Woven slide fastener stringer

Claim 1

A woven slide fasterner stringer compising: a. a stringer tape woven of warp and weft yarns; and b. a row of fastener coupling elements woven into said stringer tape along one longitudinal edge thereof; c. said stringer tape including: 1. a first marginal portion disposed adjacent to said longitudinal edge, said weft yarns extending over one of said warp yarns and under a succeeding one of said warp yarns alternately across said first marginal portion; 2. a second marginal portion disposed adjacent to the other longitudinal edge; and 3. an intermediate portion extending between said first and second marginal portions, and having a woven structure coarser and thicker than that of said first marginal portion, the number of interlacings of said warp and weft yarns per unit area thereof being smaller than that in said first marginal portion, said weft yarns thereof extending over a group of said warp yarns and under a succeeding group of said warp yarns alternately across said intermediate portion, the warp yarns in each of said group being disposed in a row, the number of said warp yarns in said groups increasing gradually from the group adjacent to said first marginal portion to the group adjacent to said second marginal portion.