US368376A - Buckle and strap fastening - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

B. W. CHAPMAN.

BUCKLE AND STRAP FASTENING.

No. 368,376. Patented Aug. 16, 1887..

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ROBERT \V. CHAPMAN, OF NEWARK, NEWV JERSEY.

BUCKLE AND STRAP FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 368,376, dated August 1 6, 1887.

Application filed March 31, 1887. Serial No. 233161. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ROBERT W. CHAPMAN, of Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Buckle and Strap Fastening, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact de scription. W

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved buckle and strap fastening specially adapted for traveling-bags and satchels and other articles.

The invention consists of a buckle permanently secured to the frame of a bag or satchel and of means for securing the strap to the buckle.

The invention also consists of various parts and details and combinations of the same, as will be fully described hereinafter, and then pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is a plan view of a traveling-bag frame provided with my improvement. Fig. 2 is a vertical crosssection of the same on the lines 00 0c of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan view ofa modified-form of my improvement. Fig. 4 is a vertical cross-section of the same on the lines y y of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a plan view of another modified form of my improvement. Fig. 6 is a vertical crosssection of the same on the lines :4 z of Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a planview of a modification of my improvement. Fig. 8 is a vertical cross-section of the same on the line a u of Fig. 7. Fig. 9 is a plan view ofa modified form of my improvement, and Fig. 10 is a vertical cross-section of the same on the lines o o of Fig. 9.

My improvement consists, principally, of fastening the buckle A permanently to the top of the outer frame, B, of a traveling-bag, satchel, or like article, so as to prevent the buckle from interfering with the closing of the bag or satchel by getting in between the outer frame, B, and the inner frame; and my improvement also consists of securing the one end of the strap 0 to the buckle A.

My invention can be carried out in several ways, and, as illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, I pivot the buckle A with its cross-beam D to a holder, E, extending rearwardly over the top of the frame B and then downwardly, forming the part E, which is riveted or otherwise secured to the side or top of the frame B, as

shown in Fig. 2. From the said part E extends at right angles and rearwardly the end piece, E provided with a slit, E", through which is passed one end of the strap 0, which is then fastened by pressing the lip E, formed in making the slit E against the strap 0, so that the latter is firmly held in place on the part E The other end of the strap 0 is passed around the bag or satchel and buckled in the usual manner to the buckle A.

It will be seen that the buckle, on account of being permanently secured to the frame B, cannot get in between the two frames B and B when closing the same, and also that the buckle A cannot be swung downward at its front end, as the buckle A is so located on the frame B that its cross-beam D is a suitable distance from the front edge of the said frame B.

In the modification shown in Figs. 3 and 4, instead of using the bar-buckle A with a mid dle crossbeam, D, I employ a harness-buckle, pivoted at its rear in the holder E, on which is secured the loop F for the retention of the free end of the strap C after being buckled to the buckle A. The other end of the strap 0 is secured to the part E by being passed through the slit E and then formed into the welt C, which cannot pass through the said slit E.

In the modified forms shown in Figs. 5 and 6 I use the buckle A, (shown in Figs. 1 and 2;) but I dispense with the parts E and E of the holder E, and secure the latter and one end of the strap 0 with a rivet or bolts to the frame B.

In the modification illustration in Figs. 7 and S I also use the buckle A, (shown in Figs. 1 and 2,) but I dispense entirely with the holder E, and pivot the buckle A with its cross-beam D in the doubled-up end of the strap 0, and secure this doubled-up end by a rivet or bolt to the frame B.

In the modification shown in Figs. 9 and 10 I illustrate other means for fastening the one "end of the strap 0 to the holder E by providing the latter with the turned-up flanges E,

which, after one end of the strap 0 is placed on the holder E, are bent firmly down upon the strap 0, which is thus held in place. I

It will be seen that by my improvement I use less leather for the strap 0, and can dispense entirely with the usual strap-loop ordinarily used on the top of the frame. save considerable labor, as no sewing is necessary forfastcning the strap to the holder or buckle.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. The combination, with the two hinged sections of a bag-franie closing one within the other, of a buckle secured to the top surface of the top cross-bar of the outer section, with its tongue projecting toward the free edge thereof, and a strap connected with the buckle, whereby the buckle will not interfere with the closing movement of the frame, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination, with the outerandinner I also bag-frame sections, B B, of the holder E, secured to the outer surface of the swinging end of the outer section, the buckle D, secured to the holder, and the strap 0, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination, with the outer and inner bag-frame sections, B B, of the holder E, resting on the top surface of the outer section, bent down at E and riveted to the sectionB,

and bent outward at E, the part E having a

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