Werner G Toepelt from White Plains, NY, age 82

Automatically Locking Security Slider Fastener
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US Patent:

40695557, Jan 24, 1978
Filed:

Jan 31, 1977
Appl. No.:

5/764057
Inventors:

Werner Toepelt - Old Greenwich CT
Assignee:

Coats & Clark, Inc. - Stamford CT
International Classification:

A44B 1930
US Classification:

2420514R
Abstract:

A slider which automatically locks in any desired position on a pair of stringers to which it is attached, which can be moved in either direction by moving its pull, and which may be locked for security purposes by means of a small padlock. A yoke is pivotally mounted on the slider body and has a portion extending through a hole in the slider body to lockably engage the stringers. The pull has a cross bar which engages a cam surface of the yoke to unlock the same from the stringers when the pull is moved. A protuberance on the slider body has a transverse hole situated above a portion of the yoke, so that the padlock inserted through the hole prevents movement of the yoke out of locking engagement with the stringers.

Locking Zipper Slider, And Zipper Incorporating Said Slider
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US Patent:

40818829, Apr 4, 1978
Filed:

Nov 1, 1976
Appl. No.:

5/738161
Inventors:

Werner Toepelt - Old Greenwich CT
Richard Bernier - Uniondale NY
Assignee:

Coats & Clark, Inc. - Stamford CT
International Classification:

A44B 1926
E05B 6738
US Classification:

24205R
Abstract:

A zipper has a pair of independently movable sliders, each of the sliders having a pull. The pulls have apertures through which U-shaped projections from the sliders extend, in order to loosely pivotally capture the pulls. The apertures of the pulls are elongated, so that the aperture may fit over the U-shaped projection of the other slider. Locking holes are provided extending through the U-shaped projections. The apertures of the pulls have unbroken edges, to maintain the strength of the pulls.

Werner G Toepelt