Patent ID: 7200923

Claim:
A finishing apparatus for a slide fastener in which at least a slider is attached to a continuous slide fastener chain, comprising: operation control means; left and right gripper devices for holding left and right tip side portions of the slide fastener chain, transferring the slide fastener chain in a longitudinal direction (an X-axis) direction), and opening or closing the left and right tip side portions of the slide fastener chain in a Y-axis direction orthogonal to the X-axis direction, based on a command sent from the operation control means; and slider holding sections for inserting the slide fastener chain into the slider during an opening and closing operation of the left and right tip side portions of the slide fastener chain, wherein the operation control means in the X-Y axis direction of the left and right gripper devices includes a numeric control section, and the finishing apparatus further comprises electric motors for controllably driving the left and right gripper devices in the X-Y axis direction based on a command sent from the numeric control section, wherein the numeric control section has a storage section which stores data including at least one of kinetic loci, speeds and sequences of the left and right gripper devices to be controlled according to types of the slider and the slide fastener chain, and wherein the electric motor for driving the gripper devices is controlled by using the data of the storage section for even type of the slider.