Ykk Corporation

Yoshida Kogyo K.k.

Yoshiyuki Horita

Kiyoshi Nakayama

Yasuhiko Sugimoto

Yoshiharu Yamaguchi

Norio Kikukawa

Shigeru Funakawa

Shinichi Kojima

Aya Takamoto

Hideaki Hayashi

Koji Hashiba

Masako Tanaka

Provided is a fastener stringer including a row of metal elements having a plating film formed with improved thickness uniformity without waste, even if the elements are not electrically connected to each other in advance. For each of ten adjacent metal elements of the fastener stinger, 0.6&#x2264;D/A&#x2264;2.0 is satisfied in which Arepresents an average value of thickness of the plating film for the ten metal elements at element center on either one main surface side of the fastener tape, and Drepresents thickness of the plating film for each of the metal elements at the element center on the one main surface side of the fastener tape.

Fastener stringer provided with metal element row having plating film, fastener chain, and slide fastener

In a method and an apparatus for plating a plurality of kinds of works, an unattended route-free vehicle transports the works to a number of processing tanks to immerse the works in the processing tanks. A controller calculates a processing time of the processing tanks and a transporting time needed for the vehicle to transport the works to the processing tanks and renders the vehicle to transport one kind of the works during the immersion-processing of another kind of the works, thereby performing the plating process of a plurality of kinds of works one after another.

Method and apparatus for immersion-process

The present invention provides fastener elements for use in a slide fastener in which, regardless of the quality of material, a metallic coating layer having an excellent adhesiveness and 0.001 to 1.0 .mu.m in thickness is simply and easily formed on the surface of a fastener element member so that the surface thereof gives out the luster of metal. The surface of the metallic coating layer may further be formed at least thereon with a finishing coat layer. In the present invention, there is further provided a slide fastener having a light weight and flexibility in which such a fastener element member as being made synthetic resin having the luster of metal on the surface thereof.

Slide fastener and fastener elements therefor

A viscous printing paste is imprinted on a reverse surface of a foundation fabric of a surface-type fastener, and then the paste while being viscous is drawn by a suction force to penetrate the foundation fabric from the reverse surface to an obverse surface from which a multiplicity of interlocking elements project. Upon setting of the printing paste, a distinctive mark is produced on the obverse surface of the foundation fabric. With the foregoing processing steps, a large mark can be provided on the surface-type fastener without effecting negative influence on the shape and function of the interlocking elements.

Method of providing marks on surface-type fasteners

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Toyama, Japan

Norio Kikukawa