Slide-fastener stringer with knit tape

Claim 1

A slide-fastener stringer comprising: a pair of interengageable coupling elements each having a multiplicity of turns; a pair of warp-knit support tapes having wale-forming weft filaments and course-forming weft filaments, said filaments forming longitudinally extending wales as ribs along one side of each tape, said tapes being generally flat along the opposite sides thereof, each of said tapes having an edge wale along the confronting edges of the tapes formed by said filaments with the filaments at said edge wales being of greater bulk than the filaments elsewhere along said tapes threby forming a thickened rib along said edge wale, said ribs defining troughs between them; and a succession of stitches of thread heavier than said warp and weft filaments passing between said turns, said stitches having a stitich length equal substantially to the interturn spacing of the turns of the respective coupling element, said stitches passing through said tapes and securing said elements to the confronting edges of said tapes along said generally flat sides thereof, said stitches having a stitch length greater than the course width and passing through said tapes along a trough between neighboring ribs of each tape.