Web adjuster and coupling
AssigneeIndiana Mills & Manufacturing, Inc.
InventorGuy R. Dingman
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Abstract
A web adjuster device for securing and varying a length of a web. The web adjuster device comprising a connector portion and an adjuster portion. The adjuster portion comprising a gripping bar having a pair of ears mounted near each of its ends, a housing including a web stop, and one or more springs to normally urge the bar toward the web stop and against the web. The connector portion comprises a hook portion integrally attached to the web adjuster portion, the hook portion rising generally upwardly and away from the bottom surface of the web adjuster portion.
Claims20
A web adjuster device comprising:
- a web adjuster portion configured to size a flexible member, and
- a connector portion comprising a snap hook portion,
- wherein the snap hook portion is configured to releasably engage an anchor member while allowing accessibility to the web adjuster portion to facilitate sizing of the flexible member.
A web adjuster device for use with a flexible member such as a web belt, the adjuster comprising:
- a housing comprising
- a connector portion, and
- a web adjuster portion,
- the connector portion configured to releasably couple to an anchor member while allowing access to the web adjuster portion, and
- the web adjuster portion comprising
- a web stop,
- a gripping assembly configured to provide a gripping portion having a longitudinal axis and a gripping surface substantially parallel to the web stop, and
- one or more biasing members acting between said housing and said gripping assembly,
- wherein said one or more biasing members urge the gripping surface toward the web stop.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.