GB447297A - Improvements in buckles - Google Patents

Abstract

447,297. Buckles. WALKER, Ltd., T., WALKER, G. T., and WOOD, H. H., Buckle Works, St. Paul's Square, Birmingham. Jan. 1, 1935, No. 22. [Class 43] The wide outer edge of the tongue plate 6 of a buckle frame 1 carries one or more comparatively short prongs 8 which overlap the outer bar of the frame, whilst its narrower inner end is curled round the inner bar of the frame to form a bearing sleeve 7 which fiits closely between similar sleeves 4 by which an attachment plate 2 is pivoted to the bar. In one form, Fig. 1, the tongue plate is triangular and apertured, the prongs being bent up, whilst in a modification, Fig. 3, the prongs are of channel section, the channels extending at 12 along part of the length of the tongue plate. The portions 9, hold the belt close against the front bar of the frame. The strap may be pierced to receive the prong or prongs. The Provisional Specification states that other means for detachably securing the fixed end of the belt to the attachment plate may be used. For example, the top and bottom edges may be bent up forming a channel to receive the belt end which may be bound with a metal clip, or the plate may carry a peg passing through a hole in the belt, and through a similar hole in a retaining plate hinged between the channel sides, the retaining plate being snapped down on to the belt end, past clip ears on the channel sides. This retaining plate may carry a keeper loop. Specifications 13817 /86, 9642 /87, 7076/12, and 254,171, [all in Class 43], are referred to.