Sundback's Modern Slide Zipper Patent Model, 1915
date: label: date made
content: 1914
name: label: maker
content: Talon
notes: label: Description
content: This is a patent model for Gideon Sunback’s “seperable fastener” filed on August 27, 1915 and granted patent number 1,219,881 on March 20th, 1917. Sundback’s invention was the second iteration of his “hookless” fastener that he described as the “Hookless Number 2.” The interlocking metal teeth of the separable fastener was first used in boots, and boot maker B. F. Goodrich is credited with first coining the term “zipper.” The zipper wasn’t widely used on clothing until the 1930s, when it replaced buttons as men’s fly closures.
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content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition
content: American Enterprise
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Friedel, Robert. Zipper: An Exploration in Novelty
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Talon
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AG.MHI-M-7972.009
label: catalog number
content: MHI-M-7972
label: catalog number
content: P # 1219881
label: accession number
content: 235975
label: patent number
content: 1219881
objectType: label: Object Name
content: zipper
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: fabric (overall materail)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in x 1 in; 30.48 cm x 2.54 cm