Patent ID: 7568270

Claim:
A process for manufacturing a fluidtight slide fastener comprising the steps of providing a plurality of strips of a textile material covered with a fluid-barrier material layer at least on their opposite faces, equipping each coated strip with a plurality of sets of aligned teeth along a longitudinal edge thereof, cutting each coated strip transversally among consecutive sets of aligned teeth to obtain a plurality of tapes of the desired dimensions wherein each tape is equipped with a set of aligned teeth and is uncoated with said fluid-barrier material at at least one of the short edges of each strip, coupling said plurality of tapes in pairs and equipping each pair of tapes with a closing stop, an opening stop and a slider slidable between said closing and opening stops, wherein the process further comprises the step of providing a coating on each tape at said at least one of said uncoated short edges for covering the textile material strip in a fluidtight way at said at least one of said uncoated short edges.