US549325A - Suspender-buckle - Google Patents

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J. B. MOLLOY. SUSPBNDER BUCKLE. I

No. 549,325. Patented Nov. 5, 1895.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES F. Mo-LLoY, OF WEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

SUSPENDER-BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 549,325, dated November 5, 1895.

Application filed September 3, 1895- Serial N0i561,237| (NO 11106.81.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES F. MoLLoY, of WVest Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Suspender-Buckles and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1, a rear view of abuckle embodying my invention; Fig. 2, a face view of the same; Fig. 3, a plan view of a blank forming the upper member; Fig. 4, a sectional view of the upper bar of the frame on the line a b of Fig. 2; Fig. 5, a plan view of the blank from which the lever is formed; Fig. 6, a face view showing a modification in the formation of the lever.

This invention relates to an improvement in suspenderbuckles, and particularly to such as are provided with a lever formed with a depending loop to set over a hook depending from the lower cross-bar of the frame, the object of the invention being to construct a buckle of few parts and consequently of low cost to manufacture; and it consists in forming the crossbar and upper bar of the frame from a single piece of sheet metal and in certain details of construction, as will be hereinafter described, and particularly recited in the claims.

The frame proper consists of two parts, the lower member being made from wire bent to form a hook A, lower bar B, side bars 0, the upper ends of which turn inward to form bearings D. The upper part of the frame consists of the upper bar F, cross-bar G, connected therewith by side bars H, and ears I, all formed from a single piece of sheet metal. The portions F and II are bent into semicylindrical shape, in cross-section, as shown in Fig. 4, so as to not only present a rounded surface for the face of the buckle, but to strengthen those portions. The extensions I are turned around the upper part of the side bars C of the'lower member, thus forming a rectangular frame and a transverse cross-bar. The edges of the said cross-bar may be turned inward and notched or otherwise roughened in the usual manner of constructing cross-bars. The lever J is preferably formed from sheet metal and suspended by cars a b, extending from its upper edge to the bearings D of the lower member. It is also formed with a slot K, through which the lower edge of the cross-bar is exposed, and with a depending loop L to set over the hook A in the usual manner for buckles of this class.

Instead of forming the lever from sheet metal, it may be formed from wire, as shown in Fig. 6, in which case the upper ends of the lever M terminate in eyes M M for engagement with the inwardlyprojecting upper ends or trunnions N N of the lower member N of the frame, the upper member 0 of which is formed of sheet metal on the plan before described. By thus forming the bearings for the lever inside the frame the sides of the lever are held against separation, and hence do not require a binder above the loop, as is necessary in many forms of buckles in which a wire lever is employed. It will thus be seen that the buckle is formed complete in three parts, which are very readily formed and assembled, thus producing a buckle at a very low cost.

I claim 1. The herein described suspender buckle having a frame and cross-bar composed of two members, the lower member formed of wire, and constructed with inwardly turned extensions, the upper member and cross-bar formed from a single piece of sheet-metal and constructed with ears to clasp the sides of the lower member, and a lever pivotally attached to the inwardly extending upper ends of the lower member, substantially as described.

2. The herein described suspender buckle having a frame and cross-bar composed of two members, the lower member formed of wire, the upper member and cross-bar formed from a single piece of sheet-metal and permanently united to the lower member, and a lever pivotally mounted in the frame, substantially as described.

3. In a suspender-buckle, the combination with a buckle-frame consisting of two members, of which the upper member is formed of sheet-metal and includes an integral cross- Lil bar provided with gripping teeth, and the lower member of which is made of Wire and rigidly connected with the sheet-metal upper member; of a lever pivotally connected with the said frame, the said frame and leverbeing furnished with a depending loop and hook which coact to maintain the parts in their closed positions, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two snbscrib- 10 mg Witnesses.

JAS. F. MOLLOY.

\Vit-nesses:

FRED C. EARLE, LILLIAN D. KELSEY.

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