BUCKLE

• US 20130192033A1
• Filed: 10/07/2011
• Published: 08/01/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/14/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ABA Hörtnagl GmbH
• Original Assignee: ABA Hörtnagl GmbH
• Inventors: Hortnagl, Andreas
• Granted Patent: US 9,198,481 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 24/633
• CPC Class Codes: A44B 11/2519 with two buttons acting in opposite directions
• 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: A44B 11/266 with at least one push-button acting parallel to the main plane of the buckle and perpendicularly to the direction of the fastening action
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/45524 including resiliently biased projection component or surface segment
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/45581 having inserted end formed by oppositely biased surface segments
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/45623 and operator therefor

Abstract

A buckle (1) having a first buckle part (2) and having at least one second buckle part (3), said first buckle part (2) having at least one locking bar (4) that can be moved back and forth between a locking position of the locking bar (4) and an unlocking position of the locking bar (4). The locking bar (4) engages behind a locking surface (5) of the second buckle part (3) in the locking position in order to lock the two buckle parts (2, 3) with each other in a connected position of the buckle parts (2, 3), and the locking bar (4) can be moved into the unlocking position in order to separate the buckle parts (2, 3), the second buckle part (3) having at least one counter locking bar (6) that can be moved back and forth between a locking position of the counter locking bar (6) and an unlocking position of the counter locking bar (6).

Claims

1. A buckle comprising:

a first buckle part and at least one second buckle part, the first buckle part has at least one locking bar which is movable back and forth between a locking position of the locking bar and an unlocking position of the locking bar, in a connecting position of the buckle parts the locking bar, in the locking position thereof, engages behind a locking face of the second buckle part for locking the two buckle parts together and the locking bar is movable into the unlocking position thereof for separating the buckle parts, the second buckle part has at least one counter locking bar which is movable back and forth between a locking position of the counter locking bar and an unlocking position of the counter locking bar.

2. The buckle as claimed in claim 1, wherein the counter locking bar has at least one support face that in the locking position thereof blocks the locking bar or at least one of the locking bars in the locking position of the locking bar by way of said support face.

3. The buckle as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first buckle part has at least one elastic reset element which prestresses the locking bar in a direction of the locking position of the locking bar or the second buckle part has at least one elastic reset element which prestresses the counter locking bar in a direction of the locking position thereof or the elastic reset elements are provided for both the locking bar and the counter locking bar to prestress the locking bar and the counter locking bar into the respective locking positions.

4. The buckle as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one of the locking bar is mounted so as to be movable in or on a housing of the first buckle part or the counter locking bar is mounted so as to be movable in or on a housing of the second buckle part.

5. The buckle as claimed in claim 1, wherein the counter locking bar is displaceable back and forth between the locking position and the unlocking position thereof.

6. The buckle as claimed in claim 1, wherein the locking bar is pivotable back and forth between the locking position and the unlocking position thereof.

7. The buckle as claimed in claim 1, wherein a housing of the buckle has at least one engagement opening which is accessible from outside and at least one of the locking bar or the counter locking bar has or have at least one actuating face and the actuating face or faces is or are manually actuatable from the outside through the engagement opening in the connecting position of the buckle parts and in the locking position of at least one of the locking bar or of the counter locking bar.

8. The buckle as claimed in claim 1, wherein the locking bar is a rigid part which is mounted so as to be pivotable about a pivot axis or in that the locking bar is a part which is elastically bendable.

9. The buckle as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first buckle part has at least two locking bars which are mounted so as to be pivotable in at least two different pivot planes.

10. The buckle as claimed in claim 9, wherein the at least one locking bar, which is pivotable in a first of the pivot planes, has a transfer face and by pivoting said first locking bar is pivotable from the locking position into the unlocking position thereof and by the transfer face at least a second one of the locking bar, which is pivotable in a second of the pivot planes, is pivotable from a locking position into an unlocking position thereof.

11. The buckle as claimed in claim 9, wherein the two different pivot planes are normal to one another.