US397562A - Buckle - Google Patents

Description

J. NASH.

(No Model.)

BUGKLE.

No. 397,562. Patented Feb. 12, 1889.

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away the cross-bar 3 at the ends of the slot.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEicE.

JOHN NASE, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK.

BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 397,562, dated February 12, 1889.

$erial No. 287,447. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN NASE, of Syracuse, county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, a citizen of the United States, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buckles, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of the buckle open. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the buckle closed. Fig. 3 is a rear elevation of buckle open. Fig. t is a front elevation of buckle closed. Fig. 5 is an edge elevation of the buckle closed. Fig. 6 is an edge elevation of buckle open. Fig. '7 is an edge elevation of lower plate of the buckle. Fig. 8 is a front elevation or top plan of the lower plate. Fig. 9 is a top plan of the upper plate. Fig. 10 is an edge elevation of the finger-lever. Fig. 11 is a rear elevation of finger-lever detached. Fig. 12 is a top plan view of a modification of the upper plate.

My invention relates to that class of buckles commonly known as shoe-clasp.", but which are also adapted for use upon gloves and other articles. i

The object of my invention is to produce a buckle of improved construction, improved operation, and of increased utility, and which will always stay locked, never junipin or flying open under any circumstances.

My invention consists in the several novel features of construction and operation hereinafter described, and which are specifically set forth in the claims hereunto annexed.

It is coi'lstructed as follows:

A B are the two plates, of sheet metal, which when secured together or made by bending one over onto the other, constitute the body of thebuckle. The plate A is provided with the slot 1. across the rear end, and in the frontend with a slot, 2, or, instead of this slot, with a recess such. as would be created by cutting The plate l; is formed with a rearward slot, :l, which coincides with the slot 1 when the two plates are secured together, and the fasteningstrap passes through these slots, connecting the buckle to the shoe.

end of this plate is first rabbeted at the; corners, as at 5, and the projecting tongue is l The front first bent inwardly, as at 6, then forward, as at 7, and then outward, creating the outwardly-projecting flange 8, and the three bends together create a sort of box, and the flange 8 coincides and fits into the slotway 2 when the plates A B are secured together, and the plate A constitutes and forms the fourth side of the box, which box is substantially rectangular in shape.

O is the finger or locking lever, of substantially the form shown, having upon one end a turn-back, 9, which turn-back is provided with a slotway, 10, of sufficient length and width to freely receive the flangeS upon the plate B, and when this flange is inserted into this slotway 10, and while the plates A B are still together, the cross-bar 11 upon one side of the slotway 10' lies and fits in the box before mentioned, and is securely held therein against any accidental displacement. hen the parts are thus secured together, as shown in Fig. 5, the buckle is closed or locked. Then when the finger-lever is thrown over the rotation of the cross-bar 11, which is somewhat wider than the thickness, wedges or springs the free ends of the plates A and B apart from each other, and this constitutes the spring action of the buckle, and the spring of the plates apart from each other not sufiicient to throw the flange 8 entirely free from the slotway 10, or, at least, if they are thrown apart, not far enough to permit the bar ll to slip out.

It will be observed that by this construc tion of the joint between the finger-lever and the body of the buckle, or, so to speak, the linger-lever hinge, I dispense entirely with all pintles in the form of studs projecting from the edges of the ii nger-lever, and also dispense with all ears or journals formed in either the upper or lower plate to receive the pintles on the edges of the finger-lever.

It will further be observed that the box which receives the cross-bar 1]. created by the meeting of the two plates and gives a long bearing for the crossbar, and that the box is of such size that it will receive the cross-bar, and yet permit the front ends of the plates to lie against each other when the buckle is closed, as shown in Fig. 5.

It will be observed that when the cross-bar 3 is cut out in front of the slotway 2 the fiangeSiwill rise into a recess thus created when the parts are assembled, just the same as where the slotway 2 is formed in the upper plate.

I am aware that a curved finger-lever has been heretofore used. in buckles, and I do not claim the same.

hat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A buckle consisting of the plate A, provided with slotway in its front end, a plate, B, provided with a flange, 8, on its front end, and a finger-lever provided with a cross-bar, 11, fitting between the plates and behind the flange S, substantially as described.

2. A buckle consisting of the plate A, constructed with a plane inner face, a plate, .15, secured beneath. the plate A and provided with a transverse recess in its outer end, and a finger-lever provided with a cross-bar, 11, fitting within the recess, substantially as described.

3. In a buckle, a lower plate bent at its outer end to form a transverse rectangular recess, a plate, A, secured upon the plate B, and having a plane inner face and closing the recess, and a lever slotted across its inner end to form a cross-bar, and the cross-bar mounted in said recess, in combination, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 26th day of September, 1888.

JOHN NASE.

In presence of- II. P. DENISON, G. W. SMITH.

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