Patent ID: 7185400

Claim:
A top end stop of a slide fastener comprising an opening device or an inverse opening device having a box pin and a separable pin at an end portion of a pair of fastener stringers, the top end stop being attached adjacent to a top end of plurality of fastener elements on a side of the box pin and capable of passing through an element aisle provided in a slider by changing its posture, wherein the slider comprises an upper plate and a lower plate disposed up and down in parallel being joined with a guide column on a shoulder mouth side, a flange protruding toward the lower plate and/or the upper plate from right and left side edges of the upper plate and/or the lower plate, and the element aisle formed so as to be surrounded by the upper plate, the lower plate, the guide column and the flange, the top end stop is comprised of a first side face opposing the guide column of the slider and a second side face on an opposite side to the first side face and on a side of the flange, while a cut-out for engaging the flange of the slider is provided in the second side face, the first side face of the top end stop has a first opposing side face and a second opposing side face, an interval A between the first opposing side face and the second side face is formed to be larger than a width C of the element aisle between the guide column and the flange of the slider, while an interval B between the second opposing side face and the second side face is formed to be equal to or smaller than the width C, and the top end stop is formed so that the top end stop with the interval B passes through the width C and the cut-out makes contact with a front end of the flange with the interval A.