Patent ID: 6427297
Filing Date: 2002-08-06
Classification: A44B,Y10T

Abstract:
A buckle comprising:a base having two side walls and a bottom between the two side walls, a cover for accommodating and supporting the base, and having a tongue insertion hole formed at one end side of the two side walls of the base, guide portions provided on each of the two side walls to protrude inwardly therefrom for leading a tongue to be inserted through the tongue insertion hole, said guide portions having lower surfaces disposed substantially parallel to the bottom of the base, and operation means for unlatching the tongue and the buckle and having two side walls located between the side walls of the base adjacent thereto, respectively, said side walls of the operation means, when the operation means is located at a forward end in the buckle, extending to middle portions of the guide portions to partly overlap in a longitudinal direction thereof, said side walls of the operation means leading a tip of the tongue to the guide portions smoothly without blocking even when the tongue is inserted from the tongue insertion hole at a maximum slant posture defined by the tongue insertion hole relative to the buckle.