Metal double-sided tooth and slide fastener

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9101182-B2
Application number	US-201013635430-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 28, 2010
Priority date	Apr 28, 2010
Publication date	Aug 11, 2015
Grant date	Aug 11, 2015

Abstract

Provided are a metal double-sided tooth that prevents a flow protruding portion from protruding from the boundary between a coupling concave portion and a body, and a slide fastener using the metal double-sided tooth. The inner side of a coupling concave portion is formed in a substantially bowl shape and a concave portion is formed throughout the boundary between the coupling concave portion and a body and a front side and a rear side of the body. Further, when the metal double-sided tooth is attached to a fastener tape, it is possible to prevent a flow protruding portion generated by caulking a pair of legs from protruding outward from the coupling concave portion or the front side and the rear side of the body until sliding friction is generated in a slider.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A metal double-sided tooth having a coupling head, a body disposed at the rear end of the coupling head, and a pair of left and right legs extending from the rear end of the body, wherein the body has a front side and a rear side, the coupling head includes a flat plate portion, and a thickness of the flat plate portion is smaller than a thickness of the body from the front side to the rear side;
a pair of coupling convex portions protruding from a front side and a rear side of the flat plate portion, front-side protruding portions disposed on left and right sides of the coupling convex portion on the front side of the flat plate portion and protruding to a height equal to a height of the front side of the body, rear-side protruding portions disposed on left and right sides of the coupling convex portion on the rear side of the flat plate portion and protruding to a height equal to a height of the rear side of the body, and a pair of coupling concave portions, wherein a front side coupling concave portion is surrounded by the coupling convex portion on the front side of the coupling head, the front-side protruding portions, and the body, and a rear side concave portion is surrounded by the coupling convex portion on the rear side of the coupling head, the rear-side protruding portions;
an upper surface of the front side protruding portions and the front side of the body are on the same plane, and an upper surface of the rear side protruding portions and the rear side of the body are on the same plane;
a front boundary between the front side coupling concave portion and the front side of the body is an inclined surface, and a rear boundary between the rear side coupling concave portion on the rear side of the coupling head and the rear side of the body is an inclined surface;
a front concave portion is formed on the front boundary and has an inclined bottom and a rear concave portion is formed on the rear boundary and has an inclined bottom, wherein an inclination angle of the inclined bottom of the front concave portion is different than an inclination angle of the front boundary, and an inclination angle of the inclined bottom of the rear concave portion is different than an inclination angle of the rear boundary; and
the front concave portion has a concave shape open to a top side of the metal double-sided tooth and the rear concave portion has a concave shape open to a rear side of the metal double-sided tooth.

2. The metal double-sided tooth of claim 1 , wherein the inclined bottom of the front concave portion is formed in a tetragonal shape when seen from above and has three sides surrounding three sides of the inclined bottom.

3. The metal double-sided tooth of claim 2 , wherein a dimension A in the left-right width direction of the front concave portion is not more than a length G of a side at the front side coupling concave portion of the inclined bottom and is not less than a length F in the left-right direction at the top of the coupling convex portion on the front side of the coupling head.

4. The metal double-sided tooth of claim 2 , wherein assuming an intersection line L of a vertical surface perpendicular to the inclined bottom including the side at the front side coupling concave portion of the inclined bottom and body-extending surface M 2 of the front side of the body, a dimension B in the front-rear direction of the front concave portion is the length that is 40% to 60% of a minimum distance D between the intersection line L and a rear edge of the body.

5. The metal double-sided tooth of claim 2 , wherein a dimension C in the depth direction of the front concave portion is a length that is 10% to 50% of depths E of the front side coupling concave portion.

6. The metal double-sided tooth of claim 1 , wherein when the front concave portion is not formed and the front boundary is formed up to the upper surface of the body, and a volume V in the body which is surrounded by a flat plate-extending surface M 3 extending the front side of the flat plate portion, a rear side M 4 which is a surface parallel with a surface perpendicular to the flat plate-extending surface M 3 and passes a portion closest to the coupling head at the rear edge of the body, and a pair of sides M 5 that include an intersection line between the front boundary and the front side protruding portions and are vertical surfaces from the rear side M 4 , when the volume V is a volume of 100%, the front concave portion is formed to have a volume that is 5% to 13% of the volume V.

7. A slide fastener including a pair of fastener stringers in which the metal double-sided teeth of claim 1 are arranged at a predetermined distance at a side of a fastener tape.

Assignees

• Kozato Futoshi
• Meiwa Yusuke
• Tanikoshi Hirofumi
• Ykk Corp

Inventors

• Kozato Futoshi
• Meiwa Yusuke
• Tanikoshi Hirofumi

Classifications

• A44B19/06 Primary

  with substantially rectangular members having interlocking projections and pieces · CPC title

• A44B19/382

  "Two-way" or "double-acting" separable slide fasteners · CPC title

• A44B19/24

  Details · CPC title

• A44B19/50

  Securing one-piece interlocking members · CPC title

• Y10T24/2561

  Slider having specific configuration, construction, adaptation, or material · CPC title