US1849807A

US1849807A - Socket fastener slide

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Publication number: US1849807A
Application number: US579816A
Authority: US
Inventors: Daniel I Reiter
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1931-06-23
Filing date: 1931-12-08
Publication date: 1932-03-15
Anticipated expiration: 1949-03-15

Description

March 15, 1932. i D. I. REITER 1,849,807-

SOCKET FASTENER SLIDE Original Filed June 23, 1931 INVENTOR Daniel 1 [Better Patented Mar. 15, 1932 DANIEL I. REITER, or new Y RK, my.

SO CKET' FASTENER SLIDE Original application filed .l'une 23, 1931, Serial No. 546,179. Divided and this application filed December 8, 1931. Serial no. 579,816. 1

This application is a division of my copending application for patent for self-ad-.

justing fastener slide, filed June 23rd, 1931, Serial No. 546,179. a

This invention relates to socket fastener slides and particularly, to that type which is provided with transverse slots for therecep-. tion of a belt or strap and which carries a resilient snap fastener socket designed to engage a cooperating stud, in order to hold the strap carrying the slide to another article carrying the cooperating resilient or non-resilient stud.

My invention contemplates the provision of a simple and efficient slide adapted to be made of two pieces of sheet metal, and to be readily assembled, and adapted for economical quantity production.

The various objects of my invention will be clear from the description which follows, and from the drawings, in which, l

Fig. 1 is a rear elevation ofmy new socket slide showing the provision of prongs on one of the edges of each of the transverse strapreceiving slots.

Fig. 2 is a central horizontal section of the same, taken on the line 22 of Fig. 1, the

prongs, however, having been omitted and the cooperating stud and-the part on which said stud is mounted being shown by dotted lines.

In that practical embodiment of my invention which I have illustrated by way of example, the main slide member .10 is preferably made of a single piece of sheet metal and is provided with the spaced transverse strapreceiving slots 11 and 12.

One or more suitable strap-engaging prongs may project into the transverse slot from either of the edges thereof in order to enter a strap and to secure the slide in the proper adjusted position on the strap. As il-' lustrated, however, a single prong arranged centrally of the inner edge of each slot projects from said inner edge toward the end of the slide member.

It will be understood, nevertheless, that the prongs may be entirely omitted or otherwise arranged, as will be obvious to those skilled in the art.

An aperture'13 is made preferably midway between said slotsand midway between the side edges of the slide member. Arranged concentrically about the central aperture 13 are a series of spaced circularly aligned slots or apertures as 14. As illustrated, the slots 14 are four in number though it will be un de'rstood that I do not intend to limit myself to the precise number of slots shown except as specified in the appended claims.

The socket member 15 is made of a separate piece of sheet metal and is provided with a series of depending lugs as 16 of such size and shape as tofit into the corresponding slots 14. Saidlugs depend at spaced 1mm vals from the socket member 15, the spacing thereof corresponding to the spacing of the slots 14. The outer wall 17 of the socket member is preferably cylindrical in she e and the bottom edge thereof rests against the upper face 'ofthe slide member 10, but the lugs 16 extend further than said bottom edge and through the slots 14 and are integral with the Wall a; y s p 1 At the upper end of said wall, I provide a series ofresilient fingers 18 spaced apart by the slits or slots 20 which terminate at a pointnear the upper end of said wall. The mate rial between the slots or slits 20 is bent down:

wardly andinwardly to form the fingers 18 which are convex inwardly, and which extend slightly inwardly of or overhanging the edge of the aperture 18. The upper parts of sa d fingers form the upper edge portion of the socket member. 1

The lower edge portions 21 of said fingers are bent outwardly to shape said fingers tothe proper curvature for the reception of a suitable stud as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2. The terminal edge 21 of each of the fingers, however, is arranged preferably slightly above the upper face .off the' slide member 10 and in inward spaced relation from the wall 17 whereby said edges 21 are free to yield onbent inwardly, though it will be understood that they may be bent outwardly as well, if desired, and such bending being obvious, no additional sllOWiIlg thereof is deemed necessary. I Y

It will be understood that the terminal edges 21 of the fingers are free and thereby yield toward the wall 17 to snap into engagement with a non-resilient studpassed into the socket either through the'opening 13 or through the upper opening in the socket, as illustrated.

' n It will be seen that I haveprovided a simple and eificient socket slide adapted to be manufactured economically from'but two pieces ofsheet material and that the structure described is welldesigned to meet the severe requirements of practical use.

WhileI have shown and described certain specific embodiments of my invention, it will be understood that I do not intend to limit myself thereto but intend to claim my invention as broadly as may be permitted by the state of the prior art and the'scope of the appended claims.

Iclaim: v 1. In a socket fastener slide, a slide member having spaced transverse slots therein and provided with a substantially central opening between the slots and with spaced circularly aligned slots between the transverse slots and the central opening, and a socket member of a separate piece of sheet material from that of the slide member, pro-.

vided with spaced lugs passed through the circularly aligned slots and benton to the slide member to hold the socket member to the vslide member, said'socket member being provided with integral resilient fingers bent downwardly and inwardly to form an opening at thetop of the socket member for the entrance of a non-resilient stud thereinto.

' 2; In' a combined slide and snap fastener socket, a slide memberof sheet material having a pair of spaced transverse slots therein, prongs integral with the slide member and projecting into said slots and adapted to engage a belt passed through the slots, 'a snap fastener socket member on the slide member between said slots, said socket member having a cylindrical outermost wall terminating in a bottom end adapted to rest on the upper face of the slide member, spaced lugs projecting from said bottom end and passed through the slide member and bent into contact with the under face of the slide member,'and d owuwardly and inwardly bent resilient fingers projecting from the upper end of said wall and'terminating in free ends spaced inwardly from said wall and above and adjacent to the upper face ofthe slide, said fingers being yieldab-le toward the wall. 7 v

8. A. socket fastener slide comprising a slide memberhaving a pair of spaced trans:

verse strap-receiving slotstherein, and integral prongs projecting from one edge of at least one of said slots, a socket member comprising a continuous rigid cylindrical guard wall, said wall being open at one end and said end being arranged in contact with the upper face of the slide member," said wall terminating at the other end in a series of spaced resilient fingers curved, downwardly toward the opening of said wall and inwardly toward said wall and having free ends spaced inwardly from the wall a sufficient distance to yield freely toward the wall under the pressure of a cooperating stud,;-there being an annular opening between the fingers arranged coaxially of the first-mentioned wall opening, and means for securing said socket member to said slide member comprising spaced lugs depending from thebottom end of the socket member and passed through the slide member and flanged thereunder into contact with the under. face of said slide member. 7

4. A two-piece socket fastener slide comprising a one-piece slide member havinga pair of spaced transverseslots therein and endof the guard wall remote from the central I opening and extending'toward' said central opening and of less height than that of said wall, and'spaced lugs depending: from that end of the guard wall adjacent said central, opening and passing through the lug-receiving slotsandhaving their extremities: bent on tothe under face of the slide member.

5. In a socket slide, a slide member having strap-receiving slots. therein, and having a substantially central aperture and circularly aligned slots between the aperture andv said strap-receiving slots, an annular resilient socketmember arrangedabout the central aperture on one face of the slide member and provided with resilient fingers overhanging the edge of the aperture and having'free ends adapted to yield outwardly ofthe aperture on the passage of a stud therepast, and means forming part of the socket'member passing through the circularly aligned slots for securing said socket member to the slide member. r Y

6. In a socket slide, a slide member having transverse belt-receiving slots therein, 7 and having spaced circularly aligned apertures between the slots, aone-pieceapertured sock-. et member between the slots, having a continuous outer guard Wall, extensions depending from one end of said wall and passed through said circularly aligned apertures andturned over, andspaced resilient fingers within and integral with the wall and extending from the other end thereof slightly inwardly of the aperture of the socket member to engage a circular stud passed through said aperture.

7 A two-piece socket fastener slide comprising a one-piece slide member having a central aperture and lug-receiving slots ar-- ranged concentrically of and outwardly of said aperture, and a resilient socket member on the slide member comprising a rigid outer guard wall, means extending from the guard wall through said slots for securing the socket member to the slide member, and resilient fingers integral with and bent inside of the wall and of less height than that of said wall and protected by said wall.

DANIEL I. REITER.