Patent ID: 7059024
Filing Date: 2006-06-13
Classification: A44B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A slide fastener in which fastener elements are attached to opposing side edges of a pair of fastener tapes and the slide fastener comprises a slider capable of engaging and separating the fastener elements, wherein each fastener tape is composed of a knitting structure having a plurality of wales which are continuous in a longitudinal direction of the fastener tape, the slider has an element guide channel, through which the fastener elements pass, within a slider body and has flanges for guiding fastener elements, the flanges being disposed on both sides of the element guide channel and extending from a side of a shoulder mouth to a side of a rear mouth of the slider, and in a portion of each flange on the side of the rear mouth of the slider, a bottom end face of the portion is disposed at a region formed of a thin knitted fabric thinner than a wale, the region between an outside end face of an inverted portion of the fastener element and a wale facing the outside end face.