Improvements in Fastenings or Locks for Wallets, Bags, Purses, and other like articles..
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Nov., 1891
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Complete Specification Left, 29th Aug.. 1892-Accepted, 17th Sept., 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fastenings or Locks for Wallets, Bags, Purses,
and other like articles..
I, JAMES STONE DUMBELL, trading as Thomas Turner & Co., of the
Phoenix Lock and Metal Works, Wolverhampton, in the County of Stafford,
Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to the manner in which I construct fastenings for wallets,
bags, purses, pouches, and other like articles, whereby I am enabled to more
readily and securely fasten one portion of the article to another than is at
present possible with the existing fastenings now in common use.
In carrying my invention into effect, I construct my improved fastening for a
pouch or bag in the form of a hollow button or case having two or more projecting
arms or pieces of metal for the purpose of rivetting or closing over upon the
inner portion of the bag, thereby securing it to the leather or other material
from which the bag is constructed. Within this hollow metal case or button I
place a spring having a rivet passing through it to the outer surface of the button
and projecting therefrom. Upon this rivet or pin I secure or attach a thumb and
finger piece of metal or other material of any desired shape or configuration
having a horizontal strip or parallel width of metal along its underside for the
purpose of entering into a slot or groove which I cut or form within the face of
the button, in such a position that when the strip of the manipulating piece of
metal engages therein, the edges of the strip project beyond the surface of the
button or case and thus prevent the unfastening of the bag. The spring or plate
which I place within the case, I cause to remain stationary: but the manipulating
catch piece I cause to revolve upon the pin or rivet, so that when placed in one
position the long edges of the catch piece lie over the surface of the button, the
spring being then in tension; and when placed or turned at right angles the long
edges project over the narrow width of the surface of the button, while the strip itself
is prevented from turning or moving from this locked position, by the action of the
spring which retains the strip within the slot or groove provided for this purpose.
The eyelet or opening which I provide upon the flap or car of my bag I inake of
any desired form and of any suitable material, so that it may pass over the button
or fastening case as before described which I attach to the other portion of the
bag the opening within the eyelet being preferably of the same shape and
configuration as the case or button, so that when the manipulating catch piece is
turned across the button, the projecting portions standing out cach side beyond
the button or case, prevent the inovement of the ear from the other portion of the
bag.
I make my cases or buttons of cast or sheet metal or other suitable material,
and I form the manipulating catch either as a plain strip of metal with its ends
urned up for the convenience of manipulation, or of any other desired
configuration, without departing from the essential feature of my invention, and: I
pply my improved fastenings in a like manner to purses, pouches and other
imilar articles.

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fastenings or Locks for Wallets, Bags, Purses,
and other like articles.
I, JAMES STONE DUMBELL, trading as Thomas Turner and Company, Phoenix
Lock and Metal Works, Wolverhampton, in the County of Stafford, Manufacturer,
.do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to
be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
This invention relates to the manner in which I construct fastenings for wallets,
bags, purses, pouches and other like articles, whereby I am enabled to more
readily and securely fasten one portion of the article to another than is at present
possible with the existing fastenings now in common use.
In carrying my invention into effect I construct my improved fastening for a
pouch or bag in the simplest form as illustrated in the accompanying sheet of
explanatory drawings, in which
Figures 1 and 2 are longitudinal sectional elevations showing the button or knob
in its open and closed positions respectively.
Figure 3 is a plan of the fastening with the clips or ears extended, and the
button or knob shown in its open position.
Figure 4 is a plan with the knob in its closed or fastened position.
Figure 5 is an elevation of a bag or wallet with the fastening attached, and
Figure 6 is an elevation of the same.
The same distinctive figures in the different views refer to the same parts in
cach case.
I form a hollow button or case B having two or more projecting arins or pieces
of metal B, B2 for the purpose of riveting or closing over upon the inner portion
of the bag thereby securing it to the leather or other niaterial from which the bag
is constructed. Within this hollow metal case or button 1 place a spring E
having a rivet D passing through it to the outer surface of the button and
projecting therefrom. Upon this rivet or pin D I secure or attach a thumb and
finger piece A. of metal or other material of any desired shape or configuration
having a horizontal strip or parallel width of metal along its underside for the
purpose of entering into a slot or groove b, which I cut or form within the face of
the button, in such a position that when the strip of the manipulating piece of
metal engages therein, the edges of the strip project beyond the surface of the
button or case and thus prevent the unfastening of the bag. The spring or
plate E which I place within the case, I cause to remain stationary; but the
manipulating catch piece I cause to revolve upon the pin or rivet D so that when
placed in one position the long edges of the catch piece lie over the surface of the
button, the spring being then in tension; and when placed or turned at right
angles the long edges project over the narrow width of the surface of the button,
while the strip itself is prevented from turning or moving from this locked
position by the action of the spring E which retains the strip within the slot or
groove provided for this purpose. The eyelet or opening C which I provide
upon the flap or ear of my bag I make of any desired form and of any suitable
inaterial, so that it may pass over the button or fastening case B (as before
described) which I attach to the other portion of the bag; the opening within the
eyelet being preferably of the same and configuration as the case or button, so
that when the manipulating catch piece A is turned across the button B, the
projecting portions standing out each side beyond the button or case prevent the
movement of the ear from the other portion of the bag.
I make my cases or buttons of cast or sheet metal or other suitable material,
and I form the manipulating catch either as a plain strip of metal with its ends
turned up for the convenience of manipulation, or of any other desired

page_text: configuration, without departing from the essential feature of my invention, and I
apply my improved fastenings in a like manner to purses, pouches and other
similar articles.
Figures 3 and 4 show the method I prefer to employ for securing the eyelet C
to the flap or ear of the bag, by means of the projecting pieces C and C, which
are passed through and bent over upon the underside of the flap or ear of the bag
as shown at C, C (Figure 1).
Figures 5 and 6 illustrate one ordinary form of bag F having my improved lock
or fastening A, B, C fitted thereto.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. The construction and arrangement of fastenings for bags, purses, and other
articles substantially as hereinbefore described and as illustrated in the accom-
panying drawings.
2. In a fastening for a bag, purse or other article the construction of a spring
locking and moving thumb or finger piece such as A capable of passing through an
eyelet or rim casing such as C attached to one portion of the article, when moved
in one direction; but incapable of passing through the same spring when moved in
another or cross direction by reason of the projection of the springing thumb piece
ends over the eyelet or rim C substantially as hereinbefore described and as
illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
Dated this 27th day of August 1892.
MARKS & CLERK,
13, Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicant.