Baskets, Bags, Sacks, and other Receptacles.
Year: 1887

page_text: Date of Application, 15th Jan., 1887
Complete Left, 15th Oct., 1887
Complete Accepted, 16th Dec., 1887
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Baskets, Bags, Sacks, and other Receptacles.
1, EDMUND SQUIRE NORCOMBE of 97 Islington Row Birmingham in the County
of Warwick Engineer do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as
follows:-
I provide a hasp which is to be securely fastened to the basket or other receptacle
in the ordinary way. And I also provide a flap with a suitably shaped opening to
be secured to the basket or other receptacle in such manner as to be capable of
closing over the lasp. The basp is made with a slot into which there fits a slide
or catch of suitable shape actuated by a spring and kept in its place by means of a
boss constructed or secured around and above the opening in the flap. This boss is
recessed on its under side to form the upper part of a groove or channel in which
the slide or catch works. The boss is open on the top and is formed with an
undercut or rabbet to receive a raised or dished metal or other disc that shall be
capable when flattened or compressed of expanding into the rabbet to form the seal.
The seal may be broken by means of a pointed instrument caused to penetrate and
rip off the disc or seal and to liberate the hasp by withdrawing the slide or catch
When my invention is applied to bags or sacks without frames the mouth of the bag
or sack which is provided with studs must be closed by a collar or other means and
my invention applied substantially as described.
Dated this handouth to. Tanna 1007

page_text: Baskets, Bags, Sacks, and other Receptacles.
I EDMUND SQUIRE NORCOMBE of 97 Islington Row Birmingham in the County of
Warwick Engineer 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
I will illustrate my invention as applied respectively to a basket and a bag or sack
such as are in use for the postal service of the country making use of identical
reference-letters throughout the drawings but employing them singly only in the
specification.
Fig. 1 represents in section a hasp (A) actuated by a spring (B) embedded in a
langed box (C). The flanged box (C) is made oval in plan (Figs. 1 & 1b) to pass
through the wicker work of the basket to which it is secured by means of a back
plate (E) & bolts or rivets (D).
Fig. 2 is a flap with a suitably shaped opening to be secured to the basket or
other receptacle by the lid or cover in such manner as to be capable of closing over
the hasp (A). The hasp (A) is made with a slot to receive the point of the slide or
catch (F) which slide or catch is actuated by the spring (G) & kept in position by
means of the boss (H) shewn in plan Figs. 2 & 2°. The boss is constructed or
secured around and above the opening in the flaps & is recessed on its underside
to form the upper part of a groove or channel in which the slide or catch (F)
works.
The boss is open on top and is formed with an undercut or rabbet to receive a
raised or dished metal disc (J) that shall be capable when flattened or compressed
of expanding into the rabbet to form the seal. The disc (J) when so flattened or
compressed will adapt itself to the contour of the slide or catch (F) beneath it and
will enclose the projecting top of the thumb-piece (F1) thereby securing the slide or
catch firmly in position.
The seal may be broken by means of a pointed instrument caused to penetrato
& rip off the seal (J) and the hasp (A) may be liberated by the withdrawal of the
slide or catch (F).
In some cases in lieu of the hasp (A) I employ a rigid staple made with a slot to
receive the slide or catch (F). My object in the employment of the hasp (A) is
to provide that the flap may be sealed before the basket or sack to which it may be
attached has received its contents so that when loaded it will be necessary only to
close the flap over the hasp.
I have described the flap (Fig. 2) as being secured to the basket or other receptacle
but the construction of the flap may be so modified as to render it capable of being
detached at pleasure from the basket or other receptacle & used interchangeably for
any basket or receptacle adapted to receive it.

page_text: Figs. 3. 4 & 5 shew an arrangement by means of which extra security is obtained.
Figs. 3 & 4 shew an upper bar (K) permanently attached to the underside of the lid
of a basket and furnished with two or more stays (L) shaped to the radius of the
lid which clip & strengthen the front of the basket when the lid is closed. A sliding
bar (M) to which is attached the flap already described (Fig. 2) is secured to the
fixed upper bar (K) by means of rivets (N) Fig. 4 working in slots (O Fig. 5).
The studs (P Fig. 4) are incorporated with the body of the basket and their heads
pass through the keyhole slots (Q Fig. 5). When the lid is closed a lateral
movement must be given to the sliding bar (M) in order to bring the heads of the
studs (P) within the narrow portion of the slots (Q) & the flap may then be closed
over the hasp and sealed. When the hars are to be placed on the upper side of the
lid the arrangement must be modified.
Figs. 6 & 6 show my invention in the form of a collar for sealing bags or sacks
without frames. The studs or other impediments with which the mouth of the bag
or sack must be provided will guard it from being tampered with by preventing the
withdrawal through the sealed collar of any portion of the bag or sack.
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
1st. The method of securing and sealing postal and other baskets bags sacks and
other receptacles substantially as herein set forth and specified.
2nd. Constructing a hasp and flap to interlock substantially as herein set forth and
specified.
3rd. Constructing an interchangeable flap substantially as herein set forth and
specified.
4th. Constructing a flap with fixed and sliding bars substantially as herein set
forth and specified.
5th. Constructing a collar for bags & sacks substantially as herein set forth and
specified.
6th. Constructing and applying an expanding metal or other disc substantially as
herein set forth and specified.
Dated this 13th October 1887.
EDMUND SQUIRE NORCOMBE.