US1886545A - Buckle - Google Patents

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F. HIRSH Nov. 8, 1932.

BUCKLE Filed Nov. 5, 1931 7h06'. #w Lk INVENTOR. VU@

ATTORNEY l Patented Nov. 8, 1932 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE FRED HIRSH, F NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO ADJUSTA COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.,

A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK BUCKLE Application led November 3, 1931. Serial No. 572,801.

This invention relates to a buckle or slide, of the slotted-plate type, for the adjustable attachment of a strap to another stra-p or to another end of the same strap; and the primary object thereof is to provide an eiiicient, cheap and otherwise satisfactory buckle for fastening together the straps at the back of a vest, for fastening an adjustment strap or straps at the waist-band of trousers, and the like.

The invention will be understood by reference to the accompanying drawing, showing by way of illustration one practical embodiment of my improved buckle, in which- Figure l is a plan view of the buckle; Fig. 2 is a sectional view thereof on the line 22 of Fig. l; Fig. 3 is an end View, from the left as shown in Fig. 1; and Fig. 4 is a sectional view, similar to Fig. Q, with the end of a strap passed through the slots of the buckle.

As therein shown, the one-piece buckle, stamped from a metallic plate, consists of front and rear bars a and Z; and aniintermediate bar c which are connected at their ends as, usual by side pieces. The intermediate and rear bars are offset to planes slightly above and slightly below the main body plane, respectively; and the intermediate bar is provided at its rear edge with atleast one integral tooth d bent first downwardly and then upwardly to form` a depression d from the bottom of which the tooth projects upwardlv and rearwardly and terminates at a point not above the plane of the upper side of the bar.

Thus, as will be apparent from Fig. 4 of the drawing, the strap, when passed through the slots of the buckle and subjected to tension, will be bent over and forced down upon the point of the tooth by reason of the elevation of the intermediate and/or depression of the rear bar, and, further, that due to the disposition of the tooth the strap can be readilv released therefrom, to remove or readjust the strap, by pinching it up and so raising it from the top of the buckle, and the garment can be pressed without disturbing the tooth, whereas a tooth bent upwardly from the edge of the bar would be fiattened down by the pressure of a heavy iron.

While I have shown and described a buckle with a single tooth at the rear edge of the intermediate bar it will of course be understood that two or more similar teeth may be provided, if desired.

lVhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. An integral slide buckle stamped from a plate of sheet metal and having two end bars and a middle bar and twotransverse slots between the bars narrow relative to their length, said middle bar being in a plane above and substantially parallel to the planes of the other bars and having on one of its edges a short tooth extending first downwardly there- C5 from and then upwardly at an incline to terminate in a plane not substantially above the top of the bar.

2. An integral slide buckle stamped from a plate of sheet metal and having two end 7 bars and a middle bar and two transverse slots between the bars narrow relative to their length, the middle and one of the end bars being pressed into'planes respectively above and below and substantially parallel to the plane of the second end bar and the middle bar having on one of its edges a short tooth extending therefrom first downwardly and then upwardly at an incline to terminate in a plane not substantially above the top of said middle bar.

FRED HIRSH.

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