Safety buckle

• US 20090255101A1
• Filed: 04/14/2008
• Published: 10/15/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/14/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Pei Chuan Lin
• Original Assignee: Pei Chuan Lin
• Inventors: Lin, Pei Chuan
• Granted Patent: US 7,657,978 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 24/614
• CPC Class Codes: A01K 27/005 Quick-couplings, safety-couplings or shock-absorbing devices between leash and collar
• CPC Class Codes: A44B 11/2592 fastening by sliding in the main plane or a plane parallel to the main plane of the buckle A44B11/2503, A44B11/2584 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/45524 including resiliently biased projection component or surface segment
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/45607 with additional cavity for engaging different projection
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/45775 having resiliently biased interlocking component or segment

Abstract

A safety buckle includes an intermediate buckle member, which has two opposite receiving holes and two smoothly arched grooves on the top and bottom sides in each receiving hole, and two connecting buckle members each having a plug insertable into the receiving holes of the intermediate buckle member and raised portions protruded from the top and bottom sides of the plug for engaging the smoothly arched grooves to secure the respective connecting buckle member to the intermediate buckle member for allowing the connecting buckle members to be biased relative to the intermediate buckle member within a predetermined angle. In an alternate form of the safety buckle, the locations of the raised portions and the locations of the smoothly arched grooves are exchanged.

Claims

1. A safety buckle, comprising:

an intermediate buckle member, said intermediate buckle member comprising a first receiving hole disposed at a first side thereof, a second receiving hole disposed at a second side thereof opposite to said first side, and at least one smoothly arched groove formed in each of said first receiving hole and said second receiving hole;

a first connecting buckle member, said first connecting buckle member comprising a first plug insertable into said first receiving hole of said intermediate buckle member, the first plug of said first connecting buckle member having at least one raised portion for engaging the at least one smoothly arched groove in said first receiving hole to secure said first connecting buckle member to said intermediate buckle member after insertion of the first plug of said first connecting buckle member into said first receiving hole of said intermediate buckle member for allowing said first connecting buckle member to be biased relative to said intermediate buckle member along the at least one smoothly arched groove in said first receiving hole within a predetermined angle; and

a second connecting buckle member, said second connecting buckle member comprising a second plug insertable into said second receiving hole of said intermediate buckle member, the second plug of said second connecting buckle member having at least one raised portion for engaging the at least one smoothly arched groove in said second receiving hole to secure said second connecting buckle member to said intermediate buckle member after insertion of the second plug of said second connecting buckle member into said second receiving hole of said intermediate buckle member for allowing said second connecting buckle member to be biased relative to said intermediate buckle member along the at least one smoothly arched groove in said second receiving hole within a predetermined angle.

2. The safety buckle as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first plug of said first connecting buckle member and the second plug of said second connecting buckle member each have an inwardly curved bearing portion;

said intermediate buckle member has two outwardly curved bearing portions respectively suspending inside said first receiving hole and said second receiving hole for abutting against the inwardly curved bearing portions of the plugs of said first connecting buckle member and said second connecting buckle member upon insertion of the first plug of said first connecting buckle member and the second plug of said second connecting buckle member into said first receiving hole and said second receiving hole of said intermediate buckle member.

3. The safety buckle as claimed in claim 1, wherein said at least one smoothly arched grooves are two in number and said at least one raised portions are two in number, and the two smoothly arched grooves and the two raised portions are symmetrically disposed respectively at two opposite lateral sides.

4. The safety buckle as claimed in claim 1, wherein said first plug and said second plug each have a top side and a bottom side, and the at least one raised portion of each of said first plug and said second plug is disposed at each of the respective top side and bottom side;

said first receiving hole and said second receiving hole each has a top side and a bottom side, and the at least one smoothly arched grooves of said intermediate buckle member are disposed in the top side and bottom side of each of said first receiving hole and said second receiving hole respectively.

5. The safety buckle as claimed in claim 4, wherein the at least one raised portion includes two raised portions bilaterally disposed one on each of the respective top side and bottom side, and the at least one smoothly arched groove includes two smoothly arched grooves bilaterally disposed one at each of the respective top side and bottom side.

6. The safety buckle as claimed in claim 1, wherein said predetermined angle is 60 degrees angle.

7. A safety buckle, comprising:

an intermediate buckle member, said intermediate buckle member comprising a first plug disposed at a first side thereof and a second plug disposed at a second side thereof opposite to said first side, said first plug and said second plug each having at least one raised portion;

a first connecting buckle member, said first connecting buckle member comprising a base and a first connection unit forwardly extending from the base, the first connection unit of said first connecting buckle member having a first receiving hole defined therein and at least one smoothly arched groove formed in the first receiving hole for receiving the at least one raised portion of said first plug to secure said first connecting buckle member to said intermediate buckle member for allowing said first connecting buckle member to be biased relative to said intermediate buckle member within a predetermined angle after insertion of said first plug into the first receiving hole of the first connection unit of said fist connecting buckle member; and

a second connecting buckle member, said second connecting buckle member comprising a base and a second connection unit forwardly extending from the base, the second connection unit of said second connecting buckle member having a second receiving hole defined therein and at least one smoothly arched groove formed in the second receiving hole for receiving the at least one raised portion of said second plug to secure said second connecting buckle member to said intermediate buckle member for allowing said second connecting buckle member to be biased relative to said intermediate buckle member within a predetermined angle after insertion of said second plug into the second receiving hole of the second connection unit of said second connecting buckle member.

8. The safety buckle member as claimed in claim 7, wherein said intermediate buckle member comprises a plurality of inwardly curved bearing portions respectively disposed at top and bottom sides of said first plug and said second plug;

the first connection unit of said first connecting buckle member and the second connection unit of said second connecting buckle member each have an outwardly curved bearing portion which is respectively abutted against the inwardly curved bearing portions of said intermediate buckle member when said first plug and said second plug of said intermediate buckle member are respectively inserted into the first receiving hole of said first connecting buckle member and the second receiving hole of said second connecting buckle member.

9. The safety buckle as claimed in claim 7, wherein said at least one smoothly arched groove are two in number and said at least one raised portion are two in number, and each of the two smoothly arched grooves and each of the two raised portions respectively are symmetrically disposed at two opposite lateral sides.

10. The safety buckle as claimed in claim 7, wherein said first plug and said second plug each have a top side and a bottom side, and the at least one raised portion of each of said first plug and said second plug is disposed at each of the respective top side and bottom side;

said first receiving hole and said second receiving hole each has a top side and a bottom side, and the at least one smoothly arched grooves of said first connecting buckle member and said second connecting buckle member are disposed in the top side and bottom side of each of said first receiving hole and said second receiving hole respectively.

11. The safety buckle as claimed in claim 10, wherein the at least one raised portion includes two raised portions bilaterally disposed one on each of the respective top side and bottom side, and the at least one smoothly arched groove includes two smoothly arched grooves bilaterally disposed one at each of the respective top side and bottom side.

12. The safety buckle as claimed in claim 7, wherein said predetermined angle is 60 degrees angle.