US1495524A - Buckle - Google Patents

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May 27 1924.

J. MALTBY BUCKLE Filed Jan. 27. 1923 Patented May 27, 1924.

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j BUCKLE-I Application filed J'anuar y 27, 1923." Serial No. 615,256.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JULIUs' MALTBY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful-Improvement in Buckles; and I do hereby declare thefollowing, when taken in connection-with'the accompanying drawings, and thecha'racters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part ofthis application,

and represent, ina Fig. 1 a view in front elevation of a buckle constructed in accordance with any invention, shown as applied to a piece of webbing, v Fig. 2 a view thereof in central vertical section. 1 Fig. 3 a detached perspective view of the buckle-frame.

My invention relates to an improvement in two-part, rustless buckles designed for personal wear on' suspenders, hose-supporters and the like, the object beingt o produce, at a low cost for manufacture, a rustless buckle of extreme simplicity and conven ience, constructed with particular reference to securing the fixed end of the webbing to the buckle-frame by means of prongs positioned thereupon. so as to secure a superior grip upon the webbing, so as not to weaken or mutilate the buckle-frame in producing them, so as to effect a marked economy in the amount of webbing used in securing it to the buckle and so as to permit the prongs to be clinched upon the fixed end of the webbing without removing the buckle-lever. W'ith these ends in view, my invention consists in a rustless buckle having its buckle-frame characterized by being formed with a plurality of integral prongs which are employed to secure the fixed end of the webbing in place and by locating the bucklelever in such position with respect to the upper edge of the buckle-frame and the pron s as to permit the same to be clinched upon the fixed end of the webbing without removing the lever.

My invention further consists in a rustless buckle having certain details of construction and combinations of parts as will be hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In Figs. 1 to 3 inclusive I have shown my invention as embodied in a rustless buckle of the so-called Feller type, which is organized to hold the running portion of the webbing by deflecting it from front to rear, in accordance with the principle disclosed in United States Patent No. 847,811, granted March 19, 1907, on the application of Morris Peller. I

In carrying out my invention, as shown in Figs. 1 to 3 of the drawings, I produce a horizontal series, or range, of relatively long, equally-spaced, offsetting, forwardlypro ecting, integral prongs or teeth 5 upon the upper edge of a shdet-metal buckleframe 6, provided at each end with parallel, forwardly-turned flanges 7 terminating at their upper ends in ears 8 perforated as at 9 for the reception of the pintles 10 of a sheet-metal buckle-lever having a serrated gripping edges 11 and a finger-piece 12 standing at an acute angle thereto, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. It will be noted that the ears 8 aforesaid are extended sufficiently above the upper edge of the frame 6, and hence above the teeth 5, to elevate the gripping-edge 11 of the lever as required to properly position it to deflect the running portion 13 of the Webbing over, or substantially over, the upper edge of the frame, as shown in Fig. 2, and hence against the bend 14: formed in the fixed end of the webbing by folding the end of the same from rear to front over the upper edge of the buckleframe. The buckle-lever as thus positioned permits the prongs to be clinched upon the fixed end of the webbing without its removal, since, when so located, there is suflicient clearance between it and the upper edge of the buckle-frame and the prongs for the admission and operation of the clinching means, whatever form they may assume, whereas, when the buckle-lever is located in front of the buckle-frame, so as to hold the running portion of the webbing by pressing it against the back of the frame, the lever must be removed, preparatory to the clinching operation, or the clinching operation must be performed before the clinching of the fixed end of the webbing.

For securing the fixed end of the webbing to the buckle-frame, as shown, it is forced over the prongs 5, or they are forced through it, as the case may be. They are then bent down upon the front face of the said end of the webbing, so as to be embedded therein.

In this manner, the end of the webbing is pinched and imprisoned between the front face of the buckle-frame and the teeth, which latter lie in a plane in front of the plane of the frame, and parallel therewith. Since the roots of the prongs, so to speak, are close to the bend 14 of the webbing, the same is held under conditions which make for the maximum of security and permanence. This webbing, when thus attached to the frame, is carried down over the back thereof, so as to form the loop 16, after which the running portion 13 of the webbing is passed upward in front of the buckleframe and between the gripping-edge 11. of the buckle-lever and the bend l lof the fixed end of the webbing. The installation of the buckle-lever in the ears of the buckleframe may take place before or after the application of the fixed end of the webbing to the teeth, as may be most expedient. Ordinarily, these buckles are supplied to the trade assembled in readiness to be webbed by the consumer, and this may easily be done under my invention, without removing the lever, as has already been explained. The prong s may be made as numerous and as long as desired without weakening or mutilating the buckle-frame. By locating the prongs upon the upper edge of the frame, as described, the amount of webbing required, for effectively attaching the fixed end of the webbing to the buckle-frame in such manner as to cover the back of the buckle to render the buckle rustless, is reduced to the absolute minimum, whereby my invention secures an important economy, for the reason that although the saving is only the fractional part of an inch in respect to a single buckle, in the aggregate it amounts to a considerable factor in the manufacture and sale of articles of personal wear to which such buckles are applied.

I claim:

In a rustless buckle, the combination with a sheet-metal buckle-frame, of a plurality of forwardly projecting, integral prongs originating upon the upper edge of the said frame and adapted in length to be passed through a. piece of webbing and clinched r down thereupon, forwardly projecting ears located at the ends ofthe said frame, and a buckle-lever pivotally' mounted in the said ears in position to deflect the running portion of the webbing over or substantially over the upper edge of the frame and over the roots of the prongs originating thereupon, a clearance-space between the lever and the roots of the prongs being provided to permit the entrance of a clinching-tool for clinching the prongs upon the webbing, without removing the lever.

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

7 JULIUS MALTBY.

Witnesses:

JEROME R. LAVIGNE, CHESTER LITTLE.

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