US650695A - Suspender-buckle. - Google Patents

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No 650,695. Patented May 29, I900. D L SMITH.

SUSPENDER' BUCKLE.

(Applicatiaa filesi Mar. 15, 1900,-

(No Model.)

m: norms Prrsns 002: Pnorou'mcm. WASHINGTON. n c.

NITED STATES ATFENT FFICE.

DWIGHT L. SMITH, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE WATERBURY BUCKLE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

SUSPENDER-BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 650,695, dated May 29, 1900.

Application filed March 15,1 900. Serial No. 8,728. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DWIGHT L. SMITH, of WVaterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Suspender-Buckles, (Case 13;) and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be afull, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1, a front view of a buckle constructed in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2, a rear view of the same; Fig. 3, a side view of the buckle; Fig. 4, a detached view of the wire frame; Fig. 5, a detached View of the lever. Fig. 6 illustrates a modification in the formation of the wire frame.

This invention relates to an improvement in buckles,'and particularly to that class which comprise a back-plate and a lever pivotally connected therewith and adapted to clamp a web between the gripping-jaw of the lever and the back-plate, the object of the invention being a simple construction wherein the back-plate is formed from a single piece of wire, and so that the buckle consists, substantially,of two parts; and the invention consists in the construction as herein described and particularly recited in the claim.

As herein shown, the body or back-plate of the buckle consists of a single piece of Wire bent to form a pivotal bar A, from which the ends rise upward and rearward, and thence turn inward, forming loops B C. The inturned wires do not meet, but are bent downward, as at a b, and thence outward, as at c d, downward, as at cf, and thence inward, the ends D E preferably meeting at the center of the frame, the various bends being all in the same plane. Preferably the ends D E are inclosed by a tube F in the usual manner of 'turned at substantially right angles to the plate, and fingers g 72, which are bent around the bar A and so as to pivotally connect the lever therewith. Instead of forming the frame as just described and connecting the ends of the wire at the lower bar the wire may form thelower bar I, thence bend upward and inward, and thence be bent outward, as at ab', and forward and inward, so as to leave ends J K for the attachment of the lever G, the ends J K being in a plane parallel with but forward of the remaining portion of the wire, so as to leave a space between the-back and the lever for the passage of the web. In either construction it will be seen that the gripping-jaws are adapted to bear upon or force the webbing against the wires in rear of the lever, and that in both cases a wire back is provided, thus enabling the production of a buckle at very low cost and yet very effective in use.

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

A buckle comprising a back formed from a single piece of wire having inset sides and a portion forwardly offset fromthe remaining portion, and a sheet-metal lever pivotally con nected to the offset portion, and having jaws adapted to coact with the inset sides of the frame, and whereby a webbing passed between the frame and the lever may be clamped between them, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

DWIGHT L. SMITH. Witnesses:

C. H. HART, GEO. F. CARROLL.

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