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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 24, 2008
James S. Blythe, Libertyville, IL (US);
James S. Blythe, Libertyville, IL (US);
Reynolds Consumer Products Inc., Lake Forest, IL (US);
Abstract
Method of making an end termination on a reclosable fastener includes providing a reclosable fastener including a first track with a first profile and a second track with a second profile. The first track has an end portion and the second track has an end portion. The first and second profiles are releasably engageable to each other. A plastic slider is slidably mounted to the fastener for movement between an open position and a closed position, and the slider has a separating finger. An end termination is formed at the end portions of the first and second tracks, and the end termination has a shape corresponding to the separating finger.