An Improved Catch or Fastening for Securing so called Automatic Machines or other Boxes or similar Articles to Walls, Posts, and the like.
Year: 1888

page_text: COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Catch or Fastening for Securing so called Automatic
Machines or other Boxes or similar Articles to Walls, Posts, and
the like.
I WILLIAM FOLDER HURNDALL of 109 Blackfriars Road in the County of Surrey
Pipe case Manufacturer do hereby declaro 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 object of my invention is to provide a simple and effective means of securing
boxes of any description and especially so called Automatic Machines to walls doors
posts or other vertical objects. By means of my invention the box intended to be
attached cannot be detached (without breaking my catch or fastening) except by
unfastening or unlocking the boxes and raising the latch hereinafter mentioned.
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I construct two metal fastenings, ono of which is intended to secure the bottom and
the other the back of the box near the top of it and it is the combination of my three
pieces hereinafter mentioned that I claim as the special feature of my invention. On
reference to the accompanying drawings (which show a convenient size of the
invention) this will be more readily understood-Figure A" represents a plate
containing screw or bolt holes by which the upper fastening is affixed to the wall or
other object above mentioned at right angles to this plate a catch (Figure B,) is firmly
attached. This catch has a pointed end 61" and a slot "6" for the latch hereinafter
mentioned to fall into. Fig. C represents the lower bolt or fastening showing the
plate containing holes by which it is affixed as aforesaid. Fig. D showing a lateral
view of the same bolt or fastening which has the end "d" inclined slightly away
from the screw or bolt plate.
Fig. E represents the latch which is affixed to the inside of the box it is intended to
secure and consists of a metal bar "e" shaped as in the drawing which is pivotted at
the point "e" and which works upwards and downwards over portion of a slot "e"
cut in the back of the box. The broader end of the catch "e" is cut out as shown
leaving two projecting portions "e" and "e" and in the portion cut out is placed a
screw nail or other projecting object "e" which only permits the catch to move through a
certain arc which must be sufficient however to uncover the whole of the slot "e³."

page_text: There is a small handle or knob attached or inserted at "e"," and the under edge of
the catch "e" nearer the slot "e" is bevelled off at an angle.
The method of using my invention is as follows: the upper and lower catches or
fastenings A B and C D are affixed to the wall or other object at the requisite distance
apart so that the lower fastening C D can be inserted in a slot in the bottom of the
box intended to be secured and the upper fastening A B can pass through the slot "e³."
By the latter means the latch "el" (on the inside of the back of the box) is raised
until it comes to the slot "6" when it falls by its own weight and secures the box
until the latch is raised from the inside and the fastenings withdrawn from their
respective slots.
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 1
claim is
1. The construction and arrangement of the catch (B) to be fastened to the wall or
other fixed object and the latch (e) working inside the box or other similar article
which it is desired to secure in manner substantially as above described.
2. The mode of securing so called Automatic Machines or other boxes by the
combined use of the several mechanical appliances above described in manner sub-
stantially as above described.