Side release buckle
AssigneeNifco Taiwan Corporation
InventorYao-Ming Yang
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Abstract
A side release buckle includes a female buckle member, which has two female coupling arms each having a forwardly extending coupling hole and a side opening, a male buckle member, which has two forwardly extending spring arms and two male coupling arms respectively forwardly extending from the spring arms and insertable with the spring arms into the coupling holes of the female coupling arms for engagement with the side openings of the female coupling arms, and an adapter member, which has a mounting base that is inserted into a receiving space between the female coupling arms of the female buckle member before connection of the male buckle member and locked thereto after connection of the male buckle member and a coupling device at the top side for fastening to an external object.
Claims13
A side release buckle comprising:
- a female buckle member, said female buckle member comprising a transversely extending base, a mounting hole cut through said transversely extending base of said female buckle member for the mounting of a belt member, and two female coupling arms respectively extending from two distal ends of said transversely extending base of said female buckle in a parallel manner and defining therebetween a receiving space, said female coupling arms each having a coupling hole forwardly extending to a front open end thereof and a side opening at an outer side;
- a male buckle member, said male buckle member comprising a transversely extending base, two spring arms respectively extending from two distal ends of said transversely extending base of said male buckle in a parallel manner, and two male coupling arms respectively forwardly extending from said spring arms and insertable with said spring arms into said coupling holes of said female coupling arms of said female buckle member for engagement with said side openings of said female coupling arms of said female buckle member;
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- an adapter member insertable into said receiving space between said female coupling arms of said female buckle member and lockable to said female buckle member by said male buckle member for securing an external object, said adapter member comprising two coupling grooves longitudinally symmetrically disposed at two opposite lateral sides of a mounting base thereof and respectively coupled to said female coupling arms of said female buckle member when said adapter member is inserted into said receiving space between said female coupling arms of said female buckle member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.