Improved Means for Securing Locks and Hasps to Metallic Travelling Trunks and the like.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 4th May, 1898
Complete Specification Left, 6th Feb. 1899-Accented. 11th Mar
1800
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Securing Locks and Hasps to Metallic Travelling
Trunks and the like.
I, THOMAS ARBLASTER COOKE, trading as Henry Blunn & Co., of Brereton
Works, 88, Shadwell Street, in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows :>-
This invention consists of the hereindescribed improved means for secur-
ing locks and hasps to metallic travelling trunks and to other metallic
trunks and boxes. Heretofore the lock has usually been secured to the
front of a metallic travelling trunk by screws which pass through holes in the
flange of the lock and through the front of the trunk and have nuts on the
inside; and the hasp has been similarly secured to the front of the lid by two
screws passing through holes in the hasp plate and in the front of the lid and
provided with nuts on the inside. The ends of the screws and nuts projecting
inside the trunk are objectionable as they are liable to scratch and tear anything
contained in the trunk and moreover the nuts are liable to shake off the screws
and then the lock and hasp will become loose. By my invention I am enabled
to secure the said locks and hasps to the metallic trunk without the use of bolts
and nuts or rivets and without forming any objectionable projections inside the
trunk.
In one arrangement of carrying out my invention as applied to fixing the lock
to the trunk the flange of the lock has two or more projecting tongues formed with
it, or fixed to it, these tongues being by preference situated at the sides of the
lock and projecting from the back of the lock at right angles thereto. The
said tongues pass through corresponding slots in the front of the metallic trunk
and are then bent and hammered down flat against the inside of the trunk
thereby effectually securing the lock in place without causing any objectionable
projection on the inside. Moreover the cost of the screws and nuts is saved as
they are not required. The said projecting tongues may be formed in various
ways as for instance they may be pieces which project from the edges of the
flange or they may be pierced out of the body of the flange and bent back at
right angles thereto leaving holes in the flange where the tongues have been
cut out. Or the tongues may be made as separate pieces which are rivetted
soldered or otherwise fixed to the flange of the lock.
In another arrangement of my invention the said tongues are formed as
separate strips or blanks of sheet metal or pieces of wire which are bent so as
to form the tongues which then pass through slots or other holes in the flange
of the lock and in the face of the trunk the ends being bent and hammered down
inside the trunk (or outside the same) so as to thus effectually secure the lock
to the trunk.
Instead of the tongues being formed with or attached to the flange of the
lock and passed through holes in the trunk as above described, the tongues may
be formed on or out of the trunk itself to project from the front of the same and

page_text: pass through holes or recesses in the lock flange or so as to embrace the edges of
the lock flange and then be hammered down over the front of the lock flange and
thus secure the lock to the trunk.
I fix the hasp plate to the front of the trunk lid in any of the several ways
herein before described with reference to fixing the lock to the front of the
trunk.
Dotad 11 L
1000
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.
Improved Means for Securing Locks and Hasps to Metallic Travelling
Trunks and the like.
I, THOMAS ARBLASTER COOKE, trading as Henry Blunn & Co., of Brereton
Works, 88, Shadwell Street, in the City of Birmingham, Manufacturer, do hereby
declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement;-
This invention consists of the hereindescribed improved means for secur-
ing locks and hasps to metallic travelling trunks and to other metallic
trunks and boxes. Heretofore the lock has usually been secured to the
front of a metallic travelling trunk by screws which pass through holes in the
flange of the lock and through the front of the trunk and have nuts on the
inside; and the hasp has been similarly secured to the front of the lid by two
screws passing through holes in the hasp plate and in the front of the lid and
provided with nuts on the inside. The ends of the screws and nuts projecting
inside the trunk are objectionable as they are liable to scratch and tear anything
contained in the trunk and moreover the nuts are liable to shake off the screws
and then the lock and hasp will become loose. By my invention I am enabled
to secure the said locks and hasps to the metallic trunk without the use of bolts
and nuts or rivets and without forming any objectionable projections inside the
trunk.
I will describe my invention by referring to the accompanying drawings on
which Fig. 1 is a front view and Fig. 2 is a side view of a trunk lock made
with projecting tongues in accordance with this invention for the purpose of
fixing the lock to the trunk or box; Fig. 3 is a plan of the said lock; Fig. 4
is a sectional plan shewing the said lock fixed to the trunk by the tongues; Fig. 5
is a front view of a portion of the trunk shewing the holes in the same through
which the tongues pass; Fig. 6 shews the trunk hasp with the hasp plate made
with tongues in accordance with this invention for fixing the same to a metallic
trunk or box; Fig. 7 is a front view of a trunk lock shewing another method of
forming the said tongues; Fig. 8 is a front view of a trunk lock illustrating another
method of arranging the tongues which secure the lock to the trunk and Fig. 10
shews separately a strip of metal which forms two of the said tongues; Fig. 11
is a front view of a portion of a metallic trunk with two tongues formed out
of it in accordance with this invention for fixing the lock thereto and Fig. 12
is a soparate view of the lock shewing the slots through which the tongues pass;
Fig. 13 is a front view of a hasp for a trunk lock with the hasp plate provided
with fixing tongues in accordance with this invention; Fig. 14 is a sectional
plan of Fig. 13 shewing the hasp plate fixed to the front of the trunk and Fig. 15
is a separate view of the tongue of the hasp plate shewn in Figs. 13 and 14.

page_text: The same letters of reference indicate the same or corresponding parts in all
the figures of the drawings.
In carrying out my invention as applied to fixing a lock to a metallic trunk
or box (see Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5) the flange A of the lock has two or more
projecting tongues a¹ a formed with it, or fixed to it, these tongues a¹ a² being
by preference situated at the sides of the lock and projecting from the back of the
lock at right angles thereto. The said tongues a¹ a pass through corresponding
slots b b in the front B of the metallic trunk and are then bent and hammered
down flat against the inside of the trunk thereby effectually securing the lock in
place without causing any objectionable projection on the inside of the trunk.
Moreover the cost of the screws and nuts are saved as they are not required.
The said projecting tongues al a² may be formed in various ways as for instance
they may be pieces which project from the edges of the flange (as in Figs. 1, 2, 3
and 4), or as shewn in Fig. 7, the tongues (in this case four in number
marked a a² a³ a¹) are pierced out of the body of the flange A. and bent back
at right angles thereto leaving holes as in the flange A where the tongues have
been cut out. Four slots or holes are formed in the front of the trunk for the
tongues a¹ a² a³ a to pass through and the tongues are rivetted over inside
the trunk as above described. Or the said tongues may be made of separate
pieces of of metal which are rivetted soldered or otherwise fixed to the flange A.
In another arrangement of my invention (see Figs. 8, 9 and 10) the said
tongues are formed as separate strips or blanks of sheet metal or pieces of wire
which are bent so as to form tongues and which then pass through slots or other
holes in the flange of the lock and in the face of the trunk the ends of the
tongues being bent and hammered down inside the trunk so as to thus effectually
secure the lock to the trunk. It will be seen that the two tongues a¹ a² are
formed of one strip of metal which is bent as shewn by Fig. 10 and passes through
the holes aa formed at one side of the flange A, and the other two tongues a³ 2
are formed of a similar strip of metal which is bent as represented by Fig. 10
and passes through holes as a in the other side of the flange A and through the
corresponding holes in the trunk, the tongues being rivetted over inside the
trunk as above described to secure the lock thereto.
In the arrangement shewn by Figs. 8, 9 and 10 instead of the tongues being
clenched down inside the trunk the metal strips of which the tongues are formed
may be passed through the slots therein and through the slots a a7 as a³ in.
the flange of the lock and then clenched down on the front of the lock but this
does not form so neat an arrangement as that illustrated by Figs 8 and 9.
Instead of the said tongues being formed with or attached to the flange A of
the lock and passed through holes in the trunk as above described, the tongues bb4
(see Figs. 11 and 12) may be formed on or out of the front B of the trunk itself
to project from the front of the same and passed through corresponding holes
or recesses 10 all in the lock flange A so as to embrace the lock flange and then
be hammered down over the front of the lock flange as indicated by the dotted
lines in Fig. 12 and thus secure the lock to the trunk.
I fix the hasp-plate to the front of the trunk lid in any of the several ways
hereinbefore described with reference to fixing the lock to the front of the trunk.
For instance Fig. 6 shews a hasp-plate C made with two backwardly projecting
side tongues ec2 which it will be understood pass through corresponding slotted
holes in the front of the trunk lid and are then clenched down on the inside of
the same so as to secure the hasp plate thereto.
In the arrangement shewn by Figs. 13 and 14 the hasp plate C is fixed to the
trunk lid by a strip of metal D shewn separately by Fig. 15 which is bent so
as to form the two tongues dd which pass through corresponding slotted
holes in the hasp plate C and through corresponding holes e¹² in the
front E of the lid and are then clenched down as represented in Fig. 14 so as to
secure the hasp plate thereto.

page_text: 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:
1. Securing a lock to a metallic travelling trunk or other metallic trunk or
box by means of backwardly projecting metallic tongues which are formed with
or attached to or pass through the flange of the lock, and pass through corre-
sponding holes or slots in the front of the trunk or box, and are clenched down
on the inside of the trunk, substantially as set forth.
2: Securing a lock to a metallic travelling trunk or other metallic trunk or
box by means of projecting metallic tongues which are formed with or pass.
through holes in the front of the trunk or box and pass through corresponding
holes or slots in the flange of the lock and are clenched down over said flange,
substantially as set forth.
3. A lock for a metallic travelling trunk or other metallic trunk or box provided
with backwardly projecting metallic tongues which are formed with or attached
to or pass through the flange of the lock and are adapted to pass through corre
sponding holes or slots in the front of the trunk or box to be clenched down on
the inside of the same for the purpose of securing the lock thereto, substantially
as set forth.
4. Securing a hasp to the lid of a metallic travelling trunk or other metallic
trunk or box by means of backwardly projecting metallic tongues which are
formed with or attached to or pass through the hasp plate and pass through
corresponding holes or slots in the front of the lid of the trunk or box, and
are clenched down on the inside of the lid, substantially as set forth.
5. Securing a hasp to the lid of a metallic travelling trunk or other metallic
trunk or box by means of projecting metallic tongues which are formed with or
pass through holes in the front of the lid of the trunk or box and pass through
corresponding holes or slots in the hasp plate and are clenched down over the same,
substantially as set forth.
6. A hasp for the lid of a metallic travelling trunk or other metallic trunk or
box provided with backwardly projecting metallic tongues which are formed with
or attached to or pass through the hasp plate and are adapted to pass through
corresponding holes or slots in the front of the lid to be clenched down on the
inside of the same for the purpose of securing the hasp thereto, substantially as
set forth.
Dated this 3rd day of Fahmu 1900.
CHARLES BOSWORTH KETLEY,
Agent for the Applicant.