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Description

(No Model.)

' S. E. MOORE.

BUCKLE. No. 362,030. Patented Apr. 26, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SOLON E. MOORE, OF SWANTON, VERMONT, ASSIGNOR OF ONEHALF TO GEORGE \V. SQUIRES, OF SAME PLACE.

BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 362,030, dated April 26, 1887. Application filed February 12, 1887. Serial No. 227,424. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SoLoN E. MOORE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Swanton, in the county of Franklin and State of Vermont, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Buckles; and I dodeclare 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 the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of this invention,and is a front view of part of the buckle, being the frame. Fig. 2 is the other part,and is a front view of the Slidebar. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of buckle with the webbing in place. Fig. 4 is an edge view of the slide-bar. Figs. 5, 6, 7, and Sare views of a modification.

My invention relates to buckles for suspendcrs and other wearing-apparel; and it consists in the construction and novel combination of parts, as hereinafter described and claimed.

Referring by letter to the accompanying designates the buckle frame, which I either stamp from sheet metal or bend to shape from a piece of wire. \Vhen stamped from sheet metal, the frame is provided on one of its longer sides with an inwardly-projecting lip or extension, 13, which is made integral with the frame A.

C designates a slide-bar, which is also stamped from sheet metal in this instance, and-is provided at its ends with angular bends D D, which form the supporting-shoulders for said slide-bar.

E designates the webbing of which the suspender is made. One end of the webbing'is folded over the slide-bar G. The other end is then passed from below upward between the lip B and the slide-bar C, then over the slidebar (Land then down between the slide-bar and the plain side bar of the buckle, thereby forming the loop D in the webbing.

\Vhen the buckle-frame is made of wire, the Wireis bent into nearly rectangular form, and the ends E E of the wire,'instead of being brought together to complete one of the longer sides of the rectangle, are bent inwardly or toward the longer side, E, as at G H. In this construction the slide-bar is substantially the same as the slide-bar G. The ends G H serve the same purpose as the lip B, there being practically no departure from the invention in this construction. In this construction there are no teeth to wear out the webbing. *Although the ends G H bear against the webbing, said ends are not pointed, and do not, therefore, penetrate the webbing.

The buckles constructed as above described are easily applied to the suspenders, and are readily adjusted after having been applied.

Having described this invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

1. The combination, with a buckle-frame having the inwardly-extending projection, of a slide-bar provided with end bends for engaging the end bars of the buckle-frame, substantially as specified.

2. The combination, with a buckle-frame having the inwardly-extending projections, of a slide-bar engaging the end bars of thebuckleframe, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

' SOLON E. MOORE.

H. M ANSFIELD.

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