Slide On Zipper Assembly

A slide on zipper device that utilizes the rail and slide function on the mounting of a zipper, having a pair of slider zipper tapes and a pair of tracks to form a slider zipper. Said slider zipper can be designed as a one-way separating zipper, a two-way separating zipper, or a non-separating zipper as long as sliders are set to the side of the zipper tape without teeth and the tracks are attached to the opening sides of an article. All parts of the slider zipper should match in shape, style, and size;

• particularly, the sliders and rails on the track should be complementary. To be used as a zipper, the sliders of a slider zipper are slid onto the rails of the tracks and stop devices are set on the ends of the tracks or on the ends of the sliders used to keep the sliders zipper tapes in place.
• The slide on zipper device can also be made by setting a track on the article and a track on the zipper tape, and using a separate independent slider to hold the two tracks together. The track on the article and on the zipper tape can both be cord passages with rails inserted inside to become a cord passage track and a cord passage zipper tape, respectively. The same separate independent slider is slid over both the cord passage track and the cord passage zipper tape to attach a slide on zipper to any article. This makes a cord passage style slide on zipper device.
• Utilizing the same rail and slide function, the slide on zipper device can also be designed as a set of dual sliders, which acts as a set of slider zipper tapes, that slides onto a pair of tracks or rails to be used as a slider fastener. A set of dual sliders on tracks or rails can be removed and stored by connecting spare tracks or rails to the ones in use, sliding the set of dual sliders onto the spare tracks or rails, and disconnecting the spare tracks or rails with the removed dual sliders. Dual sliders can be switched individually using a dual slider exchanger, which consists of two short segments of track that are mounted on a small flat plate in parallel. The rails on the tracks of the dual slider exchanger must be thinner than the width of the opening of the C-type slider to allow the dual sliders to be easily lifted off and place on to make a switch. This design can also be used as a decorative device or piece.
• A slider zipper tape is a regular zipper tape with a slider set to the side without teeth. The slider can be made of plastic, metal, or any material strong enough to ensure the slider stays on the track. It can be made as one piece or composed of several small units or parts for more flexibility. The slider can be made in any shape, style, or size as long as the track is complementary in shape, style, or size so that the slider can slide onto the track without falling off. A C-type slider should be matched or complemented with an O-type track, and so on and so forth. Thus, the inner width of the C-type slider should be larger than the width of the O-type track, and the width of the opening of the C-type slider should be smaller than the width of the O-type track so that the slider may slide onto the track without falling off or pulling apart. The properties just stated should be constant regardless of the shape, style, size, or “type” of the slider and rail.
• A track is a tape with a rail fixed on one side. The other side of the tape is sewn or attached to a side of an opening of an article or any part of an article that needs a fastener. A track can also be a rail inserted into a cord passage, which is a tape bent vertically with the two edges fixed together and sewn or fixed onto the side of an opening of an article. Still, a track, too, can be made by firmly wrapping the fabric or material from the opening side of an article around a rail and fixing it in place. However, the fabric or material must be thinner than the width of the opening of the slider to ensure that the slider can slide onto the rail.
• A stop device can be set at the ends of a slider, track, or rail to act as a stop. It can also be used as a joint for connection. A stop device can be designed as a flanged end onto which a snap or clip cap can be attached, or, as a bolt or a nut head to which a nut or bolt, respectively, can be screwed on. As a stop, the head of the bolt or nut to be screwed on must be as wide as or wider than the slider. If an end is to be connected to another end, then the ends should be complementary and both ends should be the same size.