US616359A

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Publication number: US616359A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1898-12-20
Anticipated expiration: 1915-12-20

Description

No. H6359. Patented Dec. 20, I898. J. C. BOSENKRANZ.

B U C K L E (Application filed Dec. 24, 1897.)

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Nl'IED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN G. ROSENKRANZ, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE UNIVERSAL KUGKLE COMPANY.

BUCKLE.

SIPECIFICA'IION forming part of Letters Patent No. 616,359, dated December 20, 1898.

Application filed December 24,1897. Serial No. 663,355. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: the body of the buckle at which the teeth 12 Be it known that I, JOHN G. ROSENKRANZ, are placed. The clamping-tongue 13 is also of New York, (Brooklyn,) in the county of preferably provided with a rib 14 upon its Kings and State of New York, have invented upper face. This rib is adapted to be en- 55 a new and Improved Buckle, of which the folgaged by the finger of the operator when the lowing is a full, clear, and exact description. tongue is to be carried to its closed or to its The object of the invention is to provide a open position. The free end of the tongue buckle especially adapted for use upon trou- 13 is bent upon itself, as shown at 17 in the sers, vests, and garments generally, and to drawings, and the curved or returnportion of 60 so construct the buckle that it will be simple, the tongue is adapted to travel over the teeth durable, and economic, capable of being con- 12, and at the extremity of the free end of venientlymanipulated, and which will insure the tongue 13 a tooth 18 is formed, which is a positive and firm grip upon fabric of varyadapted to enter the space between the teeth ing thicknesses. 12 on the body of the buckle. The tongue 65 1 The invention consists in the novel con- 13 is of spring material, and normally the struction and combination of the several tooth 18 of the tongue when carried opposite parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, a space between the teeth on the body of the and pointed out in the claims. buckle will enter the said space, so that the Reference is to be had to the accompanying tongue cannot be moved unless manipulated 7o drawings, forming a part of this specification, for that purpose. When the tongue is to be in which similar characters of reference indimoved either to or from the front bar 10, it is cate corresponding parts in all the figures. pressed in direction of-the body of the buckle, Figurelisaplanviewof abuckle,illustratso as to release the tooth 18 of the tongue ing it opened. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the from engagement with the teeth on the body 75 2 5 buckle in its closed position. Fig. 3 is an enof the buckle. lVhen the tongue is subjected larged plan view of the buckle open. Fig. etis to the pressure mentioned, it may be moved a transverse section on the line 4 4 of Fig. 3. freely over the body. Fig. 5 is an edge view of the buckle and tabs To further illustrate the action of the connected therewith, the buckle being shown tongue 13 in engaging the teeth and being 80 as closed; and Fig. 6 is an enlarged section disengaged therefrom, attention is directed through a portion of the buckle, illustrating to Figs. and 6 of the drawings. The tongue, also in side elevation the clamping-section of which is of spring material, has its free end the tongue of the buckle. slightly bent away from the buckle-frame,

The buckle, as illustrated, is provided with so that its tension is always in the direction 8 5 5 a frame consisting of a front bar 10 and a of the arrow, Fig. 6. This tension, it will body-section 11, the sides thereof being prefbe seen, draws the tooth 18 against the side erably curved. At one side of the body of of the frameand in the spaces between the the buckle, adjacent to the front bar 10, a seteeth 12 thereof, wherebythe tongue is autories of teeth 12 is formed. These teeth may matically held in locked position. Now to 0 be of any desired number. unlock or adjust the position of the tongue In connection with the framework of the pressure is broughtto bear upon the same in buckle a clampingtongue 13 is employed, the direction of the arrow, Fig. l, until the which extends from one side to the other, and tooth 18 is carried away from the side of the free end of the clamping-tongue is made the frame and out of the spaces between the 5 5 to project beyond the toothed surface of the teeth 12, where it will be seen that movement body portion of the buckle. At its pivot end of the tongue is possible so long as the presthe clamping-tongue 13 is provided with an sure thereof toward the frame is maintained. arm 15, which is at an angle to its body por- A represents a tab or a strip of fabric tion, and the said arm 15 is pivoted through which is secured to the body of the buckle, mo the medium of a pin 16, preferably at the end and B an opposing strip which is adapted to of the front bar 10, opposite that portion of be held by the buckle. The tab 13 is passed between the body-bar- 10 and the clampingtongue 13, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. The clamping-tongue, after the tab is passed between it and the body-bar 10, is carried as close as possible to the said body, the tooth on the clamping-tongue entering the space between the teeth nearest to the front bar. In this manner the clamping-tongue will hold the tab B firmly and securely between it and the front bar 10, and it is evident that when the buckle is applied to a vest or to the tabs at the back of the trousers the said buckle may be manipulated by one hand in an expeditious and convenient manner,and that any material,whether thin or thick, that is passed between the clamping-tongue and the front bar of the body of the buckle may be firmly held between these two parts.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A buckle, consisting of a frame having a toothed surface, and a spring-tongue pivoted to said frame to swing parallel to the plane thereof and with a tension at right angles to the said plane of the frame, said tongue having a tooth at its free end adapted to enter the spaces between the teeth on the frame, as set forth.

2. A buckle, consisting of a frame having a toothed side, and a spring pivoted on the frame and having a tension away from the same, the said tongue having its free end curved over the toothed side of the frame and formed with a tooth coinciding with the teeth of the frame, as set forth.

3. A buckle consisting of a frame, said frame comprising a front bar and a body-section connected with the front bar, the bodysection having a curved and toothed side which is adjacent to one end of the front bar, and a spring-tongue pivoted on the said frame,

one end of the spring-tongue being carried over the toothed surface of the said frame, having a surface prepared to enter the spaces between teeth on the said frame, the said tongue being mounted to swing to and from the front bar of the buckle-frame and with a tension away from the frame, as and for the purpose specified.

4. A buckle, the frame of which is provided with a front bar and a curved surface adjacent to one end of the front bar, the said curved surface having teeth produced therein, and an angular tongue pivoted to the frame adjacent to the end of the front bar opposite that near which the teeth are located, the free end of the tongue being curved to extend over the curved surface of the frame of the buckle, the curved portion of the tongue being also provided with a tooth capable of entering the spaces between the teeth on the frame, the said tongue being of a spring material and normally in position to compel its tooth to enter a space between the teeth on the frame, as and for the pur pose specified.

5. A buckle consisting of a frame having 7 on one side a series of teeth whose outer edges describe an arc of a circle and a tongue pivoted to said frame ata point opposite said teeth and mounted so as to describe the radius of the circle of which the teeth describe an arc, the said tongue being of spring material with a tension away from the frame and having its free end curved over the side of the frame and formed with a tooth in co- JOHN G. ROSENKRANZ.

Witnesses:

W TOWNSEND, WM. MURRAY.