Adjustable strap connector

• US 3,157,929 A
• Filed: 05/22/1962
• Issued: 11/24/1964
• Est. Priority Date: 05/22/1962
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Capewell Manufacturing Company
• Original Assignee: Alden Y. Warner, John Stacherl, Wilbur J. Craven
• Inventors: Warner, Alden Y., Craven, Wilbur J., JOHN STACHERL
• Application Number:
  US04/196,759
• Time in Patent Office: 917 Days
• US Class Current: 24/196
• CPC Class Codes: A44B 11/2557 with strap length adjustment
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/4084 Looped strap

Claims

1. AN ADJUSTABLE STRAP CONNECTOR COMPRISING A FRAME HAVING END WALLS AND A PAIR OF SIDE WALLS, DEFINING A STRAP-RECEIVING APERTURE THEREIN, ONE OF SAID END WALLS PROVIDING A STATIONARY GRIPPING FACE EXTENDING ACROSS THE FRAME BETWEEN SAID SIDE WALLS, A CROSS-MEMBER EXTENDING ACROSS SAID FRAME BETWEEN SAID SIDE WALLS, MEANS MOUNTING SAID CROSS-MEMBER FOR LIMITED MOVEMENT LONGITUDINALLY OF SAID FRAME WITH THE PLANE OF THE BOTTOM SURFACE OF THE CROSS-MEMBER SPACED ABOVE BUT CLOSELY ADJACENT THE PLANE OF THE TOP SURFACE OF SAID ONE SAID END WALLS, SAID CROSS-MEMBER HAVING A LOWER EDGE ADJACENT SAID STATIONARY GRIPPING FACE FORMING A SECOND GRIPPING FACE COOPERABLE WITH THE STATIONARY GRIPPING FACE, SAID CROSS-MEMBER BEING MOVABLE TOWARD SAID STATIONARY GRIPPING FACE TO CLAMP A STRAP THEREBETWEEN, SAID STATIONARY AND MOVABLE GRIPPING FACES BEING TRANSVERSELY CONTOURED TO PROVIDE A DISTANCE THEREBETWEEN WHICH GRADUALLY INCREASES FROM THE CENTER OF SAID GRIPPING FACES TO THE ENDS THEREOF.