US1186622A - Rustless buckle. - Google Patents

Description

A. VAN BRUNT.

RUSTLESS BUCKLE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG-27, 1913.

1,186,622. Patented June 13, 1916.

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Application filed August 27, 1913.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ABRAM VAN BRUNT, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rustless Buckles, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates to an improved form of toothless and rustless suspender buckle, and it refers to that particular type of buckle shown and described in my prior Patent #1,021,018, dated March 26, 1912.

It is the object of my invention to produce a simple and efficient form of buckle of the above class including coacting horizontal clamping-bars manipulated by an operating-lever and between which the-running portion of the webbing is adjustably Secured; to design and arrange the parts so that the attached end of the webbing may be secured to the lower one of the two horizontal clamping-bars in a way to require less webbing for its attachment to the bar, and further in a manner to allow the webbing to be more easily and quickly stitched after being threaded over the bar; further to design and construct the several parts so that the webbing may be strung rustless and so that such webbing when attached will more completely cover the metal of the back of the buckle than is possible with other forms of rustless buckles; and finally to design the buckle so that the said horizontal clamping-bars will operate in substantially a vertical plane with relation to each other.

I have illustrated my improved form of buckle and a modification thereof upon the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification, and upon which similar characters of reference will be found to designate like or corresponding parts throughout the several figures, and of which Y Figure 1, shows a front perspective view of the preferred form of my improved suspender buckle. Fig. 2, is an open front view of the same buckle with the end of webbing attached thereto. Fig. 3, is an edge View of Specification of- Letters Patent.

Patented June 13, 1916.

Serial No. 786,818.

the buckle, in an open position and attached webbing as shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 4, is a side view of the buckle in a closed position, and with webbing attached and threaded therethrough. Fig. 5, is a vertical sectional view of the buckle in a closed position and with webbing attached, F ig. 6, is a detached perspective view of the wire frame-member of the buckle. Fig. 7, is a detached front view of the clamping-member of the buckle shown in Figs. 1 and 2. Fig. 8, is a front open view of a slightly modified form of construction of my buckle invention, and, Fig. 9, is a detached front view of the clamping-member of the buckle as shown in Fig. 8. Fig. 10 a broken diagrammatic view ofthe buckle showing the coupling of the lower ends of the two frame members for their sliding movement upon each other to insure the coaction of their clampingbars.

Referring to the drawings forming a part of this specification, it will be seen that the buckle is'formed of three pieces of metal, two of which are preferably made of wire and the third of sheet metal. The sheet metal partforms the operating or levermember, while the wire parts form operative or clamping-members. The two wire members are each bent to form loops that are pivotally connected to the sheet-metal levermember and by means of which said wire members are, moved with relation to each other.

On the drawings A represents what I term the frame-member of the buckle and which, as will be noted, includes a horizontal clamping-bar 10, vertically disposed end bars 11 and inwardly disposed pintles 12 that are pivotally mounted within sockets 13 of the lever-member B. The lower portion 14 of the end bars llare disposed rearward to set the horizontal clamping-bar 10 of the frame-member back to form the rearmost part of the buckle and to also form the lowest extremity of the buckle.

C indicates the second wire looplike member of the buckle and which I specifically designate as a clamping-member. This clamping-member includes a horizontal clamping-bar 15 which is arranged above and parallel with the horizontal clampingbar of the frame-member and which in practice serves to clamp the webbing between it and the horizontal clamping bar of the said frame-member. This clamping bar also includes vertically disposed end portions 16 which are in substantial alinement with the vertically disposed end bars 11 of the framemember, and in practice the two said .end bars are in slidable engagement with each other. This clamping-member is also provided with upper bars or pintles 17 which engage sockets 18 of the lever-member in a way to form a pivotal connection that is eccentric to the pivotal connection of the said lever-member with the frame-member. The action of the operating-lever is obviously to raise and lower the clamping-member with respect to the frame-member and in a way to cause the horizontal clamping-bar of the clamping-member to be raised and lowered in substantially a vertical plane with respect to the horizontal clamping-bar of the framemember.

As before stated, the end portions of the frame-member and clamping-member slidably engage each other in a way to form guides one for the other. In addition, I also preferably provide a lug 22 upon the under side of the horizontal bar of the clampingmember which serves to engage the webbing when attached to the lower bar 10 of the frame-member and to thus form a further guide to insure a positive and vertical movement of the clamping-member and its clamping-bar with respect to the horizontal clamping-bar of the frame-member. The said clamping member may be viewed as consisting of a single piece of wire bent midway of its length to form the depending guiding lug or extension 22 and the horizontal clamping bar15, then upward and inward at right angles to form the end portions 16, and then upward and outward at right angles to form the pintles 17. Under the construction shown and described, the extension 22 and the end portions 16, have sliding engagement respectively with the opposite sides of the clamping bar 10, and the vertical bars 11 of the frame member, so that the two members, while free to slide upon each other, are interlocked so as to insure the co-action of the clamping bars which would otherwise be swung out for operative relation to one another, by the action of the lever member.

The webbing D has its attached end looped over the lower horizontal clamping-bar of the frame-member and is secured thereto by means of a single row of stitches indicated by 19. In this respect it will be especially noted that the said webbing is attached to the bottommost and rearmost member of the buckle, which is the lower clamping-bar 10 of the buckle, in a way to require a shorter end of webbing for attachment to the buckle, and in a way to permit the said end to be stitched on more easily and quickly. The webbing is next returned to form a loop 20 in the usual Way and its running portion 21' is threaded from front to rear over the attached horizontal clamping-bar 10 of the frame-member and under the horizontal bar 15 of the clamping-member and then deflected upward back of the buckle in a way to cover all the metal of the back. i

In the modification illustrated in Figs. 8 and 9, I have shown a slightly different form of clamping-member which is designed to require a shorter length of wire than that shown in Fig. 7. The pintle ends 17 in this form of clamping-member as will be seen, are disposed inward instead of outward as in the other form. These pintles engage the lever-member, when open, above the pintles of the frame-member and obviously have the same operative relation with the lever-member B that the other clamping-member C has, and as is shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The

guide lug 22 as shown on the clamping-mem-.

ber of the preferred form is also omitted from the bar 15 in this form and which is to show that the principle of my buckle can be operatively carried out without the use of this guide lug.

Having thus described my invention what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: V

1. A rustless buckle comprising a clamping member having end portions and at its lower side a horizontal clamping bar that includes a downwardly extended lug, a frame member including end bars and having at its lower side a horizontal clamping bar that is in slidable engagement with the said lug and extending below the. said clamping bar of the clamping member for the direct attachment of the fixed end of the webbing to it, and a lever member having eccentric pivotal connection with the upper side of the said clamping and frame members, the lug and end portions of the clamping member being adapted to have simultaneous sliding move- I ment upon the clamping bar and end bars of the frame member and vice versa, and in a way to hold said clamping bars in operative alinement. V

2. A rustless buckle comprisinga clamping member formed with a horizontal clamping bar having a guiding extension, a frame member having end bars terminating at their lower ends in a horizontal bar which is set back of their plane for the sliding en- .gagement of its front face by the said extension of the clamping member, and a lever member having eccentric pivotal connection with the upper ends of the said clamping and frame members, whereby on account of the engagement of the front face of the bar of the frame member by the extension of the bar of the clamping member and the engagement of the rear faces of the end bars of the frame member by the front faces of the end bars of the clamping member, the clamping and frame members are slidably connected together.

Signed at Brooklyn in the county of Kings and State of New York this 23rd day of 10 August, A. D. 1913.

ABRAM VAN BRUNT.

Witnesses:

ELIZABETH VAN BRUNT, CONRAD C. BRANDT.

Gopiem of thin pmtent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patent Washington, D. 0.

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