US894027A

US894027A - Buckle.

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Publication number: US894027A
Application number: US33620006A
Authority: US
Inventors: Levy Maybaum
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1906-09-25
Filing date: 1906-09-25
Publication date: 1908-07-21
Anticipated expiration: 1925-07-21

Description

No. 894,027. PATENTEVD JULY- 21, 1908.

L. MAYBAUM.

BUCKLE. APPLICATIONV FILED SEPT. 25, 1906.

' INVENTOR'.

L 'IFI afnaurq ATTORNEYS LEVY MAYBAUM, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

BUCKLE Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 21, 1908.

Application filed. September 25, 1906. Serial No. 336,200.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEVY MAYBAUM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buckles and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to y the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention has reference generally to improvements in that class of fastening or holding devices commonly known in the art as buckles, the same being used with trunkstraps, shawl and other straps, or belts and comprising a main frame or body to which one end of the strap is permanently secured, and a pivotally arranged engaging and retaining clasp or jaw constructed to engage with another portion of the strap to secure it in any one of its adjusted positions in iirm and positive binding and holding engagement with the main frame or body of the fastening or holding device.

My present invention, therefore, has for its primary object to provide a novel and simply constructed fastening or holding device, in the form of a buckle, with a view of providing an effective locking or holding means for retaining the grasping or clamping jaw of the buckle at all times in its positively engaged relation with the strap, and one which when closed upon the strap will be in such clamped engagement without any tendency to tear or sli A further object of this invention is to provide a novel construction of buckle in which the pivotally arranged clamping or grasping element of the device is provided with a rearwardly extending lever or arm which is of such a construction that when the buckle is used with the two end-portions of a strap, and firmly pulled about a body or package, the

pressure of the looped end-portion of the stra which is permanently attached to the buc {le-frame, will be in an upward direction against the under side of the end of said rearwardly extending lever or arm, thereby forcing the opposite graspin or clamping end of the device firmly in its olding or clam ing relation with the opposite end-portion of the strap.

A still further obj ect of this invention is to provide a clasping buckle, that is one in which the ordinary tongue and the perforations or holes in` the strap are dispensed with, in which the -movable parts of the buckle are arranged in such a manner that they can not become disengaged to loosen the strap, when arranged around a package, and when struck by another package, as in traveling when placing one trunk upon another.

Other objects of this invention not at this time more particularly mentioned will be clearly understood from the following detailed description of the same.

With the various objects of my present invention in view, the same consists primarily in the novel buckle hereinafter set forth; and, furthermore, this invention consists in the various arrangements and combinations of the parts, as well as in the details of the construction of the same, all of which will be fully described in the accompanyingV specification, and then nally embodied in the clauses of the claims which are appended to and which form an essential part of this specilication.

The invention is clearly illustrated in accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a plan'view of a buckle embodying the principles of this invention, the same being shown in use with a strap, one end of which is permanently attached to a portion of the buckle, and the other end-portion of the strap being detachably secured by means of the novel clamping means of the buckle; and Fig. 2 is a side view of the buckle, the same being made on an enlarged scale, and showing in connection with the same, the two end-portions of the strap. Fig. 3 is a central longitudinal vertical section of the various parts of the buckle and the end-portions of the strap, all made on an enlarged scale, and showing the parts of the buckle in their clamped or holding engagement with the strap; and Fig. 4 is a longitudinal vertical section taken on line 5 5 in said Fig. l showing the clamping or holding means of the buckle in its disengaged relation with the strap. Fig. 5 is atransverse section, taken on line 5 5 in the same figure, both sections being made on an enlarged scale.

Similar characters of reference are employed in all of the above described views, to

indicate corresponding parts.

Referring now to the said drawings, the reference-character 1 indicates the complete CII buckle, thev same comprising an open frame or body consisting of a pair of longitudinally extending side-members or bars 2, the rear end-portions of which are preferably slightly curved in an upward direction as at 8, and are connected by a laterally extending connecting member or bar 4. At their forward ends the said side-members or bars 2 are connected by a laterally yextending member 5 which is formed with an upwardly projecting portion, substantially as illustrated in the Several igures of the drawings. A-cross-bar 6 extends across the open space between said side-members or bars 2, said bar being for the purpose of having arrangedabout it, in any usual manner, the looped end-portion 8 of a strap 7. Another cross-bar or rod 9 is also provided, said cross-bar or rod extending across the open portion between the two side-members 2, in the manner clearly illustrated. Pivotally arranged or hinged upon said bar or rod 9, by means of the ears or loops 11 is a plate-like body 10, the same being provided at its forward and laterally extending marginal edge-portion 12 with suitably disposed grasping teeth or serrations 13, located in close proximity to the inner face 14 of the upwardly extending member 5. Extending rearwardly from said plate-like body 10 is a lever or arm 15, the same being rovided with a convex portion 16 and a downwardly and rearwardly projecting concave end-portion 17, the under surface 18 of which at alltimes lies directly upon the upper surface of the looped end-portions 8 of the strap 7, in the manner clearly illustrated in the several figures of the drawings. Said plate-like body 10 is provided upon its marginal and longitudinally extending edges 19 with upwardly and outwardly extending extensions 20 forming suitable iingerpieces, for the purposes to be presently more fully described.

Having thus described the general construction of the various parts of the buckle, I will now brieiiy set forth the manner of using the same.

The looped end of the strap having been permanently secured to the cross-bar or rod 6, said strap is placed about the trunk, parcel, a package, or other body, and the free endportion of the strap passed beneath the member 5 and along the inner face of the upwardly projecting portion of said member, and directly in front of the toothed or serrated edge of the plate-like body 10. As soon as the belt or strap has been pulled, by means of its free end-portion with sufficient tightness about the trunk'or other package, the looped end-portion 8 of the strap 7 will begin to bear directly against the under surface 18 of the end-portion 17 of the lever or `arm 15, and will immediately exert a pressure upon said surface, so that the arm or lever 15 moves in a direction away from the outer face of the kbuckle-frame. In this manner a pivotal movement of the plate 10 is produced, -with a consequent downward movement of the toothed or serrated edge 13 of said plate toward the face of the strap, whereby 'the teeth or serrations enter into a iirm and positive holding engagement with the strap. Thus the greater the pull upon the free end-portion of the strap, the greater will be`the pressure which is exerted by the looped portion of the strap against the under surface of the end-portion of the lever or arm 15 and hence, the teeth at the other end of the plate 10 will grasp with greater force the face of the strap, and hold it against displacement.

To release the strap from its tightened position about the package, all that is necestheir holding engagement with the strap, the f compressibility of the looped end of the strap being such that the end-portion 17 of the arm or lever 15 is pressed slightly into said loo ed end-portion of the strap, substantia ly as illustrated in Fig. 4 of the drawings. In this manner, the forward and serrated end-portion of the plate 10 is slightly and sufiiciently moved in an upward direction, that the strap is clear of the teeth, and can be easily loosened from its previously tightened relation about the package. It will be noticed, furthermore, from an inspection of the drawings, that the centrally disposed and convex portion 16 of the lever or arm 15, has a two-fold purpose; namely, it causes the free end-portion 17 to bear more directly upon the upper surface of the looped endportion of the strap, and it furthermore acts as a reinforcing or strengthening means to the device, guarding against any damage to the parts by the coming in contact therewith of other heavy bodies while traveling.

From the foregoin description of my present invention it wilI be clearly understood that I have devised a simply constructed and effectively operating buckle for trunk and other straps, or, for belts; and one which will always be tight when in use, and cannot accidentally become displaced or loosened.

I claim:

1. A buckle for trunk-straps and the like,y comprising a buckle-frame and a clamping plate pivotally connected with said frame, means on said frame to which one end of a strap can be attached, and a lever extending rearwardly from said clamping plate, said lever having an outwardly convexed portion and a downwardly and rearwardly extending end-portion, said end-portion` being adapted to restdirectly upon the fastened end-por- 'tion of the strap, so that the upward pressaid lever in an outward direction from the face of the buckle-frame, and the grasping end of the clamping plate in a direction toward said frame for grasping a portion of the strap, substantially as and for the purposes set forth. i

2. A buckle for trunk-straps and the like, comprising an open of a pair of longitudinally extending siderneinbers, and laterally extending end rnernbers connected with said side-members, a cross-bar between said side-members to which one end of a strap is adapted to be at tached, a cross-rod between said side-inembers, a clamping plate, said plate being provided with perforated ears arranged on said cross-rod, and a lever extendin rearwardly from said clamping plate, said lever having its rearward and free end-portion adapted to rest directly upon the fastened end-portion of the strap, s0 that the upward pressure of the strap will force the end-portion of said lever in an outward direction toward said frame for rasping a portion of the strap7 substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

3. A buckle for trunk-straps and the like, comprising an open buckle-frame consisting buckle-frame consisting.

of a pair of longitudinally extending sidernernbers, and laterally extending end-members connected with said side-members, a cross-bar between said side-members to which one end of a strap is adapted to be attached, a cross-rod between said side-members, a clamping plate, said plate being provided with perforated ears arranged on said crosserod, and a lever extendin rearwardly from said clamping plate, said ever having an outwardly convexed portion and a downwardly and rearwardly extending end-portion, said endortion being adapted to rest directly upon t e fastened'end-portion of the strap, so that the upward pressure of the strap will force the end-portion of said lever in an outward direction from the face of the buckle-frame, and the grasping end of the clamping plate in a direction toward said frame for graspin a portion of the strap7 substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony, that I claim the invention set forth above I havevhereunto set rny hand this 22nd day of September, 1906.

\ LEVY MAYBAUM.

Witnesses:

J. F. MEYER, FREDK. C. FRAENTZEL.