Buckles – buttons – clasps – etc. – Bale and package ties – hose clamps – With tighteners
Patent
1975-09-29
1976-06-22
Griffin, Donald A.
Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
Bale and package ties, hose clamps
With tighteners
A44B 1900
Patent
active
039641384
ABSTRACT:
In a releasable strap connector wherein the male connecting member has at least one prong insertable into a socket in the female connecting member, which socket is intersected by a transverse rocking bar, the latter being cut away at the intersection so as to leave the socket unobstructed for the insertion of the prong and being resiliently urged into an obstructing position into engagement with a pocket in the prong to hold the prong connected, and a lever being employed for rocking the bar from an obstructing to a non-obstructing position for the release of the prong; the improvement of lever locking device for locking the bar against accidental oscillation which includes a pair of hollow legs of said lever telescoping on registering arms of the rocking bar and springs in the hollow legs urging the legs and the locking lever upwardly away from said bar; the connecting top of the locking lever has a pin extending laterally from each side thereof, each pin riding in an adjacent guide in the frame of the female member, each guide including a first arcuate groove having a locking end and a releasing end and being concentric with the axis of the rocking bar, a second arcuate groove spaced from the locking end of the first groove and being concentric therewith, and a radial connecting groove between the locking end of the first groove and the middle of the second groove so as to form said second groove into a pair of opposite locking pockets for said pin, and a radial outward pocket at the releasing end of said first groove to be engaged by said pin in the releasing position of the lever.
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Griffin Donald A.
White George B.
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