be caught by the locking portions.

Abstract: A button-substitute fastening device for use with a companion surface fastener member, comprises: a generally-C-cross-section support body molded of thermoplastic synthetic resin and having substantially parallel first and second plates integrally joined at their one ends by a connecting portion; a multiplicity of engaging elements standing upright on an outer surface of the second plate and adapted for engagement with engaging elements of the companion surface fastener member; the first plate having on its outer surface an arbitrary ornamental design; and a pull-up tab integrally projecting outwardly from the connector in parallel to the first and second plates.