Patent ID: 7219406

Claim:
A safety snap buckle comprising: a female receptacle having a shell-like body, two arcuate openings formed in two sides of said body, an elongated access slot opening formed in a lower wall of said shell-like body, a male plug having a generally rectangular frame and having two flexible arms extending in a mutually parallel manner from two sides of a front end of said frame forwardly, said flexible arms being flexible inwards towards each other, two arcuate portions formed on a free end of said flexible arms, two hook portions formed on an outer side edge of said flexible arms and adapted to engage with a rear edge of said arcuate openings of said female receptacle when said male plug and said female receptacle are slidably engaged with one another, an elongated bar formed in said male plug, said elongated bar extending forwardly from a cross bar of said frame and located parallel and spaced equal distance from said flexible arms, a latch member slidably mounted to said elongated bar, said latch member having a raised button portion adapted to engage with said elongated access slot opening at a lower surface of said female receptacle, said latch member having a length equal to a distance between said arcuate portions of said flexible arms, said raised button portion being operative for slidably locating said latch member selectively at a first position locating between said arcuate portions of said flexible arms and a second position away from said first position.