IMPROVEMENTS IN LOCKS FOR PURSES, BAGS AND OTHER ANALOGOUS PURPOSES
Year: 1883

page_text: PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by Moritz Wolfsky at the Office of the
Commissioners of Patents on the 19th March 1883.
MORITZ WOLFSKY, of Water Lane, Ludgate Hill, in the City of London,
Merchant "IMPROVEMENTS IN LOCKS FOR PURSES, BAGS AND OTHER ANALOGOUS
PURPOSES"
The object of my said invention is to construct spring locks and clips for purses,
bags and other articles, which shall be free from some of the objectionable features
attaching to such locks and clips as at present constructed.
In the box of the lock I place a bolt formed in a particular manner for effecting
the object of my invention. This bolt is held to its work by a spiral spring placed
on one side of its centre, or eccentric thereto; one end of the spring abuts against
the internal end of the box, and the other end of the spring presses against a
shoulder or provision formed on the bolt, but, as before mentioned, on one side of
the bolt. The effect of this arrangement is that the spring not only actuates the
bolt in a longitudinal direction, but also with a sideway or rotary thrust.
Parallel to, and at the side of the spring, the bolt is provided with a pin, which
projects through a slot in the lock case. This pin is moved back by the thumb or
finger, or by any ordinary means such as the sliding cover of the lock or a spring
bolt, or otherwise.
The hasp or staple which enters the lock may be double or single sided, as found
most convenient.
The pin which projects through the lock case, being guided by the slot, is com-
pelled to take a parallel course to the sides of the lock, but, as this pin is circular,
the bolt partially revolves upon this pin transversely to its longitudinal motion.
And in order to guide the bolt, and compel it to take the transverse circular
motion, in addition to the longitudinal motion, one side is formed so as to be
guided in this compound motion by suitable provisions in the box.
A portion of the bolt is chamfered to enable it to recede when the staple
enters and to catch the working side of the staple when the article is shut and
locked.
When it is desired to open the lock, the pin is pressed backwards by any of the
before mentioned means; the spring is thereby compressed, but at the same time
it forces the bōlt sideways. This sideway movement causes another part of the

page_text: bolt to come into contact with the side of the staple, and so leaves the staple
unoccupied by the working portion of the bolt. The lock is therefore now
unfastened and can be opened without a continued holding back of the bolt by the
operator's finger or thumb.
The advantage of this arrangement is that in fitting a bag two or more of my
said clip locks inay be added to the ordinary lock, for keeping the mouth of the
bag closed, and such clips may be set free by a single touch of the finger or thumb
without continuous pressure of the finger or thumb; the hand of the operator is
then free to open the ordinary lock as usual; and on again closing the bag all the
locks operate simultaneously.
In the case of purses and other articles requiring only one of my said locks, the
same simple application of the finger or thumb instantaneously holds and retains
the bolt back out of the staple, and allows the article to be conveniently opened,
and as quickly locked again, when desired.