US767126A - Suspender-buckle. - Google Patents

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PATENTED AUG. 9, 1904. D. L. SMITH.

SUSPENDER BUGKLE. APPLIGATION FILED APR. 1s. 1,904.

N0 MODEL.

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UNITED STATES Patented August 9, 1904.

PATENT OEEICE.

DWIGHT L. SMITH, OF IVATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO WATER- BURY BUCKLE CO., OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION.

sUsPENDEn-BUGKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Fatent No. 767,126, dated August 9, 1904.

Serial No. 203,462. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern.:

Be it known that I, DwieI-rr L. Smau-I, of Vaterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Suspender-Buckles; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the numerals of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact io description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specilieation, and represent, in-n Figure l, a view in front elevation of a webbed buckle constructed in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2, a detached view, in rear elevation, of the buckle, from which the webloing has been removed; Fig. 3, a View of the buckle in vertical section on the line c?) of Fig. 1 and showing the webbing; Fig. ll, a

zo detached end view 'of the buckle-lever; Fig. 5, a view of the blank used in producing the buckle-lever shown by Fig. 4L; Fig. 6, a detached end view of one of the modified forms which the lever may assume; Fig. 7 a view z 5 of the blank required for producing such a lever as is shown in Fig. 6.

My invention relates to an improvement in suspender-buckles, the object being to avoid using any portion of the gripping edges of 3o the buckle-levers for making the sockets required for the pivotal connection of the said levers with the buckle-frames.

With these ends in view my invention consists in certain details of construction and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In carrying out my invention as shown in Figs. l to 5, inclusive, the fiat linger-piece Q of the sheet-metal buckle-lever is formed upon 4o its side edges with two bearing-lingers 3, bent rearward at a right angle to its plane and by preference havingI their upper edges concaved to forni seats 2u; but this is not essential. These fingers are located so as to eoact with the ends of the bend or bowed reach 4, uniting the linger-piece 2 and the gripping edge 5 of the buckle-lever to form sockets 6 6 for the reception of the pintles 7 7 of the wire buekle-frame, which, as shown, isA made from a,

single piece of wire and comprises the said 5o pintles 7 7, ends 8 8, and a lower side or bar 9, from the eenterof which a loop-like lingerpiece l0 depends. The said pintles 7 7 together constitute the upper side or bar of the buckle and are arranged parallel with the lower side or bar 9 thereof. The formation of the sockets (i 6 in the manner described provides for pivotally connecting the bucklelever and buckle-frame together in such a waythat they will not bind, but swing' freely 60 with respect to each other, while at the same time, and this is very important, it does not require any curtaihnent of the full length of the cutting' edge 5 of the buckle-lever, whereas it has been common heretofore to form the sockets for the pintles of the buckle-frame by utilizing' the metal at the ends of the gripping edge of the lever for the purpose. It will be noted by reference to Fig. 5 that the bearing-lingers 2) are located below the hori- V70 zontal line 'on which the buckle-lever blank is bent to form the bend 4. between its fingerpiece i2 and its gripping' etlge 5.

Instead of forming the bearing-fingers 3 upon the finger-piece 9. QI. may form correspending bearing-lingers 1l at the extreme ends of the gripping edge l2 of the bucklelever and bend them forward at a right angle to the plane of the said edge, whereby they p are brought into position to coact with the ends of the bend or reach 13 of the lever to form pintle-sockets la, the lever also having a linger-piece l5. In this inodilied construetion the bearing-tngers 1l virtually constituteI extensions of the gripping edge of the 35 lever and do not curtail the length of the gripping portion of the said edge.

1t will be noted by reference to Fig. 7 that the bearing-iingr-n's l1 are located above the line on which the buckle-lever blank is bent to 9o form the bend .i3 between its linger-piece l5 and its gripping edge 19.. In this modified construction the bearing-lingers are formed upon the side edges of the buckle-lever, but above the line on which the blank forming the same is bent instead of below that line, as in the forni lirst described.

shown in Figs. l and 3, the buckle has a piece of webbing 16 applied to it, so as to protect the metal of the buckle and make it what is known to thc trade as a rustless buckle.

In view of the modification shown and described and of others which may obviously be made I would have it understood that I do not limit myselt` to the particular forms set forth herein, but hold myself at liberty to make such variations therefrom as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of my invention.

and located in position to coact with the ends of the said bend of the buckle-lever to form sockets for the pivotal connection of the buckle-frame and the buckle-lever.

2. In a buckle, the combination with the buckle-frame thereof, of a buckle-lever having a finger-piece, a gripping edge and a bend uniting the said gripping edge and fingerpiece and the said finger-piece beingfurnished upon its side edges with bearing-lingers bent at a right angle to the said finger-piece and located in position to coact with the ends of the said bend of the buckle-lever to form sockets for the pivotal connection of the said buckle-lever with the said buckle-frame.

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

DWIGHT L. SMITH.

Vitnesses:

HARRY C. CooLEY, MARSHALL F. KLOPPENBURG.

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