Gerald L Thomas & Pager Belt Buckle Device

Inventor Gerald L Thomas, was born in Savannah Georgia, grew up in Maryland, and now resides in Chicago. He came up with his idea for his buckle after working in the fashion retail business for many years. Clients coming in to try on and purchase clothing were often wearing a clip-on device on their belts, pagers or cellphones that would fall to the floor or get missplaced.

Thomas thought it would be cool and more fashionable, to have these devices as a wearable technology. Thomas states, "I'm a Buckle Designer, who just wanted to get this product to market, that can be any number of wireless accessories, housed as fashion.

Patent Abstract

A pager belt buckle device for conveniently combining a belt buckle with a pager unit. The pager belt buckle device includes a belt buckle member having an upper elongate support portion and a lower elongate support portion being spaced apart and further having a housing portion integrally attached to the upper and lower elongate support portions and being disposed therebetween and being recessed along a longitudinal back side of the elongate support portions thus forming a belt receiving slot between the upper and lower elongate support portions; and also includes pin-like support members being removably connected to the upper and lower support portions and extending therebetween; and further includes a catch member hingedly mounted about a first of the pin-like support members; and further includes a pager assembly for receiving radio signals.