Slider for closure assembly
AssigneeS.C. Johnson Home Storage, Inc.
InventorBryan L. Ackerman
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Abstract
A slider for use with an elongate closure mechanism includes a retention member protruding into a medial space between an upper pair of opposing interlocking members and a lower pair of opposing interlocking members. The retention members define a gap through which the upper pair of opposing interlocking members cannot pass, and that allows the slider to be slidably shifted along the length of the closure mechanism, thereby maintaining the slider operatively disposed thereon. The retention members may have the form of one or more protrusions disposed on an interior surface of a channel sidewall spaced between a top end of the channel sidewall and a bottom end of the channel sidewall.
Claims17
A closure assembly comprising:
- an elongate closure mechanism, the closure mechanism including upper complementary opposing interlocking members spaced from lower complementary opposing interlocking members;
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- a slider including a first channel sidewall and a second channel sidewall spaced opposite the first channel sidewall and a retention member protruding from the first channel sidewall toward the second channel sidewall;
- wherein the elongate closure mechanism is operatively disposed between the first channel sidewall and the second channel sidewall, and the retention member protrudes between the upper complementary opposing interlocking members and the lower complementary opposing interlocking members, wherein the slider includes a top channel wall connecting the first channel sidewall and the second channel sidewall at the top ends thereof, and wherein the slider includes a separator member depending from the top channel wall adapted to de-occlude at least the upper complementary opposing interlocking members.
A closure assembly comprising:
- an elongate closure mechanism, the closure mechanism including upper complementary opposing interlocking members spaced from lower complementary opposing interlocking members;
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- a slider including a first channel sidewall and a second channel sidewall spaced opposite the first channel sidewall and a retention member protruding from the first channel sidewall toward the second channel sidewall;
- wherein the elongate closure mechanism is operatively disposed between the first channel sidewall and the second channel sidewall, and the retention member protrudes between the upper complementary opposing interlocking members and the lower complementary opposing interlocking members, wherein the retention member includes a plurality of protrusions aligned between the upper complementary opposing interlocking members and the lower complementary opposing interlocking members.
A slider for operatively engaging an elongate closure mechanism having upper opposing interlocking members spaced from lower opposing interlocking members, the slider comprising:
- a first channel sidewall and a second channel sidewall spaced opposite the first channel sidewall, the first channel sidewall and the second channel sidewall connected at a top end of the slider and defining an open bottom end of the slider opposite the top end;
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- a retention member protruding from the first channel sidewall toward the second channel sidewall, the retention member spaced between the top end and the bottom end so as to be disposed between the upper opposing interlocking members and the lower opposing interlocking members when the slider operatively engages the elongate closure mechanism, wherein a top channel wall connects the first channel sidewall and the second channel sidewall at the top end, and a separator member depending from the top channel wall is adapted to de-occlude the upper complementary opposing interlocking members.
A slider for operatively engaging an elongate closure mechanism having upper opposing interlocking members spaced from lower opposing interlocking members, the slider comprising:
- a first channel sidewall and a second channel sidewall spaced opposite the first channel sidewall, the first channel sidewall and the second channel sidewall connected at atop end of the slider and defining an open bottom end of the slider opposite the top end;
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- a retention member protruding from the first channel sidewall toward the second channel Sidewall, the retention member spaced between the top end and the bottom end so as to be disposed between the upper opposing interlocking members and the lower opposing interlocking members when the slider operatively engages the elongate closure mechanism, wherein the retention member includes a plurality of spaced protrusions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.