US741416A

US741416A - Suspender-buckle.

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Publication number: US741416A
Application number: US16521403A
Authority: US
Inventors: Dwight L Smith; John J Buchanan
Original assignee: Waterbury Buckle Co
Current assignee: Waterbury Buckle Co
Priority date: 1903-07-13
Filing date: 1903-07-13
Publication date: 1903-10-13
Anticipated expiration: 1920-10-13

Description

No. 741,416. PATENTED OCT. 13, 1903 D. L. SMITH & J. J. BUCHANAN.

SUSPENDER BUCKLE.

APPLIGATION FILED JULY 1a. 1902..

N0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES Patented October 13, 1903.

PATENT @rrrcut DWIGHT L. SMITH AND JOHN J. BUCHANAN, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTI- OUT, ASSIGNORS TO WATERBURY BUCKLE (30., OF VVATERBURY, CON- NECTICUT, A CORPORATION- SUSPENDER=BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming partof Letters Patent No. 741,416, dated October 13, 1903.

Application filed July 13, 1903. Serial No.165,214. (No model.)

To a. whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, DWIGHT L. SMITH and JOHN J. BUCHANAN, of Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connectiout, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Suspender-Buckles; and we do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the figures of reference marked thereon, to be IO 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 our invention and applied to a suspender-web; Fig. 2, a rear view of the same; Fig. 3, a side view of the same; Fig. 4, a front view of a buckle with the lever raised and a portion of the web removed; Fig. 5, a reverse view with the web entirely removed; Fig. 6, a side view of the buckle with the web in position preparatory to attaching it to the frame; Fig. 7, a similar View with the lower edge of the back and lower bar pressed together to connect the web therewith; Fig. 8, a rear View of a modified form of buckle, showing the'lower portion of the back provided with two rows of teeth; Fig. 9, an end view of the lower side of the same.

This invention relates to an improvement in suspender-buckles, and particularly to that class in which the web is attached to a frame, extends downward therefrom to form a loop for the Suspender-end, and thence upward 5 through the frame, to which it is clamped by the lever, the object of the invention being to provide for securing the web to the frame and so as to form a very flat buckle and economize in the use of webbing; and the in- 0 vention consists in the construction as hereinafter described, and particularly recited in the claim.

As herein shown, the frame 2 consists of a Wire bent to form a lower bar 3, sides 4: 5,

5 and inwardly-turned ends, which may or may not meet to form a top bar 6, and a back 7,

having ears 8 at opposite sides turned arbund the sides of the wire frame, which are preferably set inward. The back has 'an upwardly-extending lip 9 and a lower portion 10 extending down into line with the lower bar 3 and is formed with gripping-teeth 11. The lever 12 is pivotally connected with the top bar 6 and is formed with the usual gripping-teeth 13, which when the lever is turned downward extend toward the lip 9, a space sufficient for the passage of the web being formed between the upper portion of the wire frame and the lip 9 by bowing one or both sections. The lower portion 10 of the back and the lower bar 3 are also primarily separated from each other, as shown in Fig. 6. To secure the web to the buckle, the free end 14 is inserted between the lower portion 10 of the back and the lower bar 3, as shown in Fig. 6. The lower portion 10 of the back and the lower bar 3 are then pressed together, as shown in Fig. 7, which forces the teeth 11 into engagement with the web just above the upper edge of the lower bar 3 and firmly secures it-to the frame. From the buckle the web extends downward, and another portion 15 passes up between the lip 9 and top bar 6,

so as to be gripped between the lever and the lip when the lever is turned down into its looking position, as shown in Fig. 3.

Instead of forming a single row of teeth 11, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5, the lower edge of the extension 10 may be formed with a double row of

teeth

16 and 17, as shown in Fig. 9, the teeth being adapted to pass above and below the lower bar 3, so as to clamp the web thereto.

By thus constructing the buckle it will be seen that the web is connected with the frame 8 without doubling the web over the lower bar a 3, as is frequently done, thus avoiding a thickening at that point, and the web is secured without sewing.

Having fully described our invention, what 0 we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- A buckle comprising a wire frame having top, lower and side bars, a sheet-metal back secured to the sides of the frame, the upper and lower edges of the said back extending into line with the upper and lower bars of the frame and the lower edge of the back provided with teeth, and a lever pivoted to the In testimony whereof we have signed this top bar; in combination with 'a web one end specification in the presence of two snbserib- 10 of which is clamped between the lower edge ing witnesses.

of the back and the lower bar of the frame, DWVIGHT L. SMITH.

5 another portion of the Web passing upward JOHN J. BUCHANAN.

between the top bar and the upper portion of Witnesses:

the back against which it is clamped by said O. H. HART,

lever, substantially as described. I l M. E. MINTIE.