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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 1987
Filed:
Oct. 09, 1985
Osamu Igarashi, Toyama, JP;
Yoshida Kogyo K. K., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Disclosed is a system for inspecting the attached state of a separable end stop attached to a slide fastener. The system is used with an apparatus for manufacturing a slide fastener equipped with a separable end stop. Fastener stringers are transported by a transfer unit while a separable end stop is attached to the stringers and a completed slide fastener is discharged by a discharge unit. The discharge unit operates in a first state for engaging and feeding a slide fastener, and a second state for allowing a slide fastener to pass freely therethrough. The transfer unit passes a slide fastener through the discharge unit and transports the slide fastener to an inspection apparatus located downstream of the discharge unit. The inspection apparatus grasps a separable end stop on a slide fastener delivered by being passed through the discharge unit by the transfer unit, whereby the transfer unit releases the slide fastener and is restored to a predetermined position for the manufacture of the next slide fastener.