How does a zipper work?
Moment of Um
American Public Media
4.4 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2024
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Zippers are everywhere – holding your backpack closed, keeping you snug in your sleeping bag and of course, on your pants! But how exactly does a zipper work? We asked Bryon Robinson of YKK (the world’s largest zipper manufacturer!) to help us find the answer.
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| 0:00.0 | From the brains behind brains on, this is Moment of Um. |
| 0:04.4 | Moment of Um, um, um, |
| 0:09.2 | moment of um comes to you from APM studios. |
| 0:11.6 | I'm standing Totten and I'm very late. |
| 0:14.6 | I'm skateboarding over to the dry cleaners |
| 0:19.7 | to pick up my super amazing one of a kind tuxedo that I ordered especially for tonight. |
| 0:25.6 | Hey sorry just coming through. I'm accepting the most devastatingly handsome host award at the potty's tonight. |
| 0:35.0 | No, no, not potty like toilet, potty like podcast. |
| 0:39.0 | This is the most prestigious event in podcasting. |
| 0:42.0 | And I'm going to be wearing the fanciest. prestigious, shmanteest, dansiest suit ever. And it's not just fancy, it's not just fancy, it's |
| 0:50.4 | efficient, because it's covered head to toe in zippers. |
| 0:56.8 | It's got armpid zippers for maximum breathability. |
| 1:01.6 | Waste zippers that I unzip when I go for that second dessert and knee |
| 1:07.5 | zippers so I can head straight to kickboxing class after this. It's perfect. But come to think of it, how do those little zipper |
| 1:17.0 | teeth come together? For someone who has so many zippers on one outfit, you'd |
| 1:22.1 | think I'd know, right? |
| 1:24.0 | My name is Violet from Calgary, Alberta. |
| 1:27.0 | My question is, how do zippers work? |
| 1:29.7 | I've been asked that question probably hundreds of times. My name is Brian Robinson. I work for |
| 1:38.0 | YKK I'm in sales engineering. YKK is known worldwide for zippers. |
| 1:45.0 | Basically, if you look at a zipper in its simplest form, you have three parts. |
| 1:52.0 | You have the textile tape, which is the material, and that's the |
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