Separable slide fastener
AssigneeYoshida Kogyo K.K.
InventorShoetsu Murakami
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Abstract
The invention is an improvement of a separable slide fastener with fastener elements which interlock when brought together perpendicularly to the plane of the fastener, the fastener comprising a retainer pin secured to the tape of one of the stringers and connected to a retainer and a separable pin secured to the tape of the other stringer and removably received in the retainer. According to the invention, at least the separable pin is made flexible by forming a thin portion at an intermediate portion of the pin. Because the separable pin is flexible, twisting of the fastener near the retainer and separable pins is greatly reduced and the separable pin may be very easily inserted in the retainer.
Claims3
A separable slide fastener comprising a pair of longitudinally extending stringer tapes with fastener elements on one edge of each stringer which interlock when brought together transversely in the plane of the fastener including a retainer pin secured to the end of the tape of one of the stringers and connected to a retainer, and a separable plastic pin sourced to the end of the tape of the other stringer annd longitudinally removably received in the retainer, characterized in that at least the separable pin is provided with a thin portion of reduced dimension extending transversely across the pin at an intermediate portion thereof adjacent to, but outside the retainer when the separable pin is received therein making the separable pin flexible at such thin portion.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.