Zip it! We love the sound, the look, and the functionality of zippers. But most of us are not so in love with installing them in our sewing projects. In fact, there's probably no sewing technique more dreaded than learning how to properly install a Zipper. If you're a regular S4H visitor, you know that's a challenge we can't walk away from. Today, you are going to learn how to master the most conventional zipper technique. Once you`ve done so, one warning: anyone who finds out about your new skill will be dropping off all kinds of items with broken zippers on your front porch. Ha! Pull them inside, and teach them how to do it themselves! The steps shown below are for a "conventional" zipper as you might use on a garment – where the fabric meets along the center of the zipper teeth, concealing them.
Interestingly, Elias Howe, the same man credited with inventing the sewing machine, received a patent in 1851 for the first zipper, which he called: "Automatic, Continuous Clothing Closure." It`s speculated that due to the popularity of his first invention, he never produced this very early version of the zipper.
The zipper`s next debut was at the Chicago World`s Fair in 1893. This version, called the [Clasp Locker," was designed by Whitcomb Judson as a shoe closure.
In 1913, a Swedish-American engineer named Gideon Sundbäck designed the more recognizable zipper while working for the Universal Fastener Company. Its sole purpose at the time was for military use on boots, life vests, and flying suits during WWI. Sundbäck received a patent in 1917 for a version with additional teeth and a slider, which he called the [Separable Fastener."
In 1923, Benjamin Goodrich took Sundbäck`s design into the modern age by installing zippers into everyday rubber boots and tobacco pouches. It was the sound the zipper made when opening and closing that gave Goodrich the idea for the official name we know and love today: the Zipper.
If you think these gentlemen are the main cause for zipper anxiety, think again! In 1930, it was the fashion industry that began to use zippers on children`s clothing and in men`s trousers. The zipper made it easier for children to dress themselves, and men would no longer be embarrassed by wrongly-buttoned fly closures. The zipper quickly became all the rage and we've never looked back.
With such a long and interesting history, it`s not surprising to find zippers everywhere today, from your favorite jeans to NASA space suits, as functional closures or pretty embellishments. They`re available in a variety of types, lengths, sizes (meaning the size of the teeth), colors, and finishes.
Zippers can be made of metal, plastic or nylon, and are fitted on a woven or knitted tape made of cotton, cotton blend or polyester. The teeth on zippers are constructed in one of three ways, either chain, molded or coil.
Nylon Zipper(Coil Zipper, Polyester Zipper)
Nylon zipper is a zipper, nylon monofilament is wound around the center line formed by heating stamper.
According to the material zipper, zipper into three categories: Metal Zipper, resin zipper, nylon zipper. Metal zipper teeth is made of copper or aluminum row by row of teeth out of the machine, using polyester resin zipper teeth are plastic rice by color and by dye injection molding machine out of the row, and nylon zipper teeth are made of nylon monofilament by heat press winding mold centerline thereof. Qikai accessories Tips compared to metal zipper, resin zipper, nylon zipper low cost, high yield, high penetration characteristics.
Quality Introduction
Nylon zipper can be divided by species:
1, closed-end zipper
2, open-end zipper (about interpolation)
3, two closed-end zipper (X or O)
4, double open end zipper (about interpolation)
Features introduced
1. nylon zipper can be used in all kinds of occasions, but generally prefer to use on sportswear, shoes, bedding, luggage, tents.
2. Common slider is painting, sometimes using electroplating.
3. nylon zipper material is mainly polyester, the cost is relatively low, the market is currently more like a zipper.
Installation method
â‘ First prepare nylon zipper and zipper fabric needs to be filled
â‘¡ will need to install a zipper 1.5 cm wide seams first basting again, and then ironing the seam allowances apart. If you do not need to crack the whole are installed on the zipper, then do not install this period seam Zipper Parts used needle from going fine point, and the start and end positions have to use down the needle holder;
â‘¢ nylon zipper face down and centered seam allowance, using a hand sewing needle and parts of it basting fixed;
â‘£ fabric will turn positive, to sew on a sewing machine fitted with a zipper unilateral presser foot, down the right side of the presser foot needle, start from the opening to the right of nylon zipper, 0.7 cm seam allowance on the fabric in a press Ming line;
⑤ When you have finished one side of the suture, the seam preparation when the other side, look at the bottom zipper bag iron location, if you can avoid it, you can turn 90 degrees, so that the needle across the top of the zipper to the other side began to suture . Jiangsu Qikai turning accessories recommendations should let the needle in the lowest position and then raise the presser foot, and then turn down the presser foot to continue sewing. When sewn to the top of the zipper teeth are not going to step on the electric motor, but turn the machine round, so the needle carefully over the nylon zipper teeth, to avoid needle;
â‘¥ If the package iron just at the turning position, then you will only press down the left foot needle, from the opening began to sew a bright line on the left. Qikai accessories Tips Note Crimping beginning and end do not forget to pin down. Finally, the suture removed sparse cloth on;
⑦ car for law skilled people who can not be basting, but for the novice, making the process more steps are still necessary, although to a little trouble, but it ensures satisfactory results.
Components Introduction
1. tape tape made of cotton yarn, chemical fiber or mixed fiber woven into a flexible belt for carrying chain zipper teeth and other components;
2. ribbed edge bead cloth belt used to carry the reinforcing part of metal or plastic fastener elements;
3. tendons rope rope rope middle finger ribbed by a multi-strand fiber composition;
4. refers to the element scoops metals, plastics and other materials were processed through a shaped teeth;
5. SMIC line filler cord is processed by multi-strand fiber cable made of nylon fastener chain for the production of rope;
6. The tooth chain chain refers to the teeth are arranged in a row;
7. The fastener stringer one side zipper chain chain teeth fixed in a cloth belt, said fastener stringer;
8. The chain belt on both sides of the zipper chain from engaging fastener stringer chain belt;
9. TDC top stop fixed to the fastener chain belt fastener chain pull timely limiting slider stopper slide fastener chain belt;
10. The next stop is fixed to the bottom stop tooth chain belt, limiting the slider when the slide fastener stringer chain teeth pulled, and so both sides of the fastener stringer can not be completely separated from the stopper;
11. The front and rear portions of the element does not take the lead tape, said the lead on Back & forth head tape zipper, the only side to take the lead before the next stop after the end of the lead;
12. The cannula (also called latches) pin separable fixed in the open end of the end of the zipper, for completely separate tubular member chain belt;
13. The outlet box retainer secured to the end of the zipper open end, entirely separate block member for chain belt;
14. The double open end stops at one kind of the cannula with two pin for the tubular member profile zipper on double open end;
15. Strengthening tape strengthened tape for enhanced intubation, sockets and tape bonding strength, improve the life of the fastener composite sheet;
16. The slider slider moving part and pull the chain engaging teeth;
17. The puller is a component of the pull-tab slider, which can be designed into a variety of geometric shapes and the slider body coupling or through middleware and the slider body coupling realize zipper closure;
18. The intermediate coupling member coupling the connecter of the slider body and the pull tab of the intermediate member;
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