IMPROVE- ,MENTS IN LOCKS FOR TRUNKS, BAGS, DRESSING. CASES, AND OTHER LIKE ARTICLES
Year: 1865

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Richard Archibald Brooman, of 166, Fleet Street,
in the City of London, Patent Agent, for the Invention of "IMPROVE-
,MENTS IN LOCKS FOR TRUNKS, BAGS, DRESSING. CASES, AND OTHER LIKE
ARTICLES." A communication from abroad by, Nicolas Chrétien Goynaud,
of Coutras, France.
Sealed the 13th March 1866, and dated the 15th September 1865..
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Richard Archibald Brooman-
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition,. on
the 15th Septembar 1865.
I, RICHARD ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of
London, Patent Agent, do hereby declare the nature of the said Invention
for "IMPROVEMENTS IN LOCKS FOR TRUNKS, BAGS, DRESSING CASES, AND OTHER LIKE
ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
These improvements will be best understood by reference to the accompany-.
ing Drawings and following description.
Figures 1 and 2 shew one of these locks, supposing the two parts of the
lock united; Figures 3 and 4 shew two views of the movable part of the
lock detached, and Figures. 5 and 6.two views of the fixed part detached....

page_text: 1st, movable part. This is formed of a flap a hinged to a plate b. The
flap a is fixed by screws or otherwise to the cover or movable part of the
trunk, bag, dressing case, or other article. The plate is thinned to the
extent of half of its thickness at 1, and has rivetted. on its inner thinned face
one, two, or more hooked catches c, c.
2nd, fixed part. This is composed of a plate d secured to the trunk or
other article. It is thinned at its upper part at to receive by superposition
the thinned portion of the plate b. Two openings f, f, are made in the
thinned part of the plate for the introduction of the catches c, c. There is
another opening between the two openings f, f, to receive a-stud-9 on a
spring h, Figure 5,-placed-uuder the plate d. Towards the middle of the
plate & there is an opening i, in which a loop or knob j is free to play. This
kuob is fixed to the slide bar k; is the keyhole; n, n, and o, o, are for
guiding the slide bar k in its to-and-fro motions. The bolts p, p, are
chamfered at their ends to engage into the hooked catches c, c; q is a spring
for keeping the bar k engaged in the catches c, c, and t is another spring for
pressing on and stopping the bar. Under a counter plate r is a cam s, which
worked by the key overcomes the action of the spring t, frees the bark and
allows of the opening of the lock. When the key inserted in the keyhole has
freed the slide bar from the action of the spring t, the sliding of the knob j
by the finger disengages the bolts from the catches c, c, the plate & becomes
separated from the plate d'aided by the spring h.
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A
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Richard Archibald Brooman in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 15th March 1866:
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL 'COME, 'I, RICHARD
ARCHIBALD BROOMAN, of 166, Fleet Street, in the City of London, Patent
Agent, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most. Excellent Majesty, Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date: the-Fifteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord;
One thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, in the twenty-ninth year of Her
reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give, and grant unto me,
the said Richard Archibald Brooman,, Her special licence that I; the said
Richard Archibald Broonian, my executors, administrators, and assigns, or
such others as I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, my, executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others,

page_text: from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and, vend, within,
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands,
and Isle of Man,, an Invention for, "IMPROVEMENTS IN LOCKS: FOR TRUNKS,
BAGS, DRESSING CASES, AND OTHER LIKE. ARTICLES," (communicated to me from
abroad by Nicolas Chrétien Goynaud, of Coutras, France), upon the condition..
(amongst others) that I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, my executors
or administrators, by an instrument in writing under my; or their, or one
of their hands and seals, should particularly describe and ascertain, the
nature of the said Invention, and in what manner, the same was to be
performed; and cause the same to be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office,
within six calendar months next and immediately, after the date of the said
Letters Patent,
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said, Richard Archibald Brooman, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention, and in, what. manner the same, is
to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by
the following statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings: here-
unto annexed, that is to say
1
These improvements, will; be best understood. by reference to the accom
panying, Drawings and following description.
19.
Figures.1 and 2 sbew, one of these.locks, supposing the two parts of the lock
united; Figures 3 and 4 shew two views of the movable part of the lock
detached, and Figures 5 and 6 two views of the fixed part detached..
Firstly, movable part. This is formed of a flap a hinged to a plate b.
The flap a'is fixed by screws or otherwise to the cover or movable part of
the trunk, bag, dressing case, or other article. The plate b is thinned to the
extent of balf of its thickness at 1, and has rivetted on its inner thinned face
one, two, or more hooked catches c, c.
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:
Second, fixed part. This is composed of a plate d secured to the trunk or
other article. It is thinned at its upper part at ¹ to receive by superposition
the thinned portion of the plate 6. Two openings f, f, are made in the
thinned part of the plate for the introduction of the catches c, c. There is
another opening between the two openings f, f, to receive a stud 9 on a
spring h, Figure 5, placed under the plate d. Towards the middle of the
plate d there is an opening i in which a loop or knob j is free to play. This
knob is fixed to the slide bar k; 2 is the keyhole, and m, Figure 7, is the
key; n, n, and o, o, are for guiding the slide bar k in its to-and-fro motions.
The bolts p, p, are chamfered at their ends to engage into the hooked
catches c, c; is a spring for keeping the bar k engaged in the catches c, c,

page_text: and t is another spring for pressing on and stopping the bar.
Under a
counterplate'r is a cam s, which worked by the key overcomes the action of
the spring t; frees the bar k, and allows of the opening of the lock. When the
key inserted in the keyhole has freed the slide bar from the action of the
springs t the sliding of the knob j by the finger disengages the bolts from the
catches c, c, the plate 6 becomes separated from the plate d aided by the
spring h.
Figures 8 to 11 represent a lock slightly differing from that shown in
Figures 1-to-6.The flap a is hinged to a plate b, which is thinned at
as before. This plate carries only one catch c, and the plate d'has therefore
only one opening to receive this catch. The bark has one bolt p, which
guided by a loop u engages in the catch.
Figures 12 and 13 represent another modification. The plates band: d
are of different form, but the various parts of the lock are the same as in the
arrangement last described; the same letters of reférence indicate the same
parts.
And having now described the nature of the said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim, constructing
locks for trunks, bags, dressing cases, and other like articles, substantially as
herein-before described with reference to the accompanying Drawings..
In witness whereof, I, the said Richard Archibald Brooman, have here-
unto set my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of March, One
thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.