US1485123A - Buckle - Google Patents

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Feb.,i 26 192@o 1,485J23 R. A. MOORE BUCKLE Filed Nov. 5. 1925 Patented Feb. 26, 1924.

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Applicauonfmeamvemben s, 1923i serial Nb.- 672,733;

To all whom t may concern:

Be it''known thatLlzRosw'ELL A. MOORE,

a citizen of the United States, residing: at

Waterbury, in the county-1 of NewHaven 5 :and State of Connecticutfhave.invented a new and useful Improvement in Buckles;

and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with thel accompanying drawings, and the characters of 1c reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this application, and represent, in

Fig. 1 a view in front elevation of a 1s rustless buckle constructed in accordance with my invention, shown as applied to a piece of webbing, which is partly broken away.

Fig. 2 an edge view thereof. so Fig. 3 a sectional view on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 a detached, perspective view on an enlarged scale of the wire buckle-frame.

My invention relates to an improvement in rustless buckles of the type shown and described in United States Patent No.

847,811, granted March 19, 1907, on the .application of Morris Peller, the object of my present invention being to produce a so wire-frame buckle in which the wire of the frame is bent to grip the fixed end of the webbing, whereby an economy of labor and webbing is effected, all sewing of the web bing being eliminated. y With these ends in view, my invention consists in a wire-frame rustless buckle having certain details of construction as will be hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.

In carrying out my invention, as herein shown, the buckle-frame consists of a single piece of wire bent to form two complementary pintles 5, complementary side-bars 6 and a lower bar 7, from which, at points toward the ends thereof, two integral, upwardly-opening gripping-hooks 8 depend. The said pintles 5 form, in effect, the upper bar of the buckle-frame and serve to pivotally mount a sheet-metal buckle-lever, which consists of a finger-piece 9, a gripping-edge 10 and mounting-fingers 1l, which are wrapped around the pintles 5. In webbing my improved buckle, the fixed end 12 of the webbing 13 is inserted into the upwardly-opening hooks 8, which are then'l swaged y.down Iupon the webb-ing, g so! bingl is;` permanently *attached tofi the bucklel frame without/resortingtof sawing', and."y with great 'economy in the amountV -of it used for this purpose. The webbing 13 is then passed from front to rear, through the webbing-opening 14 of the frame, and then downwardly and upwardly to form the usual loop, and in front of and over the hooks 8 and then from front to rear through the webbing-opening and under the gripping-edge 10 of the buckle-lever, and then upward, as clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 3. In thus threading the buckle, the running portion of the webbing isdeflected over and cushioned upon the bend 15 in the webbing formed adjacent to the fixed end 12 of the webbing by passing the same over the lower bar of the frame.

I am aware that it has heretofore been proposed tc attach the fixed end of the webbing of avrustless buckle of the Peller type by means of prongs struck out of a sheet-metal buckle-frame, whereby sewing is eliminated. I am also aware that it has been proposed to split the wire of a wireframe Peller buckle for the attachment of the fixed end of the webbing without sewing. I do not, therefore, broadly claim a rustless buckle of the Peller type, having its frame adapted for the attachment of the fixed end of the webbing, without resorting to sewing, but only a rustless buckle of the Peller type, in which a wire buckle-frame is made of a single piece of wire bent so as to adapt it to grip the fixed end of the webbing.

I claim:

1. In a rustless buckle, the combination with a one-piece wire-frame having its lower bar bent to form a depending, upwardly-opening gripping-hook for the reception of the fixed end of the webbing upon which the hook is clamped, of a buckle-lever pivotally mounted upon the upper portion of the frame, and a piece of webbing having its fixed end inserted downwardly into the said hook, which is clamped upon it and then passed from front to rear over the lower bar of the frame and then downward to form a loop and then in front of the said hook and over the bend of the fixed end of the webbing and then under the gripping-edge of the said lever, and

then upward from front to rear for deflection by the buckle-lever over the loopl formed adjacent to the fixed end of the webbing. v

2. In a rustless buckle, the combination with a. one-piece wire-frame, having its lowei` bar bent to form e plurality of depending upwardly-opening grippinghooks, of a buckle-lever pivotelly mounted upon the upper portion of the buckle-freine, and a piece of webbing having its fixed end inserted into vthe seid hooks which are clamped upon it, end then passed from front to rear over the lower bar of the frame andthen downward to form a loop and then in front of the seid hookand over the bend of the fixed end of the webbing and then under the gripping-edge of the said lever, and then upward from front to rear for deflection b the buckle-lever over the loop formed ad3acent to the kfixed end of the webbing.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ROSWELL A. MOORE. Witnesses MARTIN T. LYNN, CHESTER LITTLE.

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