Slide fastener with separable endstop members
AssigneeOptilon W. Erich Heilmann GmbH
InventorHelmut Heimberger
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Abstract
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. The male or plug member can form a pivot pin about which the other member is swingable into a slot in the slider.
Claims4
A slide fastener comprising a pair of stringer halves each formed with a row of coupling elements adapted to interdigitate with the coupling elements of the other row, and an endstop member on each of said stringer halves, and a slider displaceable along said rows for coupling and decoupling the elements thereof, one of said endstop members being formed with a pivot pin defining a pivot axis transverse to the plane of the slide fastener, the other of said endstop members being formed with a socket receiving said pin and press-fittingly engaging same while enabling relative swinging movement of said endstop members to introduce a portion of an endstop member laterally into said slider, said members being formed around said socket and pin respectively with mutually engageable surfaces in the form of spiral ramps.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.