Patent ID: 7454823

Claim:
A method of assembling resilient slider members onto interlocking fastening strips, each slider member having a pair of spaced-apart first and second side walls and an intermediate body portion therebetween, each side wall having an interior surface, the method comprising the steps of: engaging respective side walls of a slider member with first and second tools; using the first tool and the second tool to resiliently spread apart the side walls of the slider member; inserting interlocking fastening strips between the spread apart side walls of the slider member; and releasing the first tool from engagement with the side wall of the slider member to permit the side walls to resiliently return to a relaxed position wherein the interior surfaces of the side walls are positioned to obstruct removal of the slider member from the interlocking fastening strips, wherein the step of engaging respective side walls of a slider member with first and second tools comprises frictionally grasping upper and lower edges of one of the side walls with primary and secondary segments of the first tool, respectively, and frictionally grasping upper and lower edges of the other side wall with primary and secondary segments of the second tool, respectively.