Improvements in Locks and Fastenings for Trunks and other Articles.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 14th Sept., 1894
Complete Specification Left, 14th June, 1395-Accepted. 14th Sept., 1895
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Locks and Fastenings for Trunks and other
Articles.
I, ALEXANDER JOHN BATES, of Glen Villa, St. Mark's Road, Wolverhampton,
in the County of Stafford, Lock Manufacturer, do hereby declare the nature of
my invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to improvements in trunk and like lock fastenings in which
side hasps are employed, one on each side of the main or central hasp.
The object of my invention is to so construct and arrange the sliding bolts and
attachments of the side hasps that they can be readily and conveniently inserted or
withdrawn simultaneously, and be secured by the locking of the central hasp in its
closed position.
In carrying my invention into effect I employ three hasps of any suitable form,
the central hasp being secured within the lock casing in the usual manner, whilst
the side hasps are secured in their cases or boxes by means of sliding bolts
concealed by a containing tube. The sliding bolts are simultaneously forced into,
or withdrawn from, the side hasp boxes by means of a finger piece operating a cam
or crank disc at the central part of the tube such part being cut away to allow of the
insertion of the disc. The disc has slots formed within it to engage with small
projecting pins from the inner ends of the sliding bolts. The operating staple or
finger piece has a screwed stem which passes through the cam or crank disc and is
secured on the back face of the bolt containing tube in such a manner that the
finger piece can be freely turned in a circular direction through a sufficient distance
to enable the disc, which it carries with it, to slide the bolts in opposite directions
and cause their outer ends to engage with the staples of the side hasps and thus to
secure them in their respective boxes.
When the side hasps are thus secured the central hasp is brought into its closed
position causing its staples to enter within the lock casing, a slot being formed in
the hasp to just fit over the finger piece hereinbefore described. The finger piece
is thus held and prevented from turning, and upon locking with the key in the
ordinary manner, the central and also the side hasps are effectually secured. Upon
unlocking and opening or withdrawing the central hasp, the finger piece may be
turned in the required direction for withdrawing the bolts and thus releasing the
side hasps.
Dated the 13th day of September 1894.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Locks and Fastenings for Trunks and other
Articles.
I, ALEXANDER JOHN BATES, of Glen Villa, St. Mark's Road, Wolverhampton,
in the County of Stafford, Lock 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 improvements in trunk and like lock fastenings in
which side hasps are employed, one on each side of the main or central hasp.

page_text: The object of my invention is to so construct and arrange the sliding bolts and
attachments of the side hasps that they can be readily and conveniently inserted
or withdrawn simultaneously, and be secured by the locking of the central hasp in
its closed position.
In order that my invention and the method of carrying the same into effect may
be the more readily understood, I append hereunto one sheet of explanatory
drawings to be hereinafter referred to :-
Figure 1 is a part front elevation of a trunk, box, or other receptacle having my
improved fastening attached thereto.
Figure 2 is a plan of the sliding bolts within their containing tube, and
representing also the central cam or crank disc with operating staple or finger
piece removed.
Figure 3 is a plan of the sliding bolts alone.
Figure 4 is à plan of the central cam disc.
Figure 5 is a sectional end view through one of the side hasps.
Figure 6 is an enlarged end elevation showing a sliding bolt within the tube, also
the
operating staple or finger piece.
Figure 7 is a part front elevation of the central hasp when in its closed position.
The same reference letters in the different views indicate the same parts.
The ends of the sliding bolt containing tube A enter within the side hasp
boxes B B, and the central portion of the tube is cut away to admit the cam or
crank disc C. The disc C or other equivalent part has slots at each side which
engage with small studs or projections d d from the inner ends of the sliding
bolts D D shown at Figure 3. The operating staple or finger piece E, Figures 1
and 6 has a screwed or other stem which passes through the cam or crank disc C
and is secured on the back face of the tube in such a manner that the finger piece
can be freely turned in a circular direction through a sufficient distance to enable
the disc C, which it carries with it, to slide the bolts D D in opposite directions
and cause their outer ends to engage with the staples of the side hasps and thus to
secure them in their respective boxes B B'.
When the side hasps are thus secured, the central hasp is brought into its closed
position as shown by dotted lines at Figure 1 and by the part view Figure 7,
causing the staples to enter within the lock F. The finger piece E is then secured
within a slot formed in the central hasp as indicated at Figure 7 and cannot be
turned and upon locking with the key in the ordinary manner, the central and also
the side hasps are effectually secured. Upon unlocking and after opening or
withdrawing the central hasp the finger piece E may be turned in the required
direction for withdrawing the bolts D D' and thus releasing the side hasps.
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. In trunk and other lock fastenings the method of operating and securing the
side hasp bolts by means of a cam or crank disc and a finger or turning piece in
combination with a slotted central hasp substantially as herein described.
2. In trunk and other lock fastenings the combination of a central finger piece
and cam or crank disc with the sliding bolts substantially as and for the purposes
herein before described and as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
3. The improved triple hasp lock fastening for trunk boxes, and other
receptacles, substantially as hereinbefore described and as illustrated in the
accompanying drawings."
Dated thin 12th dan of Tuna 1895
MARKS & CLERK,
18 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., and
13 Temple Street, Birmingham, Agents for the Applicant.