US880216A - Buckle. - Google Patents

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' PATENTED FEB. 25; 1908.

N. HUMPHREY.

BUCKLE. APPLICATION FILED JULY 1, 1907.

'o'nrrnn STATES PATENT, oFmo ERNEST N. IIUMPHR-EY, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO TRAUT & HINE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CONNECTICUT.

BUCKLE Specification. of Letters Patent.

Patent ed Feb:26',1908.

. Application filed July L 1907. Serial No. 313L617- To all whom it may concern: 1 I

Be it known that I, ERNEST N. HUMPHREY, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Britain, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buckles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention r lates to improvements in buckles, and the ob ects of my improvement are simplicity and economy inconstruetion,

. and convenience and efficiency in use, especially with reference'to biting the .web of a 'rustless buckle without having the said web change its position within .the buckle, when 'Fig. 4 is a plan view of the same.

the operating lever is turned down.

In the accompanying drawing :Figure 1 is a front elevation of my buckle as applied. to one end of a looped webbing. Fig. 2 is an enlarged vertical section of the same on the line at as of Fig. 4. Fig. 3 is-a broken out side view of my buckle without the webbing. Fig. 5 is a front elevation of the same with the operating lever turned up into a position substantially at a right angle to the position shown in the preceding figures. Fig. 6 is a vertical section of the buckle and webbing on the line as m of Fig. 4, but with the webbing threaded differentlyfrom the threading in Figs. 1 and 2.

' The frame or body of my buckle is in the form of a plate 7 with perforated ears or lugs 8 at each end, the said ears standing at about a. right angle to the said plate. At the lower part'of these ears I pivot the swinging jaw or plate 9 on the trunnions 10, with its biting edge 11 extended between the end ears or lugs 55 up nearly to the upper edge of the plate 7, which plate constitutes the other jaw of the buckle as well as the back of the frame. This other jaw and'back of the frame is also between the end ears 8. The biting edge of the swinging jaw is bent or turned towards the rear and stands nearly 3 may be desired.

buckle as shown in .Fig. 2 the short arm 13 of the angle lever or operating lever bears on the front of the swinging jaw 9; while the.

longer arm 15 of the said angle lever serves as a handle for operating the said lever.

One end-1t) of the webbing A is passed between the two jaws, that is in front of. the plate 7 and in the rear of the swinging jaw 9 while the webbing extends downwardly so thatit is doubled over the 11 per edge of the said plate It may be left loose in this 0- sition or it may have the end 16 sewe or otherwise-secured to the body or other-thickness of the webbing as illustrated at 17 in Fig. 6. The webbing is then formed into a loop 18 and its opposite end passed upwardly between the two aws in front of the end 16 as shown in Fi 2. When so arranged one member of the 00 18 extends downwardly in the rear of the ack, and the other member of the loop extends upwardly through the buckle between the said swinging jaw and the plate likejaw and back. When the lever handle 15- is forced downwardly as shown in Figs-1 to 4 inclusive, the shorter arm 13 of the operating lever is firmly pressed against the front of the swinging jaw so as to cause the two jaws7 and 9 to bite both thicknesses ofthe webbing and hold them with the buckle immova'bly fixed thereon witha given length of loop extending below the buckle. By

throwing the lever handle 15 upwardly at a right angle to the position shown in Figs. .1 to 4, the pressure on the swinging jaw is released and the front thickness of webbing may be pulled through the jaws in either direction to shorten or engthenthe loop 18, as

Instead of passing the second thickness of webbing upwardly between the two jaws as before described, it may be passed upwardly in front of the swinging jaw 9 and in rear of the shorter arm of the angle lever so that the said shorter arm acts directly on the Webbing to hold it, as shown in Fig 6. In either event the buckle is covered byfthe webbing so as to form what is called a rustless buckle. By means of the swinging jaw I am enabled to avoid the direct contact of theshorter arm of thel operating lever with thewebbing, whereby the webbing is less liable to be injuredv and t ere is no tendency to make the during the closbuckle crawl on the webbin fthe lever. This ing or pinching movement 0 prevention from' crawling enables one to all combined and arranged a more conveniently adjust the loop to the exact'length desired.

I clalm as my 'invention:.

1. A rustless buckle for a webbing, comprising a frame having a plate-like back with ears at its opposite ends, one jaw of the buckle being formed on the said back between the said end ears, and a free and unobstructe'd assage for the webbing over the said jaw .of t e, back between the said ears, a swinging 'jawpivo ltally mounted on the said ears and having a bitim edge extended lengthwise of the said frame between the'said end ears for coacting with the jaw portion 'of the said back, and an operating lever 'pivotally mount ed on and between the said end ears of the frame with its shorter arm in position for acting upon the said swinging jaw near the biting edge thereof for pressing the jaws together, the said frame, jaws, and lever, being with a free passage for the webbing to extend longitudinally wholly through the-buckle between the said ears.

2. In a rustless buckle, the combination of a frame having a plate-like jaw and back, a swinging jaw mounted on thesaid frame and adapted to move to and from. the said jaw and back, an operating lever mounted on the said frame for forcing the said sw' ing jaw towards the said jaw and back, an a webbing having one end secured to the said frame and a loop extendin downwardly therefrom 'withone' member 0 the loop inthe rear of the said back, and the'other member thereof extending upwardly through the buckle between the said swinging jaw and the said plate-like jaw and back. I

ERNEST N. HUMPHREY.

Witnesses:

STANLEY PARKER, SADIE L. FINNIGAN.

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