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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4492098 | Method of making a slide fastener coupling strip A coupling strip for a slide fastener, which can be utilized as part of a stringer half together with a fabric tape of which it forms a part, or alone as a stringer half, is produced by crocheting at least two rows of knots using bearded (spring-type) or ... | 01/08/1985 |
| 4418449 | Slide fastener A slide fastener has a pair of tapes along confronting edges of which are provided respective rows of coupling elements in a ladder configuration with individual members being affixed together by a continuous textile strand, as one-arm rungs of the ladder... | 12/06/1983 |
| 4411211 | Method of and apparatus for attaching slide fastener coupling chains to a flexible support A method of and a sewing machine for affixing a continuous chain of coupling members for a slide fastener to a flexible support, e.g. a garment or a tape to be applied to a garment, utilizes a fabric fed by a mechanism below the worktable and a presser fo... | 10/25/1983 |
| 4352654 | Apparatus for the production of small synthetic resin articles 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 ... | 10/05/1982 |
| 4330244 | Apparatus for producing coupling elements for slide-fastener stringer 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 whi... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4297770 | Slide fastener and method of making same A slide fastener comprising a pair of tapes and respective rows of slide-fastener elements individually secured to the tapes. The slide-fastener elements are each bent over an edge of the tape and welded together thermally or ultrasonically. The arms of t... | 11/03/1981 |
| 4290176 | Slide fastener and method of making same A method of and an apparatus for the formation of slide-fastener stringers wherein coupling members of a thermoplastic synthetic resin are bent into a U configuration to straddle the edges of respective fabric support tapes also composed of thermoplastic ... | 09/22/1981 |
| 4205027 | Method of thermofixing continuous coupling elements of synthetic-resin monofilament for use in slide-fastener stringers Continuous coupling elements, e.g. coils of synthetic-resin monofilament, preferably in an interconnected state, are heated to a thermofixing temperature and, with the aid of additional ultrasonic energy and pressure, have upper shanks of each coupling me... | 05/27/1980 |
| 4172308 | Fastener A fastener of the type in which two arrays of spaced-apart coupling heads are juxtaposed and pressed together, either with or without a slider, so that the heads of one array or row are received in the inter-head spaces of the other row and vice versa, is... | 10/30/1979 |
| 4152813 | Slide fastener with separable end members A slide fastener with separable end stop members including an insertion member and a reception member each associated with a respective row of coupling elements on a stringer half. The members have complementary offset steps orthogonal to the slide fasten... | 05/08/1979 |
| 4142276 | Warp-knit slide-fastener stringer half and method of making same A slide-fastener stringer half has an elongated warp-knitted tape having a pair of opposite faces and a pair of opposite longitudinally extending edges. The tape is knit with a plurality of chained warp yarns each forming a respective longitudinally exten... | 03/06/1979 |
| 4139927 | Slide fastener with separable endstop members A slide fastener with separable endstop members has its endstop members formed with a plug and socket arrangement whereby one endstop member can be fitted into the other endstop member generally transversely to the plane of the slide fastener stringer. Th... | 02/20/1979 |
| 4137733 | Slide-fastener-stringer half with knitted-in coupling elements and method of making same A slide-fastener stringer half comprises a knit tape having a plurality of parallel longitudinally extending wales and a plurality of transversely extending courses, and a monofilamentary coupling element on the tape and having a succession of turns each ... | 02/06/1979 |
| 4134185 | Warp-knit slide-fastener stringer half and method of making same A warp-knit slide-fastener stringer half comprises an elongated warp-knitted tape having a pair of opposite faces and a pair of opposite longitudinally extending edges. The tape is knit with a plurality of warp yarns forming longitudinally extending paral... | 01/16/1979 |
| 4117575 | Fastener A fastener of the type in which two arrays of spaced-apart coupling heads are juxtaposed and pressed together, either with or without a slider, so that the heads of one array or row are received in the inter-head spaces of the other row and vice versa, is... | 10/03/1978 |
| 4078279 | Slide fastener with separable endstop members A slide fastener with separable endstop members has a pair of stringer halves with respective rows of coupling members or heads adapted to interdigitate upon movement of a slide therealong. At an end of the stringer one of the slide fastener halves is pro... | 03/14/1978 |
| 4075874 | Slide-fastener stringer half with knitted-in coupling elements and method of making same A slide-fastener stringer half comprises a knit tape having a plurality of parallel longitudinally extending wales and a plurality of transversely extending courses, and a monofilamentary coupling element on the tape and having a succession of turns each ... | 02/28/1978 |
| 4067208 | Warp-knit slide-fastener support tape and method of making same A slide-fastener support tape is made in a warp-knitting machine which chains a plurality of relatively thin warp yarns to form an array of longitudinally extending and transversely spaced wales. One of the needles of the knitting machine is left empty so... | 01/10/1978 |
| 4064602 | Warp-knit slide fastener stringer half and method of making same A slide-fastener stringer half comprises an elongated warp-knitted tape having a pair of opposite longitudinally extending edges and a pair of opposite faces and formed with a plurality of longitudinally extending parallel wales. This tape is knit with a ... | 12/27/1977 |
| 4062100 | Method of and apparatus for removing coupling members of a slide-fastener stringer from a support tape Individual coupling members, molded from synthetic resin onto a support tape and straddling an edge thereof are removed, e.g. to enable the mounting of a slider, the stitching of the tape to a fabric or other carrier or for the formation of end-stop membe... | 12/13/1977 |
| 4051579 | Slide fastener support and method of warp-knitting same A slide-fastener support tape is formed with a Raschel knitting machine having a pair of needle bars. A relatively thin first warp yarn is chained with both of the needle bars to form a longitudinally extending double wale. A plurality of relatively thin ... | 10/04/1977 |
