US2666926A - Buckle and like mounting - Google Patents

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@ Jan. 26, 1954 M. M. ISAACS BUCKLE AND LIKE MOUNTING Filed March 25, 1950 FIG.

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MARCUS MANLY ATTORNEYS Patented Jan. 26, 1954 BUCKLE AND LIKE MOUNTING Marcus Manly Isaacs,'St. Leonards, New South Wales, Australia Application March 25, 1950, Serial No. 151,968

3 Claims.

This invention relates to fastening means for clothing, particularly to the securing of buckles, metallic Ds and like constructions (hereinafter termed buck1es) to clothing.

Whilst applicable to other uses, the invention is hereinafter described in relation to the waistband of a garment, which is one of its more usual applications.

The principal disadvantage of the conventional mounting for securing buckles to tags on garments is the tendency of the buckle to twist in its mounting when stress is applied thereto. Such twisting is not only unsightly and sometimes uncomfortable, but it can cause the release by the buckle of the strap secured therein. A further disadvantage of the conventional mounting is iat it does not spread the stress (for instance over the waistband) but permits such stress to be localised to the width of the buckle and so ac-' centuates puckering of the waistband with consequent discomfort and unsightly appearance.

The object of the present invention is to provide an improved mounting for buckles, which will prevent twisting of the buckle under all normal conditions, and which spreads the stress over a wider area of the Waistband or the like. The invention therefore overcomes the major disadvantages of the conventional mounting.

In order to fully describe the invention reference is made to the accompanying drawings which depict in perspective a preferred embodiment thereof as applied to a waistband, and in which:

Figs. 1 to 3 illustrate three progressive stages of the mounting of a buckle.

A strip 5 of material to form the outer layer of part of the waistband has a square end from the corners of which two inwardly inclined incisions "I, F are made partway into the strip. A piece of stiffening is at its inner end, cut to the full width of the strip 6, and is formed with inclined shoulders 9, 9 terminating in a rectangular tongue it which is to form the core of a tag end on the waistband to receive a buckle.

The stiffening 8 is laid on the inner side of the strip 6 as shown in Fig. 1, and the four flaps l l, I i and i2, i2 formed in the strip 6 by the incisions l, l, are laid over the stiffening 8 as shown in Fig. 2, and are secured in place by two transverse lines of tacking I3 and Hi. This forms a reinforced tag 15 on the end of the strip 6.

stiffening 8 in rear of shoulders 9 may be abbreviated as shown in the drawings or it may extend further (or even wholly) around the waistband strip 6.

The next step in formation, as shown Fig.

3, is to insert tag 15 through the (conventional) buckle I6, return it along the inner side of strip 6, and lay the end of strip 6 and attached buckle over the end of a further section ll of the waistband. These elements are then secured by lines of stitching I8 through the various superposed elements. It will be noted that this stitching can be very close to the enclosed leg of the buckle which thus impedes the twisting of the buckle in its mounting on the waistband.

The construction provides a firm mounting which closely grips the buckle across its full width and which will, under normal conditions of usage, prevent the buckle from twisting in such mounting. It will also be observed that the stifiening 8 assists in spreading the tensional stress of the buckle across the waistband to a width greater than that of the buckle, thus reducing pucker of the waistband resulting from such stress.

Fig. 3 also illustrates a complementary aperture 19 in the waistband to receive a strap 23, which is engaged through the buckle.

The invention may be varied from the preferred form above described, or it may be applied to a number of uses other than a waistband. It provides a very simple and effective means for accurately securing a buckle or the like in position against twist.

I claim:

1. A fastening means for securing .buckles forming a loop to articles of clothing, formed from a strip of material having a square end from the two corners of which extend inclined incisions inwardly into the strip so as to form two triangular flaps at each said two corners, a strip of stiffening material of the same width as said first named strip being positioned on one side of the latter and being provided with a narrow rectangular tongue having parallel longitudinal edges, the outer end of said tongue extending to the square end of said strip of material, and inclined shoulders between the inner end of the tongue and the outer edges of the strip of stiffening material, said incisions in said strip of material terminating adjacent the inner end of the tongue where the inclined shoulders of the stiffening strip begin, two of said triangular flaps being folded along said inclined shoulders over said stiffening and the two other flaps being folded along said parallel longitudinal edges of said rectangular tongue over the same, said tongue as covered by said last named flaps extending through the loop of the buckle and being folded about a line extending between the inner ends of said incisions upon the flaps folded about 3 inclined shoulders and being fixedly secured thereto.

2. A fastening means as claimed in claim 1, including an additional strip of material, such as a portion. of a Waistband, placed against one side of said strip of material having the buckle attached thereto, and stitching extending along said inclined shoulders and through the folded triangular flaps and said two strips of material.

3. A fastening means as claimed in claim 1, including an additional strip of material, such as a portion of a waistband, placed against one side of said strip of material having the buckle attached thereto, and stitching extending along said inclined shoulders and through the folded triangular flaps and said two strips of material, and additional stitching extending throughsaid 4 folded tongue adjacent the part of the buckle covered by said tongue and through said two strips of material.

MARCUS MANLY ISAACS.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date Re. 16,353 Waxman May '18, 1926 701,270 Hummel May 27, 1902 802,558 Gaisman Oct. 24, 1905 1,003,811 Schorr Sept. 19, 1911 1,222,800 Reznicek Apr. 17, 1917 1,705,790 Tallman Mar. 19, 1929 15 2,194,100 Shikler Mar. 19, 1940

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