Patent ID: 8826500
Filing Date: 2014-09-09
Classification: A44B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A slide fastener comprising: a pair of fastener stringers provided with fastener element rows having a plurality of fastener elements along opposing tape-side edges of a pair of fastener tapes; and a slider slidably attached to the fastener element rows to engage and disengage the fastener elements, wherein one of the fastener stringers is separated from the slider when a lateral pulling force directed outward in a width direction of the fastener tapes is applied to the pair of fastener stringers, wherein the slider includes: wherein the upper blade and the lower blade are provided with cutaway portions at portions outward in the width direction from one lateral surface of the guide post so that an outer shape of each of the upper blade and the lower blade is asymmetric in the width direction, wherein a dimension, in the up-down direction, of a gap between a first upper flange of the flanges, provided along one of the left and right edges of the upper blade, and a first lower flange of the flanges, provided along one of the left and right edges of the lower blade, is greater than a dimension, in the up-down direction, of a gap between a second upper flange of the flanges, provided along another one of the left and right edges of the upper blade, and a second lower flange of the flanges, provided along another one of the left and right edges of the lower blade.