Buckles – buttons – clasps – etc. – Separable-fastener or required component thereof – With third detached member completing interlock
Patent
1991-07-18
1993-07-06
Brittain, James R.
Buckles, buttons, clasps, etc.
Separable-fastener or required component thereof
With third detached member completing interlock
24575, A44B 1125
Patent
active
052242471
ABSTRACT:
A novel buckle for fastening together strap ends, comprising two identical or identically shaped mating members, each member comprising two hook portions in spaced parallel planes, such hook portions straddling a center web portion, and incorporating a latching structure independent of and of lesser strength than the hook portions to prevent inadvertent unfastening of the buckle. The center web portions and outside surfaces of the hook portions and the base portions of the hooks are shaped to provide surfaces to accurately guide the members together or apart to facilitate fastening and unfastening the buckle. The engaged hooks form large surface areas of the front and back outer surfaces of the buckle. The buckle members are fastened and unfastened by essentially relative translational movement. Fastening of the buckle members is by movement of one buckle member relative to the other in one direction and unfastening movement may be other than merely a reversal of fastening movement and may be in a direction distinct from the direction opposite from the fastening direction.
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Brittain James R.
Freudenberg Kenton L.
Freudenberg Maxwell C.
Harmony Fastening Systems, Inc.
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