US856678A - Buckle. - Google Patents

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PATBNTED JUNE 11, 1907.

J. J. BUCHANAN.

BUCKLE. APPLICATION FILED 11.31, 1007.

JOHN J. BUCHANAN, OF IVATERBURY BURY BUCKLE CONNECTICUT, 00., OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION.

ASSIGN OR TO VVATER- BUCKLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 11, 1907.

Application filed January 31,1907- Serial No. 355,043.

To all whom, it Trmy concern.-

Be it known that 1, JOHN J. BUCHANAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Buckles; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent in Figure 1 a view in front elevation of my improved buckle. Fig. 2 an edge view thereof. Fig. 3 a .rear view thereof. Fig. 4 a view thereof in vertical section and shown as webbed. Fig. 5 a detached view in rear elevation of the sheet-metal clamping-plate of the buckle-frame; Fig. 6 a detached perspective view thereof looking at its lower edge. Fig. 7 a view thereof in vertical section on the line a b of Fig. 5. Fig. 8 a view of the buckle in vertical section with the lever lifted into its open position, this view being particularly intended to show the threading space between the lower edge of the clamping-plate and the lower bar or side of the wire body of the frame.

My invention relates to an improvement in that class of lever-buckles in which the buckle-frame consists of a wire body and a sheet-metal clamping-plate, the object being to reduce the frame of such a buckle to the minimum width and at the same time to facilitate the application of the webbing to it.

W ith these ends in view my invention con- 'sists in a buckle having certain details of construction as will be hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim.

In carrying out my invention as herein shown, the buckle-frame consists of a sheetmetal clamping-plate 2 having an upwardly proiecting yielding tongue 3 and formed at its ends with extensions bent to form vertical sockets 4 which clasp the straight lower por tions 5 of the ends of the wire body which is made from a single piece of wire bent to form a horizontal lower bar or side 6, ends compristhe said straight lower portions 5 and foring wardly inclined upper portions 7, and pintles 8 which are parallel with the lower bar 6 and form, in effect, the upper side of the buckleframe. The said pintles 8, are embraced by the sockets 9 of a buckle-lever made of a single piece of sheet-metal and consisting of a finger-piece l0 and a clamping edge 11 which latter presses the running portion 12 of the webbing against the outer face of the tongue 3 of the plate 2. For the purpose of bringing the edge 11 into right position with respect to the plate 2 the upper portions 7 of the ends of the wirc-body are as above described set forward at an angle as shown in Figs. 4 and 8.

It will be noticed that the depth of the buckle-frame, so to speak, or in other words, the distance between its upper and lower sides or the distance between the pintles 9 forming its upper side and the lower bar 6 forming its lower side is narrow compared with ordinary buckles of the class to which this buckle belongs. In order, therefore, to secure the space required for webbing the buckle, I set the lower edge or portion of the plate 2 between the sockets 4, forward at an obtuse angle so as to form a threading space or webbing opening 1. 3 as best shown in Fig.

8. Incidentally the portion so struck forward forms a beveled guide-surface 14 which, when the end 15 of the webbing is inserted from front to roar, deflects the said end downward and makes the task of webbing easy. By carrying the lower edge or portion of the plate 2 forward as described, I am enabled to make the buckle frame relatively narrow; otherwise the wire-body of the frame would have to be made deep enough to carry the lower bar or side 6 thereof sullicicntly below the lower edge of the plate 2 to give the space required for the free passage from rear to front of the webbing. The reduction of the buckle-frame in width as described, not only reduces the amount of metal used and thus effects an economy, but also makes the buckle smaller and neatcr.

I would have it understood that I do not limit myself to the exact construction herein shown and described but hold myself at liberty to make such changes therein as fairly fall within the spirit and scope of my claim. I00

I claim In a lever-buckle, the combination with a buckle-frame comprising a wire-body having a lower side, and a sheet1netal clampingplate the lower portion of which is set forward at an obtuse angle; of a buckle-lever pivoted upon the said wir in position to oo-act with thereof, the setting the clamping-plate forward of the lower edge of the said plate forming a threading space 5 between its lower edge and the lower side of the said wire-body whereby the frame may be reduced in width and also whereby the threading of the webbing is facilitated.

e-body of the frame In testimony whereof, I have signed this specif cation in the presence of two subscribmg witnesses.

JOHN J. BUCHANAN.

Vitnesses JAMES MILLER, IRA O. Horornirss.

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