Patent ID: 6351876
Filing Date: 2002-03-05
Classification: A44B,Y10T

Abstract:
A side release buckle comprising a socket member and a plug member,said socket member having a top wall, a bottom wall, a pair of right and left side walls for connecting said top wall and said bottom wall with a gap therebetween and openings communicating with a cavity inside the socket member and disposed inside from said side walls, said plug member including at least one arm portion projecting from a base portion thereof and an engaging portion which engages part of said socket member at a front end of the arm portion, said arm portion of said plug member being adapted to be resiliently deformed when it is inserted into/released from said cavity of said socket member so that a hooking face of the engaging portion of said arm portion releasably engages an end face of each of said opening, wherein said engaging portion is subject to a composite movement comprised of a movement perpendicular to an insertion/release direction of said arm portion and directed inward and outward of said opening and a movement toward either said top wall or bottom wall, said composite movement being generated by a composite movement generating means, and part of an end face of each of said opening which releasably engages hooking faces of the engaging portion of said plug member is an opening end face of the bottom wall or top wall which is opposite to a movement of said engaging portion toward the top wall or bottom wall respectively, and an opening end face of said side walls.