Abstract: A slider may include a slider body, a pull-tab attachment portion provided at the slider body, and a resin-made pull tab attached to the pull-tab attachment portion. The pull tab may include an axial portion and a pair of bars extending from respective ends of the axial portion. The pull-tab attachment portion may include a pair of claws that axially support the axial portion of the pull tab. Each claw may be held by and between the respective paired bars while the pull tab pivots. A width of a terminal end of each claw in an axial direction of the axial portion may be less than a width of a base end of each claw in the axial direction.

Abstract: A waterproof zipper consisting of a first zipper tape, a second zipper tape, and a zipper slider consisting of slide, a pressure plate and a pull tab is disclosed. The first zipper tape and the second zipper tape are specially configured to enhance the tensile strength and waterproof characteristics of the zipper. The pressure plate defines with the topmost edges of the two second stop walls of the slider a constraint space for holding down the first zipper tape and the second zipper tape to prevent accidental displacement of the zipper slider relative to the first and second zipper tapes.

Abstract: A zipper arrangement is configured to fasten a first fabric portion to a second fabric portion. The zipper arrangement includes a plurality of first zipper elements positioned along the first fabric portion and a plurality of second zipper elements positioned along the second fabric portion. A zipper closure includes a first closure member releasably coupled to a second closure member. The first closure member is positioned on a mid-portion of the first fabric portion and the second closure member is positioned on a mid-portion of the second fabric portion. A first slider is positioned on one side of the zipper closure and a second slider is positioned on an opposite side of the zipper closure. The zipper arrangement may be used to fasten and unfasten a front right garment portion and a front left garment portion by moving the sliders in opposing directions.

Abstract: Disclosed is a slider for a slide fastener having a flexible upper wing piece and lower wing piece, and configured in such a way that zipper teeth are thrust into a tape insertion passage when a lateral pulling force is applied to a left and right pair of first and second fastener stringers. Accordingly, the application of a lateral pulling force to the left and right first and second fastener stringers results in the expansion of the width of the tape insertion passage of the slider and the separation of the zipper tooth rows. Thereupon the first and second fastener stringers which are engaged can be readily switched to a disengaged state.

Abstract: A slider is provided for use with a fastener assembly of a storage bag. The slider includes a first sidewall, a second sidewall, and a top wall connecting the first and second sidewalls. The slider also includes pressing legs for pressing together interlocking profiles of fastener strips, and a separating leg for separating the interlocked profiles. The slider has an asymmetric configuration that allows the slider to be moved closer to an end-stop formed in the fastener strips.

Abstract: A replacement zipper slider includes upper and lower plates, which are held together by a threaded fastener extending from one plate to the other; the plates are urged apart by a spring between them, and the threaded fastener sets a maximum limit on the distance between the plates.

Abstract: Systems and methods associated with an insert for expanding an article of clothing, including an article of footwear, are described. Articles of clothing incorporating such inserts are also described. The insert includes a body portion defining a first edge, a second edge, and a perimeter. Fasteners are disposed along the first and second edges. The fasteners couple to fastening structures of the article of clothing, and the perimeter of the body increases a size or circumference of the article of the clothing. The material for the insert, fasteners, fastening structures, or portions thereof can be selected to be decorative or to match, complement, correspond to, or coordinate with articles of clothing and/or accessories.

Abstract: A slider for a zip fastener includes a lower part, an upper part and a puller. The lower part and upper part are interconnected by a hinge, whereby the slider can be set in an open and a closed condition, respectively. The puller, which is made of a resilient material and constitutes the part that the user holds when using the slider, includes locking pins for locking the lower part and upper part in the closed condition, and also dividing shoulders. The lower part includes a hole which can receive the locking pins of the puller in order to lock the lower part and the upper part in the closed condition. The upper part includes a cradle for the locking pins of the puller and also a slanted dividing body, which is capable of separating the dividing shoulders and therewith the locking pins of the puller. Further, the upper part includes two hinge taps and the lower part includes an area for cooperation with the hinge taps.

Abstract: A slider for a zip fastener includes a lower part, an upper part and a puller. The lower part and upper part are interconnected by a hinge, whereby the slider can be set in an open and a closed condition, respectively. The puller, which is made of a resilient material and constitutes the part that the user holds when using the slider, includes locking pins for locking the lower part and upper part in the closed condition, and also dividing shoulders. The lower part includes a hole which can receive the locking pins of the puller in order to lock the lower part and the upper part in the closed condition. The upper part includes a cradle for the locking pins of the puller and also a slanted dividing body, which is capable of separating the dividing shoulders and therewith the locking pins of the puller. Further, the upper part includes two hinge taps and the lower part includes an area for cooperation with the hinge taps.

Abstract: A closure assembly with a slider is provided to open and close a resealable package. The closure assembly includes one or more pair of opposing interlocking profile elements and a rib optionally disposed between the interlocking profile elements of at least one side of the closure assembly. The slider includes opposing sidewalls and a top wall, with a separator member and a retention member extending from the top wall and closure members and hinged engagement members extending from the opposing sidewalls.

Abstract: A hermetically sealed zip fastener includes two rows of facing teeth mounted on two strips of compressively elastic material, the teeth being joined and disengaged by a movable slider which can be displaced by gripping its outwardly projecting gripping member. On opposite sides of the strips, the slider has first and second concave capsules, substantially mirror-images of each other, arranged with the perimetral edges of their concavities opposite and facing each other, the first capsule having directed upwards a pin perpendicular thereto and able to slide perpendicularly through a cavity inside the slider and through a hole in the second capsule. The gripping member, when actuated, causes simultaneous displacement of the first towards the second capsule and of the second towards the first capsule perpendicular to the plane of the zip fastener, moving end parts of their perimetral edges together sufficient to grip between them, with desired pressure, the strips.

Abstract: A closure assembly includes a slider for opening and/or closing an elongate closure mechanism including a pair of opposing closure members. The slider includes a first separator finger and a second separator finger, each of which is articulably connected to a hinge member. The first and second separator fingers extend between the closure members and may be articulated between a closing position, in which the separator fingers are adjacent each other, and an opening position, in which the separator fingers are laterally spaced from each other. In the opening position, the separator fingers urge the members apart. Closing bars and retention members may also be included to facilitate re-closing the closure members and retaining the slider in an operative position thereon.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a connecting structure of a zipper, including a pair of zipper belts having a first edge in an inner side thereof and a second edge in al outer side thereof The first edge is each provided with a pair of zipper teeth corresponding to each other. A zipper head is provided on the zipper teeth. The zipper head is responsible for closing and separating the zipper teeth. The second edge is each connected to a body of a connecting element. The present invention is characterized in that when the second edge of the zipper belts is folded backward, the body of the connecting element is covered and connected to form a first connecting portion. The outer edge of the zipper or the body of the connecting element is then folded backward with the first connecting portion so as to form a second connecting portion.

Abstract: The CTF Flip-N-Zip slider enables the purchasers of a zipper with the CTF Flip-N-Zip slider installed to disconnect at least one side of a zipped zipper and return it to the starting position. Current fixed sliders are very hard to fix if a foreign object jams the zipper or if the zipper opens behind the slider. CTF Flip-N-Zip slider requires only that the owner disengage the lock and remove either the top or bottom plates or half plate depending on the design. This is shown in the drawings for a releasable latch pin of the slider. The owner would then return the zipper to the starting position and reattach and lock the slider and start over using the same slider. Other designs currently in consideration are push button releases, hinged plates with hidden lever, draw activated releases, etc. Sliders will be made to fit all available zippers and zipper materials.

Abstract: The closure device (121) includes interlocking fastening strips (130, 131) and a slider (132) slidably disposed on the fastening strips for facilitating the occlusion and deocclusion of the fastening strips (130, 131) when moved towards first and second ends thereof. A slider (132) is provided for facilitating the attachment of the slider (132) onto the fastening strips (130, 131) in the horizontal X axis (102). The slider (132) provides resistance against the removal of the slider (132) from the fastening strips (130, 131) in the horizontal X axis (102) and the vertical Z axis (106).

Abstract: A multi-track fastening system having multiple tracks and a central slider or interchange. The central slider has angled openings and paths through which the tracks travel when the central slider is propelled along the tracks. Sliding the central slider along the tracks causes the rows of the tracks to interchange so that a volume of material coupled to the tracks can alternate between two different configurations.

Abstract: A reclosable package has a flexible zipper and a slider. The zipper comprises first and second zipper parts having interlocking elements, first opposing portions on one side of the interlocking elements and second opposing portions on the other side of the interlocking elements. The slider has a top wall, first and second side walls connected to the top wall, an opening end, a closing end, and first and second camming means that have respective fixed positional relationships to the first and second side walls and that cam the first opposing portions of lengthwise sections of the first and second zipper parts located inside the slider in opposite directions during movement of the slider in an opening direction along the zipper, while the second opposing portions of the lengthwise sections of the first and second zipper parts located inside the slider do not move further away from each other during the slider movement in the opening direction.

Abstract: The separable bottom end stop assembly has male and female members engageable with and releasable from each other in a front-to-back direction thereof. A slide plate of the male member has an engagement leg portion projected therefrom, while a sliding plate of the female member has an engagement hole. Sliding surfaces are respectively formed at peripheries of the engagement leg portion and the engagement hole of the slide plates. Each of the slide surfaces is formed with steep incline surfaces and a gentle incline surface. With the cam mechanism, when the male member and the female member are pressed from both surfaces thereof, an insert plate disposed at one of the male member and the female member is automatically guided to an inside of the slider held by a holding portion disposed at the other of the male member and the female member, which simultaneously causes the slider to start moving.

Abstract: In a upper stopper device for a slide fastener having a cross section of a substantially U shape, which is adapted to be attached continuously to a fastener element row of a stringer capable of being engaged with or separated from each other, an end portion of the upper stopper device opposite to the fastener element row is formed with a widened portion, which abuts against wing plates at a shoulder opening of a slider into which the stringer is inserted so that the slider can stop. Further, a caulking portion is formed in a range between the widened portion and at an end portion side toward the fastener element row. The slider abuts against the widened portion of the upper stopper device attached to the stringer so that it reliably stops.

Abstract: A slide closure for joining overlapping edges of flexible or rigid substrates having complementary touch fasteners thereon. The slide closure has a pair of closing surfaces facing each other and structure joining the closing surfaces together so as to define two channels opening in opposite directions. The substrates are received within the channels such that they overlap between the closing surfaces. The closing surfaces converge to a nip having a dimension small enough to cause the complementary touch fasteners to engage when the slide closure is displaced along the overlapping edges in a first direction. The slide closure may further include a spanning member disposed generally between the closing surfaces that serves to structurally join the closing surfaces, partly define the channels on either side, and provide diverging separating surfaces that cause the complementary touch fasteners to disengage when the slide closure is displaced in a second direction opposite the first direction.

Abstract: A zipper slide installed in two zipper tapes and moved to close/open interlocking teeth of the zipper tapes. The zipper slide includes a slide, the slide having a top plate and a bottom plate connected in parallel and two sliding ways bilaterally defined between the top plate and the bottom plate, the top plate and the bottom plate each having two horizontal flat extensions bilaterally disposed at one end and adapted to guide movement of the slide on the zipper tapes, the horizontal flat extensions each having front notch disposed at an inner side corresponding to the interlocking teeth of the zipper tapes, and a pull tab coupled to the top plate of the slide for pulling by hand.

Abstract: A resealable, flexible package having a reinforced slider device is disclosed. In one embodiment, the flexible package includes a resealable closure mechanism, such as a recloseable zipper for selective opening and closing of the package. The zipper includes a first and second closure profile. A slider device is operably mounted on the zipper for selectively opening and closing the resealable zipper. The slider device has a top wall and first and second sidewalls depending from the top wall. The slider device includes a reinforcement structure to increase the force required to remove the slider device from the flexible package. In one embodiment, the slider device includes at least one rib member integral with and extending outwardly from the top wall and each of the sidewalls. In another embodiment, the slider device includes a first and second rib member constructed and arranged to reinforce the top wall and each of the sidewalls at separate locations.

Abstract: A foldable plastic slider for straddling relation with a profiled plastic zipper. The straddling slider for closing or opening the zipper by movement therealong, comprising: a transverse support member including opposing sides, a pair of legs depending from the opposing sides of the support member, and a pair of wings hingedly attached to the opposing sides. Each wing has an opening for receiving its respective leg, and each wing has a cored out cross piece. The cored out cross piece has a solid ramp latch. The wings are folded relative to the support member and the latches engage the legs to assemble the slider on the zipper in a closed sidewall position.

Abstract: A plastic reclosable fastener or zipper with slider detent lock for locking the slider in closed position on plastic-film bags and the like is disclosed. The slider includes two spring-loaded detent elements located on opposite sides of the separator finger on the slider. When the slider is at any location other than the fully closed position at the end of the fastener, the spring-loaded detent elements ride against the outside surfaces of the flanges by which the separator finger opens the fastener. When the slider reaches the location at the end of the fastener where portions of the flanges have been removed to provide a notch, the spring-loaded detent elements spring inward against the sides of the separator finger. There they resist an attempt to move the slider in an opening direction because this requires that they be forced outward over the flanges of the zipper.

Abstract: A device for joining juxtaposed sections of artificial turf having rows of interlockable elements disposed along opposed edges of the turf sections, having a first body member having a first head portion and a first handle connected about one of its ends to the first head portion, and a second body member having a second head portion and a second handle connected about one of its ends to the second head portion. The first and second head portions are selectively movable into and out of spaced apart overlying relationship by manipulating the handles. Guide means are provided on at least one of the first and second head portions and form means for guiding the interlockable elements into engaged and disengaged relationship when the first and second head portions are in overlying relationship.

Abstract: A fluid-tight sealing slide fastener includes a pair of rows of coupling elements mounted respectively on inner opposite edges of a stringer tape, an elastomeric top stop mounted on the stringer tape around a terminal opening at ends of the rows of coupling elements, and a slider for taking the rows of coupling elements into and out of intermeshing engagement. The slider includes a slider body having a pair of upper and lower plates interconnected by a diamond, a presser having a plurality of pins extending through the upper plate, and a screw having a threaded shank threaded in a cylindrical body on the upper plate of the slider body and a head acting on the presser. When the slide fastener is closed and the screw is tightened, the pins are pressed against the top stop which is resiliently pressed against the lower plate and the diamond of the slider body to provide fluid-tight sealing between the top stop and the slider.