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Trying To Make Ends Meet Story Of Zip-Fastener Goes Back To '93
There are traces, nearly a hundred years ago, of the beginnings of what was first a small busi- ness and is now a flourishing International industry. As early as 1852 records in the American Patent Office show that several men were already trying to devise mechanical means to make both ends meet, or — in other words to fasten materials by pulling to- gether, with a wave of the hand, two opposing sides.
Lacingh and rows of hooks and eyes or buttons were the bane of 19th century clothing. Patents in the German Patent Ofice from 1868 onwards give evidence that inventors saw the benefits that would accrue (to themselves, no doubt, as well as to others), if thene ugly and clumsy fastenings could be happily substituted.
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The decision to hold the com-
An important exhibition of tend the exhibition at precision wels and gauges is interpreter to be held in London in Janu- available. ary, 1948, Organised by the Gauge and Tool Makers ARRO- clation in cooperation with the ing fair is based in part on the National Federation of En- unqualified success of the 1946. exhibition, which was, incident. and Tool Manufac- father of the zipp fastener as gineers
the first trade fair turera, it will erver R wide ally, we know it today. This was Gideon Sundback, another range of gauges, monsaring to be held in London since Swedish-American, (2 man of equipment, special funt, special the end of the war.
.and en- The exhibition will be held considerable foresight, great purpose machines,
at the New Hall, Vincent business acumen and inventive gineers' cutting tools.
Westminster, from ability.
Many thousands of overseas Square, buyers are being invited to at- January 26 to February. 6.
Back To '93
At this stage in the history
periments
sive
of this remarkable little inven- turing machinery in Birming- therefore attracted many peo- Walker and ple who see in it a way of mak- The beginnings of the fasten- tiqn, however, it is necessary to ham but-like
America some ing quick profits. On the other er business can only be surmis return to the year 1893, when Sundback in ed from these early patenia. was believed (probably er-years before they found that hand, the production of high- Consequently many
romantic roneously) that the Alsatian this step was but the start of grade fasteners involves expen- plant and considerable myths have grown up around Aronsen's efforts
had proved their troubles. them. One of the most popu- stillborn. It is certain, any-
The British public, tradition-technical knowledge and ex- A user who is let lar is that surrounding a Mr. way, that the bones of this, or ally conservative, and suspicious perience. M. Aronsen, a Jew from Aleace, any similar idea, mouldered in of change, had to be educated down by a bad fastener imme- who is said to have been seen, Europe still comparatively up to this "new fangled" con- diately damns all fasteners in Buttons, Inces, and general, and it is most difficult; traption. in 1890. peddling a peculiar slow to change. contraption, a zipp fastener of In the New World, on the even string, had been good to persuade him that his true older remedy lies in purchasing a re- sorts, around the great business other hand, a native of Chica- enough for other and houses of Europe. Probably go was becoming intolerant of generations and would be good liable fastener in the first in-
them. Kynochs stance. there were others with similar the time expended every morn enough for idens in
those days, seeking ing on Incing up his boots, and prepared for a long and costly A development sec-
In Hospital buyers for their outlandish was seeking an alternative and struggle. patente, but in an era when the better fastening. This man, tion was installed in Birming
Meanwhile, in America, the candle had not long given place Mr. W. L. Judson, appears to ham where every possible line
was proving of improvement was investigat zipp
no lesa to gas and electricity, and the be the first to have put sustained. Money was lavished on exspectacular. In Chicago, home horse carriage still rolled ed efforts and capital behind
and advertising. town of Mr. Judson, a hospital | supreme along the cobbled his ideas along these lines, and streets, it is unlikely that many it was he who took out the first Sales were arall. The first patient was fitted with a zipp- European business men would-U.S. patente. The success of production of the zipp fastener fastener, after an operation, to have countenanced the financing the zipp was assured when Jud- in England was an uphill strug facilitate daily internal treat-
ment. Moreover, this experi of the zipp fastener.
became associated with glo.
a complete sue- The Aronsen legend may owe; Lewis Walker for the produc- At the end of alx years, how-ment proved something to fact that tion of the invention on a com- ever, sales began to soar and cess. In France, the "Light. there was a Mr. P. A. Aron-mercial scale. Colonel Walker, antagonism to fade away, for ning", had its counterpart, the son, a Swedish-American- who who was until recently Presi- the carly difficulties of the zipp "Eclair."
Since the first days, since the በዞ connected with the Au dent of the Hookless Fastener in England had by then been
eliminated and it was almost pioneer work of Judson and tomatic Hook and Eye Com- Corporation of America, gave pany in Hoboken, New Jersey, the zipp its public debut aa "C. completely dependable. In 1925 Sundback, the zipp has indeed
business had so grown that gone far. It even flow between 1902 and 1909. This Curity."
Kynochs-who had many other Everest, fitted to the fuselage Aronson contributed to the de- Actually, although Judson difficulties of their own-found of the Houston expedition velopment of the zipp only in blazed the trail of the zipp it necessary to form a separate Planes, and Into the xtrato- that, in about 1910, he promus from 1898 to 1902 in this way, company for the manufacture sphere on inspection vents and ed a French company in Paris, the successful culmination of of the zipp. This new company, covers. France, to produce the "Plako" his development came later which came into being at Wit Many of us may, at one time fastener.
Judson's early lead has given ten, was called Lightning Fas-or another, have cursed the Aronson's factory was closed the historians of today an op- toners Ltd. The zipp had come zipp for a frailties, but we lown completely in World War portunity to personalize in him to Great Britain to stay. still meet it every day and it I and his nemets purchased by the birth of the zipp, whereas
The new model-the "Light serves us more unobtrusively a gentleman, on whose "Plako" in effect it was Sundback whó
than ever on immediate and faithfully ning" created an patents Aronson had based his designed the first satisfactory sensation. It was displayed at our clothes and luggage and in operations, and who-to all in- hookless fastener.
the Wembley Empire Exhibi-a multitude of ways we do not tents and purposes--was the
tion in 1925-26, where the pub- even notice now. It is indeed; device and an lic was invited to test the effi-ubiquitous, a ciency of a sample zipp on a adornment of our age. stund and three million persons When the last of accepted.
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Teething Sundback, as a
young- and promising engineer, was early associated with Colonel Walker and at the beginning of the pre- them had run the slider up and sent century he worked hard, down, the "Lightning" was behind the scenes, on the por- still running smoothly. fection of this still imperfect historic sample is still pre- little gadget, travelling to served at Witton. Europe to examine patents, and then returning to America to invent machinery for manufac- ture on a large scale.
To The Fore
The development of the zipp It must be realised that the fastener since then is a history
Dress do zipp fastener was a contraption of modern living. which simply could not be al- signers (the house of Schia-; lowed to fall. Its first applica parelli in particular) saw ite tion to ladies' skirt plackets potentialities, and its influenco was a case in point. The early fasteners might suddenly open of their own accord, and milady was undone. It is certain that Buch a victim of the zipp's cap- rice would be unlikely to trust herself to it again.
on the streamlining of dur`age has been astonishing. Where- ever efficient windproof or rain- proof closure was required, tho zipp has been to the fore. I alickness and speed are sym- bolic' of our times.
It was Sundback who first in 1926, three weights of overcame the the teething prob "Lightning", zipp were avail- lems of this precocious infant able, and also one in which the of invention. Ho so improved two aldes could be completely, the alpp's design that it could separated. In 1984 a speciall not unlock when twisted. His strengthened model was ·pro- Hookiean' H2, which he designduced with a self-locking silder. od in 1918, had identical units | In 1935 four models were mar- on both sides and was the fore- keted — feather-weight, light; runner of the modern zipp as heavy and extra heavy and co we know it now,
loured metal was first intro- This was casier to manufac-duced into them. - A special ture than the "C-Curity." It cornet fastener and a trouser was stronger and more flexible fastenor were designed, and the and It, caught on" "with the Introduction of the sipp in' co- the public in a way the "C-Curity" | Loured plastic form, gave had never done. For the first famous dress designers a now time the sipp was a commercial and usefull ornament. Buccoss.
The "Lightning B.O.Eim
The Great War in 1914 was proved open-end box type--was -what put the sipp really on its produced shortly afterwards," foot. The American Army that and in 1996 ik was estimated arrived in France in 1917 wás (though it was hard to bo ́ex- abundantly." sippored on bélth, act) that there were roughly pockets and aeroplane fabrics. 800 known 'applications of the The era of wide-spread nipper" “Lightáing," "Today, "new 'ape ing was finally In'aight":
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