Method of and apparatus for manufacturing slide fasteners

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A pair of continuous slide fastener stringers are longitudinally fed by longitudinally reciprocable grip means and driving roller means that is selectively actuatable. As the slide fastener stringers are advanced one of the stringers, is threaded through a slider being fixed in its path of travel. The slide fastener stringers are cut off transversely across element-free gaps, and then the severed stringer pieces are moved forwardly until their leading end portions are positioned in a molding device, which molds a separable end stop on the leading end portions. The driving roller means is continuosly driven to advance the slide fastener stringers until elementfree gaps arrive at the cutter …