The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1873-10-30
PROPOSALS.
PROPOSALS
FOR MAIL LOCKS AND KEYS.
POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT
WAsHIsGToS. ID. O.. Sept. IL, 1873.

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FOR MAIL LOCKS AND KEYS.
POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT,
WARRINGTON. ID. o.. Sept. II, 1873.
SEPARATE SEALED PROPOSALS
viii be received at this Department until i
O'Clock noon, the FIFTEENTH DAY OF DE
GENDER, 1873, for furnish hing. under separat
contracts, two different kinds of padlocks AM
keys one for the sole and exclusive use of regis
tered through mails. and the other for the soil
and exclusive use of street letter bores.
Every proposal must be accompanied with du
plicate samples of the locks and keys thereby
offered to be furnished /; one of each kind O
sample lock to be riveted up and finished, and
another to be open or unriveted so that it's in
ternal structure and arrangement may readily
be examined. Each sample should be plainly
marked with the bidders name, and If the
same. or any part thereof, be covered by pa
tent, the name OF the patentee must be attached
thereto. 1t must also be such as shall be war.
rented to not infringe on any patented Invention
of which the bidder is not the patentee or as.
signee. tAa}5 HdtaA
The internal plan or arrangement of the locks
offered, and the particular form of the keys re-
quisite to open them, must not be like any now or
hitherto in public or private use, and must not
have been exhibited, described or exposed, in
any manner tending to impair their security and
usefulness for the mails; and it will be an i'm.
portant consideration in favor Of any lock and
key submitted it, being otherwise suitable, 1t
shall have been invented specially for the pur-
pose for which 1t is offered.
Locks suitable for the registered nails. or for
the street letter boxes, should not exceed eight
ounces each in weight, and should possess a high
degree of security, strength and durability.
Every such lock, while it must be secure from
being opened by any other means than BY its
peculiar key, (unless designedly broken by ex-
treme and obvious violence.) must be devoid of
any intricacy in opening with the proper KEY.
and be capable of being securely shut without
the use Of the key. The shape or size of the
locks for registered mails should be such as to
make them dstingushable at glance from the
locks of the street letter bores, and both should
by their external shape, be instantly distinguish.
able from the mail locks now in use
The Registered Mail Locks should be made of
hard and tough brass, excepting the shackle and
rivets, which must be iron, the latter we'll
shouldered, couatersunB, and headed at both
ends The shell or case of such locks must not
have sharp angles, and must be free from
knobs, escutcheons, or other APPENDICES likely
to be compressed, battered, or knocked out of
order by the peculiarly hard usage of the service.
Each lock is to have outside upon its face, in
letters sufficiently large and distinct, "U s. Re
gfstered Mall" and also such number lin
figures, each, not less than 5-I6 of an inch long,)
az nav be orr,erod.. q ,;e.r.,, ,,r,,,,,.- 80"
,oaro fo,r ,,,ooas - Co. ~, -,
reouired on eacb ,oc,r s,ncb words ars as
ara tn he sun,x bv stamn,no 10 ,ha .ha,, =.
of wrought or sheet brass or n, =. &C., 4, AZ.
,be,, be made of cas, uo'a, An ar -. 80
Registered mails arc 10 ha un;fnr,,,,, Ia.
,eptipg the numbers marked On than ana al,
their keys, which should be case.bardaned ;ro,
md nickel. plated. are IL be also allie 90 tho,
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Inc locks for the Street Letter Boxes are to |
% made OF hard and tough brass, and the key
noie OF each lock should be in the lowest part of
he wall OF the shell or case, when the lock is
hanging by Its shackle, and should be sheltered
'y sufficient juttng out of the upper and lower
i'm around that part of the wall. The interior
of the lock should be in q position
remote from the key-hole. and be
operated easily by its key, which should be fiat,
made of steel, and be of convenient length and
sufficient strength and stiffness. The bow of the
zey should be solid. with a small hole through
:, and is to have ~ s. Letter Carriern stamped
IN one side, ard such figures and letters stamped
IN the opposite side as may be ordered The
ace OF eacn lock Is 70 nave upon II ~ 81 Street
1eeser noe IN eitner raised OF SUNK letters ana
my o.ier letters pesaes nor exceeding threet hat
nay 10 Al ''io ioehs ahu Aoys oi inc
IN. ios.s. :, 'e.s a,e " 70 aaap'ea 70 each
$40 ~ : " % ope"eu ~ any AeS ho'
harAeo WIN Inc same letter or letters.
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