US2311429A - Belt clasp - Google Patents

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Feb. 16, 1943. ANDERsON 2,311,429

I BELT CLASP Filed Oct. 18, 1941 INVENTOR Patented Feb. 16, 1943 BELT CLASP Carl E. Anderson, East Orange, N. J., assignor to Eastern T'ool &.Mfg. 00., Bloomfield, N. J.

Application October 18, 1941, Serial No. 415,520

2 Claims.

This invention relates to a clasp for belts and the like and is designed to provide a clasp that can be quickly and easily fastened in closed position and easily opened. The clasp is held the ends of the wire.

The clasp is assembled by placing the second member 23 transversely inside the frame of the first member as shown in dotted outline in Figure 2. The second member is passed over the loop 26 and then swung to substantial alignment with the first member as shown in full lines.

When the second member is swung the opposed faces of the outwardly turned ends 21 exercise a against accidental opening under lessened tencam action on the seats 22 at the end of the sion by the necessity of swinging one of the memopen loop. This slightly spreads the parts 21 bers a considerable distance out of alignment and slightly compresses the sides of the loop 20 with the other. The members of the clasp are and the hooks 28 snap into place in the seats 22. assembled by first moving them into engagement The bar 29 limits the swinging movement of the at an angle to each other and then swinging one member 23. The members are now securely or both members until they are substantially in clamped together and when they are to be sepaalignment. rated the member 23 is swung with pressure The invention is illustrated in the accompanyenough to cause the cams or parts 2'! to ride ing drawing in which Figure 1 is a face view of over the seats 22 and then the member 23 is a clasp embodying the present invention. Figpassed over the loop and then out of the frame ure 2 is a section on line 22 and also showing, of the first member. in dotted lines, the position of one member to I claim: the other when the members are assembled or 1. A clasp for belts and the like comprising a separated. member formed of wire and including a part for The members are preferably made of wire 20 attachment to a belt and having pr j (3011- which is of advantage because there is the deverging strands which are continued in an insired degree of resiliency for smooth connection wardly extending open loop with a restricted of the parts. outer end, and a second member formed into a One member is constructed to provide a space 10010 of a S e t p s v t Open loop and for securing it to a strap or belt. The form having one end bent back into two hooks conshown comprises a wire bent to form a frame nected at their ends by a cross strand, the hooks consisting of top and bottom strands l0 and II being inwardly curved on their opposed faces and end strands l2 and I3 and an off-set portion whereby the outer end of the open loop is pressed formed by the ends I 4 of the wire. A clip l5 inwardly by the hooks when the members are holds the ends together. The strands l0 and l l swung into alignment and the hooks serve to are continued in inclined convergent strands l6 yieldingly resist movement of the second memand I1, end strands I8 and I9 and then into an ber toward opening the clasp. open loop 20 which is bulged and has the reduced 2. A clasp comprising a member having on one open end 2|. This construction forms seals 22 end a part for receiving the end of a belt and on for the hooks of the second member. the other end formed into a resilient converging The second member is in the form of a loop 23, wire portion continuing in a bulged inwardly expreferably a closed loop for stiffness. The loop, tending open loop, and a second member comat its widest part, is of a size to pass readily over prising a loop of a size to pass over the open the open loop 29. The top and bottom strands loop of the first member when the members are 24 define the widest part and converge as at 25 substantially at right angles to each other, the and 26 and then curve outwardly as at 2! andv loop of the second member having inwardly inthen inwardly and bent to form hooks 28. The clined strands which are curved outwardly at the hooks 28 are connected by a cross strand or bar ends, their opposed faces being spaced apart at 29. The second member is secured to a strap or a distance slightly smaller than the narrow part belt fastened around the end bar 30 formed from of the open loop, the curved part extending into hooks which extend inwardly and are adapted to hook over the narrow part of the open loop, and a cross bar connecting the hook and acting as a stop to limit the movement of the second member.

CARL E. ANDERSON.

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