IMPROVEMENTS IN ADJUSTABLE COVERINGS OR CASINGS FOR LOCKS AND LATCHes
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Henry Fleming of Halifax in the County of York for
an Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN ADJUSTABLE COVERINGS OR CASINGS
FOR LOCKS AND LATCHes."
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Henry Fleming at the
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Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 18th October 1882.
HENRY FLEMING of Halifax in the county of York IMPROVEMENTS IN
ADJUSTABLE COVERINGS OR CASINGS FOR LOCKS AND LATCHES
The object of my invention is to manufacture locks and latches with the casings
or covers adjustable so that the same may be cleaned, repaired, or oiled, with great
facility I construct the case of the lock with a cover or lid hinged or pivotted so
that when opened the works of the lock present themselves to view; or the covers
may be made to slide on and off a button or other convenient fastener being used
to hold it in position these improvements are applicable to wood or metal or wood
and metal cased locks and latches of all sizes and description.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said Henry Fleming in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
17th April 1883.
HENRY FLEMING of Halifax in. the county of York "IMPROVEMENTS
ADJUSTABLE COVERINGS OR CASES, FOR LOCKS AND LATCHES."
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The object of my invention is to manufacture locks and latches, with the casings,
or covers, adjustable, so that the same may be cleaned, repaired, or oiled, with great
facility.
I construct the case of thic lock, with a cover, or lid, hinged, or pivotted so that
when opened, the works of the lock, present themselves to view, or the covers may
be made to slide on, and off, a button or other convenient fastener being used to
hold them in position, the improvements are applicable to both wood, and metal,
or part wood, and part metal cased locks, and latches, of all sizes, and description.
Such being the nature and object, of this my said invention, in order that the
same may be clearly understood, I have hereunto annexed a sheet of drawings,
illustrative thereof, and have marked the same with figures and letters of reference,
the same letters indicating the same parts, in the various views or figures:
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Fig. 1 is a front elevation of my improved lock, case, and cover.
Fig. 2 is a back elevation of lock and case, the case being on the old style, but
grooved, so that the lock slides in at the end, and so is adjustable, or the lock case,
may be hinged F, as shewn
Fig. 3. is a cross section of Fig. 2.
Fig. 3 shews section of ordinary lock case.
Fig. 4 shows another modification of Fig. 2.
Fig. 5 is a cross section of Fig. 4
Figs 6. 7 and 7 are end views of iron intches with sliding covers
I construct the wood case A, of the lock B, with a cover or lid C, pivotted at D, as
shewn at Fig. 1, or the cover, may be hinged, or slide as convenient, the case A, being
screwed permanently on to the door, the cover or lid, when turned back upon its
pivot, or hinge, presents to view, the interior of the lock, so that it can be easily,
and readily, oiled, cleaned, and repaired, the lid is then moved back into position,
and kept in place by a button, catch, or small-screw; the portion cut out of large
lock cases can be used as cases, or as lids for for smaller ones. Or the old style of
case may be used, recessed either round, or square, as shewn at Figs. 2. 3. 4 and 5
the cases having grooves E, into which the locks slido, and are kept in position by
a small screw, or other convenient fastening, so that when they require oiling,
cleaning, or repairing, the lock can be drawn bodily out of the case, and replaced at
will; Figs. 6 and 7 shew iron latches, with sliding covers, or these covers may be
pivotted, or hinged, as preferred; Fig. 7 shows a rounded sliding cover.
Having thus fully described the nature, and particulars, of this my said
invention, and the manner in which the same is to be performed, or carried into
practical effect, I would have it understood, that what I claim as the invention, to
be secured to me by the hereinbefore in part recited Letters-Patent is.―
1 Locks or latches of wood, and iron, having pivotted, hinged, or sliding covers
so as to be easily, and readily, cleaned, oiled, and repaired, constructed, and

page_text: arranged, in the manner herein described, and illustrated, in the drawings hereunto
annexed.
2 Lock, or latches, having grooved cases, of wood, or of iron, and sliding locks,
as shewn at Figs. 2. 3. 4, 5. 6. 7 and 7ª.
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In witness whereof I the Henry Fleming have hereunto set my hand and
seal, this Twelvth day of April, in the year of our Lord, one thousand
eight hundred and eighty three.
Witness
JOHN E WALSH
Patent Agent
Halifax, Leeds, and Bradford
HENRY FLEMING (L.S.)