US1346979A - Buckle - Google Patents

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E. W. RUTHERFORD.

BUCKLE. APPLICATION FILED .IAN.10,1919. RENEWED JUNE 5,1920.

1,346,979, Patented July 20, 1920.

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EUGENE W. RUTHERFORD, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE SHOE HARDWARE COMPANY, A CORPORATICN OF CONNECTICUT.

' BUCKLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 20, 1920.

Application filed January 10, 1919, Serial No. 270,461. Renewed June 5, 1920. Serial No. 386,925.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EUoENE WV. RUTHER- rom), a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New Haven, county of New retain the same.

There have heretofore been used upon boots, shoes, arctics, and various other articles, buckles formed of two stampings of sheet metal, and comprising a socketed plate member to which is hingedly secured a hook-shaped locking tongue having pintles which seat in the sockets in the plate member. The plate member of such buckles is customarily formed at one end with three extensions or fingers suitably spaced apart, the outer two extensions being provided with alined sockets which receive the pintles of the locking tongue. The intermediately disposed extension acts as a spring and cooperates with a cam surface on the locking tongue to hold the tongue in opened and closed positions. The sockets in the two outer extensions are formed by striking up a portion of the metal intermediate the length of the extensions and bending back the ends of the extensions to overlie the recesses so formed. It has been found that the pintle pins of the locking tongue and the bent over ends of the socketed extensions frequently break off under the strains encountered in service destroying the value of the buckle. A further disadvantage of such buckles is the high cost of manufacture in- 'volved in shaping the two members to their complicated form.

An object of the present invention, ac-- is represented in the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in

.which similar characters of reference indibuckle with its locking tongue in closed position. 1

Fig. 2 is a side view of the buckle shown in Fig. 1, the locking tongue being shown in closed position in full lines and in open position in dotted lines.

- Fig. 3 is a bottom view of the buckle shown in Fig. 1, and

Fig. 4 is a front end view of the construction shown in Fig. 1.

The buckle illustrated in the drawings comprises a flat plate member 10 to which is secured a hook-shaped locking tongue 11. Preferably both parts are stamped from resilient sheet steel, although it is to be understood that any suitable kind or grade of sheet metal may be employed for the purpose.

The plate member 10 is formed at one end with two eyes 12 which afford a convenient means for attaching the buckle to any desired article; and at the other end with three spaced extensions or fingers. The two outer extensions 13 are formed with bentover ends 14:, while the intermediate extension 15 is formed with a hook-shaped bend 16 which serves as a socket to hingedly secure the locking tongue to the plate member.

The locking tongue 11 consists of a substantially triangular shaped piece of metal bent at one end to resemble a hook. The hook end of the tongue is formed with a laterally extending slot 17 to provide a pintle bar 18 adapted to fit in the socket in the intermediate extension. The tongue is made of sufficient width to provide a cam shoulder 19 on each side of the slot. When the parts are assembled the cam shoulders fulcrum upon the outer extensions 13 of the plate member, and cooperate with the resilient intermediate extension 15 to hold the tongue in open and closed positions.

The invention provides a buckle of great durability and simple construction which can be more economically manufactured than any of the buckles heretofore known.

While I have described one of the preferred embodiments of my invention, it is to be understood that various modifications in form, material and arrangement may be made without departing from the spirit and scope, or sacrificlng any of the advantages of the invention defined in the appended claims. 7

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

1. A buckle comprising a plate with spaced side members between which is sustained a resilient member that is bent at its free end, a manipulable tongue provided with a transversely extending elongated opening adjacent one end thereof adapted to receive the bent end of the resilient member, and cooperating means on said plate and tongue for holding the latter yieldingly against the former.

2. A buckle comprising a plate 'with vspaced side members between which is sustained a resilient member that is bent at 1tsfree end, a manipulable tongue provided with a transversely extendlng elongated opening adjacent one end thereof adapted to receive the bent end of the resilient member, said tongue having shoulders on its opposite sides beyond the elongated opening co6perating with the plate at opposite sides of the resilient member. 7 1

of the resilient member, said tongue having a straight edge adjacent andrparallel with the slot which is adapted to cooperate with the fiat side members of the plate to retain the tongue in either a closed or an open position. i i

i. A buckle comprising a base member, a

resilient member sustained at one end by the base member and'free at its-other end, a manipulable tongue having a transverse slot adjacent one-ofits ends adapted to receive the free end of the resilient member and thereby hingedly supported, and means on the tongue adj acent the slot cooperating with the base member to spring the resilient member whereby the tongue may be pressed yieldingly toward the basemember or may be swung away from the same.

Signed at Waterbury, county of New Haven, State of Connecticut, this 2d day of January, 1919. 7 1

EUGENE'W, RUTHERFORD. I

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