Plastic adjuster for a belt

• US 4,038,726 A
• Filed: 03/04/1976
• Issued: 08/02/1977
• Est. Priority Date: 07/01/1975
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kohshoh Limited
• Original Assignee: Kohshoh Limited
• Inventors: Takabayashi, Teruo
• Primary Examiner(s): Gelak, Bernard A.
• Application Number:
  US05/663,804
• Time in Patent Office: 516 Days
• Field of Search: 24/198, 24/169, 24/170, 24/255 SL, 24/248 SL, 24/166, 24/249 SL, 24/265 BC, 24/30.5 P, 24/191, 132/48 A, 132/48 R
• US Class Current: 24/198
• CPC Class Codes: A44B 11/06 with clamping devices
• CPC Class Codes: A44B 11/14 with snap-action
• CPC Class Codes: A44B 11/226 with cover plate
• CPC Class Codes: F16B 5/0692 joining flexible sheets to other sheets or plates or to strips or bars tent fastenings E04H15/64; coping elements for swimming pools with fixing means for sealing foil E04H4/142; greenhouses of flexible synthetic material A01G9/1407; end or aperture-closing arrangements or devices for sacks or bags B65D33/16
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/4014 One-piece
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/406 One-piece
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/4088 One-piece
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/44274 having either discrete flaccid or thin, nonbiasing, integral, connecting hinge
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/44752 Integral locking-means
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/44932 having specific surface material or irregularity on or along engaging face

Abstract

A plastic adjuster for adjusting the length of a belt or the like comprises a plate member provided with two slots through which the belt or the like is permitted to pass, a cover plate extended from one end portion of the plate member, a first and second locking elements provided at one end of the plate member and the cover plate respectively and adapted to engage with each other. Thereby the belt is surely clamped at a desired position thereof for adjusting the length.

Claims

1. A plastic adjuster for adjusting the length of a belt or the like comprising an elongated generally flat plate member (1) and a cover plate (8) which are integrally formed, the plate member having a pair of elongated side edges and a pair of transversely extending end edges and an elongated slot (2) adjacent one of the side edges and extending parallel thereto, a guide projection (7) extending upwardly from the plate member adjacent each of the end edges thereof and extending perpendicularly to the slot, and a bar (6) extending across the guide projections above the plane of the plate and adjacent the other side edge of the plate member to form a second slot (3) between the bar and the plate member which extends parallel to the first slot, said first slot (2) being adapted to receive a looped end portion of the belt and said second slot (3) being constructed and arranged to permit the belt to pass through the slot in a direction generally parallel to the flat plate member, at least one longitudinally extending clamping means (5) on the plate member extending between the guide projections for clamping the belt against the cover plate, and locking means provided on one end of the plate member, the cover plate being connected to the other end of the plate member by a bendable portion, the cover plate including locking means engageable with the locking means on the plate member, the cover plate extending parallel to and adjacent said bar (6) when the two locking means are engaged, and at least one longitudinally extending clamping means (10) for clamping the belt against the plate member, the clamping means of the plate member and the cover plate being offset relative to each other.