US3161931A - Brassiere shoulder strap buckle - Google Patents

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Dec. 22, 1964 J. ZlF

BRASSIERE SHOULDER STRAP BUCKLE Filed NOV. 8, 1962 United States Patent 3,161,931 BRASSIERE SHOULDER STRA? BUCKLE Jehiel Zif, Brooklyn, N.Y., assignor to Maidenform, Inn, New York, N.Y., a corporation of New York Filed Nov. 8, 1962, Ser. No. 236,278 1 (Iiaim. (Ci. 24-200) The present invention has for its particular object the provision of a buckle for the adjustment, attachment and detachment of a free end shoulder strap, for example that employed for brassieres. The buckle is formed with a slot through which the end of an attaching tape may be passed and secured to the tape length, the opposite end of the attaching tape being seamed to the brassiere. That end of the buckle which receives the free end of the shoulder strap, is distinct from the buckles now employed. It has no slot and does not require the threading-in of the strap through a slot. Instead, said area employs an open end bar adjacent, but somewhat spaced from, hooked-in ends of a terminating bar. The doubled or folded shoulder strap is slid onto the open end bar, and then the mutually facing end lengths of the shoulder strap, when the desired length of the strap is adjusted, are merely snapped under the said hooked-in ends of the terminating bar. In any need for readjusting the shoulder strap, it is only necessary to pull it forwardly and through the hooked-in ends of the terminating bar, lower or raise the free end of the strap merely by sliding it relative to the free-end bar, and then snap it back under said hooked-in ends.

The invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which FIG. 1 is a view in elevation, showing an embodimen of the buckle subject of the invention.

FIG. 2 is a view similar to FIG. 1 showing the buckle carried by an underlying attaching tape, as, for example, that carried by a brassiere, the view showing a shoulder strap folded around the free end bar, the strap end area being ready for pulling between the hooked-in ends of the terminating bar, for secure attachment.

FIG. 3 is a view similar to FIG. 1 showing the shoulder strap in final adjusted position on the buckle.

Referring to the drawings, I have shown at 1 a buckle construction having at its lower end an elongated slot at 2 through which may be threaded the end of an attaching strap 3 normally carried by a brassiere or other garment. The end of the attaching strap may be stitched down as indicated at 4.

At about the mid point of the buckle is a free end projecting bar 5, preferably having a slightly hooked end, as indicated at 5*. Above the free end bar 5 is a top terminating bar 6 having hooked-in ends 7, providing between them an open passageway.

That area above the slot indicated at 2 is preferably provided with an inwardly directed shoulder 8, and which "Ice may impart some friction to the shoulder strap at its 1ongitudinal center.

In the employment of the buckle for a shoulder strap and when the buckle is attached by the attaching strap 3, to the upper area of a garment, the shoulder strap in dicated at 9 is folded and slipped over the free end bar 5 and to the position of FIG. 2. If the elfective length of the strap is to be shortened, its free end 9* is pulled up wardly to a desired degree, the strap sliding freely on bar 5. At this point, the abutting strap areas may be snapped through the open passageway between the hooked-in end 7 of the terminating bar 6, flexibility of normal shoulder strap material readily enabling such action. Thus the strap in final adjusted position on the buckle will be firmly held in the position of FIG. 3.

It will be understood that modifications may be made in form and arrangement of the elements constituting the embodiment illustrated without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows:

A buckle adapted for receiving and holding a shoulder attaching strap of brassieres and other garments, consisting of a relatively rigid and flat member having at one end an elongated slot for receiving a first strap, and having at its opposite end a bar carrying two oppositely directed hooks which are mutually spaced and which overlie an elongated passageway, and said rigid and flat member carrying immediately between said elongated slot area and said hook area, and spaced therefrom, an outwardly projected bar exposed at its ends and throughout its length and having a free end portion bent toward the said slot but spaced from the inner wall of said slot, said inner wall being formed with an intermediate rounded friction shoulder directed toward said outwardly projected bar to a distance approximately in line with the free end of the bent portion of said bar, whereby said projected bar may receive a loop of a second tape by passing the loop over said projecting bar and its friction shoulder, and whereby the two webs of the loop of said second tape may be pressed into the space between said oppositely directed hooks and then into the passageway over which said hooks extend.

References Cited by the Examiner UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,860,170 5/32 Bronson 24198 1,914,301 6/33 Schottenfels. 2,224,773 12/40 Shaulson 24-200 2,285,714 6/ 42 Hirsh 24-199 2,293,562 8/42 Rosenthal 24200 7 FOREIGN PATENTS 661,885 3/29 France.

DONLEY J. STOCKING, Primary Examiner.

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