US1245749A - Buckle. - Google Patents

Description

F. A. McGEE.

BUCKLEr APPLICATION FILED MAY 5. l9l6.

Patented Nov. 6, 1917.

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FRANK A. MoGEE, or. R IDenRo 'r, CONNECTICUT, Assreno To 'll-IE VTARNER;

BROTHERS coM ANY, QFBRIDG QRT, OONNECTIGUT, A CORPORATION; OF

CONNECTICUT.

BUCKLE.

Specification of Letters Eatent.

Fatented Nov. 6, 191 7.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, FRANK A. MCGEE, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of the city of Bridgeport, county of Fair-field, and State of Connecticut, have inventeda certain new and usefullmprove ment in Buckles, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in buckles and has particular application to a means for clamping the buckle to thetape or webbing. The object of theinvention is to provide a superior andeifeetive means of clamping as described, with the particular advantages that the gripping or clamping member of the buckle extends from one side of the webbing to the other without injury thereto and without making any marks upon the webbing.

In the following I have described, in con nection with the accompanying drawing, a means for carrying out my invention, the features thereof being more particularly pointed out hereinafter in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a rear eleva tion of the buckle detached from the web bing with the lever in closed position;

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the same, strung with the webbing;

Fig. 3 is an end view of the same, strung with webbing as in Fig. 2, and showing, in dotted lines, the lever opened;

Fig. 4 is a rear elevation of the buckle detached from the webbing, parts being broken away to show a modification of construction; and

Fig. 5 is a vertical sectional view of the form of device shown in Fig. 4.

Similar numerals of reference indicate similar parts throughout the several views.

The loop is shown as constructed in the usual way and having an upper bar 1, a lower bar 2, side bars 8, 3 and a projecting finger piece 4:, preferably integral with lower bar 2 and lying in a plane at an angle to the plane of the loop.

The lever is shown as comprising a front plate 5, a back plate 6, extending at an acute angle to the front plate, and a portion bent at 7 from the back plate toward the front plate, and then upward as at 8. In Figs. 1 to 3 inclusive, the back plate is shown as again bent or rolled rearwardly toward itself, as at 9, the substantially plane surface of 9 forming a bearing for the upper bar 1 ofthe loop, said'upper bar being confined between the portion 10 of the lever and said rearward of a line connecting the centers of the upper and lower bars. This assures against accidental unclamping and assists in holding the parts firmly in clamped position. The webbing 12 may be slitted centrally to receive the finger piece 4, adapted to project through the slit, and thus hold or assist in holding, the fixed end of the webbing, from displacement.

In Figs. 4 and 5 instead of rolling the portion 8 back against the back plate 6 of the lever, as'shown at 9 in Fig. 2, the portion 8 is extended upwardly substantially parallel to the back plate 6 until it contacts with the rear face of the front plate, sulficient space being left between the bottom of the portion 8 of the lever and the upper bar 1 of the loop for the reception of a wire 14, which, like the portion 9 in Fig. 2, serves as a bearing for said upper bar 1 as shown. In this latter case also the bent over portions of the back plate form an elongated cam surface for clamping the running length of the webbing as described.

In both forms the webbing is strung, preferably, by passing the slitted end of the webbing from rear to front over the lower bar of the loop and causing the finger piece projection l to enter the slit. The running length is then passed from front to rear over the fixed end and between the fixed end and the cam or clamp. By this means the buckle is strung rustless, and, when under tension, presents a substantially smooth back surface to the person of the wearer.

The buckle as described is easy to make, economical of material and eflicient in action, while no injury or wear of the webbing is suflered by the action of the, clamp against it. v

I do not restrict myself to the details as shown and described further than the scope of the appended claims demands.

I claim.

1. In a buckle, a loop member having an upper bar and a lower bar, and a lever member rotatably mounted on said upper bar, said lever member comprising a front plate, and a back plate standing off from the front plate at an acute angle and receiving the upper bar of the loop in the angle and having its lower portion returned at an angle toward the front plate and then bent upwardly in a plane substantially parallel with the back plate and adapted to form an elongated bearing for the lower face of the upper bar.

In a buckle, a loop member having an upper bar and a lower bar, and a lever meniher rotatably mounted on said upper bar, aid lever member comprising a front plate, a back plate standing off from the front plate at an acute angle and receiving the upper bar of the loop in the angle, and aportion bent toward the front plate from the back plate thence upwardly and thence returned against the back plate, the upper face of the backwardly bent portion of the lever member being adapted to form an elongated bearing for the lower face of the upper bar and confine the said bar between itself and the angle.

3. In a buckle, a loop member having an upper bar and a lower bar, and a lever member rotatably mounted on said upper bar, the lever member comprising a front plate, a back plate bent at an angle to the front plate and a portion bent toward the front plate from the back plate, the inner bearing edge of the bent over portion of the back plate lying rearwardly of the plane through the centers of the upper and lower bars when the buckle is closed.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification.

FRANK A.-. McGEE. Witnesses J. C. STERLING, WILLIAM l/VEBB.

Copies of this patent may be obtained fer five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. 0.

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