Adjustable strap connector

• US 3,293,713 A
• Filed: 11/18/1964
• Issued: 12/27/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 11/18/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Gaylord, John A.
• Original Assignee: Gaylord, John A.
• Inventors: Gaylord, John A.
• Application Number:
  US04/411,982
• Time in Patent Office: 769 Days
• US Class Current: 24/196
• CPC Class Codes: A44B 11/10 sliding wedge
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/4084 Looped strap

Claims

3. AN ADJUSTABLE CONNECTOR FOR WEBBING AND THE LIKE, COMPRISING, (A) A FRAME, (B) SIDES AND ENDS OF THE FRAME DEFINING A WEB RECEIVING OPENING IN SAID FRAME, (C) A WEB GRIPPING MEMBER EXTENDING ACROSS SAID FRAME PARALLEL WITH THE ADJACENT END OF THE FRAME AND BEING SLIDEABLY HELD ON SAID SIDES, (D) SAID WEB GRIPPING MEMBER BEING OF GENERALLY USHAPED CROSS SECTION, THE SPACE BETWEEN THE SIDE WALLS THEREOF BEING WIDER THAN THE THICKNESS OF SAID ADJACENT END OF THE FRAME, AND THE RECESS FORMED IN SAID SPACE BETWEEN THE SIDE WALLS OF SAID U-SHAPED MEMBER FACING TOWARD SAID ADJACENT END OF THE FRAME, (E) ONE SIDE WALL OF SAID U-SHAPED MEMBER BEING HIGHER THAN THE OTHER, WHEREBY WHEN THE CAPTIVE SIDE OF SAID WEB IS PLAYED AROUND THE OUTSIDE OF THE HIGHER SIDE WALL AND UNDER SAID GRIPPING MEMBER AND AROUND THE OTHER SIDE WALL, AND THE FREE SIDE OF SAID WEB IS INSERTED OVER SAID OTHER SIDE WALL AND ACROSS SAID RECESS BETWEEN SAID GRIPPING MEMBER AND SAID ADJACENT END OF THE FRAME, AND FINALLY OUT ALONG SAID CAPTIVE SIDE OF THE WEB, THEN THE PULL ON THE CAPTIVE SIDE OF THE WEB TILTS SAID GRIPPING MEMBER THEREBY TO TILT SAID HIGHER SIDE WALL TO GRIP THE WEP AGAINST SAID ADJACENT END.