US1208531A - Garment-buckle. - Google Patents

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C. FASOLDT.

GARMENT BUCKLE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 15, I915.

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CHARLES FASOLDT, 0F GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

GARMENT-BUCKLE.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES FAsoLDT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment- Buckles, of which the following is a speciiication.

My invention relates to improvements in buckles for use for supporting wearing apparel, as pantaloons, overalls and kindred articles, and its object is to provide a buckle having a thoroughly reliable, readily adjustable spring button loop with which buttons having various sizes of necks may be readily entered and secured in the loop. I attain this object by the construction and arrangement of parts shown in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure 1 is an elevation, and Fig. 2 is an edge view of one form of buckle, and Figs. 3 and 4: are like views of another form of buckle embodying my invention.

Similar letters refer to similar throughout the several views.

In the accompanying drawing, speaking, now, more particularly of Figs. 1 and 2, a represents the buckle loop, Z)Z) represent the tongues of the buckle, and 0-0 represent the side bars of the frame of the buckle. In the construction of this form of buckle the loop 0; is made in a piece by itself,

parts and the tongues?) and the side bars 0 of the frame are made integral and the lower ends of the side bars 0, 0 are so twisted, or wound around the two members of the loop d as to render the connection absolutely firm and to avert the possible danger of the loop (Z sliding longitudinally in said bearings. The arms d, cl of the loop (Z are bent upward at d and made practically of the form indicated at c, c to form the loop 70. The lower end of the loop is should be practically closed, or the wires at the bends cl should be close enough together to avert any possible danger of the neck of a button passing through between them, but the opening at 72 should be considerably broader, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 3, so a button neck may be passed between the ends of the wires 6, 6 without the necessity of forcing them apart to too great an extent. This wire must be spring wire so it will assume its normal position when the button has been inserted or removed.

Specification of Letters Patent,

Patented Dec. 12, 191 6.

Application filed November 15, 1915. Serial No. 61,700.

In Figs. 1 and 2 the ends of the wires 6, e are represented as standing unsupported eX- cept by the main wire or arm d, but in Figs. 3 and 4: I have shown each side of the body of the buckle, (O, G) as having a bearing 0 formed in it, and the ends of the wires 6, c as extended outward, practically at right angles with the loop wires 6, e and passed through the bearings o, as indicated at e, 6, so there can be no possible danger of the wires 6, 6 being bent over sidewise by excessive strain on a button.

Suflicient space should be left between the arms (l and cl of the loop 1 to freely receive the strap or other element ona garment that is to be connected with the buckle.

The form of connection between the side bars 0, c of the buckle, and the ends of the wire (.Z, cl (as shown at f and g) is not given as a restricted form, but as one of many forms of connection between these two elements.

In Fig. 2, I have represented, at i, a strap, and at j 'a button secured thereto and placed in engagement with the loop it, formed by the ends 6, c, to indicate how the two are connected, and applied to the loop.

In the several figures herewith I have shown but two, of many available, and perhaps equally desirable forms of construction, as indicating that I do not desire to restrict myself to any particular form or construction, but do desire to cover any construction that may be legitimately claimed by me under the state of the art as it may be found to exist.

What I claim as new, and desire to se cure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. In a garment buckle, a buckle loop, side bars pivotally connected with the buckle loop and having buckle tongues integral therewith, a strap loop securely connected at each end with the side bars, and the free ends of the wire from which the strap loop is made extending toward the buckle loop and formed to produce an open button loop at the strap loop attaching end of the buckle frame.

2. In combination with a garment buckle, side bars pivotally connected with the buckle loop at one end, and rigidly connected with a strap loop at the other end, the ends of the strap loop bent inward in serpentine form to form a button loop, and

"pentine form to form a button receiving loop, the ends of said wires bent at right angles and extending through the holes in the side bars of the buckle frame.

4. In a garment buckle, a frame having a buckle loop at one end and a strap loop at the other end, in combination with serpentined wires extending from the longitudinal center of the strap loop toward the buckle loop to form the spring sides of a button loop.

5. In combination with the side bars and loop of a buckle frame, the side bars having holes through them laterally, wires extending inward from the lower end of the frame in position to form the spring sides of a button loop, the ends of said wires bent outward and passed through the holes in the side bars of the frame.

Signed at Grand Rapids, Michigan, November 12, 1915.

CHARLES FASOLDT.

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

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