IP Library Granted Patent US 6,915,546
Granted Patent B2
US 6,915,546 · App. 10/381,436 · Granted Jul 12, 2005

Plastic fastener with slider and bag body with plastic fastener

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Patent No.
US 6,915,546
App. No.
10/381,436
Granted
Jul 12, 2005
Kind
B2
Abstract

A plastic zipper equipped with a slider, and a bag body equipped with the plastic zipper, the plastic zipper having a strong opening force despite its miniaturization. The hermetically sealing plastic zipper is equipped with a slider for opening and closing the zipper, and includes a pair of a male hook and a female hook, flanges on opening portion sides for each of the male and female hooks connectable at respective top end portions, and a wedged opening plate pressed into the inside of a closed plastic cylinder constituted of the connectable flange top end portions and extended to the zipper in an engaged state so that the zipper is firstly opened and after the zipper is opened, the top end portions of the flanges in a connected state are disconnected.

Claims (13)

1. A hermetically sealing plastic zipper equipped with a slider whereby the zipper is opened and closed, comprising:

a pair of a male hook and a female hook formed on plastic films;

flanges formed on opening portion sides for each of the male hook and female hook, wherein respective top end portions of the flanges are connectable;

a wedged opening plate pressed into an inside of a closed plastic cylinder constituted by the connectable respective top end portions of the flange and extended to the pair of the male hook and female hook in an engaged state so as to firstly open the male hook and the female hook,

wherein after the male hook and the female hook are opened, the connectable respective top end portions of the flanges in a connected state are disconnected.

2. The hermetically sealing plastic zipper equipped with a slider according to claim 1 , wherein at a point of time and position where an opening end of the slider reaches a closing end of the zipper by a sliding operation of the slider, the closed plastic cylinder constituted by the connectable respective top end portions of the flanges and extended to the pair of the male hook and female hook in an engaged state is prevented from being formed at the closing end position of the zipper to maintain the hermetical sealability of the zipper.

3. The hermetically sealing plastic zipper equipped with a slider according to claim 2 , wherein a slit is made at a portion of the flanges corresponding to the wedged opening plate at the closing end position of the zipper to prevent the closed plastic cylinder from being formed at the closing end position of the zipper.

4. The hermetically sealing plastic zipper equipped with a slider according to claim 1 , wherein a second zipper or a rib is installed at the connectable respective top end portions of each of the flanges at the opening portion sides of the male hook and female hook for the zipper in an engaged state to connect the connectable respective top end portions.

5. The hermetically sealing plastic zipper equipped with a slider according to claim 4 , wherein the connected state of the second zipper or the rib installed at the connectable respective top end portions of each of the flanges at the opening portion side of the male hook and female hook for the zipper in an engaged state is maintained by installing a connecting groove parallel to the zipper above the opening plate for the slider, placing the second zipper or the rib in the connecting groove, and installing a cover on the opening portion of the connecting groove.

6. The hermetically sealing plastic zipper equipped with a slider according to claim 4 , wherein at a point of time and position where the opening end of the slider reaches the closing end of the zipper by the sliding operation of the slider, the closed plastic cylinder constituted of the connectable respective top end portions of the flanges and extended to the pair of the male hook and female hook in an engaged state is prevented from being formed at the closing end position of the zipper, to maintain hermetical sealability of the zipper.

7. The hermetically sealing plastic zipper equipped with a slider according to claim 6 , wherein a portion of the second zipper or the rib corresponding to the opening plate is crushed to flatness or cut off at the closing end position of the zipper to prevent the closed plastic cylinder from being formed at the closing end position of the zipper.

8. The hermetically sealing plastic zipper equipped with a slider according to claim 6 , wherein a slit is made at a portion of the flanges corresponding to the wedged opening plate at the closing end position of the zipper to prevent the closed plastic cylinder from being formed at the closing end position of the zipper.

9. A bag body fitted with the hermetically sealing plastic zipper equipped with the slider as set forth in claim 1 .

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 16, 2008
From: SHOWA HIGHPOLYMER CO., LTD.
To: HIPACK CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 020371/0510 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 4, 2003
From: KASAI, JUICHI
To: SHOWA HIGHPOLYMER CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 014658/0648 →