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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2016
Filed:
May. 17, 2012
Jeffrey D. Anderson, Glenview, IL (US);
Michael B. Grimm, Glenview, IL (US);
Brian M. Parisi, Glenview, IL (US);
Martin J. Nilsen, Glenview, IL (US);
Jeffrey D. Anderson, Glenview, IL (US);
Michael B. Grimm, Glenview, IL (US);
Brian M. Parisi, Glenview, IL (US);
Martin J. Nilsen, Glenview, IL (US);
Illinois Tool Works Inc., Glenview, IL (US);
Abstract
A buckle assembly includes a hollow buckle body and an insertable buckle latch with elongate latching legs. A separate reciprocable slide element carried by the buckle latch element with cam surfaces, angled relative to the longitudinal axis of the buckle that overlies the free ends of the latching legs. The cam surfaces are associated with angled surfaces on the latching legs forward of the latching edges. Movement of the slide element relative to the latch element causes the cam surfaces to urge the free ends of the latching legs together to unlatch the latching legs from the hollow buckle body locking edges. In one form, a cable is connected to the separate slide element to slide the separate slide element.