Slider with reboundable pull-tab

• US 10,638,818 B2
• Filed: 06/04/2016
• Issued: 05/05/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 05/16/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: IDEAL Fastener (Guangdong) Industries Ltd.
• Original Assignee: IDEAL Fastener (Guangdong) Industries Ltd.
• Inventors: Hung, Franklin Chi Yen, Qiu, William, Lv, Ali, Wu, Fukang, Zeng, Andy
• Primary Examiner(s): Sandy, Robert
• Assistant Examiner(s): Mercado, Louis A
• Application Number:
  US15/539,132
• Publication Number:
  US 20190059525A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,431 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A44B 19/26 Sliders
• CPC Class Codes: A44B 19/262 Pull members; Ornamental attachments for sliders
• CPC Class Codes: A44B 19/308 in the form of a spring-actuated locking member actuated by the pull member

Abstract

A slider with a reboundable pull-tab includes a slider base, a pull-tab, a connecting shaft and spring; the slider base has a connecting shaft through-hole for mounting the connecting shaft, which fixes the pull-tab and spring onto the slider base; one end of the spring inserts into the slider, and the other end inserts into the spring base; when the pull-tab is pulled, the spring will subject to torsional deformation; when the pull-tab is let go, the pull-tab will revert to the normal state under the impetus of the spring, then the slider is automatically locked, thus preventing unexpectedly sliding; there is also a locking part in the pull-tab, so that it is free from not being able to rebound due to over-rotation.

Claims

1. A slider with a reboundable pull-tab, comprising:

A slider base, the pull-tab, a connecting shaft and a spring;

the slider base comprising an upper blade, a lower blade, and a connecting pin connecting the upper blade and the lower blade;

wherein,

upper blade lateral sides are formed on two sides of the upper blade, each of the upper blade lateral sides has a through-hole, comprising a first through-hole and a second through-hole, for mounting the connecting shaft;

the upper blade further comprises a square-shaped notch for disposing the pull-tab;

the square-shaped notch comprises an arc-shaped notch, an anterior-end of the arc-shaped notch connects to sidewalls of the square-shaped notch and a posterior-end of the arc-shaped notch connects to a bottom surface of the square-shaped notch;

a locking through-hole is disposed at a joint portion between the square-shaped notch and the arc-shaped notch;

the locking through-hole separates the arc-shaped notch into a first arc-shaped notch on a side of the first through-hole and a second arc-shaped notch on a side of the second through-hole;

an anterior-end platform is disposed at a joint portion between an anterior-end of the first arc-shaped notch and the sidewalls of the square-shaped notch, and a posterior-end of the first arc-shaped notch connects to the bottom surface by a locking vertical plane;

a posterior-end of the second arc-shaped notch connects to the bottom surface directly and an anterior-end of the second arc-shaped notch connects to the sidewalls of the square-shaped notch;

the anterior-end platform has a lug boss at the second arc-shaped notch;

the pull-tab comprises a pull-tab body, a top-end of the pull-tab body has a spring mounting part and a locking part, wherein the spring mounting part and the locking part are adjacent to each other;

the spring mounting part has a cambered surface and the locking part has a locking cambered surface that is lower than the spring mounting part;

the top-end of the pull-tab body also has a connecting shaft through-hole for assembling the connecting shaft so as to fix the pull-tab to the slider base;

the spring mounting part has a spring mounting hole coaxially provided with the connecting shaft through-hole, and a radius of the spring mounting hole is larger than a radius of the connecting shaft through-hole;

a lateral side of the pull-tab body has a spring fixing hole communicating with the spring mounting hole;

two ends of the spring has a first extending end and a second extending end, wherein the first extending end has a corner;

when the slider is assembled, the spring is fit in the spring mounting hole;

wherein the corner is disposed at a joint portion between the lug boss and the second arc-shaped notch;

the second extending end inserts into the spring fixing hole;

when the slider is assembled, the spring is in a compressed state;

wherein an annular platform protruding towards the side of the second through-hole is disposed at a place where a medial side surface of the upper blade surrounds the first through-hole.

2. The slider according to claim 1, wherein two ends of the connecting shaft has fixed ends, and the through-holes have arc openings to contain the fixed ends.

3. The slider according to claim 1, a bottom surface of a joint portion between the locking part and the spring mounting part has a protruding locking head, the protruding locking head inserts into the locking through-hole when the pull-tab is laid flat.

4. The slider according to claim 3, the spring mounting hole has a sectorial sunken structure disposed at a direction opposite to the locking head, and the sectorial sunken structure is formed at an outer side of the spring mounting hole, an angle of the sectorial sunken structure is larger than 90°

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5. The slider according to claim 1, the connecting shaft is set as a cylinder, and one end of the cylinder has a gear-shaped fixed end, a diameter of an addendum circle of the gear-shaped fixed end is larger than a diameter of the first through-hole and a diameter of the second through-hole.

6. The slider according to claim 1, wherein, the second extending end of the spring has a fixed bending angle disposed within the spring fixing hole.

7. The slider according to claim 1, wherein, the spring fixing hole connects to the spring mounting hole, and an extension direction of the spring fixing hole in the pull-tab is identical to an extension direction of the second extending end of the spring.