Patent ID: 6976302

Claim:
A processing device used for fabricating a slider aggregate that is made from a material having a plurality of rows of slider sections, each row including a plurality of the slider sections, each of the slider sections having a medium facing surface, the slider aggregate including one of the rows of the slider sections, the medium facing surfaces of all the slider sections in the one of the rows having received a specific processing, the processing device comprising: a support member for supporting all the slider sections in the material, the support member having a surface that is joined to a portion of the material including surfaces of all the slider sections; and a cutting device for cutting the material and the support member together such that a row of the slider sections that is located at one end of the material is cut from the material after the medium facing surfaces of all the slider sections in the row have received the specific processing, thus forming and separating the slider aggregate from the material, and simultaneously separating a piece of the support member joined to the slider aggregate from a remainder of the support member, wherein the surface of the support member joined to the portion of the material intersects the medium facing surfaces of all the slider sections included in the slider aggregate and a surface formed in the slider aggregate by cutting the material, and the medium facing surfaces of all the slider sections included in the slider aggregate are located opposite to the surface formed in the slider aggregate by cutting the material.