US1494860A - Buckle - Google Patents

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day 20, 1924.

R.A.MOORE aucxnz Filed Nov. 5, 1923 Patented May 20, 1924.

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- Application filed No'irember, 5, 1923/ serial no. 672,732

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RoswELL A. Moons,

a citizen of the'United States, residing at Vaterbury, in the county of New Haven. and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Buckles; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanylng drawings and the characters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this application,

andrepresent, in. i i v Fig. 1 a View in front elevation of a rust-less buckle embodying my invention, shown as applied toa pieceof webbing. Fig. 2 a view thereof in edge elevation.

Fig. 3 a view thereof in vertical, longitudinal section, the webbing being shown in edge elevation. i

Fig. 4 a detached, plan view of the buckleframe blank.

Fig. 5 a view of the buckle-frame in vertical section.

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 sheetmetal buckle of the type described, in which the attachment of the fixed end of the webbing to the buckle-frame is effected without resorting to sewing and with an. economy of time, labor, thread and webbing.

lVith these ends in View, my invention consists in a sheet-metal, rustless buckle characterized by having its frame provided with integral, upstanding clamping-prongs originating below and cut through its upper edge, whereby the fixed end of the webzsta'nding ears 7,r "bent;forward at a. right angle to. its plane and-"formed with perforations 8wfor the reception of thepintles 9 :of a sheet-metal. buckle-lever comprising aJ finger-piece. 10 and a gripping-edge 11. 1 he said parts areconstructed-and pro port-ioned so thatthe. edge 1-1 of the bucklelever' deflectsthe webbing 12 over the hori zontal upper edge 13 of the buckle-frame 6 and over,the' cushioning-bend '14: produced in thejwebbing 12',-'adjacent-to' its fixed end For attaching-the fixed end 159 of the webbing to thebuckleframe without resorting to sewing, the buckle-frame is formed, as.- herein shown, with four upstanding, integral gripping-prongs 17, spaced equally apart, and originating below and. cut through its upper edge 13. In the blank state (Fig. 4C) of the buckle-frame, these prongs extend above its upper-edge 13, but when set forward therefrom for the initial insertion ofgwhat is to become the fixed end 15 of the webbing" between the front face of the frame and; the rear faces of the said prongs, the upper. ends of the prongs are sufficiently retracted, as it were, to fall sufficiently below the entire buckle-lever when the same is thrown back into its open position, as indicated by broken lines in Fig. 3, to clear the same for the engagement of the clinching tool (not shown), whatever its form, with their front faces" for the purpose of firmly clamping them upon the said end 15 of the webbing, so as to permanently attach the same to the buckle-frame, as shown in Fig. 3. Under the construction above described, the fixed end of the webbing is clamped between thev prongs and the portion of the frame from which they are actually out, the cut edges of the prongs and the cut edges of the frame pinching and fiuting the webbing. so as to hold the same with a firmer grip than when an upturned edge is, or prongs are, bent so as to co-act with a solid or uncut portion of the frame. Moreover, by cutting the prongs through the upper edge of the frame, the length of webbing going into its fixed end is reduced to the minimum, with obvious economy.

As shown, the lower portion of the buckleframe is struck up from rearto front to form four symmetrical, crescent-shaped stiffening ribs 18, straddling the bases of the ioa prongs, but these ribs may be omitted, if desired. The number of prongs may also be varied from the number shown.

I claim:

1. In a rustless buckle, the combination with a sheet-metal buckle-frame having prongs originating below and cut through its upper edge and struck forward from rear to front for the insertion and clamping between them and its'front face of the fixed end of the webbing, which is passed from front to rear, overthe cut upper edge of the frame andvcarried down over the rear face thereof; of a buckle-lever mounted in the said buckle-frame in position to deflect --the running portion of the webbing substantially over the loop formed by passing the said fixed edge of the webbing from front to rear over the cut upper edge of the frame v and downward back of the same.

2. In a rustless buckle, the combination with a sheet-metal buckle-frame having prongs originating below and cut through its upper edge and struck forward from rear to front for the insertion and clamping between them and its front faceof the fixed end of thewebbing, which is passed from front to rear, over the cut upper edge of the frame and carried down over the rear face thereof; ofa buckle-lever mounted in the said buckle-frame in position to deflect the running portion of the webbing substantially over the loop formedby passing the said fixed edge of the webbing from front to rear over the cut upper edge of the frame anddownward back of the same, the said frame and buckle-lever being constructed and proportioned so that, when the lever is thrown back into its open position, clearance is provided for the means employed towset the prongs from front to rear upon the fixed end of the webbing without removing the said lever from the said frame.

3. In a rustless buckle, the combination with a sheet-metal buckle-frame formed at its ends with upwardly-projecting perforated ears bent forward at a right angle to it and with a plurality of integral, upstanding clamping-prongs originating below and extending through its upper edge and set forwardly of its front face, for the reception between the same and their rear faces of the fixed end of the webbing upon which they are clamped. whereby the fixed end of the webbing is clamped between the prongs and the portion of the frame from which they are immediately out of a buckle-lever mount- ROSWELL A. Moons.

Vitnesees JEROME R. LAVIGNE, EMILY M, FRANEK.

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