An Improved Fastening for Metal, Leather, or Wood Boxes or Trunks.
Year: 1889

page_text: Date of Application. 13th May, 1889
Complete Specification Left, 12th Feb., 1890-Accepted, 3rd May, 18:0
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Fastening for Metal, Leather, or Wood Boxes or
Trunks.
WILLIAM HIGHField Jones, WILLIAM HALL JONES, and BENJAMIN HIGHFIELD
JONES, Japanners, Tinplate Workers and Enamellers, Ablow Street, Wolverhampton,
trading as Jones Brothers & Co., do hereby declare the nature of our invention for
AN IMPROVED FASTENING FOR METAL LEATHER OR WOOD BOXES OR TRUNKS to be
as follows:-
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An improved fastening for metal leather or wood boxes or trunks.
On the lid of
the box or trunk two or more basps are loosely jointed so that they can be moved to
the left or right as required.
To the hasps are fastened a metal rod or bar, when the trunk or box is closed
the hasps with the bar or rod fall over the moulding of the body and keep the
lid down.
On the moulding referred to are fixed two or more metal catches or projections in
places to correspond with the hasps.
On the rod or bar is fixed a button ear or other projection which enables the rod or
bar with the hasps to be moved backwards or forwards as required, when moved
forwards the hasps are firmly fixed by the catches or projections on the moulding,
when moved backwards the hasps are released. The rod & hasps are held firmly in
their places by an ordinary lock. The hasp of the lock falls over the rod and keeps it
immovable when the box is locked. When unlocked the rod is released & tho box
can be opened.
Dated to how of N. 1000
WILLIAM HIGHFIELD JONES.
WILLIAM HALL JONES.
BENJAMIN HIGHFIELD JONES.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Fastening for Metal, Leather, or Wood Boxes or
Trunks.
We WILLIAM Highfield JONES WILLIAM HALL JONES & BENJAMIN HIGHFIELD
JONES Japanners Tinplate Workers and Enamellers trading under the style of Jones
Brothers & Company Ablow Street Wolverhampton 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 :-
On the lid of the inetal leather or wood box or trunk two hasps are loosely jointed
so that they can be moved to the left or right as required. To the hasps A A are
fastened a metal rod or bar A. A. When the trunk or box is closed the basp with the
bar or rod falls over the moulding B. B. B. forming part of the body of the box and
thus keeping the lid down. On the moulding referred to are fixed two metal catches
or projections C C in places to correspond with the hasps A A. On the rod or bar is
fixed a button or other projection D by which the rod or bar with the hasps A A can
be moved forward or backward as required. When moved backward the hasps are
firmly fixed by the catches on the moulding, when moved forward the hasps A A are
released. The rod and hasp are held firmly in their place by an ordinary lock. The
hasp E of the lock falls over the rod A A and keeps it immovable when the box
is locked.
When unlocked the rod is released and the box can be opened.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of our said Inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed we declare that what we
claim is.
The box or trunk referred to is secured by 2 hasps loosely jointed, attached to the
lid near each end of the box.
These hasps fall over the body moulding of the box and are held in place by a long
rod to which they are fixed.
This rod is held down by an ordinary lock and thus the bar and hasps are immoveable,
and the box secure.
Dated this 11th day of February 1890.
WILLIAM HIGHFIELD JONES.
WILLIAM HALL JONES.
BENJAMIN HIGHFIELD JONES.