Zipper Market: Unexpected Success Due To Flight Accidents

< p > > a href= "http://sjfzxm.com/news/index_f.asp" > zipper < /a > also called zipper, each of the two belts has a row of teeth fasteners to connect the edge of the opening (such as clothes or bags). A sliding piece can pull two rows of teeth into the interlocking position to make the opening closed.

This kind of connecting piece, which relies on the continuous arrangement of chain teeth, enables the articles to be joined or separated. It is regarded as one of the greatest inventions in the world in more than 100 years.

Behind this seemingly ordinary but very important little thing is an interesting story of design and invention.

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The prototype of P zipper comes from the boots that people wear.

In the mid nineteenth Century, boots were very popular, especially for roads with muddy or horse excrement, but the drawback was that the hooks of boots were more than 20.

In order to avoid the trouble of wearing long boots, people even endure the uncomfortable feeling of wearing boots for a long time and do not take off all day.

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< p > < < a href= > http://sjfzxm.com/news/index_f.asp > > defect > /a > let inventors break their brains.

At that time, in some parts of central Europe, people tried to replace buttons and bows with belts, hooks and rings, which also cost a lot of money and patience to sponsors.

In 1851, American Alice Ho applied for a patent like zipper design, but it was not commercialized. It was soon forgotten and forgotten for half a century.

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It was not until P 90s that the situation changed in nineteenth Century.

Wicam L J. D. J., a mechanical engineer from Chicago, came up with a sliding device to fit and separate two rows of buttons.

At the Chicago world fair in 1893, Zhu Disen demonstrated his new invention and put it on his shoes and put it on his own feet.

Luckily, this invention was appreciated by lawyer Luis Walker. In 1894, the two partners set up a Universal Fastener Company, and applied for a patent again in 1896.

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< p > this invention did not become popular soon, mainly because the quality of this early locking device was not good enough, and it was easy to release at the wrong time and place, embarrassing people, so it was not favored by manufacturers.

The company has also changed its name many times, and is carrying enormous economic pressure.

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In 1902 P, a company that originally made buttons and lace was interested in the invention of Zhu Disen. They bought a patent and registered the trademark of "button", and began to produce zippers on shoes.

But this "crab eating" company soon went to the road of destruction. Its production of "button up" is not unable to pull, is unable to open, sometimes suddenly stretched, so that consumers are embarrassed.

Discredited "clit" has become a salable product, the first zipper company has also been closed because of a loss.

Since then, he has tried to improve the zipper process, but he never broke through.

Judison died in 1909.

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In 1912 P, Sembek, an employee of the company, improved the "automatic button" and changed every tooth on the chain to a convex concave shape, so that the teeth can be articled one by one, so that they are not easy to jam or break apart.

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< p > < a > href= > http://sjfzxm.com/news/index_f.asp > < < /a > > Sembek was born in 1880. He was interested in machinery since he was young. He studied in Germany and got a degree in electrical engineering in 1903. After he emigrated to the United States, he just started working in Pittsburgh SIEMENS company and pferred to Judi Sen's company. At that time, the company had renamed the automatic hook type button company.

In 1908, he began to study the improvement of zippers. He spent many days and nights pondering over the difficulties. Especially during the first World War, the company laid off only remnant and another employee. He was also a manager and engineer, and the company's economy encountered unprecedented difficulties.

After losing his wife's pain, she focused on the improvement of the zipper, trying to make the zipper's toothed part close to prevent cracking.

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Sembek p re applied for patent in 1913, and the patent license was approved in 1917.

Walker called the patent "hidden hook" and renamed it the "hook less button company".

In order to further improve the hook less button, the shape of the tooth is changed into spoon shaped, the top is convex, and the end is concave. The sliding device can make the left and right toothed parts chimed, and then slip back to separate. It is called "hook less type two" and designs the machine for manufacturing the toothed part.

In 1913, the company officially announced that the technology had been broken, and American science immediately created the cover story with the patent of sun Bei Ke.

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< p > on this invention, Stephen Van Dulken wrote the 100 edition of the 2007 edition of the twentieth century affecting the world published by York University press and Barnes Noble company in detail.

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< p > history is often rewritten due to some occasional factors. The history of the invention of zippers also confirms this.

An air crash that shocked the world saved the dying zipper.

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< p >, when Paris was struggling to open up the market, there was an accidental crash of a flying show over Place de la Concorde.

After careful analysis and evidence collection, the accident investigation team found that a button was missing from the pilot's coat, and the button just rolled into the aircraft engine, causing an accident.

The painful price has caused the French Ministry of defence to order the buttons that are not allowed to be fasten on flight suits.

European countries have been imitating the United States to the other side of the Atlantic.

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< p > "we have hope!" after hearing that, he decided that it was the chance to bring the zipper back to life. He immediately contacted the Ministry of defense and proposed to sew the new military uniform at the best price.

The pilot wears a new military uniform with zippers, which undoubtedly produces a huge advertising effect.

The army and Navy also followed suit.

With the opportunity to contact the clothing manufacturers of the United States and Europe, he made mass production of zipper tops without buttons.

Zippers are increasingly popular.

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< p > after the outbreak of World War I, the US military personages realized that the zippers on military clothing could improve the speed of military personnel's clothing, so they tried zippers in the pockets of their clothes and the front of their trousers, which was greatly welcomed by the front-line soldiers.

24 thousand zipper uniforms sold in 1917 were sold out immediately.

In 1918, the United States installed zippers on 10 thousand sets of flying suits.

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< p > there were many people who studied hooking buttons in that era, and also applied for many patents. However, there was no such thing as "hook less two".

The demand of the market determines the success or failure of the product. "No hook type two" is not many orders at the beginning. Afterwards, Pittsburgh's department store believes that "hook free No. two" is very suitable for skirts and suits, requiring manufacturers to adopt the "hook free No. two".

But there are not many brave men like the department store, and most people dare not venture to use new products.

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"P", in order to win customers, we constantly improve the performance of the zipper to meet the needs, and the manufacturing technology is becoming more and more sophisticated.

The company can produce thousands of hook less two every day, and there are no defective products, and the order is increasing.

The first World War brought more opportunities to new products. The money belt of soldiers made the demand for "hook less two" increase. The air force flying suit used "hook less type two" not only could save materials, but also had better windbreak effect; the Navy life jacket also used "hook less type two".

So the government specially allocated metal materials for production.

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< p > no hook type two has been proved to be effective, but the price is too high to be popularized. After finding out this point, he is committed to reducing production costs and improving manufacturing efficiency.

He invented the S-L machine to reduce unnecessary waste of materials in the production process, only 41% of the original material.

After reducing production cost, the first product was lax tobacco straw bag, and the result was quite successful.

In order to meet the high demand, no hook type button company has built a new factory.

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The development process of P zipper is also a microcosm of the development of modern science and technology. Scientific research designers strive to improve their manufacturing level and make progress in improving the quality of life of the masses.

Any valuable creation will undergo an unimaginable hardship, and it needs continuous improvement and perfection.

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The manufacturing technology of P zipper has been spreading around the world with the spread of the products, and the zipper production factories have been established in European countries such as Switzerland, Germany and other Asian countries, such as Japan and China.

After the continuous innovation of technology, the structure design of zipper tends to be perfect.

On the basis of metal zippers, nylon zippers and resin zippers were later invented.

Varieties are also extended to include closed tail type, open end type, double closed tail type, double open end type, single side open type and so on.

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< p > a small zipper, seemingly unattractive, actually has gathered more than thirty thousand patents. Today's zipper, whether it is the exterior design or internal structure, whether it is product performance or application scope, has far exceeded the traditional zipper in the traditional impression.

The purpose of zippers is from space to air, from deep sea to deep water, from national defense to civilian products, from industry to agriculture, fisheries, from medical treatment to environmental protection.

Zipper is not only a daily necessities, but also a crystallization of excellent technology and excellent design. It has become an irreplaceable important role in various fields.

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< p > because of the high labor cost of a labor-intensive product such as zippers, some developed countries and regions have basically abandoned the zipper manufacturing industry. Even the world's most famous Japanese zipper YKK company has also focused on zipper production in China.

Zipper production in China was passed from Japan to Shanghai in 1930.

At that time, Wang Hexing set up the first zipper factory in Shanghai. Later, Wu Xiangxin set up a zipper factory.

In 1958, the Samsung zipper factory in Shanghai introduced the automatic rice discharging machine made in Germany, and carried out the technical reform. The speed of automatic rice row machine increased from 1440 to 3000 turns per minute, equivalent to 230 times of manual work. The pull head production was reformed from one head to twelve, and the production efficiency was increased 50 times, which achieved the first technological revolution of China's zipper industry.

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Since 1980, especially after 1995, China's zipper production has been developing at an unprecedented rate. A large number of new private zipper enterprises have come to the fore, the scale is expanding, and the zipper products are increasing continuously. P

In 1999, China's zipper production achieved the first historic leap, with output exceeding 10 billion meters, becoming the largest zipper producer in the world.

At present, there are more than 2000 zipper production enterprises in China, more than one million in zipper industry, and export volume increasing year by year.

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P zipper went through a revolution in 1953. The Aupu company of Germany succeeded in using plastic zipper instead of metal zipper, thus greatly reducing the production cost of the zipper.

In 1955, plastic zippers were launched by consumers, and 40 German factories producing plastic zippers were also profitable.

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< p > in the 60s and 70s of last century, zippers entered thousands of households. At the same time, it also entered the palace of art and became an important subject of plastic arts.

In 1962, noyle tenstey painted an advertisement with a zipper and became famous.

In 1968, Demannico Gnoli, a painter in Italy, painted several surrealistic paintings on the theme of zippers.

In 1974, the most famous "Hunter", the most famous painting subject to zipper, came out in the United States.

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< p > modern technology is still playing the omnipotence of zippers.

A Austria surgeon sewed a zipper into a man's stomach.

More interestingly, there is a zipper on the belly of a patient who needs constant treatment.

This operation zipper can close the wound in two minutes, while the traditional suture usually takes 30 minutes.

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< p > during the first World War, the economy of the United States was very depressed. Steel was 5 cents a pound, and workers earned 6 dollars a week.

In order to repay the delinquent wire which provided thousands of dollars of money to the Berlin company, he had to repair a machine to produce paper clips to make money.

Fortunately, sponsors are constantly emerging.

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After the birth of "hidden hook" P, he improved.

One day, he went to a blacksmith shop to buy a spoon.

The store's iron spoon hangs neatly and cleverly: a steel bar mounted on a horizontal position hangs up and down two rows, the upper row is directly pushed through the spoon hole through a reinforcing bar, and the lower row is a spoon handle downwards, which is occluded by the concave of the spoon.

Sam bet chose fifth iron spoon from the left side. He dragged hard, but he couldn't pull it down. It seemed to be tight.

Then the blacksmith told him to remove the fourth spoons on the left, and the one he needed was easily removed.

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< p > buying a spoon brought Sembek an unexpected harvest. The two rows of iron clenched tightly clenched together became the prototype of his zipper.

According to this occlusal principle, he designed a zipper device.

The shape of the tooth is changed into a spoon shape, the top is convex, the end is concave, and the sliding device is sliding, so that the left and right toothed parts are chimerical, and then slipped back to be separated. It is called "hook less type two".

In 1913, he also announced that the technology was broken through.

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< p > 1921, Ohio Hao Fu company ordered a small quantity of products for the hooking button company to use in their rubber overshoes.

After the trial, it found that the effect was good, and ordered in large quantities.

After the improvement, the company has put forward the wonderful boots, which is characterized by pulling or pulling away.

Marketers are not very satisfied with the name of the wonderful boots. They want to find a name that can show their characteristics. When the manager burst into a sudden inspiration, he thought of the onomatopoeia "Zip", the moving voice of objects, and renamed the wonderful shoes as Zipper boots.

This year is 1923, and then "Zipper" - "zipper" has become the general name of all similar products without hook type buttons.

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< p > zippers are first used in military uniform.

But the zipper was popularized later in the country until it was accepted in 1930 to replace the buttons of clothing.

According to media reports at the time, a novelist named Franco, who promoted a zipper sample at the luncheon meeting of industry and commerce, said: "one pull, it opens! Once more, it closes!" very concisely illustrates the characteristics of the zipper.

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In the mid 20s of last century, Hoover company bought at least one million zippers to the hooking button company every year. The hooking button company felt that the word "no hook" had negative associations, and the word "zipper" was created by P, so the word "Eagle Claw" (Talon) was invented. In 1937, the company changed its name to eagle claw.

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Before P, 1930, no hook button company could sell 20 million hawk claws every year, ranging from pencil box to motorboat's hood, but the garment industry still waits for no use.

Until the mid 30s of last century, fashion designer Issa Scarpa Riley first adopted "Eagle Claw" for the first time.

"New York guest" describes the "spring full zipper" of the 1935 spring clothing exhibition.

Since then, the garment industry has gradually adopted zippers.

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