| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 024415000 |
Slider having specific configuration, construction, adaptation, or material
| 133 |
| 024403000 |
Interlocking surface constructed from plural elements in series
| 41 |
| 024399000 |
Having interlocking surface with continuous cross section
| 26 |
| 024389000 |
With distinct member for sealing surfaces
| 26 |
| 024391000 |
Having coiled or bent continuous wire interlocking surface
| 13 |
| 024387000 |
With distinct, stationary means for anchoring slider
| 13 |
| 024386000 |
Plural independently movable sliders
| 11 |
| 024436000 |
Including means for obstructing movement of slider
| 9 |
| 024382000 |
Plural zippers
| 7 |
| 024433000 |
Including complementary, aligning means attached to ends of interlocking surfaces
| 7 |
| 024435000 |
Including means attaching interlocking surfaces together
| 6 |
| 024385000 |
Having slider or interconnected sliders with access opening for diverse-art member | 4 |
| 20080295300 | Locking zipper - A locking zipper includes a zip retainer and a zip fastener for zipping two elongated engaging tracks locating alongside of each other. The zip retainer includes a retention base, and a locking head integrally extended from the retention base. The zip fastener includes a sliding base and a key-free locker which is integrally provided at the sliding base and is releasably engaged with the locking head. At a zipped position, the sliding base is slid to the retention base for zipping the engaging tracks with each other that the key-free locker is locked with the locking head to securely lock up the zip fastener with the zip retainer. At an unzipped position, the key-free locker is released from the locking head such that the sliding base is slid away from the retention base for unzipping the engaging tracks from each other. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20120180271 | BAG ZIPPER LOCKABLE WITH TETHERED CABLE LOCK - A bag which has a zipper which is closable over an interior space of the bag using a zipper slider. The zipper slider has a pull and a first locking tab which juts forwardly from one end of the zipper slider and defines therein a first locking slot sized to receive a locking element of a lock. A second locking tab defines a second locking slot with the second locking slot also being shaped to receive the locking element. The first and second locking tabs are configured to be selectively overlapped or aligned so as to register their locking slots, whereby upon passage of the locking element through both locking slots, access to the interior space of the bag is prevented. The locking element can be connected to a cable with a loop to tether the bag to an immovable object. | 07-19-2012 |
| 20120222272 | FLY BALL SYSTEM - A fly ball system comprising: a zipper assembly; a removeably-attachable tag having an eye; and an attacher removeably inserted through the eye. The zipper includes a zipper; a top tape extension; a top stop; a slider; a pull tab; a tape; a bottom stop; an insertion pin; and a retainer box. The zipper, the top tape extension, the top stop, the slider, the pull tab, the tape, the bottom stop, the insertion pin, and the retainer box form the zipper assembly for temporarily joining two edges of fabric together. The attacher includes a clip and is removeably-attached via an opening/closing mechanism to an interior cut-out located on a front portion of the pull tab on the slider of the zipper assembly. The attacher removeably-attaches the eye on the removeably-attachable tag to the pull tab on the slider of the zipper assembly for replacing existing broken zipper tabs. | 09-06-2012 |
| 20140182091 | Zipper Assembly and Method of Use Thereof - A zipper assembly is described wherein the facing tapes having interlocking teeth along facing edges each have a plurality of eyelets distributed longitudinally therein. The eyelets permit the receipt of zip ties therethrough for securing the assembly to an opening in a net. When installed a user may selectively open and close the opening by zipping and unzipping the zipper assembly. | 07-03-2014 |
| 024432000 |
With means for concealing surfaces | 4 |
| 20120167355 | Fastener Stringer for Concealed Slide Fastener - The invention provides a fastener stringer for a concealed slide fastener in which right and left fastener tapes respectively include a tape body portion, a tape bend portion bent into a U-shape and an element mounting portion, a hollow weave portion is formed at each fastener tape, and a film body is accommodated in the hollow weave portion in a state of being sewn together with a fastener element as one side edge thereof being located to the tape bend portion side from a sewing thread. Accordingly, since stiffness of the hollow weave portion is improved by the film body, a closely-contacted state between the right and left tape bend portions is stably maintained and concealing characteristics of the concealed slide fastener can be improved. | 07-05-2012 |
| 20120279025 | Woven Slide Fastener - A woven slide fastener which is knitted using a double-bed-type warp knitting machine, in which a stable woven mode of a ground structure is maintained and a fastener element row is strongly attached to a warp knitting fastener tape stably in size. A fixing chain knitting yarn of the fastener element row in the fastener element attaching portion and knitting yarns configuring a ground structure are knitted with independent single structures, respectively. Needle loops which are connected to each other in a longitudinal direction of the fixing chain knitting yarn presses each of element legs of the continuous fastener element row toward the ground structure, sinker loops which are connected to each other in the longitudinal direction of the fixing chain knitting yarn go under a sinker loop of a second warp knitting yarn which configures the ground structure and cross each other. | 11-08-2012 |
| 20130042442 | Concealed Slide Fastener - There is provided a concealed slide fastener. The slide fastener includes a pair of fastener tapes, a pair of fastener element rows, a slider, a box pin, a box body and an insert pin. The insert pin includes an insert portion configured to be inserted into a space of the box body and an engagement portion formed on a side surface of the insert portion, which faces the box pin and configured to be engaged with a lowermost one of the fastener elements of one of the fastener element rows which is close to the box pin. The length of the engagement portion is set to be at least twice an interval between the fastener elements. | 02-21-2013 |
| 20140245574 | Slide Fastener and Concealed Type Slide Fastener - In a slide fastener, a fastener tape is woven with a single-woven structure, and in the fastener tape, a double-woven region woven with a double-woven structure is formed along a tape longitudinal direction. An inner single-woven region and an outer single-woven region of the single-woven structure are formed at a tape inner edge side and a tape outer edge side of the double-woven region. Thus, even if the fastener tape makes contact with ridge line portions on a lower blade side of the slider when the slider is slid, weft yarns arranged in the double-woven region are less likely to be cut. | 09-04-2014 |
| 024390000 |
With distinct separable-fastener | 3 |
| 20100122440 | ZIPPER HOLE PUNCH TREATMENT - The disclosure relates to a reclosable zipper for a package or bag wherein apertures are formed at periodic package-width intervals passing through the interlocking elements of the zipper profiles in order to minimize the mass of zipper material in areas where side seals of packages or bags will be subsequently formed. The otherwise interlocking elements upstream of, or at the trailing edge of, the apertures are deformed so as to prevent interlocking of the elements through a limited area. This allows a separator pin to pass through the area of the apertures and pass between the zipper profiles, eliminating or reducing the collision of the separator with the zipper profiles and subsequent potential damage to the zipper profiles. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100170066 | HEADSET CORD HOLDER - A headset cord holder comprises a body and a first groove built into the body configured to receive and releasably hold a headset cord. In some embodiments, the first groove has a diameter less than or equal to approximately 2 mm. In further embodiments, the body is integrally formed within the teeth of a zipper. In some embodiments the body comprises one or more of rubber, plastic and metal. In some embodiments, the body comprises one or more of stamped metal and molded metal. In further embodiments, the body comprises molded plastic. In some embodiments, the body comprises one or more additional grooves configured to receive and releasably secure the headset cord. | 07-08-2010 |
| 20120174347 | Gripping Zipper Securing Ring - A gripping zipper securing ring for use in securing a zipper includes a ring member having a first portion pivotally coupled to a second portion for movement between open and closed configurations. The first portion includes a locking arm having a plurality of teeth. The second portion includes a locking receiver configured to selectively receive the locking arm therein. A release mechanism is situated in the locking receiver that is selectively movable between a locked configuration at which the locking arm is not removable from the locking receiver and a released configuration in which the locking arm is removable therefrom. The release mechanism includes a user operable release member with which to move the release mechanism between locked and released configurations. | 07-12-2012 |
| 024401000 |
Having interlocking surface formed from single member with varying cross section | 3 |
| 20140143988 | AUDIBLE CUT AND CRUSH ZIPPER - The present disclosure relates to a zipper for a reclosable package or bag, wherein the female profile has been crushed at first periodical intervals and the male profile has been cut at second periodic intervals. This provides audible and tactile feedback characteristics to the zipper. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20090049658 | Readily Burstable Slide Fastener - A readily burstable slide fastener | 02-26-2009 |
| 20110232048 | CLOSED-END TREATMENT STRUCTURE OF SLIDE FASTENER FOR VEHICLE SEAT - According to embodiments of the present invention, there is provided a closed-end treatment structure for a slide fastener of a vehicle seat, the structure including: a pair of cloth tapes to be attached to a seat skin of the vehicle seat; a pair of teeth lines respectively attached to the pair of cloth tapes; a slider configured to move from a top stop side to a bottom stop side while detachably meshing the teeth lines; a pull-tab connected to the slider through a connection portion; and a storing portion configured to store the slider, the pull-tab and end portions of the cloth tapes, in a state where the slider is moved to the bottom stop side, thereby storing the closed-end of the slide fastener. | 09-29-2011 |
| Entries |
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| 20080209694 | Fastener stringer and slide fastener - A fastener stringer capable of following up stretching/contracting action of a stretchable fabric smoothly by improving a stretching property of an element attaching portion, and capable of preventing breaking of chain if the element attaching portion is stretched, wherein the fastener stringer includes: a woven fastener tape having a tape main portion and an element attaching portion; a continuous fastener element row sewed to the element attaching portion with a non-elastic sewing thread; and an elastic core thread inserted through an interior of the fastener element row, an elastic yarn and a non-elastic yarn are woven into the tape main portion and the element attaching portion as warp yarns while a non-elastic yarn is woven as a weft yarn, and a weaving ratio of the elastic yarn to the non-elastic yarn is larger in the element attaching portion than in the tape main portion. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080229552 | Zipper connection between kite sail material and structural members - The present invention comprises one functional addition to kite's sail material and structural spars. This invention uses a zipper rather than kite sail material pockets to attach the structural spars to the sail material. This invention is specific to the functional kite spars and the sail material that attaches to them. One side of the zipper is attached permanently or non-permanently to kite spars. The other side of the zipper is permanently attached to the kite material. This allows easy disassembly of the kite material from its structural spars. This also functionally attaches the desired portion of kite material to its structural spar without the use of pockets or material stretching. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080289156 | ZIPPER CONSTRUCTION - A zipper construction includes first and second fabric pieces. Each of the first and second fabric pieces includes an inner edge to which teeth are affixed. The first and second fabric pieces are formed of a weave defined by pre-dyed warp fibers formed of a substantially inelastic material and weft fibers that are formed of an elastic material. The zipper construction also includes a slider that engages the teeth of the first and second fabric pieces. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080301914 | WOVEN BAND FOR ZIPPER - A woven band for a zipper is provided. The woven band is made by a double needle bar raschel knitting machine and has a predetermined length in a warp direction. The woven band includes a convex portion formed on one side thereof for joining to a zipper and a band portion connected to the convex portion. As the convex portion has large thickness and high strength, the joint strength of the convex portion and the zipper is increased. | 12-11-2008 |
| 20090077774 | Slide fastener device having warning device - A fastener device includes two fastening elements, one or more slider members slidably engaged onto the fastening elements for securing the fastening elements together, and a warning device having a detecting device which may include two detecting members attached to either of the slider members or a support member and selectively engageable with other, and a signal generating device coupled to the detecting device for generating a warning signal when the detecting members have not been contacted with each other and for preventing the fastener device from being opened by unauthorized persons. | 03-26-2009 |
| 20100236032 | SLIDE FASTENER AND A METHOD FOR ITS MANUFACTURE - A slide fastener and a method for its manufacture A slide fastener ( | 09-23-2010 |
| 20100313387 | ZIPPER - A fastening device comprising a pin affixed to a first zipper track, the pin comprising a first magnet and at least a first engaging element; a box affixed to a second zipper track, the box comprising a second magnet and comprising at least a second engaging element complementary to the first engaging element of the pin, wherein the pin and box form a single element through the releasable interaction of the first and second magnets, and the first engaging element of the pin reversibly interacting with the second engaging element of the box; and a first slider body, wherein the first slider body comprises at least one releasing element that reversibly disengages the first engaging element of the pin from the second engaging element of the box. The fastening device can also include a second slider body component comprising a second magnet and defining at least one groove element, wherein the first and second slider body components form a single slider body through the releasable interaction of the first and second magnets, and the ridge element of the first slider body component removably fitting into the groove element of the second slider body component. | 12-16-2010 |
| 20100325846 | FASTENER STRINGER AND SLIDE FASTENER - A fastener stringer capable of following up stretching/contracting action of a stretchable fabric smoothly by improving a stretching property of an element attaching portion, and capable of preventing breaking of chain if the element attaching portion is stretched, wherein the fastener stringer includes: a woven fastener tape having a tape main portion and an element attaching portion; a continuous fastener element row sewed to the element attaching portion with a non-elastic sewing thread; and an elastic core thread inserted through an interior of the fastener element row, an elastic yarn and a non-elastic yarn are woven into the tape main portion and the element attaching portion as warp yarns while a non-elastic yarn is woven as a weft yarn, and a weaving ratio of the elastic yarn to the non-elastic yarn is larger in the element attaching portion than in the tape main portion. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110005042 | ZIP FASTENER - A zip fastener including fabric tapes having coupling elements thereon is provided. A coating layer of thermoplastic material is provided on at least one first surface of the fastener tapes. The coating layer extends continuously along the first surface, extends over an edge of the fastener tapes and extends along at least one second surface of the fastener tapes. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110113596 | SLIDE FASTENER - A slide fastener is provided. A pair of coupling elements provided along adjacent edges of a pair of fastener tapes. A slider is configured to engage or separate the pair of coupling elements with or from each other. An end stop is secured to the pair of fastener tapes at an end portion of the pair of coupling elements. The pair of coupling elements are secured to each other at one region of the end portion of the pair of coupling elements. The one region extends between a rear end portion of a diamond of the slider and a base portion of the slider in a state where the base portion of the slider comes in contact with the end stop. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20120246886 | Liquid-Tight Slide Fastener and Manufacturing Method Therefor - There is provided a liquid-tight slide fastener capable of sufficiently ensuring waterproof property regardless of where fastener elements are formed and capable of sufficiently ensuring attachment strength of the fastener elements to fastener tapes provided with liquid-tight layers. There is also provided a manufacturing method for the liquid-tight slide fastener. The liquid-tight slide fastener includes a pair of fastener tapes that include a pair of tape members, core sections respectively provided on opposing tape edges of the pair of tape members, and liquid-tight layers formed on one side of the pair of tape members; a pair of fastener element rows; and a slider. The liquid-tight layers are formed with gaps to the core sections in a width direction of the fastener tapes. The fastener elements are attached to the core sections. | 10-04-2012 |
| 20130205548 | CURVED ZIPPER, METHOD OF APPLYING A CURVED ZIPPER, ASSEMBLY SET AND PRODUCTION TOOL FOR A ZIPPER - The invention relates to an insulated curved zipper with two zipper chains extending adjacent to one another in the longitudinal direction in a zipper plane, wherein the zipper is made curved in the zipper plane in at least one curve portion, wherein at least one fastening tape made curved in each case in the zipper plane for application to a flat element is arranged in each case in at least one curve portion on each of the zipper chains. | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130219674 | Fastener Stringer, Slide Fastener, and Method for Manufacturing Fastener Stringer - In a fastener stringer, a continuous fastener element includes a plurality of fine projections disposed on a circumferential surface of a monofilament continuously along a length direction of the monofilament. Moreover, at least the projections disposed on the upper and lower leg parts are twisted with respect to an extension direction of the upper and lower leg parts, and a plurality of the projections disposed on the upper leg part or the lower leg part a twisted state face the same direction. Due to this, a larger number of projections can appear on an exposed surface of the fastener element, light can be diffused and reflected from these projections, and the luster of the monofilament can be stably reduced or removed. Moreover, it is possible to prevent the strength of the monofilament from locally decreasing and to prevent deterioration of the operability of a slider. | 08-29-2013 |
| 20130333165 | FASTENER MADE OF BULK AMORPHOUS ALLOY - Embodiments relates to a fastener having a head portion and an interlock portion comprising a bulk solidifying amorphous alloy comprising a metal alloy. The fastener could further have a screw portion. Other embodiments relate to methods of making and using the fasteners. | 12-19-2013 |
| 20140068898 | PROCESS FOR THE FABRICATION OF INTERCONNECTING ELEMENTS FOR A SLIDE FASTNER - Method for manufacturing interconnecting elements for a slide fastener, comprising the steps of producing interconnecting half-elements provided with a predetermined three-dimensional shape, by means of punching of said half-elements from a sheet, and forming said interconnecting elements by joining together respective pairs of half-elements. | 03-13-2014 |
| 20140215771 | Fastener Stringer and Fastener Chain, and Manufacturing Method of Fastener Chain - The fastener stringer is arranged with at least one printable resin layer to which ink can be fixed on the entire surface of fastener elements. Printing by an inkjet method is carried out at least on the exposed surfaces exposed on the first tape surface side in the tape front- and back direction of the fastener elements, the inner surfaces of the first tape surface side facing the tape inward side, along with the first tape surface of the fastener tape. A desired pattern can thereby be stably formed not only on the fastener tape and the exposed surfaces of the fastener elements, but can also be formed on the inner surfaces of the fastener elements. Therefore, a pattern can be formed in a continuous manner on the fastener tape and the fastener elements, and decorativeness and design unattainable in the past can be obtained. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140237778 | Woven Fastener Stringer and Slide Fastener - In a woven fastener stringer, a weft thread is folded back while interlacing with a upper direction converting portion configured by an upper fixing warp thread and a lower direction converting portion configured by a lower fixing warp thread on a side close to engaging head portions of fastener elements. An upper extension portion configured by the upper fixing warp thread is placed in adjacent to a tape main body side of the upper direction converting portion. A lower extension portion configured by the lower fixing warp thread is placed in adjacent to the tape main body side of the lower direction converting portion. According to this, when a slide fastener is used in an inside out manner, it is possible to make it difficult to see the coupled fastener elements. | 08-28-2014 |
| 20150143672 | Fastener Tape, Slide Fastener Provided with Same, and Fastener Tape Fabrication Method - A water-proof fastener tape of an environment-conscious type fabricated using a reduced amount of an organic solvent is provided. The fastener tape includes a base fabric and a water-stop film laminated to at least one surface of the base fabric, the water-stop film includes a surface layer of a polyurethane film and an adhesive layer of a cured product of an aqueous polyurethane adhesive adjacent to the surface layer so that the fastener tape has a laminate structure. | 05-28-2015 |
| 20150343681 | Injection Molded Element for Slide Fastener and Slide Fastener Provided with Same - Provided is an injection molded element for a slide fastener which retains a high degree of practical strength, which does not cause undulation of a fastener tape after attachment thereto, and which has superior moldability. The present invention is an injection molded element for a slide fastener having as a material a polyamide resin composition containing a polyamide resin having a glass transition temperature from 40 to 70° C., the composition having a melt flow rate from 5 to 40 g/10 min, and containing from 40 to 60 parts by mass of the reinforcing fibers per 100 parts by mass in total of the polyamide resin and reinforcing fibers. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20160095405 | Thick Pad-Integrated Double-Layer Nylon Zipper or Single-Layer Nylon Reverse Zipper and Luggage Mounting Arrangement - A thick pad-integrated double-layer nylon zipper or single-layer nylon reverse zipper and luggage mounting arrangement includes a lining of a hardside luggage, a zipper including two zipper tapes and a zipper slider slidable to close/open the zipper tapes, and two N bars respectively fixedly fastened with the lining and the zipper tapes together. Each N bar has an upper layer, a lower layer, and a thick pad element integrated intermediate layer connected between the upper layer and the lower layer and fastened with the respective zipper tape to the lining by stitches to define a vertical gap in the luggage below the zipper tapes for the passing of the lower half of the zipper slider when the zipper slider is moved to open or close the zipper. | 04-07-2016 |
