US1136610A - Suspender-buckle. - Google Patents

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J. H. PILKINGTON.

SUSPENDER BUCKLE.

APPLICATION HLED OCT- 9l 19H.

1,136,610 Patented Apr. 20, 1915.

WIT/VESSESr h H lame 570R T v a s, ep ,z :1 n on QM V By 9 ATTORNEKS UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH H. PILKINGTON, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT.

SUSPENDER-BUCKLE.

Application filed October 9, 1914.

' To all whom it mag concern Be it known that I, JOSEPH H. PrnKrNo- TON, a citizen of the United States, and resident of \Vaterbury, in the county of New Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 20, 1915.

Serial No. 865,783.

vertical sectional view and with operating lever indicated in an open position. Fig. 6 is a disconnected plan view of the main frame ofthe buckle. Fig. 7 is a detached Haven and State of Connecticut, have inrear view of the operating lever of the 60 vented certain new and useful Improvebuckle and Fig. 8 is a disconnected plan ments in Suspender-Buckles, of which the view of the. wire clamping member which is the following is a specification. operated by the operating lever to clamp the My present invention relates to suspender webbing.

10 buckles and isalso adapted to be employed As before suggested my present form of 65 upon flat webbing when used for hose supbuckle includes two sheet metal members porters and other purposes. and a wire member. One of the sheet metal The object of' the invention is to provide members forms the main frame or body of an improved form of suspender buckle the buckle, while the other represents the which has no teeth to mar or cut the weboperating member which is pivotally con- 70 bing and besides has very little exposed nected to the frame member. This operatmetal upon the back of the webbing to coning member serves to operate not only tact with the body of the wearer thus conagainst the webbing, but against the clampstituting in effect a rustless buckle; to deing member which is pivotally connected to sign the buckle to include the above features the frame member in a way to engage and 75 in a simple and practical way so as to perclamp the webbing between it and the back mit of the same being made of sheet metal of the said frame-member. and wire combined and with the aid of auto- Referring in detail to the characters of 'matic machinery. reference marked upon the drawings 10 in With these and other objects in view the dicates the frame member and' which is 80 invention resides and consists in the conclearly shown in Fig. 6. This member as struction and novel combination and arwill be noted includes a large central openrangement of parts hereinafter more fully ing 11 therethrough and is further out and described, illustrated in the accompanying shaped to produce a horizontal bar12 to drawings, and pointed out in the claims which the attached end 13 of the webbing 85 hereto appended, it being understood that 14: is secured. In this connection it will be various changes in the form, proportion, further. noted that the webbing as attached size and minor details of construction withis returned upward in the rear to form a in the scope of the claims may be resorted loop 15 and in which may be hung a wire to without departure from the spirit or loop 16 that obviously represents apart of a 90 sacrificing any of the advantages of the inclamping device for a supporter. The upvention. I wardly disposed running portion 17 of the Similar characters of reference denote like webbing is threaded through the back of the or corresponding parts throughout the sev; buckle and clamped as will later be more eral figures of the accompanying drawings fully described. 95 forming a part of this specification, and -'lheside portions 18 of the frame member upon which, are stamped backward and forward to form Figure 1 shows a front elevation of my alined pockets 19 upon the under side to improved form of buckle as the same would accommodate the pintles 20 of the operating appear when attached to a piece of webmember 21 and further to form similar bing, the operating lever-being in a'closed alined pockets 22 upon the front .side in or clamped position. Fig. 2 is a side elevawhich the before mentioned clamping memtion of the buckle and attached webbing ber 23 is pivotally mounted. The upwardly shown in Fi 1. Fig. 3 shows \a further disposed back 24 of the frame is concaved front view 0 L myimproved buckle attached slightly upon its under side, see Figs. 4 and 105 to a piece of webbing, but the operating 5, to better accommodate-the webbing and lever being in a changed and open position. clamping bar 25 of the clamping member 23. Fig. 4 is a central vertical longitudlnal sec- As will be noted the wire clamping memtion through the buckle and webbing as her shown in detail in Fig. 8 and also in is a similar central each of the assembled views includes a horishown in Fig. 1. Fig. 5

zontal top clamping bar connecting side or end portions 26 and alined pivotal bars 27 which as will be noted are seated in the before mentioned pockets 22 of the frame member. The end portions 28 of the wire clamping member are disposed out from the pivotal portions 27 and in an opposite direction from position of the clamping bar and in the assemblement of the buckle are arranged in the path of operation of the short arm 29 of the operating lever. It will thus be seen that when the lever 21 is turned from an outwardly disposed position as shown in Fig. 5 to a closed or clamped position as shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 4 the said short arm of the operating lever will bear upon the free ends 28 of the clamping member and in a way to force the said arms back and rock the clamping member upon its alined bars 27 and within the sockets 22 so that the horizontal clamping bar 25 of the said clamping member will be thrown forward and against the running portion of' the webbing so as to firmly clamp the same between said bar of the clamping member and the conca-ved back portion of the frame-member.

This form of buckle is readily adapted for various thicknesses of webbing since the wire clamping member is susceptible of yielding tofa considerable extent and will thus form a reliable clamp on most any thickness of webbing which may be placed thereunder. It will also be noted that when attached to a webbing and threaded in the manner indicated the back of the buckle is all covered by the webbing with the exception of the horizontal clamping bar of the clamping member and this in turn is embedded so to speak in .the webbing to such an extent that it would scarcely come into contact with the bod of the wearer. This feature of the wire eing embedded in the webbing is made possible and practical as will be obviously apparent from the reason that the back as before stated is concaved to form a. transverse pocket to accommodate the webbing and clamping bar.

Having thus described my invention what Copies of this intent my be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the 1. A suspender buckle, comprising a frame member including a lower bar, alined sockets and a back, a loop like clamping-member including alined pivotal bars pivotally mounted in some of the sockets of the frame, a clampingbar to clamp the webbing against the back projecting portions between the said pivotal bars, an operating lever also pivotally mounted in other of the sockets of the frame and including a short arm to engage the projecting end of the clamping-member and a long arm forming a finger piece for the operation of the buckle.

2. A suspender buckle, comprising a sheet metal frame member including a lower bar for the attachment of a piece of webbing and alined sockets, a wire clamping member pivotally mounted in some of the sockets of the frame and including pivotal bars, a clamping-bar and a projecting portion upon the inside of the pivotal bars, an operating lever pivotally mounted in the sockets of the frame and including a short arm to engage the projecting end of the clampingmember and a long arm forming a finger piece for the operation of the buckle.

3; A suspender buckle, comprising aframe member including a lower bar for the attachment of a piece of Webbing and alined sockets and a concave back, a wire clamping-member including pivotal bars mounted in the sockets of the frame and a clampingbar to clamp the webbing in the concave of the back, an operating lever also pivotally connected to the frame and including a short arm to engage the clamping-member and a long arm forming a finger piece for the operation of the buckle.

in the county of Signed at Waterbury, New Haven, and State of Connecticut, this 7th day of October, A. D., 1914.

JOSEPH H. PILKINGTON.

Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C.

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