Buckles – buttons – clasps – etc. – Strap tighteners – Accordion straps
Patent
1983-04-21
1985-04-02
Sakran, Victor N.
Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
Strap tighteners
Accordion straps
24 68CT, 24 71T, 24191, 24517, A44B 1112, A44B 2100
Patent
active
045078297
ABSTRACT:
A buckle intended for use primarily with wide, flat strapping material used in the air cargo transportation industry. The buckle has a body member and an "over-center" handle member journaled on a journal pin attached thereto such that the handle member acts like a lever and the journal pin as a fulcrum in tensioning the strap. With the buckle in the open position, the strap is fed into the buckle and looped around the journal pin. Rotating the handle member to the closed position causes a load pin attached to the handle member to impact the strap and deflect its path in the buckle, thereby pulling the strap taut under considerable torque load. In the prior art buckles, two load pins were required to apportion that torque load between them to keep the strap from slipping as the load pins could rotate at high torque loads. The need for two load pins is eliminated in the present invention by using only one load pin which is attached in such a way that the pin cannot rotate, even under such high torque loads.
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