Replacement zipper pull

Abstract

A simple, easy to manufacture, replacement zipper pull for zippers and slide fasteners suitable for mounting and safely displaying cabochons and jewels is described where a solid blank body with a display surface for mounting a cabochon or jewel, has an open hexahedral slot, drilled, routed, molded and/or cast, penetrating into the blank body beneath the display surface, and where transverse passageway is created within the blank body having a width greater than that of the slot for establishing a base-end of the slot and creating an anchor hole in each side of the slot for receiving outward extending distal tips of legs of a U-shaped, spring wire bail sized for insertion into the hexahedral slot, where the distal tips of the legs of the U-shaped spring bail span outward to a width greater than the width of the hexahedral slot, and snap into the created anchor holes at the base-end of the slot, for securing the blank body to the loop tang atop a zipper or slider fastener through which the U-shaped spring bail is threaded.

I claim: 
     
         1 . A method for manufacturing a zipper pull attachable to zipper and fastener sliders, comprising the steps of:
 a) forming a U-shaped spring bail from a stiff wire material with small diameter (D S ), and a Young's Modulus of elasticity (E) ranging between 23 and 30, having legs extending in a common plane of a specified length (L S ), with an outside cord width (W S ) and with distal tips extending perpendicularly outward spanning to a greater width (W T ) in the common plane;   b) forming a solid blank of a chosen material in a desired configuration presenting a display face and establishing a center of mass, with a hexahedral slot penetrating into the body with a width (W M ) oriented parallel to the display face, a height, (H M ) and a base-end at a depth (D M ) proximate the center of mass, where:
   ( W   S   ≦W   M   <W   T ), ( D   S   ≦H   M ) and ( D   M   <<L   S ); and 
   c) creating a transverse passageway within the solid blank establishing the base-end of the hexahedral slot that has a length greater than the width of the slot and a height at least equal to the height of the hexahedral slot for providing anchor holes on either side of the slot at its base-end for receiving and securing the outward extending tips distal tips of the legs of the U-shaped spring bail when it is inserted into the slot.   
     
     
         2 . The method for manufacturing of a zipper pull of  claim 1 , further including the step of:
 d) heating the formed U-shaped bail for relieving any bending stresses after it is formed.   
     
     
         3 . A replacement zipper pull suitable for mounting and safely displaying cabochons and jewels for zippers and slide fasteners having a loop tang, comprising, in combination:
 a) a solid blank body with a display surface and having an open hexahedral slot with a height, a width and a depth, drilled, routed, molded and/or cast, penetrating into the blank body parallel to, and beneath the display surface, and having an interior passageway with length greater than the width of the slot and a height at least equal to the height of the slot, perpendicularly intersecting the slot widthwise for establishing a base-end of the slot and providing anchor holes in opposite sides of the slot at its base-end;   b) a U-shaped spring bail with a thickness slightly less than the height of the hexahedral slot having legs of length greater than the depth of the slot extending in a common plane with distal tips extending perpendicularly outward in the common plane to width greater than the width of the slot;   
       whereby, the U-shaped spring bail can be threaded through the loop tang of the zipper or fastener slider, and then be inserted, legs first, into the hexahedral slot of the blank body to a point where the outward projecting distal tips of the legs of the U-shaped bail register with, and snap into the anchor holes at the base end penetrating into the opposite sides of the slot.