US1064113A - Buckle. - Google Patents

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DE VER H. WARNER.

BUCKLE.

APPLICATION FILED DEO.14, 1910.

Patented June 10, 1913.

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DE VER H. WARNER, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT. ASSIGNOR TO WARNER BROTH- ERS COMPANY, OF BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT.

BUCKLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

atcntcd June 10, 1913.

Application filed December 1 1, 1910. Serial No. 597,196.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Dr: Vnn H. Human, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bridgeport, Fairfield county, (loimecticut, have invented certain new and useful Tmprovements in Buckles, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to buckles of the rustless back type and the objects of the invention are to provide a buckle of improved design for clamping the webbing in a novel manner so as to avoid undue thickness at the point of clamping, to pivot the clamping lever to the frame of the buckle so as to clamp the running length of the webbing against the looped member and secure a bite upon .it without deflecting said running length over any portion of the Frame of the buckle and to effect other improvements which will appear hereinafter in the specification.

In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated one embodiment of my invention but I am not to be understood as limiting myself to the precise form shown except as required by the appended claims.

In the drawings, Figure l is an enlarged perspective view of the buckle viewing the same from the rear, the buckle being open. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the buckle in closed position with the webbing in place alon the line Al in, Fig. 4t, the running length ot the webbing being shown in section. Fig. 3 is a front view with the webbing partly inserted and the buckle open. Fig. 4 is a front view with the webbing fully inserted and the buckle closed. Fig. 5 is an edge vicw o'l Fig. 4 showing the parts under strain as in use, and Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 5 partly in vertical section along the line (1-D of Fig. 4L to more clearly illustrate the position of the parts under strain, as is also shown in horizontal section in Fig. 2.

Sin'iilar numerals of reference indicate similar parts throughout the several views.

The clamping lever comprises the lever arm 6 and clamping edge 8, here shown in the form of teeth or serrations cxtemling at an acute angle to the lever arm (3. The clamping lever is also provided with cars or sockets 7, 7 in which the back or frame is pivoted as will be described.

The frame of the buckle is made of wire and comprises the pintles or pivots f), f), space bars 10, 10, back bars 10, 1.0, drop bars l1, l1 and bottom bar H3. The pintlcs or pivots S), S) are adapted to be inserted in sockets or cars 7, T in the usual manner. The pivots 9, 1), space bars ll), 10 and back bars 10, 1( are in substantially the same horizontal plane torming a horizontal loop. substantially at right angles to the plane of the drop bars ,11, t1. llottom bar 10 is in a substantially parallel horizontal plane to the plane of the pivot bars, space bars and back bars. The space .1) between the drop bars is greater than the length of the clamping edge S at the clamping lever which is so positioned as to be dircctly opposite or project slightly into said space '12 when in closed position, the clamping edge then being in substantially the same horizontal plane as that of the bottom (it back bars 10, 110, with the teeth or serrations ot the clamping edge projecting downward at an acute angle to said plane.

To web the buckle, one end of the webbing as 13 is passed from rear to trout over back bars 1.0, .10" and secured by stitches 1 t. The other end or running length of the webbing, 15, is passed up through the loop between the turned over end 1?) and the clamping lever. \Vhcn the clamping lever is closed and the parts placed under strain as in use. the outer edges of the running length 15 ot the webbing are substantially vertical as shown in Fig. 5 and without any deliection ovcr cithcr the backhars l0, 10 or bottom bar US, while the central portion of said running length is caused to secure a bite against the loop nicmhcr ol the webbing by being clamped against the unsupporttal central portion of the loop. the relationship (it the webbing and clamping edge to the back or t'ramc ot the buckle being clearly shown in .l igs, 2 and (3.

1 do not restrict myself to any ol the details shown or described l'urlher than the scope of the claims demand but hat I claim and desire to sccurc by Letters latcnt is:

l. 111 a buckle, a trame comprising a front bar, space bars and back bars lying in sub stantially the same horizontal plane and forming an open loop at each end ot the tramc. drop bars at the inner ends of the back bars spaced trom each other and cxtending substantially al right anglcs to said back bars and to the plane of said loops and a bottom bar parallel to the plane ot said loops and connected to the lower ends of said drop bars, and a lever pivoted to said front bar and comprising a lever arm and a clamping edge extending at an acute angle thereto and of less length than the space between the drop bars.

2. The combination of a buckle including a frame comprising a front bar, space bars and back bars lying in substantially the same horizontal plane and forming an open loop at each end of the frame, drop bars at the inner ends of the back bars spaced from each other and extending substantially at right angles to said back bars and to the plane of said loops and a bottom bar parallel to the plane of said loops and connected to the lower ends of said drop bars, and a lever pivoted to said front bar and comprising a lever arm and a clamping edge extending at an acute angle thereto and of less length than the space between the drop bars, with a webbing having one end passed over the back bars, drop bars and bottom bar and the other end passed upward through the loops and between said first named webbing end and the clamping edge of the lever.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

DE VER H. WARNER.

lVitnesses: I

W. PERCY ALLEN, LUOIEN T. WARNER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

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