SLIDER FOR SLIDE FASTENER

• US 20180132572A1
• Filed: 11/27/2017
• Published: 05/17/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/14/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: IDEAL Fastener (Guangdong) Industries Ltd.
• Original Assignee: IDEAL Fastener (Guangdong) Industries Ltd.
• Inventors: HUNG, Franklin Chi Yen, QIU, Guoliang, QIU, Wei, LYU, Zongjian, WU, Fukang
• Granted Patent: US 10,624,428 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A44B 19/26 Sliders
• CPC Class Codes: A44B 19/262 Pull members; Ornamental attachments for sliders
• CPC Class Codes: A44B 19/305 in the form of a locking prong protuding from the pull member
• CPC Class Codes: A44B 19/306 in the form of a locking spring member actuated by the pull member
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/2568 Protrusion on pull tab directly engaging interlocking surfaces

Abstract

A slider, includes a slider base, a pull-tab, a connecting shaft and a spring; the slider base includes an upper blade, a lower blade, and a connecting pin connecting the upper blade and the lower blade; said pull-tab is integrated with the connecting shaft; the pull-tab includes a pull-tab body, with a spring mounting part and a locking part set at the anterior-end-face of the pull-tab body; the anterior-end-face of the pull-tab body is set as a locking vertical plane and the bottom of the pull-tab body is set as cambered surface; the connecting shaft is fixed to the anterior-end of the pull-tab body and the length of the connecting shaft is larger than the width of the anterior-end-face of the pull-tab body; the connecting shaft runs through the spring mounting part and the locking part and extends to both sides of the anterior-end of the pull-tab body.

Claims

1. A slider, comprising a slider base, a pull-tab, a connecting shaft and a spring;

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

wherein

said pull-tab is integrated with the connecting shaft;

the pull-tab comprises a pull-tab body, with a spring mounting part and a locking part set at the anterior-end of the pull-tab body;

the spring mounting part and the locking part are adjacent to each other;

the anterior-end-face of the pull-tab body is set as a locking vertical plane and the bottom of the pull-tab body is set as cambered surface;

the connecting shaft is fixed to the anterior-end of the pull-tab body and the length of the connecting shaft is larger than the width of the anterior-end of the pull-tab body;

the connecting shaft runs through the spring mounting part and the locking part and extends to both sides of the anterior-end of the pull-tab body;

the spring mounting part has a spring mounting hole for mounting the spring, and said spring mounting hole is set and twisting the connecting shaft;

a spring mounting slot interconnected with the spring mounting hole is extended along the tangential direction of the spring mounting hole;

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

the square-shaped notch comprises a further sunken concave surface, which matches with the bottom cambered surface at the anterior-end of the pull-tab body;

the anterior-end of the sunken concave surface connects to the anterior-end of the square-shaped notch and forms a lug boss at the anterior-end of the square-shaped notch;

the rear-end of the sunken concave surface connects to the rear-end plane of the square-shaped notch;

the anterior-end of the square-shaped notch and the upper blade forms a vertical plane, and both sides of the square-shaped notch has a first upper blade lateral side and a second upper blade lateral side set at both sides of the upper blade;

two raised convex parts are set on the first upper blade lateral side, and said two raised convex parts and the first upper blade lateral side forms a U-shaped groove;

a first connecting-shaft through hole is formed with the two raised convex parts riveting to each other through the interior of the U-shaped groove;

a second connecting-shaft through hole is set at the second upper blade lateral side;

the second connecting-shaft through hole comprises a spring assembling hole and a conducting slot interconnected with the spring assembling hole;

the spring assembling hole and conducting slot matches with the spring mounting hole and the spring mounting slot set at the anterior-end of the pull-tab body, and an annular slot with a gap is also set on the second upper blade lateral side;

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

when the slider is assembled, the connecting shaft integrated with the pull-tab and the second connecting-shaft through hole sets the pull-tab on the upper blade of the base by the U-shaped groove;

a first connecting-shaft through hole is formed with the two raised convex parts on the first upper blade lateral side riveting to each other through the interior of the U-shaped groove, so as to fix the pull-tab to the upper blade of the slider base;

the spring is assembled by the spring assembling hole and conducting slot set at the second upper blade lateral side;

when it is assembled, the spring gets into the spring mounting hole through the spring assembling hole, and the second extending end having a corner gets into the spring mounting slot through the conducting slot;

when the spring is assembled and fixed, the spring is in a compressed state, and the first extending end of the spring would clip into the annular slot and withstood by the annular slot.

2. The slider according to claim 1, wherein the first upper blade lateral side and the second upper blade lateral side extend towards the rear-end-face of the upper blade up to the rear-end of the upper blade.

3. The slider according to claim 1, wherein the first upper blade lateral side and the second upper blade lateral side extends towards the rear-end-face of the upper blade up to the middle of the rear-end plane of the square-shaped notch, and forms step-shaped structure with the rear-end plane.

4. The slider according to claim 1, wherein a lug boss is set at the first upper blade lateral side and set closer to rear-end of the upper blade, and a notch is set between the lug boss and the convex part closer to the lug boss.

5. The slider according to claim 1, wherein a first platform is extended with outwards at the first upper blade lateral side, and a second platform is extended with outwards at the second upper blade lateral side.

6. The slider according to claim 1, wherein said concave surface has a locking through hole, which is set closer to the first connecting-shaft through hole;

a locking head is set at the bottom of the locking part and matching with the locking through hole.

7. The slider according to claim 1, wherein a slot platform is set at the lower-end of the annular slot, and the side surface of the slot platform withstands the bottom part of the first extending end of the spring. The slot platform could prevent the spring from elastic deformation, losing of elasticity or popping because of spring rotating during use.

8. The slider according to claim 1, wherein a lower blade sunk platform which sags inward towards the lower surface of the lower blade respectively at both sides of the upper surface of the lower blade closer to the connecting pins.

9. The slider according to claim 1, wherein an upper blade sunk platform which sags inward towards the upper surface of the upper blade respectively at both sides of the lower surface of the upper blade closer to the connecting pins.

10. The slider according to claim 1, wherein a protruding platform is set on the side surface of the pull-tab body closer to one side of the first connecting-shaft through hole at the point which the connecting shaft is connected with, said protruding platform is set at both ends of the connecting shaft and extending along the length direction of the pull-tab.

11. The slider according to claim 1, wherein both ends of the connecting shaft are set as truncated cone shape.

12. The slider according to claim 1, wherein the length of the connecting shaft is set as 1.8˜

2.3 times of the anterior-end width of the pull-tab body.

13. The slider according to claim 1, wherein the depth of the spring mounting hole is set as ½

˜

⅔

of the length of the spring.

14. A slider, comprising a slider base, a pull-tab, a connecting shaft and a spring;

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

wherein,

said pull-tab is integrated with the connecting shaft;

the pull-tab comprises a pull-tab body, with a spring mounting part and a locking part set at the anterior-end of the pull-tab body;

the spring mounting part and the locking part are adjacent to each other;

the anterior-end-face of the locking part is set as a locking vertical plane and the bottom of the locking part is set as cambered surface;

an interconnected gap is set between the anterior-end-face of the spring mounting part and the bottom of the spring mounting part;

the connecting shaft is fixed to the anterior-end of the pull-tab body and the length of the connecting shaft is larger than the width of the anterior-end of the pull-tab body;

the connecting shaft runs through the spring mounting part and the locking part, and is set closer to the anterior-end-face of the locking part, and extends to both sides of the anterior-end of the pull-tab body;

the spring mounting part has a spring mounting hole with a gap, which is set and twisting the connecting shaft;

a spring mounting slot interconnected with the spring mounting hole and tangent to the spring mounting hole with a gap is formed when the bottom of the spring mounting part extends towards the pull-tab body;

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

the square-shaped notch comprises an further sunken concave surface, which matches with the bottom cambered surface at the anterior-end of the locking part of the pull-tab;

anterior-end of the sunken concave surface connects to the anterior-end of the square-shaped notch and forms a lug boss at the anterior-end of the square-shaped notch, and the rear-end of the sunken concave surface connects to the rear-end plane of the square-shaped notch;

the anterior-end of the square-shaped notch and the upper blade forms a vertical plane, and both sides of the square-shaped notch has a first upper blade lateral side and a second upper blade lateral side set at both sides of the upper blade;

two raised convex parts are set on the first upper blade lateral side, and said two raised convex parts and the first upper blade lateral side forms a U-shaped groove;

a first connecting-shaft through hole is formed with the two raised convex parts riveting to each other through the interior of the U-shaped groove;

a second connecting-shaft through hole is set at the second upper blade lateral side;

the second connecting-shaft through hole comprises a spring assembling hole and a conducting slot interconnected with the spring assembling hole;

the spring assembling hole and conducting slot matches with the spring mounting hole and the spring mounting slot set at the anterior-end of the pull-tab body, and an annular slot with a gap is also set on the second upper blade lateral side;

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

when the slider is assembled, the connecting shaft integrated with the pull-tab and the second connecting-shaft through hole sets the pull-tab on the upper blade of the slider base by the U-shaped groove;

a first connecting-shaft through hole is formed with the two raised convex parts on the first upper blade lateral side riveting to each other through the interior of the U-shaped groove, so as to fix the pull-tab to the upper blade of the slider base;

the spring is assembled by the spring assembling hole and conducting slot set at the second upper blade lateral side, when it is assembled, the spring gets into the spring mounting hole through the spring assembling hole, the second extending end having a corner gets into the spring mounting slot through conducting slot;

when the spring is assembled and fixed, the spring is in a compressed state, and the first extending end of the spring clips into the annular slot and withstood by the annular slot.

15. The slider according to claim 14, wherein the first upper blade lateral side and the second upper blade lateral side extend towards the rear-end-face of the upper blade up to the rear-end of the upper blade.

16. The slider according to claim 14, wherein the first upper blade lateral side and the second upper blade lateral side extends towards the rear-end-face of the upper blade up to the middle of the rear-end plane of the square-shaped notch, and forms step-shaped structure with the rear-end plane.

17. The slider according to claim 14, wherein a lug boss is set at the first upper blade lateral side and set closer to rear-end of the upper blade, and a notch is set between the lug boss and the convex part closer to the lug boss.

18. The slider according to claim 14, wherein a first platform is extended with outwards at the first upper blade lateral side, and a second platform is extended with outwards at the second upper blade lateral side.

19. The slider according to claim 14, wherein said concave surface has a locking through hole, which is set closer to the first connecting-shaft through hole;

a locking head is set at the bottom of the locking part and matching with the locking through hole.

20. The slider according to claim 14, wherein a slot platform is set at the lower-end of the annular slot, and the side surface of the slot platform withstands the bottom part of the first extending end of the spring. The slot platform could prevent the spring from elastic deformation, losing of elasticity or popping because of spring rotating during use.

21. The slider according to claim 14, wherein a lower blade sunk platform which sags inward towards the lower surface of the lower blade respectively at both sides of the upper surface of the lower blade closer to the connecting pins.

22. The slider according to claim 14, wherein an upper blade sunk platform which sags inward towards the upper surface of the upper blade respectively at both sides of the lower surface of the upper blade closer to the connecting pins.

23. The slider according to claim 14, wherein a protruding platform is set on the side surface of the pull-tab body closer to one side of the first connecting-shaft through hole at the point which the connecting shaft is connected with, said protruding platform is set at both ends of the connecting shaft and extending along the length direction of the pull-tab.

24. The slider according to claim 14, wherein both ends of the connecting shaft are set as truncated cone shape.

25. The slider according to claim 14, wherein the length of the connecting shaft is set as 1.8˜

2.3 times of the anterior-end width of the pull-tab body.

26. The slider according to claim 14, wherein the depth of the spring mounting hole is set as ½

˜

⅔

of the length of the spring.