Who Invented the Zipper?

Many inventors had a hand in creating this wonderfully simple invention that is now in such common use today. The first patent for a device using the "automatic, continuous clothing closure" was filed in 1851 by Elias Howe, the creator of the sewing machine stroj.Šivaći was such a success. However, that Howe did not follow up on his clothing closure patent

In 1893, Whitcomb L. Judson introduced and marketed "clip boxes", which was similar to Howe's patent. Judson clasp locker was originally designed as a way to help a friend who is hard to tying his shoes for a bad back. Since Judson marketed his product, he is credited for the invention of the zipper, despite its patent does not contain the actual word "zipper ."

Judson teamed up with several people, including Harry Earle, Lewis Walker and businessman named Colonel Lewis Walker, and opened the Universal Fastener Company to manufacture your new product. His invention worked as a hardener, which is designed to be opened and closed using only one hand, and mainly used for shoes, bags, and mailbags. The first versions were clumsy hook and eye closures and met little success when it debuted at the World Fair in Chicago 1893rd

In the early 1900s, the company hired by the Swedish electrical engineer and a scientist named Gideon Sundback. He Judson design and revised model has a metal fastener, locking fasteners with multiple teeth per inch, and two rows of teeth to turn the slider to connect them. Sundback patented this model in 1913 as a "hookless fastener" and then creates another patent in 1917 for the "separable fastener." He also created for the manufacture of machinery for the production of its new zipper.

is really the name of "patent" was coined by BF Goodrich Company, when Sundback the fastener line for rubber boots and kaljače.Tvrtka called zipper "fastener", because it could be closed in a "zip" and the name stuck. Although several years before the shutter is used in clothing and luggage, the U.S. Army has become one of the first customers to use Sundback the shutter for all equipment and clothing used by soldiers during the Second World War.

Fun Facts about Zippers:

• the initials YKK zipper stand for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, which is the largest zipper manufacturer in the world.
• Zippo lighter was named as the inventor of the zipper liked the way the word "zipper" sounded.
• It took almost 20 years before zippers were used in children's clothing and men's pants in 1930.