Utility belt buckle

• US 4,135,267 A
• Filed: 07/05/1977
• Issued: 01/23/1979
• Est. Priority Date: 07/05/1977
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kenneth D. Mckinney Jr, Kenneth D. Mckinney Sr
• Original Assignee: Kenneth D. Mckinney Jr, Kenneth D. Mckinney Sr
• Inventors: McKinney, Kenneth D. Jr., McKinney, Kenneth D. Sr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Smith, Al Lawrence
• Assistant Examiner(s): Zatarga, J. T.
• Application Number:
  US05/812,789
• Time in Patent Office: 567 Days
• Field of Search: 7/1 C, 7/1 H, 7/14.1 R, 7/14.2 R, 7/14.6, 7/14.25, 24/163 KO, 24/176, 24/186, 24/77, 24/187
• US Class Current: 7/151
• CPC Class Codes: B25F 1/00 Combination or multi-purpose hand tools associations of tools for different working operations with one portable power-drive means B25F3/00; combined stapling and punching tools B25C5/0214
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/3401 Buckle
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/4033 One-piece
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/406 One-piece
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/4098 Ornamental and/or object supported

Abstract

A combination utility belt buckle having one end configured as a prying type bottle opener, the opposite end configured as a piercing type can opener, a shiftable can cutting blade disposed along one elongated edge of the belt buckle, and the other edge of the buckle presenting a knife edge and an improved fish scaler. The buckle is configured to facilitate rapid assembly and disassembly from a belt without removal of the belt from the wearer.

Claims

1. For use in combination with a belt having eyelet apertures spaced longitudinally along one end thereof:

a pair of rigid loops carried at an opposite end of said belt, said pair of loops being secured together and extending generally laterally across said opposite end of the belt, one of said pair of loops arranged for receiving said one end of said belt in underlying relationship to said opposite end of the belt; and

a unitary buckle underlying said belt and including a major body with a lower surface thereof extending longitudinally along in overlying relationship to said belt, said buckle including a first rigid stretch integral with one end of said body and extending laterally across the width of said one end of the body, said first stretch depending transversely downwardly from said one end of the body, said buckle further including a second rigid stretch integral with said first stretch and extending longitudinally therefrom in underlying, transversely spaced relationship to said lower surface of the major body, said second stretch being readily inserted into and removed from the other of said pair of loops for releasably interlocking said other of the pair of loops with said first and second stretches to facilitate rapid assembly and disassembly of said buckle to said belt, said second stretch having a semi-circular cut-out and said major body having a protrusion on said lower surface facing said cut-out, whereby said major body and said second stretch together present a prying-type bottle lid remover.

2. A combination as set forth in claim 1, wherein said pair of loops are hinged together for relative pivoting along an axis extending generally laterally across said opposite end of the belt.

3. A combination as set forth in claim 2, wherein an end of said major body opposite side one end thereof is laterally tapered to a substantially central, sharp piercing point, said major body having a centrally located, downturned tab cooperable with said piercing point to present a piercing-type can opener.

4. A combination as set forth in claim 3, further including cutting means shiftably secured to said body at a longitudinally extending edge thereof, said cutting means shiftable between an operating position depending downwardly from said edge of the body to present a can cutting blade, and a stored position lying substantially flat against a lower surface of said major body.

5. A combination as set forth in claim 4, wherein said body includes another longitudinally extending edge, a portion of said another longitudinally extending edge being transversely tapered to a sharp knife edge.

6. A combination as set forth in claim 5, wherein said major body is relatively smoothly curved to present a convex outer surface thereof, said lower surface being correspondingly concave, another portion of said another longitudinally extending edge of the body having scalloped depressions along said lower surface.