Safety device for preventing opening of a slide fastener

• US 3,210,971 A
• Filed: 04/21/1964
• Issued: 10/12/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 05/03/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Dominique Vandamme Georges Fra
• Original Assignee: Dominique Vandamme Georges Fra
• Inventors: DOMINIQUE VANDAMME GEORGES FRA
• Application Number:
  US04/361,352
• Time in Patent Office: 539 Days
• US Class Current: 70/68
• CPC Class Codes: A44B 19/301 at the end of their upward travel with any suitable device, e.g. pull member combined with a press-button, a hook, a key-operated lock
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 15/32 Parts, components, construction details, accessories, interior equipment, specially adapted for tents, e.g. guy-line equipment, skirts, thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 70/5053 Interengageable slide fastener type

Claims

1. A SAFETY DEVICE FOR PREVENTING THE OPENING OF A SLIDE FASTENER HAVING A RUNNER AND JOINING TWO ADJACENT WEBS, COMPRISING (A) A FIRST SAFETY ELEMENT DEFINING A RECESSED AREA FOR ACCOMMODATING THE SLIDE FASTENER RUNNER, (B) ATTACHING MEANS FOR RELEASABLY ATTACHING THE FIRST SAFETY ELEMENT TO ONE OF SAID WEBS, (C) A SECOND SAFETY ELEMENT FORMING A COVER OVER SAID RECESSED AREA OF THE FIRST SAFETY ELEMENT AND COOPERATING THEREWITH TO ENCLOSE THE RUNNER, (D) MEANS FOR CONNECTING THE TWO SAFETY ELEMENTS WHILE SAID FIRST ELEMENT IS ATTACHED TO SAID ONE WEB BY SAID ATTACHING MEANS, AND (E) MEANS FRO LOCKING THE CONNECTING MEANS TOGETHER TO MAINTAIN THE COVER CLOSED OVER THE RECESSED AREA OF THE FIRST SAFETY ELEMENT WHEREBY ACCESS TO THE RUNNER IS PREVENTED.