End stop, slide fastener and ornamental fastener

• Main Authors: HAYASHI DAISUKE, WATANABE RYUSAKU, TAKANI GO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 24.06.2015
• Subjects: BUTTONS, PINS, BUCKLES, SLIDE FASTENERS, OR THE LIKE; HABERDASHERY; HUMAN NECESSITIES; JEWELLERY

The invention provides an end stop, a slide fastener and an ornamental fastener, which aim to easily install a ring-shaped end stop of a male member and a female member to the opposing right and left side edge portions of a pair of fastener tapes. The end stop is used for connecting a pair of fastener tapes, which extend in a front and rear direction, along an extending direction of a pair of element rows fixed along opposing right and left side edge portions of the pair of fastener tapes. The end stop comprises a male member and a female member configured to sandwich the opposing right and left side edge portions of the pair of fastener tapes from both sides thereof in an upward and downward direction, which is a thickness direction thereof, the male member and the female member having a circular outer contour; wherein the male member comprises a circular disk-shaped male base member and an inserting male portion protruding in a concentric shape from the male base portion to be inserted into the female member, wherein the female member comprises a circular disk-shaped female base member and a receiving female portion formed in a concentric shape with the female base portion to receive and connect at least a part of the inserting male portion, wherein a facing surface of at least one of the male base portion and the female base portion is provided with a protrusion group protruding therefrom, and wherein the protrusion group is configured so that a plurality of protrusions protruding to come at least in contact with each fastener tape are arranged to be spaced from each other at predetermined angles over the entire circumference of the facing surface along a circumferential direction thereof.