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US 6,079,083 AGranted
Snap fastener with tape, and manufacturing method and mold of the same
AssigneeYKK Corporation
InventorShunji Akashi
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AssigneeYKK Corporation
InventorShunji Akashi
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A female member of a snap fastener with tape comprising a female button made of synthetic resin which is integrally molded on front and back faces of the tape so as to hold a peripheral edge of an attachment hole of the tape having at least one attachment hole and which has an engaging opening to be engaged with a male button at a substantially center portion of the female button. The female button has at least one mold hole extending in a front and back direction of the tape, and at least one portion of the tape extends to an inside of the female button across the mold hole. At least one cut-out recessed in a diameter direction of the female button is defined in a portion of an inner peripheral engaging face of the engaging opening, and a gate burr is formed at a bottom face of the cut-out. Therefore, in the snap button with tape, and a manufacturing method and a mold of the snap button, in spite of a mold with a simple structure having a small number of pairs of pin members, gate burrs are not exposed on a surface, and the snap button can be easily manufactured without a special step for removing the gates, and the button can be firmly secured to the tape.
A female member of a snap fastener with tape, comprising a female button made of synthetic resin which is integrally molded on front and back faces of the tape so as to hold a peripheral edge of an attachment hole of the tape having at least one attachment hole and which has an engaging opening to be engaged with a male button at a substantially center portion of the female button, wherein the female button has at least one mold hole extending in a front and back direction of the tape, at least one portion of the tape extends to an inside of the female button across the mold hole, at least one cut-out recessed in a diameter direction of the female button is defined in a portion of an inner peripheral engaging face of the engaging opening, and a gate burr is formed at a bottom face of the cut-out.
A male member of a snap fastener with tape, comprising a male button made of synthetic resin which is integrally molded on front and back faces of the tape over a peripheral edge of an attachment hole of the tape having at least one attachment hole and has an engaging portion to be engaged with a female button at a substantially center portion of the male button, wherein the male button has at least one mold hole extending in a front and back direction of the tape, at least one portion of the tape extends to an inside of the male button across the mold hole, the engaging portion has a neck portion standing from a center of a substrate closing the attachment hole and an engaging head continuous to an upper end of the neck portion, a recess having a bottom face in substantially coplanar with the attachment hole is formed on a surface of the substrate on an opposite side to the engaging portion, at least one wedge-shaped projecting rib extends from a projecting portion projecting from a center of the bottom face of the recess to reach substantially an outer periphery of the bottom face of the recess, a projecting end face of the projecting portion at the center of the bottom face of the recess is within the recess, and a sub runner fracture burr is formed on the projecting end face.
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