US1222800A

US1222800A - Belt.

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Publication number: US1222800A
Application number: US11175916A
Authority: US
Inventors: Anton Reznicek
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1916-07-28
Filing date: 1916-07-28
Publication date: 1917-04-17
Anticipated expiration: 1934-04-17

Description

A. REZNICEK.

y BELT.

APPLICATIUN FILED .IULY 28| |916.

@m Patented Apr. 17,1917.

Amm/mf ANTON EZNIEK, 0F JERSEY CJITY, NEW JERSEY.

BELT.

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To all :whom it may concern.'

Be 1t known that I, AN'roN EZNIEK, a citizen of the United States, and residentof Jersey City, in the county of Hudson, State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Belts, of which .the following is a specification.

The presentl invention relates to improve- :ments in belts, and particularly a belt provided with aV detachable buckle. An object of the invention is to provide such a belt in 4 which the buckle will be securely held when in place, against movement, and maybe quickly removed and another buckle substituted in a reliable manner and` without in any way impairingthe utility of the-belt.

The belt is therefore particularly adaptable to the so called set belts, in' which several buckles of di'erent designs 'are'provided for a single. belt, or where the wearer has a buckle formed of gold or silver and wishes to transfer this to another belt. Also at the end of the season, buckles which have become tarnished or out of style, may .lie

quickly and economically substituted orI refinished. Heretofore it was necessaryto return both belt and' buckle to the manufacturer who must cut' the stitching'and remake the belt at a considerable loss.` Another object is to provide such a belt which will be strong, attractive, 'simple in construction and in which the retaining loops are securely and permanently held in place.

With these and other objects 1n view, my

invention is shown yin the accompanying` drawings, and will be hereinafter more fully described with reference thereto, and finally pointed out in the claims.

, In the accompanying drawings,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved belt, and detachable buckle,

Fig. 2 is a lateral view of the belt with.-

- facllitate the insertion -and removal of the buckle removed,

Fig.'3 is a longitudinal sectional view thereof,

' Fig. 4 .is a plan view of the underside of the folding end of the belt strap, a part of the under layer of said front portion bein broken out to show the stidening plates an their relative disposition with respect to the e buckle tongue slot.

-lllig. 5 is a fragmentary view showing the metal plates employed', and

Fig. 6 is an' enlarged sectional view' showin the manner in which the metal plates retain the buckle. Y

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patenten aan. it, mit.

il Application filled-July 28, 1916. Serial No. 111,759.

Similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts throughout the several figures of the drawings.

Referring tothe drawings, my improved belt comprlses` an upper layer or strip of leather 10, to which' is secured by stitching 11and'12, an under layer 13, the said stitching extending only to the first retaining loop 14, held in place 4by transverse lines of stitching 15 and 16 at each side thereof. The said layer of leather 13 terminates intermediate the loop 14 andthe forward end of the strip 10 which is in the form ofa point.

lAn under intermediate layer of leather 17 issecured to 'the exposed forward part of the strip 10 by stitching 18 and 19, the said layer extending backward between the

layers

10 and 13 to the loop 14. Another loop .20 is secured between the upper portion formed by the layers 10 and 1'?, and the under layer 13 by transverse rows of

stitching

21 and 22,

. the` row 21 securin the turned back end 23 of the strip 13. he male portion 24 of a snap fastener is secured tot e layer 13 centrally between the two loops, and the female thebelt. Centrally between` the' two portions ofthe snap fasteners there is provided a slot -26 so that when the end of the belt is .folded back andthe snap fastener engaged, the slot is folded centrally, the tongue of the buckle 27 being passed therethrough, so that its looped end 28 is disposed in the slot. At each side of the slot there are embedded between the layers 10 and the layer 17 metal plates or former-

members

29 and 30, extending substantially the length of the slot, and being.- slightly less than the width between the slot and the edge of the belt.

These lates are disposed some little distance away om the edges of the slot 26 so as to leave the strap about said slot flexible to portlon 25 is secured tothe forward end of appendages or obstructions and in which the retaining loops are securely held in place. l

When the buckle is to be removed either for placing in another Abelt or to be replaced by another buckle, the snap fasteners are disengaged and the folded end of the strap bent down, at the same time bending open the metal pieces, as clearlyshown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, permitting the ready removal of the buckle.

The metal pieces may be of brass, or any other suitable material which is unbreakable. Instead of stitching, the various layers may be secured together by other means known asthe art of leather working, such as cementing, gluing or the like, and if desired, thelayer 13 between the loops may be secured to the upper layersby cementing or stitching. The-snap fastener is so embedded in the layer 13 as to provide no projection in the upper surface of the belt. I have illustrated and described preferred and satisfactory forms of my invention, but it is obvious. that changes may be made thereinA within the spirit and' scope thereof, as defined in the appended claims.

I claim: 1

1. A belt. comprising a strap provided with a longitudinal buckle tongue slot and with metal stiffening plates disposed on opposite` sides of said slot at some distance from the edges thereof and a detachable fastening device composed of. complementary members secured respectively to said strapon opposite sides of said\slot, and a buckle having a cross bar and tongue, the tonguelengaging said slot and the strap being folded ,over said .cross bar and secured in folded position by said detachable fa stener,.the edges of said slot between said stlifening plates being free and flexible ti facilitate the insertion and removal of the.

buckle.

' 2. In a belt the combination with a buckle having a crossbar, of a strap comprising an upper layer, an under layer terminating at a point removed from one end of said -upper layer, an intermediate layer secured to said upper layer at the exposed portion thereof and extending in its rear part between said upper and under layers, retain ing loops passed between said overlapping layers and secured by transverse stitching extending therethrough, stiii'ening means disposed between said upper and intermediate layers, said strap being adapted to-be folded around said crossbar at a point reinforced by said stifl'ening means, and said stiii'ening means being adapted to be bent with said strap around said bar to retain said buckle in position, and disengageable fastening means adapted to retain said strap in holding position.

In testimony., that I claim the foregoing as my invention', I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses,

ANTON IEEZNIEK. Witnesses:

D. LEWIS MATTERN, M. Mon WEINBERG.