US1287210A - Strap-fastener. - Google Patents

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e; L. BRYCE, STRAP FASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED JAN-7| 19H}.

Patented Dec. 10, [918.

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GERTRUDE L. BRYCE, 0F SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.

STRAP-FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 10, 1918.

Application filed J anuary 7, 1918. Serial No. 210,600.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GERTRUDE L. BRYCE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Seattle, in the county of King and State of \Vashington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Strap-Fastenmgs, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to produce an efficient and conveniently regulated strap fastening in the nature of a buckle whlch 1s adapted to be employed to adj ustably secure the ends of a strap together.

The invention consists in the novel construction of a buckle and in the combination and adaptation therewith of a strap, as Wlll be fully described in the following specification, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and finally pointed out in the appended claims.

In said views, Figure 1 is a front elevational view of a hose supporter to which is applied buckle devices embodying my 1nvention. Fig. 2 is a view in end elevation of the strap and buckle elements of my invention illustrating the manner of operating the same. Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2 showing the devices in other positions. Figs. 1 and 5 are bottom and top plan views, respectively, of the buckle constituting a part of my invention. Fig. 6 is a detached perspective view of an element of said buckle.

In carrying out my invention I employ a buckle made of wire and comprising a frame member 8 having a tongue-seat 10 and a pair of eyes 11. The tongue member is formed with a looped portion 13, pivot portions 15 extending through the eyes 11, and a pair of parallel tongues 16 directed at right angles to the tongue seat 10.

A guard 17 provided for said tongues is formed of sheet metal and consists in a shank 18 having tubular portions 20 formed upon each side for the reception of the tongues 16, and a head 21 extending laterally for approximately the width of a strap S with which the buckle is used, said head being provided with a straight outer edge 22 over which said strap may be stretched, as will be presently explained.

Said guard is mounted on said tongues by engaging the tubular portions 20 over the same so that the outer edge 22 of the guard will be positioned inwardly of the tongue seat 10 and have the tongues project beyond the guard sufficiently to penetrate the strap end S to perform their necessary functions.

The other end S of said strap is secured, as by stitching, to the looped portion 13 of the buckle, and thence extends over the guard 17 about the edge 22 and thence doubling back through the frame member 8, the tongue-points penetrating and protruding through the strap fabric. In this man;

her the strap end S is stretched over and covers the tongue member, and is directed outwardly to nearly the end of the tongue points, hence when the other end S of the strap, after being passed, for example, about an article as A in Figs. 1 and 2, is threaded through the loop of the frame member, and tension is applied to strap end S the application of such force is made through the strap-end S at the outer extremity of the tongue member, to be drawn down closely and firmly in contact with the strap-end S Where it passes over the tongueseat 10 and causes the tongue-points to penetrate the strap-end S and hold it in security.

Any pull upon the strap-end S while tending to draw the same through the frame, will draw the tonguepoints down more firmly upon the strap, and they will reengage the strap immediately upon the pull upon the end S being discontinued.

T o loosen the strap, the end S is pulled sufficiently to release the tongue-points and the thumb of the operator is pressed upon the rear portion of the buckle, over the loop 13 which causes the tongue-member to rock on its pivotal connections 15 with the eyes 11 of the frame member, and remove the tonguepoints free from the tongue-seat 10 of the frame member and clear of the strap-end S In Fig. 1 the buckle is shown applied to a hose supporter and serves to secure the usual hose attachment B at adjusted elevations.

The invention is very simple and inexpensive to manufacture, and will accomplish efficiently the purposes for which intended.

What I claim, is

1. The combination with a buckle con prising a frame member having a tongue seat, a tongue member pivotally connected to said frame member and formed with a loop element, and a guard formed to provide a head element of approximately the width of the buckle and with a shank element having tubular portions whereby the guard is secured to the tongues of said tongue member, of a strap connected to the buckle by having one of its ends engage said tongues and thence extend over said guard to have the adjacent extremity of the strap permanently fastened to said loop element, the other end of the strap being passed through the opening of the frame member and engaged with the tongues.

52. The combination With a buckle having a frame member having a tongue seat, a tongue member hingedly connected to said frame member, and a guard of substantially a T-shape secured to the tongues of said tongue member, of a strap having one of its ends permanently secured to said tongue member thence passing over said guard to be pierced by said tongues said guard serving to maintain the strap in proximity to said tongue seat.

3. The combination with a strap, of a buckle comprising a tongue member having a transverse loop and a pair of integral par allel pointed tongues, a frame member pivotally connected at its opposite ends to said tongue member and affording atongue seat, and a guard mounted on said tongues, and having adjacent to said tongue seat a straight edge about which the strap may be stretched, the points of said tongues extending beyond the outer extremity of said guard to engage through two thicknesses of the strap.

Signed at Seattle, lVashington, this 26th day of December, 1917.

GERTRUDE L. BRYCE. Witnesses PIERRE BARNES, E. PETERSON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner at Patents, Washington, D. G.

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