BUCKLE ASSEMBLY

• US 20140304955A1
• Filed: 05/10/2012
• Published: 10/16/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: National Molding LLC
• Original Assignee: ABA Hörtnagl GmbH
• Inventors: Hortnagl, Andreas
• Application Number:
  US14/122,715
• Publication Number:
  US 20140304955A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 24/595.1
• CPC Class Codes: A44B 11/25 with two or more separable parts
• CPC Class Codes: A44B 11/2573 Locking means preventing an unauthorised opening, e.g. by children
• 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: F41H 1/02 Armoured or projectile- or missile-resistant garments; Composite protection fabrics F41H5/04 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/45262 Pin, post and receiver
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/45466 having electric or fluid powered, actuation or release, of interlock

Abstract

A buckle assembly, including at least one buckle and at least one release trigger, wherein the buckle has a first buckle component and an additional buckle component. The first buckle component has a bar, which is movable back and forth between a locked position and an unlocked position. In a connected position of the buckle components the bar engages in the locked position thereof behind a locking surface of the additional buckle component in order to interlock the two buckle components and the bar can be moved to the unlocked position to disconnect the buckle components. The release trigger is connected to at least one of the buckle components by a transmission line, preferably a Bowden cable, the additional buckle component has at least one counter bar, which is movable from a locked position of the counter bar to an unlocked position by actuating the release trigger.

Claims

1. A buckle assembly comprising at least one buckle and at least one release trigger, the buckle has a first buckle component and at least one further buckle component, the first buckle component 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 components, the locking bar, in the locking position thereof, engages behind a locking surface of the at least one further buckle component in order to lock the two buckle components to each other, and, in order to separate the buckle components, the locking bar is movable into the unlocking position thereof, a release trigger is connected by at least one transmission line to at least one of the buckle components, and the further buckle component has at least one counter locking bar which is movable from a locking position of the counter locking bar into an unlocking position of the counter locking bar by actuation of the release trigger.

2. The buckle assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein the counter locking bar has at least one supporting surface and, in the locking position thereof, the supporting surface blocks the at least one locking bar in the locking position thereof.

3. The buckle assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first buckle component has at least one elastic restoring element which prestresses the locking bar in a direction of the locking position thereof.

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

5. The buckle assembly 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 at least one actuating surface, and the actuating surface or surfaces is or are manually actuable from the outside through the engagement opening in the connecting position of the buckle components and in the locking position of at least one of the locking bar or of the counter locking bar.

6. The buckle assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein the buckle assembly has a plurality of buckles which are connected via at least one transmission line to the release trigger or to a coupling device connected to the release trigger.

7. The buckle assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein a step-down gearing acts between the buckle or the buckles and the release trigger.

8. The buckle assembly as claimed in claim 7, wherein the step-down gearing has a guide path which runs spaced apart with respect to an axis of rotation and is rotatable about the axis of rotation and is intended for a tension cable which is connected to the release trigger.

9. The buckle assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein the at least one counter locking bar is movable from the locking position thereof into the unlocking position thereof by manual actuation of the buckle and also by a transmission part which is actuable by the release trigger, and the transmission part has a clearance for the manual actuation of the counter locking bar.

10. The buckle assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein at least one of the locking bar or the locking surface has at least one oblique surface, and the oblique surface assists the movement of the locking bar from the locking position thereof into the unlocking position thereof when the first buckle component is pulled off from the further buckle component.

11. The buckle assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein the transmission line comprises a Bowden cable.

12. The buckle assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein the counter locking bar has at least one supporting surface and, in the locking position thereof, the supporting surface blocks the at least one of the locking bars in the locking position thereof.

13. The buckle assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein the second buckle component has at least one elastic restoring element which prestresses the counter locking bar in a direction of the locking position thereof.

14. The buckle assembly as claimed in claim 3, wherein the second buckle component has at least one elastic restoring element which prestresses the counter locking bar in a direction of the locking position thereof.

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

16. The buckle assembly as claimed in claim 1, wherein the step-down gearing is arranged in a coupling device connected to the release trigger.

17. The buckle assembly as claimed in claim 8, wherein a blocking device acts on the step-down gearing, the blocking device, in a blocking position thereof, blocks the step-down gearing in a restoring direction and, in a release position thereof, releases the step-down gearing in the restoring direction in order to restore the at least one counter locking bar into the locking position thereof.

18. The buckle assembly as claimed in claim 17, wherein the blocking device is arranged as ratchet on the step-down gearing.