Adjustable strap connector

• US 3,189,963 A
• Filed: 12/29/1961
• Issued: 06/22/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/1961
• 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:
  US04/163,255
• Time in Patent Office: 1,271 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

3. AN ADJUSTABLE STRAP CONNECTOR COMPRISING A FRAME INCLUDING A GENERALLY PLANAR WALL TERMINATING IN A TRANSVERSELY EXTENDING STATIONARY GRIPPING FACE, A CROSS-MEMBER EXTENDING TRANSVERSELY OF SAID FRAME AND PRESENTING A TRANSVERSELY EXTENDING CONVEX MOVABLE GRIPPING FACE TOWARD SAID STATIONARY GRIPPING FACE, MEANS MOUNTING THE CROSS-MEMBER TO THE FRAME FOR LIMITED PIVOTAL MOVEMENT AND FOR MOVEMENT TOWARD AND AWAY FROM THE STATIONARY GRIPPING FACE, WITH THE BOTTOM SURFACE OF SAID MOVABLE GRIPPING FACE MOVING IN A PLANE ABOVE AND CLOSELY OVERLYING THE STATIONARY GRIPPING FACE, SAID CROSS-MEMBER HAVING A PERIPHERY PROVIDING A PLURALITY OF DISCONTINUOUS CONVEX AND FLAT SURFACES AND BEING PIVOTABLE AND MOVABLE TOWARD SAID STATIONARY GRIPPING FACE UPON THE APPLICATION OF TENSION TO A STRAP RECEIVED AROUND THE CROSS-MEMBER AND BETWEEN SAID GRIPPING FACES TO WEDGE AND COMPRESS THE STRAP BETWEEN SAID GRIPPING FACES AND TO CAUSE THE PERIPHERY OF THE CROSS-MEMBER TO ENGAGE AND PROVIDE A PLURALITY OF SLIP-RESISTING INFLECTIONS IN THE STRAP.