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US 6,141,835 AGranted
Adjustable belt buckles
AssigneeSport Supply Group, Inc.
InventorPorter C. Wilson
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Abstract
Adjustable belts include new and improved belt buckles which allow for convenient adjustment of belt lengths, as well as secure and easily adjustable couplings of the two ends of the belts. This is accomplished by providing the belt buckles with an arrangement of slots and struts around which the belt is looped to selectively accumulate its length thereon and through which the belt is trained, so as to frictionally retain the belt on the buckle while determining the length of the belt.
Claims9
An adjustable belt, comprising:
- a length of flexible material in the form of a web, said web being sufficiently long to encircle the waist of a wearer;
- a first end portion of the web, the first end portion having a slot therein and a first tapered leading edge, wherein the first end portion of the web extends through the slot in the web to form an adjustable loop;
- a second end portion of the web having a second leading edge;
- a buckle comprising a body having a mid-portion, a first end and a second end, the first end having a pair of first closed slots separated by a strut adjacent thereto and an open slot disposed outwardly of the first closed slots, the body further having a single closed slot adjacent to the second end with a friction element assocated with the single slot for engaging said web passing through said single slot, as well as a second open slot disposed outwardly of the single closed slot;
- said loop formed at the first end of the web extending through the pair of first closed slots and being looped around the strut separating the pair of first closed slots;
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- said second leading edge of the second end portion of the web passing through the single closed slot at the second end, the mid-portion of the body and said strut separating the pair of first closed slots, through one of the first closed slots and through the open slot at the first end, back over the body and through the open slot at the second end, whereby the web has an adjustable length selected by accumulating a substantial selected length of the web with the buckle that maintains a selected length when stress is applied to the web.
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An adjustable belt, comprising:
- a length of flexible material in the form of a web sufficiently long to encircle the waist of a user, the belt having a first end and a second end;
- a buckle having a first end, a second end, a middle portion, an upper portion and a lower portion, the middle portion having an opening for receiving a stud to secure the second end of the belt thereto;
- a plurality of slots in the buckle between the first end and the middle portion and between the second end and the middle portion for a total of seven elongated, substantially straight slots extending between said upper and said lower portions of said buckle whereby the first end of the belt is attached to the buckle by being selectively passed through the seven slots and looped over itself on the buckle to accumulate a selected portion of its length on the buckle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.