EP1153552B1 - Curseur pour bande de fermeture en matière plastique - Google Patents

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EP1153552B1
EP1153552B1 EP01108160A EP01108160A EP1153552B1 EP 1153552 B1 EP1153552 B1 EP 1153552B1 EP 01108160 A EP01108160 A EP 01108160A EP 01108160 A EP01108160 A EP 01108160A EP 1153552 B1 EP1153552 B1 EP 1153552B1
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Karl-Heinz Dr. Siegel
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65D—CONTAINERS FOR STORAGE OR TRANSPORT OF ARTICLES OR MATERIALS, e.g. BAGS, BARRELS, BOTTLES, BOXES, CANS, CARTONS, CRATES, DRUMS, JARS, TANKS, HOPPERS, FORWARDING CONTAINERS; ACCESSORIES, CLOSURES, OR FITTINGS THEREFOR; PACKAGING ELEMENTS; PACKAGES
    • B65D33/00—Details of, or accessories for, sacks or bags
    • B65D33/16—End- or aperture-closing arrangements or devices
    • B65D33/25—Riveting; Dovetailing; Screwing; using press buttons or slide fasteners
    • B65D33/2508—Riveting; Dovetailing; Screwing; using press buttons or slide fasteners using slide fasteners with interlocking members having a substantially uniform section throughout the length of the fastener; Sliders therefor
    • B65D33/2584—Riveting; Dovetailing; Screwing; using press buttons or slide fasteners using slide fasteners with interlocking members having a substantially uniform section throughout the length of the fastener; Sliders therefor characterized by the slider
    • B65D33/2588—Riveting; Dovetailing; Screwing; using press buttons or slide fasteners using slide fasteners with interlocking members having a substantially uniform section throughout the length of the fastener; Sliders therefor characterized by the slider being provided with flexing or moving parts
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A44—HABERDASHERY; JEWELLERY
    • A44B—BUTTONS, PINS, BUCKLES, SLIDE FASTENERS, OR THE LIKE
    • A44B19/00—Slide fasteners
    • A44B19/24—Details
    • A44B19/26—Sliders
    • A44B19/267—Sliders for slide fasteners with edges of stringers having uniform section throughout the length thereof
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T24/00—Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
    • Y10T24/25—Zipper or required component thereof
    • Y10T24/2511—Zipper or required component thereof with distinct, stationary means for anchoring slider
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T24/00—Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
    • Y10T24/25—Zipper or required component thereof
    • Y10T24/2532—Zipper or required component thereof having interlocking surface with continuous cross section
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T24/00—Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
    • Y10T24/25—Zipper or required component thereof
    • Y10T24/2532—Zipper or required component thereof having interlocking surface with continuous cross section
    • Y10T24/2534—Opposed interlocking surface having dissimilar cross section
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T24/00—Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
    • Y10T24/25—Zipper or required component thereof
    • Y10T24/2561—Slider having specific configuration, construction, adaptation, or material
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T24/00—Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
    • Y10T24/26—Slit closing means including guides on opposite edges of slit and slidable bridging component

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  • the invention relates to a slider for a fastener tape. It further relates to a closure tape with such a slider and a bag, preferably made of plastic, with such a closure tape.
  • Such slides and fastener tapes which may also be referred to as profiled strip closures or sliding closure strips or tapes, are already known.
  • Most of the known slides are individually manufactured by injection molding and then automatically applied by means of complicated devices individually on the slide fastener tapes. In most of these slides, it is necessary that they are fed via so-called Rütteltöpfe - aligned in the mounting direction - a device that spreads the slider and then presses it astride the previously opened fastener tape.
  • Such a device is known for example from DE-PS 31 36 075.
  • the sliders are successively fed to a rotor which grips the upper part of the slider, while the side parts (wings) of the slider are slowly spread in a stator and then pushed by the rotor onto the sliding closure band.
  • DE-OS 21 01 875 describes a device for applying slides on complementary closure elements, the intermittently push past the device, wherein from an endless chain of elastic slides in each case a slide from the chain is pressed onto the tape.
  • the slider side panels (wings) are flexurally elastic, so that they spring back after the slight spreading and pressing and the closure band functionally include. With this method, a low-noise manufacturing with relatively high speed is possible.
  • a major disadvantage, however, is that the slider due to their small size are accepted by consumers only conditionally. They are not very handy and can be torn off the fastener tape with rough handling. Another disadvantage is that these slides have only in the front part of a very short arrow-like heart with inward-reaching flanks.
  • flanks prevent by holding the profile parts of the fastener tape pulling the slide upwards, but only in the front third of the slider.
  • flanks on the side parts which are the sealing tape from the outside should include and prevent peeling or tilting of the slide.
  • these flanks are so short that they can slide over the profile of the fastener tape even with little force and the slider then tilts upwards in its rear part. As a result, the closing function of the slider is no longer given.
  • the object of the invention is to propose an improved slider for a fastener tape.
  • the interlocking parts are kept at a distance.
  • the support flanks are provided. In this area, the interlocking parts are joined together; the fastener tape is hooked or closed.
  • the invention provides a slide, with which the disadvantages mentioned above can be avoided.
  • the slider has a handy size. He is still easy to produce in a chain, so that a fast low-noise production is possible.
  • the disadvantage of the easy tilting of the slide in the rear part is prevented by two separate frogs are arranged with guide flanks in a row.
  • the necessary for the functioning of the slide bending elasticity of the plastic used in each case is defined.
  • the invention includes an improvement of a method of applying an endless chain of sliders to a slide fastener tape.
  • the further centerpiece is connected to the other centerpiece.
  • the connection is made by a thin bridge.
  • the slider is preferably made of HDPE, ie low density polyethylene (high density polyethylene).
  • HDPE is easy to recycle using low density polyethylene (NDPE), which makes up most bags or pouches, but also polypropylene, which is increasingly producing more bags and fastener tapes.
  • NDPE low density polyethylene
  • the invention further relates to a closure tape, preferably made of plastic, which has a slide according to the invention, and a bag, preferably made of plastic, which is characterized by an inventive closure tape.
  • Fig. 1 shows a slider of the known type in a perspective view.
  • the slider 30 is designed substantially U-shaped. It has a base part 6 and two side parts 4 and 5 projecting therefrom, which can also be referred to as wings.
  • the inner surfaces 31, 32 of the side parts 4, 5 converge towards each other. Their distance from each other decreases in a direction opposite to the direction of the arrow 33.
  • the flanks 2, 3 of the core 1 are only very short. These flanks 2, 3 hold the slide together with the flanks of the side walls 4, 5 fixed in its front part on the sliding closure profile.
  • the other, the heart piece 1 facing away from the end of the slide is tapered and presses the two closure profile parts when moving the slider in the direction of arrow 33 together, so that then the fastener tape is closed.
  • the core 1 separates the two closure profile parts to open the shutter.
  • support flanks 16, 17 of the core 8 are spaced from the inner ends of the inwardly projecting from the side walls 20, 21 supporting flanks 18, 19.
  • slots 9, 10 are formed for the halves of the fastener tape.
  • Supporting flanks 14, 15 are provided on the end of the slide opposite the center piece 8, which protrude inwards from the inner surfaces 31, 32.
  • the inner ends of the support flanks 14, 15 are spaced apart, whereby an opening 11 is formed.
  • attachments 22, 23 are provided on the upper part of the slide, that is to say on the base part 6 thereof, which have a substantially rectangular cross-section which, however, is slightly rounded at the corners. These attachments 22, 23 are used for pre-spreading of the slider by a plunger, as shown in Figures 7 and 8.
  • Fig. 4 shows a section along the line A-A in Fig. 2.
  • the heart pieces 8 and 7 are connected by a thin web 24 together.
  • Figures 7 and 8 show the interaction of the slider with a plunger 26 for spreading the slider.
  • the plunger 26 has projections 27, 28 which are spaced from each other.
  • the mutually facing surfaces of the projections 27, 28 are inclined to each other, in such a way that increases the distance between these surfaces with increasing distance from the plunger 26. In this way, a conical recess is formed by the mutually facing inner surfaces of the projections 27, 28.
  • the slide Of considerable importance for the trouble-free application of the slide according to the invention is its bending elasticity. On the one hand, the slider must spring back after spreading to its original position, on the other hand, this spreading may not go too hard. Furthermore, the slider body must not become brittle when spreading and for a long time afterwards. He must not get any cracks. Finally, the slide should reuse (recycle) together with the closure bag and the slide fastener tape.
  • the flexural elasticity of the slider has been studied by numerous experiments and may be e.g. to be defined as follows: experiments at the slide end, starting from an end opening on the sprayed 20-piece strand of 0.45 to 0.60 mm, measured at the free passage including the outer small supporting flanks 14, 15.
  • a slider is attached to its two molded connection sides of the chain by means of two clamps on a spring balance and loaded in the tensile test, the end opening of the slider as far as it is to the profilumlibraryden outer Support flanks 14, 15 on the strength of the fastener tape, about 1.8 mm, opens.

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Slide Fasteners (AREA)
  • Bag Frames (AREA)
  • Clamps And Clips (AREA)
  • Sliding-Contact Bearings (AREA)
  • Package Frames And Binding Bands (AREA)

Claims (4)

  1. Curseur pour une bande de fermeture avec une pièce de guidage (8), deux surfaces internes se rapprochant l'une de l'autre (31, 32) et deux flancs d'appui (14, 15),
    un autre pièce de guidage (7) étant prévue dans la zone des surfaces internes (31, 32), entre la pièce de guidage (8) et l'extrémité postérieure du curseur,
    et les pièces de guidage (8, 7) étant toutes deux reliées ou séparées par une fine traverse (24).
  2. Curseur selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que des pièces saillantes (22, 23) sont prévues sur la face supérieure du curseur.
  3. Curseur selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 ou 2, caractérisé en ce que le curseur est réalisé en HDPE.
  4. Bande de fermeture, de préférence en matière plastique, caractérisée en un curseur selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1 à 3.
EP01108160A 2000-05-11 2001-03-30 Curseur pour bande de fermeture en matière plastique Expired - Lifetime EP1153552B1 (fr)

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DE10023059 2000-05-11
DE10023059A DE10023059B4 (de) 2000-05-11 2000-05-11 Schieber für ein Verschlußband, Verschlußband und Tasche oder Beutel, vorzugsweise aus Kunststoff

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ES2266043T3 (es) 2007-03-01
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EP1153552A3 (fr) 2004-02-18
US6490769B2 (en) 2002-12-10
DE10023059A1 (de) 2001-11-15
DK1153552T3 (da) 2006-07-31
ATE330501T1 (de) 2006-07-15
US20010039698A1 (en) 2001-11-15

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