More images of Diffrent Types of zips

A digital version of this is available from:
http://www.ohiotravelbag.com/Graphics/Catalog_Web/P27%20Catalog/Section%20J/index_2.htm#15

Visual Images

For visual images i mainly looked at the websites that i have listed previously, I also used the image selection on the search engines.

http://www.zipperstop.com/id19.htm
Was again heavily used as it had images of all the different types of zips available


I quite like this antiqued brass effect, as i think on a prop this scale it would be quite an effective finish. Allowing me to experiment with weathering processes and methods.

More resources

For research information i have looked at, please click on the attached links below. This will directly link you to the corresponding page that i have viewed.

http://www.zipperstop.com/id19.htm
Is a page displaying types of zips. used this site when the decision of which type of zip to make was made, as like the YKK # 5 Antique Brass Separating

http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/zipper.htm
Is a website detailing the general development milestones of the creation of the zip. Supported with relevant historical and background information on the inventors

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/YKK-Group
Is a website basically dealing the foundations of the YKK group. Page its self not that useful, but has important relevant links attached


http://www.ykk.com/english/
The YKK English main home page of the product.
Print screen inserted to evidence the research and viewing in to the company's development and advances to satisfy customer demands

http://www.ykkamerica.com/ American home page

http://ask.yahoo.com/20031121.html
Website explaining the abbreviation of YKK (Yoshida Kogyo Kabushikikaisha) which is the name of the Japanese company.

http://www.ykkfastening.com/global/aboutus/counter/contents.html
Website upon counter fit zippers

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=ykk+zippers&ei=UTF-8&fr=fp-tab-web-t&cop=mss&tab=
The general search results for zippers under yahoo

http://www.zipperstop.com/how_to_me_zip.htm
Is a website explaining how to measure zips

http://www.howstuffworks.com/question469.htm
This website gives a good general facts and infomation, such as:
A YKK factory site in Macon, Ga., produces 7 million zippers a day, in a total of 1,500 styles in more than 427 standard colors. It's the largest zipper factory in the world. The Macon site produces its own brass to make the teeth and slider parts of a zipper. The same factory also produces and dyes the yarn that is woven into the fabric portion of a zipper. And YKK also produces the machines that make the zippers! YKK has leveraged its knowledge of working with metals to form an aluminum building products division that now accounts for two-thirds of YKK's worldwide sales.

http://www.ohiotravelbag.com/index.html
Was a good supplier for all fittings

History of the Zipper

Inventors:
Whitcomb Judson and Gideon Sundback

It was a long way up for the humble zipper, the mechanical wonder that has kept so much in our lives 'together.' On its way up the zipper has passed through the hands of several dedicated inventors, none convinced the general public to accept the zipper as part of everyday costume. The magazine and fashion industry made the novel zipper the popular item it is today, but it happened nearly eighty years after the zipper's first appearance.

Elias Howe, who invented the sewing machine received a patent in 1851 for an 'Automatic, Continuous Clothing Closure.' Perhaps it was the success of the sewing machine, which caused Elias not to pursue marketing his clothing closure. As a result, Howe missed his chance to become the recognized 'Father of the Zip.'

Forty-four years later, Mr. Whitcomb Judson (who also invented the 'Pneumatic Street Railway') marketed a 'Clasp Locker' a device similar to the 1851 Howe patent. Being first to market gave Whitcomb the credit of being the 'Inventor of the Zipper', However, his 1893 patent did not use the word zipper. The Chicago inventor's 'Clasp Locker' was a complicated hook-and-eye shoe fastener. Together with businessman Colonel Lewis Walker, Whitcomb launched the Universal Fastener Company to manufacture the new device. The clasp locker had its public debut at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and met with little commercial success.

Illustration: Whitcomb Judson's clasp locker

Swedish-born (who later immigrated to Canada), Gideon Sundback, an electrical engineer, was hired to work for the Universal Fastener Company. Good design skills and a marriage to the plant-manager's daughter Elvira Aronson led Sundback to the position of head designer at Universal. He was responsible for improving the far from perfect 'Judson C-curity Fastener.' Unfortunately, Sundback's wife died in 1911. The grieving husband busied himself at the design table and by December of 1913, he had designed the modern zipper.

Gideon Sundback increased the number of fastening elements from four per inch to ten or eleven, had two facing-rows of teeth that pulled into a single piece by the slider, and increased the opening for the teeth guided by the slider. The patent for the 'Separable Fastener' was issued in 1917. Sundback also created the manufacturing machine for the new zipper. The 'S-L' or scrapless machine took a special Y-shaped wire and cut scoops from it, then punched the scoop dimple and nib, and clamped each scoop on a cloth tape to produce a continuous zipper chain. Within the first year of operation, Sundback's zipper-making machinery was producing a few hundred feet of fastener per day.

The original 1917 Sundback patent for the "Separable Fastener"

The popular 'zipper' name came from the B. F. Goodrich Company, when they decided to use Gideon's fastener on a new type of rubber boots or galoshes and renamed the device the zipper, the name that lasted. Boots and tobacco pouches with a zippered closure were the two chief uses of the zipper during its early years. It took twenty more years to convince the fashion industry to seriously promote the novel closure on garments.

In the 1930’s, a sales campaign began for children's clothing featuring zippers. The campaign praised zippers for promoting self-reliance in young children by making it possible for them to dress in self-help clothing. The zipper beat the button in the 1937 in the "Battl of the Fly," when French fashion designers raved over zippers in men's trousers. Esquire magazine declared the zipper the "Newest Tailoring Idea for Men" and among the zippered fly's many virtues was that it would exclude "The Possibility of Unintentional and Embarrassing Disarray." Obviously, the new zippered trouser owners had not yet discovered the experience of forgetting to zip-up.

The next big boost for the zipper came when zippers could open on both ends, as on jackets. Today the zipper is everywhere, in clothing, luggage and leather goods and countless other objects. Thousands of zipper miles produced daily, meet the needs of consumers, thanks to the early efforts of the many famous zipper inventors.

Info form the internet source http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa082497.htm

In This section of research I will research areas such as

-Types of zipper
-Historical background
-Visual images
-YKK History

A good place to start would be to find the technical terminology for the different sections of a zip. As displayed in the image