US1257935A - Buckle. - Google Patents

Description

F. A. RUSS.

BUCKLE.

APPLICATION man lumi n. 1912.

Patented Feb. v26, 1918..

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BUCKLE.

Atpiicauon mea aan@ 11,1912. serial No. 702,982. Y

To all Iwhom t may concern y Be it known that I, FRIEND A. Buss, a

citizen of the United States, residing at other `object is to provide a buckle which is' capable of maximum adjustment on a minimum length of webbing, and a further 0bject is to provide a buckle of minimum vertical dimension in which the extremity of the webbing is secured thereto by swaging.

I attain these'and other objects of my invention in the preferred embodiment thereof set forth in the following description and accompanying drawing in which like Vreference characters refer to corresponding parts.

ln the drawing: i

Figure l is a front view of my buckle strung with webbing a portion of the latter being broken away;

Fig. 2, a vertical section of the buckle shown in Fig. l;

Fig. 3, aside view of the buckle before the webbing is attached'thereto, and

Fig. 4, a vertical section of a modification.

My buckle consists of a back or frameA o and a lever B. rThe back A is bent up'out of a single piece of sheet metal to form lips 2 and 3 disposed at an angle to one another as shown in Fig. 3. The front bar or lip 2 is provided with forwardly turned lugs or side ears 4,4 which latter are pierced or perforated at 5, 5. yThe lever B may also be bent up out of sheet metal to form the front or finger piece 6, the web engaging member 7 and the laterally projecting trunnions 8, 8, which latter are journaled in the perforations 5, 5. The strap or webbing C is fastened to the frame A by inserting its extremity k between the open lips 2 and 3 which latter are then pressed or swaged together in a suitable machine to securely and permanently grip the webbing between them, as

shown in Figs. l and 2. In this manner the extremity of the webbing is notonly gripped between the face portions of the lips but also between their edges which latter 'eX tend transversely across the top of the back. After the webbing is securedV to the buckle as above described the free .or moving por` tion ispassed'rearwardly over the top edge of the back lip 3 then downwardly below the back and then. upwardly between the lever land the back into an upper reach. `When the lever B is shut down it locks the webbing in its adjusted position. The buckle thus strung forms an adjustable loop inthe webbing which carries the cast 0d piece D or any other suitable member.

Although the Stringing of the buckle, as

above described, covers up the back and produces the so called rustless effect yet it is obvious that the webbing may be carried forwardly over the edge of the front lip 2, instead of rearwardly over the edge of the back lip 3, leaving the back lip 3 exposed or uncovered as shown in Fig. 4. It is to be noticed that either method of stringing requires the same length of webbing since the top edges of both lips are equally distant from the bottom of the back A. It should befurther noticed that the parts of the buckle embraced by the webbing are of the least vertical dimension required for fasteningn the end of the webbing thereby leaving a maximum length of free webbing for adjustment purposes.-

Since the broad feature of my invention resides in the construction of the back any suitable arrangement of the lever may be employed provided it will clamp or hold the moving portion of the webbing. ln Fig. 4 the lever trunnions are journaled lower down between the side ears than in the remaining figures so that the ears may be cut down substantially even with the top of the back. This enables a metal blank of minimum vertical dimension to be utilized thereby saving scrap. y

The particular meritorious feature of my buckle, however, over those disclosed in the prior art resides in the fact that it can be made of a minimum amount of material and utilizes a minimum amount of webbing. This result is obtained by making the back of the buckle, which Yis concealed when Specification of Letters Patent. il?attainingdi Feb. 256, Illdll..`

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strung with webbing and on display, since it is view'edfroln'tlie front, of very light gage metal bent up to forni a pairof the narrovvest lips between the edges of Which/'V it lis `.possible toz-fasten :the webbing;v Since the gripping action on the v .webbing-V is effected by the edges of the lips no increased vertical dimensionV need be given to their.` face portions since, as far as the grippingY action iis :iconce'rnedy the Ygripping .functions of Vthe'iface portions could be entirely elimihated.'A For this reason the"sheet'lnetal'blzink from which the buckle .isbent up need only bei-of '1suflicient verticeli dimension to give 'ibodyj enoughfor folding j operation.- In" foldihgfthe 'metal tofo'rin` `the "lips the beckl 'becomes reinforced so that' thel utilization of Inetl of lighter vgag'ethenthat used inother cations as may firlycomewvithin the scope buckles' does notweaken' the .'lback. y

Althoughfthe device above'described ve1n-` bodiesthe preferred-form of'my invention yetthe semeissusceptible Jto-"such modifioffthe appended' claims.

Csiples'pt this'- pate'nt, Vmay Vneobtained far Hevingnow described my invention what I claim and desire to protect by Letters Patent is:

l; A buckle comprising e sheet metal back provided*k with. a pair-.oftransverselyf dis-1mand 4e sheetjinetal back; the said back being formed `of'e bhuik folded midwayof itsl length topresentl n peil of transversely dis# posed edges alongzthe top side of the buck between Whichis grippedy the extremity of a running webbing.

FRIEND A. RUSS;= Witnesses:

FREDERICK C. PARSONS, ALBERT MANNHEIMER.

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