US1148972A

US1148972A - Buckle.

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Publication number: US1148972A
Application number: US172015A
Authority: US
Inventors: Waldemar Kops
Original assignee: KOPS BROS
Current assignee: KOPS BROS
Priority date: 1915-01-11
Filing date: 1915-01-11
Publication date: 1915-08-03
Anticipated expiration: 1932-08-03

Description

W. KOPS.

BUCKLE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN-11,1915.

1,148,972. Patented Aug". 3, 1915.

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BUCKLE.

Specification of LettersiPatent.

, Patented Aug. 3, 1915.

Substitute for application Serial No. 701,714, filed June 5, 1912. This application filed January 11, 1915. Serial No. 1,720.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WALDEMAR Kors,a citizen of the UnitedStates of America residing at the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Buckles, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to an improvement in buckles for connecting parts of a webbing or similar flexible material commonly employed in hose supporters, susponders, belts and various other analogous articles, in which an adj ustable clamp is employed, and the object of my invention is the provision of a simple, easily and cheaply constructed buckle and one in which the and the blank is so formed as to provide the buckle with obverse and reverse side members and end members at the extremities of the side members, the end members being turned over on themselves so that their corners come in close proximity to one another and the reverse side members assume a position behind the'obverse side members. The elastic webbing or other material is looped over a reverse side member, and in the use of the buckle, the frictional grip upon the material is obtained by contact with the edge of an inturned portion extending from an obverse side member, as will be hereinafter more particularly described. 7

In order to secure a positive grip between the extremities of the end members, I also provide these members, with lugs or similar devices, which, after the end members are bent or turned into position, as herein described, are made to engage the opposite extremities of the end members to positively connect the same.

Figure 1 is a plan of a blank, for forming a buckle made in accordance with my present invention. Fig. 2' is a side elevation, illustrating the use of this buckle. Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the same, and Fig. 4

is a perspective view illustrating my im* proved buckle.

Referring to the drawing, it will be seen that I may also form my improved buckle from a blank indicated at 27. This blank is stamped up from sheet metal, caused to be provided with an obverse side member 28. The

end members

29 and 30 are integral with each other, as are also the reverse side member 32 and the

obverse side members

31 and 33, which latter is intermediate of the

obverse side members

28 and 31. This structure makes provision for an aperture 3% between the

members

31 and 33, an aperture 35 between the

members

28 and 33, andean aperture 36 between the obverse side member 28 and the reverse side member Extending from the end member 31 is an end portion 37, and adjacent to this end of the buckle, the

end members

29 and 30 are provided with lugs 38, and at the opposite ends the

end members

29 and 30 are provided with ears or extensions 39.

In shaping this blank, the

end members

29 and 30 are bent into a U-shape form, so

that the extensions or ears 39 are caused to assume a position either in contact with or closely adjacent to the opposite ends of the end members, and, in this position, the lugs 38 are turned over and caused to engage the extensions, or cars 39, to secure the parts together permanently, in order to prevent the separation thereof by strains to which the buckle is subjected in use, or from other causes.

It will be understood that other equivalent devices may be employed for suitably connecting the adjacent ends of the

end members

29 and 30 without departing from the nature and spirit of my invention.

In the use of this form of the buckle, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, a webbing 40 may be employed for a hose supporter, for example, one end of this webbing is threaded through the aperture 36, a loop formed in the end of the web and the parts thereof secured together by sewing indicated by dotted line 41. The webbing is then passed through an eye 42 of a garment clasp 43, after which the web is threaded through the aperture 35 from the inside outwardly, then through the aperture 34 from the outside of the buckle inwardly, and the surface of the web, in the use of the device, contacts with i re.

1 bers connecting the said obverse andc reverse side members and being bent at right angles thereto and also bent into U-form,

the said obverse side member having a; portion extending over the reverse side member, the edge of the portion providing a grip ping edge for the buckle, and means for securing together the extremities of the U- form end members.

Signed by me this 5th day of December,

VVALDEMAR KOPS. Witnesses:

ERNST NEUMANN, ELKAN A. HACKEY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five 'cents each, jby address ing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G.