Buckles – buttons – clasps – etc. – Trouser guards – clips – straps
Patent
1977-08-10
1979-04-24
Gelak, Bernard A.
Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
Trouser guards, clips, straps
24230R, 24196, A44B 1125
Patent
active
041504640
ABSTRACT:
A buckle includes separable cooperating receptacle and clasp members. The receptacle member includes a pair of locking slots formed in opposing sides thereof. The clasp member includes a pair of resilient arms having locking tabs thereon for releasably engaging the locking slots of the receptacle member. The receptacle member also includes a pair of grooves for slidably engaging cooperating raised ridges formed on a central arm of the clasp member for guiding said clasp member during insertion into and removal from the receptacle member. The central arm of the clasp member also includes a pair of laterally extending edges for defining a limit to the inward bending of the resilient arms. The receptacle also includes a belt end termination member including a slide member for adjusting the length of a belt looped around said slide member. The clasp member also includes a base member joining the three arms thereof and including a through slot for terminating a belt end or the like.
REFERENCES:
patent: 1429155 (1922-09-01), Metcalf
patent: 2840878 (1958-07-01), Olson
patent: 3181189 (1965-05-01), Leyden
patent: 3798711 (1974-03-01), Cousins
patent: 3967351 (1976-07-01), Rosenberg
patent: 3979934 (1976-09-01), Isenmann
Beart Robert W.
Gelak Bernard A.
Halvorsen Jack R.
Illinois Tool Works Inc.
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