Housing for a belt buckle
AssigneeIllinois Tool Works Inc.
InventorsJose Luis Serrada, Eyüp Aslan, Christian Engel, Kai Wachlin
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Abstract
A housing for a belt buckle includes two housing halves, which consist of plastic material and are connected to one another, and have a plurality of connecting pins, which likewise consist of plastic material and, for the purpose of connecting the housing halves, each have a first end arranged on a first of the housing halves and have a second end inserted in each case into a mount provided on the second of the housing halves. The housing halves are each covered on the outside by a soft body, wherein the soft bodies each consist of a softer plastic material than the housing halves and the connecting pins.
Claims11
A housing for a belt buckle, comprising a first housing half (10) consisting of plastic material and a second housing half (12, 12′) consisting of plastic material, the first housing half and the second housing half connected to one another, wherein a plurality of connecting pins (16), which likewise consist of plastic material for the purpose of connecting the first housing half and the second housing half, each have a first end (18) arranged on the first housing half (10) and have a second end inserted in each case into a mount (22, 22′) provided on the second housing half (12, 12′), wherein each of the first housing half and the second housing half includes an inner first plastic material protecting a belt buckle, with an outer second plastic material molded as a soft body to the outside of the inner first plastic material in an integral and non-removable connection to the inner first plastic material, wherein the outer second plastic material on each of the first housing half and the second housing half is a softer plastic material than both the inner first plastic material and the plastic material of the connecting pins (16).
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