AN IMPROVEMENT IN LOCKS FOR BAGS
Year: 1860

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Charles Asprey, of New Bond Street and Albemarle
Street, in the County of Middlesex, Dressing Case and Travelling Bag
Maker, for the Invention of "AN IMPROVEMENT IN LOCKS FOR BAGS,
Sealed the 3rd May 1861, and dated the 6th November 1860.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Charles Asprey at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
6th November 1860.
I, CHARLES ASPREY, of New Bond Street and Albemarle Street, in the
County of Middlesex, Dressing Case and Travelling Bag Maker, do hereby
declare the nature of the said Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN LOCKS
FOR BAGS, DRESSING CASES, AND OTHER ARTICLES," to be as follows:-
My Invention consists in constructing the nozzle of Bramah and other locks
in such manner that it may be made to slide laterally, and thereby open the
lock or draw back the bolt or bolts thereof.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent, filed
by the said Charles Asprey in the Great Seal Patent Office on the 6th
May 1861.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, 'CHARLES
ASPREY, of New Bond Street and Albemarle Street, in the County of
Middlesex, Dressing Case and Travelling Bag Baker, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her Letters
Patent, bearing date the Sixth day of November, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and sixty, in the twenty-fourth year of Her reign,
did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors, give and grant unto me, the said
Charles Asprey, Her special licence that I, the said Charles Asprey, my
executors, administrators, and assigns, or such others as I, the said Charles
Asprey, my executors, administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree
with, and no others, from time to time and at all times thereafter during
the term therein expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise,
and vend, within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the
Channel Islands, and Isle of Man, an Invention for "AN IMPROVEMENT IN LOCKS
FOR BAGS, DRESSING CASES, AND OTHER ARTICLES," upon the condition (amongst
others) that I, the said Charles Asprey, my executors or administrators, by an
instrument in writing under my, or their, or one of their hands and seals,
should particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the said Invention,
and in what manner the same was to be performed, and cause the same to
be filed in the Great Seal Patent Office within six calendar months next and
immediately after the date of the said Letters Patent.
NOW KNOW YE, that I, the said Charles Asprey, do hereby declare the
nature of my said Invention, and in what manner the same is to be per-
formed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement thereof, reference being had to the Drawings hereunto annexed, that
is to say:-
My Invention consists in constructing the nozzle of Bramah and other locks
in such manner that it may be made to slide laterally, and thereby open the
lock or draw back the bolt or bolts thereof.
Figure 1 of the accompanying Drawings is a face view of a box-lock con-
structed according to my Invention; Figure 2 is a section through the line
x, y, of the same Figure; Figure 8'is a similar view to Figure 1, with the
bolt and nozzle pushed on one side; Figure 4 is a front view; Figure 5, a
back view, and Figure 6, a section of the jacket or case enclosing the working
parts.

page_text: a is the nozzle, which is connected to the main bolt 6 by screw pins c,
detached views of which are given at Figure 7. These pins work in slots d, d,
in the jacket or case e; they are forked, as shown at f, f, so that the pin on
the barrel of the Bramah apparatus may pass through them; g is the main
spring pressing against the bolt b; h is a catch, a detached view of which is
given at Figure 8, acted on by the pin on the barrel for locking the bolt.
Supposing the lock to be in a position to act only as a catch, and as shewn in
the Drawings, to unfasten the bolt from the hasp, press the nozzle to one side,
whereby the pins c, c, sliding in the slots d, d, draw back the bolt, as shown
in Figure 3. Upon releasing the nozzle the spring returns the bolt to the
docking position.
Figure 9 is a face view of a drawer or other like lock in which the nozzle
is made to slide downwards instead of laterally; Figure 10 is a similar view
of the same lock, shewing the nozzle made to slide downwards. It will be
readily understood that the nozzle may be made to slide from right to left as
well as from left to right, as shewn at Figures 1 and 3.
And having now described the nature of my said Invention, and in what
manner the same is to be performed, I declare that I claim as my improve-
ment in locks for bags, dressing cases, and other articles, constructing the
nozzle thereof in such manner that it may be made to slide and thereby open
the lock or draw back the bolt or bolts thereof, substantially in manner herein-
before described and illustrated in the accompanying Drawings.
In witness whereof, I, the said Charles Asprey, have hereunto set my
hand and seal, this Sixth day of April, One thousand eight hundred and
sixty-one.
CHAS. ASPREY. (L.S.)