Abstract: An injection molding machine with an injection system and a clamping system. The injection system may include a removable injection module defining a portion of the material flow path. The injection module may include all of parts that come in contact with the material between the material source and the mold. The injection module may include a valve arrangement movable between a fill position to load the injection module with material and an inject position to eject material from the injection module into the mold. The actuators for the injection module may be supported on the machine rather than the injection module. The clamping system may include a platen linear actuator to open and close the mold, and a hydraulic clamping system to apply clamping force to the closed mold. The hydraulic clamping system may include a free-float valve manifold assembly that selectively places the hydraulic cylinders in free-float mode.

Abstract: An insertion plunger for inserting at least one wrap-around label and at least one bottom label into an injection mold for producing a plastic container has an outer plunger and an inner plunger that is movable relative to the outer plunger. In a method for insertion of a wrap-around label and a bottom label into an injection mold, the labels are inserted by an insertion plunger in that the wrap-around label and the bottom label are inserted in a single stroke performed by the insertion plunger into the injection mold.

Abstract: A waterproof slide fastener and a manufacturing apparatus thereof are disclosed, wherein each fastener element has a coupling head, a neck portion, a body portion, and leg portions which are continuously fused and integrated, a terminal end is projected from a gap between upper/lower half portions of the coupling head, upper/lower flanges of a slider make a sliding contact with a surface of each of upper/lower half portions of each leg portion, each half portion of the leg portion extending from the body portion via a crotch portion and guiding the flanges, two or more leg portions are disposed with a predetermined interval in a sliding direction, an entire shoulder width of a shoulder portion is larger than a body width of the body portion if it is provided, thereby intensifying fixing strength between a fastener tape and fastener elements and waterproofness, and allowing a smooth sliding of a slider.

Abstract: A side-action mechanism disclosed in the present invention includes a slide carrier, an insert core, and a core pin engaged with the slide carrier. The slide carrier has an angular slide groove perforating through the slide carrier and an opening formed and making communication between a front surface and the bottom surface with a slide way defined on its top. The insert core which is accommodated in the angular slide groove has a secured portion and an angular insert portion extending downwards from the secured portion. The core pin has a body which is small enough to be accommodated in the opening, but long enough to protrude out of the opening. The body at one end defines a pair of ears thereof for engaging with the slide way so that the core pin can slide along the slide way.

Abstract: Apparatus for manufacturing a multicolor slide fastener includes an upper die 110, a lower die 120, and a plurality of unit fastening teeth-forming slots 101 formed in a lengthwise direction. Molding material-injecting passages and a plurality of sprue holes 102 are provided for injecting the molding materials S into the slots 101. Inclined passages 201 and 202 are connected to the molding material injecting passages respectively, for carrying the molding materials S from a raw material source. Heaters 240 and heat sensors 241 heat the passages 201 and 202. Pressing means 300 press the molding materials S into the inclined passages 201 and 202. Valves 400 control injection of the molding materials S into the sprue holes 102 of the upper die 110.

Abstract: Blow-molding molds 10 and 20 having parison shutters 31 and 32 for preventing an inflation of the parison 3 toward the outside of the molds 10 and 20 are used in a blow-molding method of the present invention. In other words, a closed space for preventing the parison 3 from inflating out of the molds 10 and 20 are formed by the parison shutters 31 and 32 and a predetermined air is secured in the parison 3 in a frame clamping step (B). In the subsequent mold clamping step (C), the pressure inside the parison 3 starts to be increased when the molds 10 and 20 press the parison 3, so that the parison 3 can be continuously in contact with the die design surface 11. Accordingly, since the parison 3 can be uniformly contracted by cooling, molding failure such as streaks and uneven pattern transfer can be avoided, thus obtaining a blow-molded product having good appearance.

Abstract: An injection molding machine includes a plasticizing unit and a closing unit which has at least one column which passes through and is moveable relative to a supporting element. A jacket at least partially surrounds the column at formation of an annular space and bears directly against the supporting element, wherein the jacket has at least one connection piece for providing a communication between the annular space and a suction unit.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a multi-color slide fastener is disclosed, in which a plurality of unit meshing teeth are coupled to a pair of supporting tapes so as to be slide-coupled or separated. The plurality of the unit meshing teeth are made to have diversified colors, and the patterns of the unit meshing teeth are continuously harmonized with the patterns of the base fabric of a garment. A plurality of groups of the meshing teeth are formed with different colors by one shot, so that the meshing teeth could form various patterns. Therefore, the pitches and gaps between the unit meshing teeth are uniform. Accordingly, not only the multi-color slide fasteners can be mass-produced, but also their quality and reliability can be upgraded. Further, various patterns and colors can be formed on the slide fastener.

Abstract: The method includes the steps of a tape arranging step for arranging a support tape of a slide fastener on a mold having a capacity having a plurality of unit fastening element molding material grooves for molding a plurality of unit fastening elements, a molding material heating and discharge step for separating a molding material of more than two colors from a source material supply unit by the colors by a molding material injection means and then heating and discharging the same, a moving step for grouping external molding material flow paths from the molding material supply unit to an injection port of the mold into more than two groups and then moving different colors molding material by the colors, and an injection step for injecting the molding material into the unit fastening element molding material groove through a plurality of inject-on ports formed in the mold.

Abstract: A color slide fastener and a method and apparatus for fabricating the same are disclosed.

Abstract: In a die-casting slide fastener slider having a plastically deformable, cantilevered pull-tab attaching lug on a slider body, the lug projects from an upper end of a guide post over an upper wing toward a rear end of the upper wing and terminates in a downward end projection spaced from the upper wing by a gap through which an attachment ring of a pull tab is threaded. The lug has a longitudinal hollow through its base to facilitate plastically deforming the lug to reduce the size of the gap after threading. In this structure, since first and second slide cores of a mold for die-casting the slide fastener slider can be inserted from the front and rear sides, it is possible to mold the lug without generating any parting line on its overall appearance.

Abstract: An injection mold and a method for ejecting, from the mold, a molded product having an array of integrally molded fastener elements extending from a base are provided. In some embodiments, the mold includes a series of ejector pins which progressively eject the product. In other embodiments, the mold includes moveable parts which pull fastener elements out of mold cavities without the use of ejector pins.

Abstract: In an auto-lock slide fastener slider composed of four members, i.e., a slider body, a pull tab, a locking and a cover, the slider body has front and rear resilient cover-attachment projections extending from an upper wing and terminating respectively in outwardly directed hooks while the cover is made of thermoplastic resin and has on respective inner edges of front and rear end walls corresponding inwardly directed hook portions resiliently engaged with the hooks of the cover-attachment projections. The cover can be attached to the slider body simply in a single snap action. Since all parts of the attaching mechanism are concealed by the cover, the resulting slider is neat in appearance.

Abstract: In a mold for molding a slide fastener slider, a first template has a first part of a cavity for molding a rear section of an outer contour of the slider body except an upper surface portion of an upper wing and also has a first core for molding a rear section of an element guide channel of the slider body; a second template which is movable toward and away from the first template has a second cavity part for molding a front section of the outer contour of the slider body and also has a second core for molding a front section of the element guide channel; and a third template which is slidable on the first and second templates has a third part of the cavity for molding a pull-tab attaching lug of the slider body and an outer contour of the upper surface portion/shape of the upper wing. For molding, these templates are brought together to form the cavity, and then molten molding material is poured into the cavity via a channel and a sprue.

Abstract: In a mold apparatus for simultaneously molding two cross-linked annular parts, having first through fourth split cores arranged in a cross pattern, firstly the adjacent first and second split cores are moved by first split core moving means as guided on fixed dies along a first sliding passageway perpendicularly in the mold opening and closing direction, and then the adjacent third and fourth split cores are moved toward and away from part of movable dies simultaneously when the part of the movable dies is moved toward and away in the mold opening and closing direction by guide means. At the same time, the third and fourth split cores are moved away from the molded product along a second sliding passageway by a link mechanism composed of arms.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for forming a fastener member having a base and a plurality of headed stems arranged in columns and rows and projecting from the base. The fastener member is formed by injection molding a molten material into a base mold, sacrificial stem mold and head mold, wherein the material is solidified. After the base mold and head mold are removed, the stem mold may be removed to release the fastener member.

Abstract: In a method and apparatus for manufacturing a slide fastener chain having rows of coupling elements and members of a separable bottom end stop assembly, two positioning holes are formed at predetermined positions on reinforcing films attached to a pair of fastener tapes. The positioning holes are used to position the fastener tapes relative to a molding unit with respect to each individual slide fastener length. Thus, even when a positioning error is produced due to a change in tension on the fastener tapes being processed, such error is limited to a small extent which is created only in the individual slide fastener length. Thus, the coupling elements and the first pin member and the second pin member can be molded precisely.

Abstract: A method of forming end stops to a continuous slide fastener chain including element-free space portions at longitudinally spaced intervals, wherein as the chain is fed in the backward direction, a pair of rows of interengaged coupling elements extending on the downstream side of an element-free space portion is spread open by a chain splitting apparatus for subsequent molding of a separable end stop whereas a pair of rows of coupling elements on the upstream side of the element-free space portion is kept in engaged condition. After the separable end stop is molded, the chain is fed in the forward direction during which time a sprue portion and gate portions formed integrally with the separable end stop are caught by a chain splitting member of the chain splitting apparatus. The chain splitting member is then lowered to automatically remove the sprue portion and gate portions from the separable end stop.

Abstract: The manufacture of slit-type zip fasteners is accelerated by synchronizing the movement of the slit former with the movement of the ejector. A portion of the slit former slides while ejecting the product or closing the mould in a guide which causes a movement of the slit forming portion of the slit former obliquely to the general ejection direction thus pulling the slit forming portion out of the heads of the zipper teeth. The zip fastener is made preferably in a mould wherein the slider that comprises inter alia the moulds for the zipper stops is disposed asymmetrically at one end of the mould. The hot runner of this mould is designed in such a manner that the material flow is first directed to the feed nozzle furthest away from the slider and then to the nozzle next to the slider which is working for the injection moulding of a zip fastener of any length.

Abstract: As a pair of fastener tapes is supplied through a molding machine and then through a fiber hardening agent applying and impregnating unit, a predetermined length of coupling element rows are molded on and along confronting beaded edges of the fastener tapes, and simultaneously a separable bottom stop assembly composed of a pin member and a box member and top stops are molded about one ends and the other ends of the coupling element rows, whereupon a fiber hardening agent is applied over and impregnated in the tape surfaces of the prospective bottom end portions by the fiber hardening agent applying and impregnating unit.

Abstract: A method of molding a separable bottom stop assembly on a concealed slide fastener, including: forming a number of space portions devoid of fastener elements at predetermined intervals in a concealed slide fastener; impregnating molten synthetic resin in fastener tapes at areas around the space portion; heat-molding and hardening the tapes in such a manner that confronting edge portions of the tapes are turned over; cutting the tapes across the space portion; injection molding a second pin member of the separable bottom stop assembly on the edge portion of one tape and a first pin member of a box member on the edge portion of the other tape at the space portion, contiguously to the fastener elements; and attaching a box to the first pin member to complete the box member. The result is that a separable concealed slide fastener, which could not be put to practical use conventionally, can be manufactured simply.

Abstract: A lower mold attachment plate, on the upper surface of which the fixed mold half is attached, is fixed to a machine base. An upper mold attachment plate, to which the movable mold half is attached in opposite to the fixed mold half, is movable upwardly and downwardly by mold moving cylinders. A rotary disc, which has plural injection cylinder insertion holes in the same circle in vertical alignment with plural injection cylinder insertion holes of the upper mold attachment plate, is rotatably pivoted on the upper surface of the upper mold attachment plate. Plural injection units arranged over the rotary disc in predetermined distances along the circle are joined with the rotary disc as a unit. As the rotary disc is rotated to a divided angular position, a slide fastener chain is conveyed along the extension of the chain travelling path, by a predetermined length at every injection molding by means of chain conveyer.

Abstract: A process for the production of an injection nozzle comprising an essentially tubular inner part (16) and at least one essentially wire-type heating element (14, 15) which is embedded entirely inside a solid metal body (12, 13) lying in a close-fitting manner around the inner part in which one or more separate, essentially tubular metal bodies (12, 13) with a heating element (14, 15) embedded therein are formed by placing the heating element and the metal in a molten state in a mold, so that the heating element is completely enclosed by the molten metal, and subsequently allowing the metal to set, following which the body thus formed is removed from the mold and this tubular body or these tubular bodies thus obtained is or are then slid over the tubular inner part up to a certain point.

Abstract: A process for manufacturing zip fasteners by molding sets of locking members of any length and of the staggered or slit type, the upper stop members, the coupling and the box, in a single operation. The process is achieved with a two-part injection molding tool having strips with recesses for forming locking members which are applied to both the lower and the upper part of the tool. The lower strips can be moved vertically. A transverse slide has recesses for the upper stop members, a recess for the coupling, and a mold part for a box, in which is located a mold body displaceable within the plane of the slide. In order to form locking members with slits the lower part of the tool is provided with a mechanism which removes the insert forming the slit from the slit when the finished zip fastener member is removed. Accordingly, all combinations of zip fasteners can be manufactured in a single operation without expensive subsequent processing.

Abstract: A molding device for molding a sliding member of a slide fastener includes a first mold, a second mold movable toward or away from the first mold to close or open the molding device, at least one set of upper movable moving parts, a first upper stationary molding part detachably fixed to the first mold and a second upper stationary molding part detachably fixed to the second mold. The upper stationary molding parts are replaceable to alter the design of the holding end of a pulling tab of the slide fastener. Each set of the upper movable molding parts includes a first and a second upper movable molding part installed in the first mold, a third and a fourth upper movable molding part in the second mold.

Abstract: A method of molding articles including the steps of continuously moving a forming mold and a band-like molding member in a first and second endless path, respectively, engaging the respective mold and member through a region of engagement to form a continuous open-ended molding cavity; injecting hardenable material into the cavity; intermixing and compacting the hardenable material before hardening into an article and then disengaging the mold and band before removing the article.

Abstract: In a method for continuously manufacturing slide fastener coupling elements, a molded strip of coupling element blanks is folded by a first folder unit about its longitudinal axis while still hot into a U-shaped cross-section to provide a folded strip of coupling element blanks each having a width larger than a predetermined width of each of the coupling elements as ultimately shaped. After having been heated by a hot-air blower, the hot folded strip of blanks is shaped by a second folder unit into slide fastener coupling elements of a finalized shape and dimensions through a plurality of bending stages in which the widths of the coupling element blanks are constricted stepwise by the second folder unit as the folded strip of blanks is fed therethrough.

Abstract: An apparatus for forming a slide fastener chain includes an injection molding machine with a mold, a sprue and runner cutter adjacent the mold, a pelletizer adjacent to the cutter for reducing the sprues and runners to particle size which are delivered to a first hopper, a second hopper for fresh molding materials, a mixing hopper for blending the used and fresh molding materials to be fed to the mold, and controls for regulating the proportions of used and fresh materials.

Abstract: In an apparatus for forming a row of zigzag coupling elements, a winding unit includes a guide plate having a guide hole through which a monofilament is supplied onto a periphery of a continuously rotating die wheel. The guide plate is driven by two separate drive mechanisms, for lateral reciprocating movement and tangential reciprocating movement, respectively, with respect to the die wheel periphery so that the guide hole traces a horizontal figure-eight curve to thereby wind the monofilament alternately around a pair of rows of circumferentially staggered pins, on the die wheel periphery.

Abstract: A slide fastener chain with reinforcing strips is fed along a feed path through a finishing apparatus for trimming the reinforcing strips. The finishing apparatus has a chain guide unit, a cutter unit, and a chain tensioner unit. The chain guide unit includes a stop having recesses for accommodating some coupling elements and steps for engaging endmost coupling elements. The chain tensioner unit has a presser gripper for pressing the slide fastener chain against a support base and a presser roller for depressing the slide fastener chain to tension the same for thereby forcibly pushing the endmost coupling elements against the steps. When the slide fastener chain is tensioned by the chain tensioner unit, one of the reinforcing strips is accurately positioned with respect to the cutter unit. The reinforcing strip is then trimmed by central and side cutters which cut off excessive central and side portions completely.

Abstract: An apparatus of manufacturing a slide fastener with a separable end stop according to the invention includes: a step which is carried out while separating engaged stringers of continuous length which have space portions disposed at regular intervals in their longitudinal directions and which consists of conveying the separated stringers through an injection molding station; suspending the operation of conveying the stringers in such a manner that one of the space portions is disposed at the injection molding station; and simultaneously injection-molding upper stops and pins which constitute a separable end stop on the stringers at each end of the space portion.

Abstract: A row of slide fastener coupling elements of synthetic resin or metal is pressed between a pair of first and second presser rolls having first and second confronting presser surfaces engaging legs of the coupling elements. The first and second presser surfaces have closest confronting portions spaced from each other by a distance equal to the width of each of the coupling elements. The second presser roll is displaceable with respect to the first presser roll to vary the distance. The first presser roll has a spur gear held in mesh with a pin gear on the second presser roll. The first and second presser rolls can be rotated in synchronism by the spur gear and the pin gear even when the second presser roll is displaced relatively to the first presser roll. The first and second presser rolls also have partition ridges for meshing engagement with the legs to keep them spaced apart at equal intervals. One of the first and second presser rolls has a third presser surface for engagement with coupling heads.

Abstract: One or more inner bands are employed to cooperate with an outer band and a cavity wheel or inner molding member wherein portions of the inner band or bands together with the outer band and the cavity wheel or inner molding member are utilized to continuously form the cavities for continuously molding articles. The inner band or bands are employed to form core members, intermediate cavity wall portions, and/or stripping members for the molding cavities.

Abstract: An apparatus for manufacturing a continuous slide fastener stringer including a row of injection-molded coupling elements secured to a stringer tape along a longitudinal edge thereof, includes a pair of fixed and movable mold members through which the stringer tape is fed by a tape advancing means, and a pair of upper and lower tape shifters mounted on the movable mold member for moving the stringer tape between a first position in which a part or portion of the stringer tape lies flatwise on a mold surface of the movable mold member and a second position in which the tape's part is spaced from the mold surface and held out of interference with a feeler projecting from the mold surface of the movable mold member. During the advancing movement of the movable mold member toward the fixed mold and in timed relation to the stringer-tape advancing means, the tape shifters are movable with respect to the movable mold member to place the tape's part in the first position.

Abstract: Provided is a method and apparatus for molding and winding in a continuous operation a string of molded items. The molded items of the string or chain are molded in spaced relationship to one another and are connected by molded scrap connectors. The string of molded items is then advanced until only a trailing connector of the last molded item extends into the mold cavity. Upon subsequent molding operation, therefore, the subsequent molded item is molded integral with the existing string of molded items. The continuous string of molded items is kept under constant tension and wound periodically into a coil. The molding, advancing, tensioning and winding operations are all integrated and synchronized in order to provide a wound package which greatly facilitates its use in an automatic assembly operation.

Abstract: A continuous flexible metal band surrounding a molding wheel and rotating therewith engages the wheel through an arc less than 180.degree., e.g. 110.degree., and is maintained with a substantial inward radius of curvature throughout its entire length. This permits the employment of bands with cavities therein and having thicknesses several times greater than 0.001 times the diameter of the molding wheel without fatigue and failure of the band.

Abstract: A continuous zigzag-shaped coupling element strip, for use in the production of slide fasteners, is produced on a rotating die wheel having an endless zigzag-shaped peripheral cavity receptive of heated thermoplastic material delivered from a fixed extrusion nozzle. The cavity has a plurality of bottlenecks or retarding means to restrict or retard the flow of the delivered thermoplastic material in the cavity so as to retain much of the thermoplastic material in central and transverse cavity portions that correspond to head and leg portions of a coupling element.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing small molded bodies with overhanging portions, e.g. for use as end stop members in slide fastener stringers, wherein a molding band is fed to a forming wheel to define individual molding cavities therewith, the cavities passing to a molding station at which a synthetic resin material is injected into the cavities. According to the invention, the band consists of a plurality of band members which upon being fed to the wheel, form a core with undercut formations around which the synthetic resin material is molded and, following molding, the band portions are laterally or orthogonally offset to release the articles drawn by the band out of forming beds on the wheel.

Abstract: One or more inner bands are employed to cooperate with an outer band and a cavity wheel or inner molding member wherein portions of the inner band or bands together with the outer band and the cavity wheel or inner molding member are utilized to continuously form the cavities for continuously molding articles. The inner band or bands are employed to form core members, intermediate cavity wall portions, and/or stripping members for the molding cavities.

Abstract: An apparatus for forming coupling members of synthetic resin for application to a support tape in the production of a slide-fastener stringer comprises a forming wheel to which an endless band is fed to form mold cavities on the periphery of the wheel which are filled with synthetic resin. According to the invention, a further band is fed to overlie the first band and define undercut portions of the cavity to produce projections in the molded members which can engage when the latter are applied to a support tape. A continuous core can be fed to the drum periphery to be embedded in the coupling members as they are formed so that the row of coupling members is produced as a succession of teeth on this continuous element.

Abstract: An injection molding machine has a round support member rotatably mounted on a shaft, there being at least a series of molds supported on and along the periphery of the table. Each of the molds includes a pair of relatively pivotable mold members, one of which is operatively connected to a power actuator which includes a fluid-pressurizable cylinder fixed to the support member and a piston having a rod projecting from the cylinder for actuating said one of the pair of mold members.

Abstract: A continuous flexible metal band surrounding a molding wheel and rotating therewith engages the wheel through an arc less than 180.degree., e.g. 110.degree., and is maintained with a substantial inward radius of curvature throughout its entire length. This permits the employment of bands with cavities therein and having thicknesses several times greater than 0.001 times the diameter of the molding wheel without fatigue and failure of the band.

Abstract: A method of welding a row of interconnected thermoplastic coupling elements for slide fasteners at opposed leg portions of each coupling element with the use of an ultrasonic horn. The method comprises: pressing the opposed leg portions of the coupling elements against the ultrasonic horn on its opposite sides during the coupling elements are being fed at constant speed; concurrently with this pressing step, fusing the opposed leg portions of the coupling elements at their confronting inner surfaces by ultrasonically vibrating the ultrasonic horn in a direction parallel to the confronting inner surfaces; and pressing the opposed leg portions of the coupling elements, after the latter is disengaged from the ultrasonic horn, against each other so as to be united at the confronting inner surfaces that have been fused. An apparatus for carrying the above method into practice efficiently and accurately is also disclosed.

Abstract: A warp-knit elongate structure is provided which has a pair of spaced warp-knit elongate webs and a plurality of transverse thread portions spaced longitudinally of and interconnecting the warp-knit elongate webs. The shape of the warp-knit structure is corrected into a ladder-like structure and then is introduced into an elongate mold cavity, in which synthetic resin is molded around the portion of the warp-knit webs and the transverse thread portion which are disposed in the mold cavity. A molded product that constitutes a portion of a coupling element assembly is separated from the mold cavity, and is bent about its transverse central axis into the shape of a U. A guide drum is disposed adjacent to a molding wheel for guiding the warp-knit structure onto the molding wheel and for rectifying the shape of the warp-knit structure into a ladder-like structure.

Abstract: The leg portions of a continuous molded coupling element are bonded together to reinforce the attachment of connecting threads embedded in the leg portions, and a longitudinal cord is laid in grooves formed in heels of the leg portions to improve the stability of the coupling elements.

Abstract: A heating cylinder with a chamber therein is mounted on a base and has a discharge nozzle with an orifice therein, a plunger being movable into the chamber toward the discharge nozzle. A mold holder is supported on the base and has a mold including first and second mold members which jointly provide a mold cavity therebetween. The mold holder is pivotable between a first position in which the mold is held in contact with the discharge nozzle with a sprue in one of the mold members being held in communication with the orifice and a second position in which the mold is located away from the discharge nozzle. There is a means on the base for locking the mold holder in the first position.

Abstract: Disclosed is an injection molding apparatus for the manufacture of continuous slide fastener chain. In the disclosed arrangement a small projection is formed on a portion of a runner molded together with a row of fastener elements at the time the elements are injection molded on a pair of stringer tapes, the small projection being detected as a portion of the as yet unfinished slide fastener chain when the stringer tapes are fed. Upon detection of the projection the introduction of the tapes into the molds is halted and the tapes, which have been intentionally fed to an excessive degree, are retracted by an amount equal to such excess. During the retraction the posterior end of the runner abuts a stopper provided on one of the pair of molds thereby to position the tapes for the next injection molding cycle.

Abstract: Disclosed are molds, one being stationary the other movable, for the injection molding of continuous slide fastener chain, each of the molds being provided with a upper runner stopper located at the end portion of a runner cavity on the tape entrance side of the molds, the upper runner stopper having a trapezoidal portion which projects toward the interior of the runner cavity, and with a lower runner stopper disposed on the tape exit side of the molds, the stationary mold having a positioning stopper adjacent said lower runner stopper, the positioning stopper having a trapezoidal portion of a shape to engage with a recess formed in the posterior end of a runner by means of the trapezoidal portion of the upper runner stopper.

Abstract: An interlocking element for a slide fastener is produced by substantially laminar flow of synthetic polymer resin through one of a pair of leg portions extending from opposite sides of a head portion of the element, through the head portion, and through the other of the pair of leg portions.

Abstract: A plurality of spaced fastener elements are molded onto parallel filaments. A pair of leg portions of each fastening element have, respectively, a projection and an opening, the projection and opening mating to interlock the leg portions. The fastening elements are formed by directing the parallel filaments to a cavity wheel which has mold cavities enclosed by a band, and then injecting plastic material through gas openings in the band into the mold cavities to form a train of fastener elements on the parallel filaments.