Patent ID: 8316522

Claim:
A method for supplying sliders to be assembled in plastic zippers in order to open and close the plastic zippers, each of the zippers having a pair of male and female hooks formed on surfaces of plastic films, and each of which sliders comprises an outer guide, riding on the plastic zipper so as to constitute a slider body and serving to close the plastic zipper by means of sliding movement of the slider, and an inner guide, serving to close the plastic zipper by means of sliding movement of the slider, said inner guide is disposed on the slider body in such a manner that it protrudes outwards from the slider body and that it is revolvable around an axis which is crossed at a right angle to the plastic zipper, the method comprising: supplying the sliders from a slider supplying machine, the sliders having a groove extending in parallel with said axis and formed by the inner guides protruding upwards from upper surfaces of the slider bodies, engaging said groove of the supplied sliders with a flat guide plate, which is disposed between the slider supplying machine and an assembling machine, such that the upper surfaces direct in a vertical direction and, at the same time, the sliders hang down in a vertical direction and are supported by the flat guide plate in a condition wherein side surfaces of adjacent sliders are adjacent to each other in order to align and guide the sliders in a constant direction.