Improvements in Box Fasteners.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 10th June, 1898-Accepted, 16th July, 1898
Improvements in Box Fasteners.
I, THOMAS EPHRIAM SAYRE, of Janesville, in the County of Rock, and State
of Wisconsin, United States of America, 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.-
The invention relates to improvements in box fasteners
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The object of the present invention 18 to improve the construction of box
fasteners and to provide a simple, inexpensive and efficient device, adapted to
be readily applied to box covers, and capable of securely fastening the same to
the bodies of boxes and of preventing their removal without a key.
The invention consists on the construction and novel combination of parts, as
hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and pointed
out in the claims hereto appended.
In the drawings .
Figure 1 is a perspective view of a box cover provided with a fastener con-
structed in accordance with this invention.
Figure 2 18 a vertical sectional view of the upper portion of a box showing
the invention applied.
Figure 3 18 an enlarged detail sectional view of the central portion of the box
fastener, the key being in position
Figure 4 18 a detail perspective view of the rotary hub
Figures 5 and 6 are detail views of the casing.
Like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures
of the drawings.
1 designates a cover designed especially for beer boxes, but adapted for any
analogous receptacle and provided on its lower face with a depending flange 2,
preferably formed by cleats or strips and fitting within the body 3 of the box,
as illustrated in Figure 2 of the accompanying drawings The cover 18 pro-
vided with a central cucular opening 4, in which is arranged an annular flange or
Bleeve 5, of a hub 6, which consists of a plate or disk arranged on the inner face
of the cover and the said sleeve or flange which extends into the circular opening
and forms a journal.
The sleeve or flange of the hub has its upper edge located below the plane of
the upper face of the cover and the hub is provided with a central opening or
socket 7, adapted to be engaged by a key 8 and receiving a central stud 9, of
a casing 10.
The casing 10 is provided with substantially L-shaped feet 11, which are par-
forated for the reception of screws or other suitable fastening devices, and which
offset the body portion of the casing from the cover. The body portion of the
casing 18 circular and the feet which are arranged at intervals, form openings
through which extend the inner portions of sliding bolts 11°
The sliding bolts 11", which consist of rods, have their outer ends 12, which
are pointed, guided in perforations 13, of the flange of the cover and the inner
ends of the bolts are bent upward at right angles and are engaged with perfora-
tions 14 of the hub, whereby when the latter is partially rotated, the bolts are

page_text: simultaneously reciprocated The pointed ends of the bolts are adapted to
engage the aides and ends of a box, which does not have to be provided with
any particular form of keeper, and when the inner ends of the bolts are brought
in alinement with their outer ends and are arranged duectly opposite each other,
they are positively held against accidental inward movement.
It will be seen that the box fastener is exceedingly aimple and inexpensive
in construction, that the casing secures the hub to the cover and supports and
forms a bearing for the same, and that the bolts cannot be operated without a
key. It will also be apparent that the box fastener is quickly operated to lock
or release a cover, and that a keeper is unnecessary, the pointed ends of the bolts
being adapted to imbed themselves in any ordinary wooden box.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what
I claim is.
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1. In a box fastener, the combination with a cover having a central opening,
of a rotary hub provided with a central opening and having an annular flange
or sleeve fitting in the opening of the cover, said hub being adapted to be
engaged by a key, a casing secured to the cover, receiving the hub and provided
with a stud fitting in the central opening of the same and forming a pivot said
casing being provided with a series of openings, and sliding bolts guided on the
cover and having their inner portions extended through the openings of the casing
and connected with the hub, substantially as described
2. In a box fastener, the combination with a cover provided with a depending
flange having perforations, a casing provided with a central vertical pivot stud
and having feet forming openings secured to the cover. a hub provided with an
annular sleeve or flange and having a central opening to receive the pivot stud
and provided with perforations, said hub being journaled on the stud and in an
opening of the cover, and pointed rods guided in the perforations of said flange
and having upturned inner ends arranged in the perforations of the hub, sub-
stantially as described.
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