US1825016A - Slide buckle - Google Patents

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.Sept. 29, 1931. l J. sALlsBuRY 1,825,016

SLIDE BUCKLE Filed Nov.i 3, 1950 Jessup E/fxmsaumy AT1-y irs D5 f STATES PATENT oFFiCEB :rnssnr sALisBUnY, or HAMDEN, CONNECTICUT, AssIGNOa To yTinienmarcan` BUCKLE COMPANY, or wiisT HAVEN,4 CONNECTICUT, e Coupon-Arron or CONNECTICUT SLIDE BUCKLE This invention relates to slide buckles having a substantially fixed` intermediate bar structure. It is old in the art to provide a slide buckle frame with side structures probing, or the like, therebetween `from a plane Y at an angle to that of the buckle, but the open space between suchV intermediate ba structures, if sufficiently wide for an easy insertion of the webbing material, reduces the intermediate bar structures to such an.

extent that its efficiency, to maintainy an acute detour of the full width of the webbing thus threaded into the buckle. is greatly decreased. The novelty of this invention partly resides in the bending of one or bot-h iof the intermediate bar sections at their tree extremities out of the plane ot the buckle in order that the webbing held substantially in the plane of the buckle may be inserted into the buckle behind one of the intermediate bar sections while thus held, the "webbing thus looped around such intermediate bar section being pulled away from that section to draw the remaining portion of the webbing width behind the other intermediate bar section. If the intermediate bar sections structures are made to vary in length the initial insertion of the webbingbehind the longer structure makes it easier to draw the other portion of the webbing width behind the shorter structure.- The objects, therefore, of this invention are to provide a Onepiece slide buckle easily mountable upon webbing or the like; to provide a slide buckle having an intermediate bar structure extending substantially across the buckle and capable of receiving webbing held substantially in the plane of the buckle and thus marginally inserted therein behind such bar structure; and to provide a slide buckle having intermediate bar sections providing humped projections extending out of the plane of the buckle. Vith these and other Aobjects in view, the invention consists not only of the particular form of structure herein pointed out and illus- Application inea November e, 1930. serial No. 492,995.

trated by the drawings, but also includes such other forms of structure as may hereinafter appear within the scope of the invention as claimed.-

The character of the invention may be t best understood by the reference to one illustrative device embodying the novel features of the improvement illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which the Figure.

1 is an upright elevation of the buckle in perspective; the Figure 2 is a top view thereof; andthe Figure 3 is an elevation similar to that of the lirst figure, but illustrating a portion of webbing in the process of being initially inserted into the buckle.

The device is preferably made oi" wire,

but may be made in'vany other possible way.

As illustrated, a single piece of wire is `bent at its middle portion and back uponitself to form the structure of the intermediate bar section 1. Each of the remaining portions is outwardly bent in the plane of the bar section 1 and atfsubstantiallyright angles thereto to together form the side structure 2. Both wire portions are then bent in parallel` relation to the bar section 1 to provide the upper bar 3 and the lower bar 4 ot the buckle frame, the wire portions being t-lien bent inwardly to together provide the side structure 5 from which the wire is bent within the buckle frame where their ex-V tremities are brought together and welded, as at 6, to provide the intermediate bar section 7 Athe extremity 9 of which relativelyV overlaps and is spaced from the' extremityLv 8 of the bar section 1. rIhe overlapping bar extremities 8 and 9 are each bent in opposite directions out of the plane of thebuckle frame, the extremity 8 providing a lip 10 extending out of the vbuckle traine plane,

the flattened portions 15 and 16, respectively, in the plane of the buckle frame, the buckle thus formed providing the substantially enclosed and associated loops Vi3 and 14.

To mount the buckle upon webbing, the webbing illustrated bythe portion 17 is held substantially in the plane of the buckle traine land inserted into the buckle sidewise, the marginei portion of the webbing readily entering between the lip 10 andthe bar section 7 and sliding behind the intermediate barsection 1 to engagethe side structure 2. rilheI portion or thewebbing 1 7, thus engaging around the bar section 1, is then manually picked up and pulled away from the back ot the ba: section 1 so as to draw therewith the entire width or webbing behind both intermediate bar sections 1 and 7. he webbing above and below the buckle is then pulled taut and the webbing, with each marginal. portion thereoiE engaging a side structure 2 or 5,'is :fully mounted upon the webbing as if threaderL into the buckle from the rear through the loop 14u, around the intermediate bar sections 1 and 7, and from the rontzthrough the loop 13, the huinped projection 12 and the projection 11 increasing the acute detour of the threaded Webbing 17 and the'inner edges of the flattened portions 15 and 16 of the upper and lower bars 3 and 4, respectively, providing additional bights upon'the webbing thus held within the buckle.

v l clain LA slide buckle comprising a substantially rectangular fra-me including side structures each supporting an intermediate bar section, the sections being longitudinally aligned, one with the other, and the free extremities of the sections being bent out of the plane of the buckle and in opposite directions one from the other.

2. slide buckle comprising a rectangular trame having an upper bar, a lower bar and side structures; and overlapping'intermediate bar sect-ions, each bar section being provided by a side structure and both bar sections being longitudinally aligned one with the other, the overlapping extremities of the bar sections being bent out of the plane of the frame in spaced relation and in directions one opposite to the other.

3. l! slide buckle comprising a substantially rectangular-trame having an upper bar, a lower bar, and side structures; an intermediate bar structure provided and supported by each of the side structures,

the intermediate bar structures extendingl within the frame in longitudinal alignment one with tne other; and pro]ections provided by both of the intermediatebar structures,

the oro'ections extending in the saine direction out of the plane of the buckle frame.

l1.' A Vslide buckle comprising a rectangular framehaving an upper bar, a lower bar and side structures; overlapping intermediate bar sections longitudinally aligned one with the other, one of the sections extending substantially across the frame and bot-h of the bar sections being provided by the side structures, the overlapping extremities of the bar sections being bent out of the plane of the frame in spaced relation one to the other and in directions one opposite to the other.

5. A slide buckle comprising a rectangular frame having an upper bar, a lower bar and side structures; intermediate bar sections, one section being provided and supported by one side structure and extending therefrom substantially across lthe frame, and the other sectionV being provided and supported bythe other side structure and extending therefrom only to provide a free extremity Voverlapping the free extremity of the farther extending sectiom'the overlap@ supporting side structureysaid peaked hump projectingout of said plane a distance equal to that of' the bent extremity of the lesser extending bar section.

JESSUP SALISBURY.

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