US713625A - Suspender-buckle. - Google Patents

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Patented Nov. I8, I902.

' W. E. FDOTE.

SUSPENDEB BUCKLE.

(Application filed Sept. 30, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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W'ALTER EDIVARD FOOTE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO H. G. SEDGEWICK, OF PARKRIDGE, ILLINOIS.

SUSPENDER-BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 713,625, dated November 18, 1902.

Application filed September 30,1901. Serial No. 77,06l. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: of the webbing be passed from back to front BeitknownthatLWALTEREDWARD FOOTE, downwardly into or through this passage, be a citizen of the United States of America, and bent sharply around the upper ends of the a resident of Chicago, Cook county, Illinois, projections, carried downward behind the 5 have invented certain new and useful Imbuckle, doubled upon itself, passed from provements in Suspender-Buckles, of which front to rear through the slot O, carried the following is a specification. around the crenate edge of the rearwardly- The general object of my invention is to bent metal at the upper side of the slot O and provide a simple, convenient, and inexpenthence upward, it will be securely held. The 1o sive buckle which will hold the webbing sesharp turns around the smooth margin of the curely without injuring it. Many buckles slot and then around the crenate edge are hold the webbing by means. of pointed or together amply sufficient to prevent slipping spur-like teeth, which enter the body of the at this pointby vertical tension on either the webbing; but such buckles injure the mateupwardly or downwardly extending portion, 6 5 I 5 rial which they hold. Many others give the yet if those portions be both swung from the indispensable security without such teeth, plate the webbing is free to pass in either dibut are made up of articulated parts. Others rection through the slot for purposes of adrequire attaching the webbing by sewing or justment. by means other than the buckle itself or do The lower end of the webbing is not under 20 not provide for easy adjustment. My detension, and were a slot like that above provices avoid all the objections to such buckles, vided it would not be securely retained. The cost as little as the least expensive of them, radically different expedient described was are neat in appearance, and cannot be matetherefore adopted, it being bornein mind that rially changed by any ordinary use. the end portion must not only be held se- 25 In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front view curely, but must at the same time be easily of a pair of suspenders provided with my adjustable and not injured by the holding. buckles. Fig. 2 is a front view of a detached By forming the long and broad rounded probuckle. Fig. 3 shows the buckle in section jections and bending them oppositely barely on the line 3 3, Fig. 2, the webbing being farenough to admit the webbingalong nearly 30 shown in dotted lines. vertical passage is formed, so that when the The buckle is made from suitable flat metal webbing is in place it bends through substanby dies, which give the desired form. These tially one hundred and eighty degrees instead dies cut a narrow slot O of a length equal to of ninety degrees or less around the rounded the width of the webbing to be used and havends of the lower projections, and obviously 35 ing its lower margin straight and its upper no amount of tension such as occurs in use margin crenate or wavy and bent rearward can cause slipping, the tension being practifrom the plane of the plate. Below this slot cally parallel to the plane of the projections the dies cut through the metal in a crooked on one side and the webbing being held fiat preferably deeply serpentine line whose genagainst the opposite side of the projections o eral direction is parallel to the slot, thus by the downwardly-extending projections of forming rounded down wardly-extending prothe other set, which have no other oflice and jections T, preferably bent into an oblique in no sense serve as teeth. While the webplane and alternatingwith like upwardlybing is thus held securely, it may be adjusted extending projections L, rearwardly bent by slipping in either direction if its rear fold 5 45 into a parallel plane. The opposite bending be swung from the plate and drawn in the is such that between the planes of the two direction of the long passage between the two sets of projections there is a nearly-vertical sets of projections. passage approximately equal in width to the It is to be observed that, as shown, the webthickness of the webbing to be used and exbing is held without the aid of any points or rco so tending downwardly from the rear side of the spurs to enter it or to catch any thread thereof, r plate to the front side. It now the free end that there are no articulated parts, that two folds of the webbing are not passed through the same opening, that the body of the webbing is not wound over the free end in such manner as to make access thereto difficult, but that the complete buckle is almost a flat piece of metal holding the Webbing perfectly and being as neat in appearance and as convenient in adjusting as more complex structures.

What I claim is- A one-piece buckle consisting of a plate out through in a crooked line extending to neither margin and having the set of upward projections so formed bent rearwardly into a slightly W'ALTER EDYVARD FOOTE.

\Vitnesses:

W. E. WILLIAMS, 0. SNYDER.

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