US1430663A - Buckle - Google Patents

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- BUCKLE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 12, 1921.

Patented Oct. 3, 1922.

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DAVID LINDSAY, 31%, 015 WILMINGTON, DELAWARE.

BUCKLE.

Application filed September 12, 1921.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, DAVID LINDSAY, Jr., a citizen of the United States, residing at Wilmington, in the county of New Castle, State of Delaware, have invented a new and useful Buckle, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvement in buckles, especially useful in connection with belts for mens wear.

The object is to provide improved means for securing the buckle to the garment about which it is worn, in order to prevent the buckle from riding above the top margin of the garment.

The invention is especially applicable, but not necessarily confined, to that form of buckle, in which the usual horizontal tongue has been dispensed with, and a clamping device has been substituted for securing the free end of the belt. 1

Referring to the drawings which illustrate, merely by way of example, suitable means for effecting my invention Fig. l is a front elevation, showing a buckle containing my improvement in operative position.

Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the buckle.

Fig. 3 is a vertical section on line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

Fig. at is a top plan view.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In connection with the old and well known form of buckle, having a hinged or swivelling tongue for engaging, in a selected hole of a series, the free end of the belt, it was not unusual to provide upon the trousers, a short loop adapted to engage the said horizontal tongue of the buckle to prevent the buckle from riding above the top margin of the trousers.

Upon the coming into use of the modern buckle having the clamping means for engaging the free end of the belt in any posit1on of adjustment, without the need oil holes in said free end, this horizontally disposed tongue has been dispensed with and in this way the means for engaging the fab- Serial No. 199,984.

ric loop on the trousers was eliminated, and much inconvenience has been experienced by the absence of the horizontal tongue for this purpose.

By the present invention I provide a short vertical hook or projection extending upwardly from about a middle point on the lower inner frame of the buckle. This hook or projection is adapted to engage with the loop on the trousers, and effectively prevent the buckle from riding above the top margin of the trousers.

In the drawings 1 have shown the main body portion 8, of the buckle provided with turned in flanges 9 and 10, and the loop 11 pivoted at 12. This loop portion 11 has integral therewith the clamping extension 13, adapted to clamp the free end of belt 17. The hook or projection 14 extends upwardly from the lower flange 10 and is adapted to engage the loop 15 on garment 16.

This hook provides certain advantages over the old method and means for secur ing the desired end, in that it may be applied to any form of buckle whether using the old horizontal tongue or not. It is much easier to engage and disengage from the loop, and does not require the disengagement of the free end of the belt from the buckle in order to engage or disengage the loop 15 as in the old form of tongue buckle.

The usual formation of the frame of the modern clamp buckle or tongueless buckle lends itself to this hook formation, in that the lower inwardly and upwardly bent flange portion 10 of the frame need only be projected a short distance at the desired point to provide all the hook that is necessary to effect the end in view.

What I claim is A buckle, comprising a main body having flanges along its opposite horizontal edges bent inwardly into a plane substantially parallel with the main body, and a vertically extending hook member connected to the lower-flange and having its free end terminating in close proximity to the upper flange,

DAVID LINDSAY, JR.

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