New Deal or Locking Device.
Year: 1898

page_text: Date of Application, 24th May, 1898-Accepted, 5th Nov., 1898
New Deal or Locking Device.
I, DR. KARI. EDLER VON RUEBER, I. and R. Counsellor of Police, of No. 5,
Wimbergergasse, Vienna XV, in the Empire of Austria, do hereby declare 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 this invention is a new seal or locking device which is characterized
by its simplicity, its efficiency and its cheapness, and is such that when applied
to a box, casket, drawer or similar article the latter cannot be opened without
damaging or breaking the said seal. Such is the simplicity of this sealing or
locking device, that it can be advantageously adapted to the most varied and
multitudinous articles or objects in order to seal or secure their contents.
In the accompanying drawings which illustrate the subject matter of this
invention:
Figs. 1 and 1 show one form of my improved seal with a perforated plate and
open from the inside; Fig. 1 showing a connecting strip or tag which is absent-
in Fig. 1.
Figs. 1° and 1º are sections on lines, r, and y, y, of Figs. 1 and 1.
Figs. 1 and 1 show the seal closed.
Fig. 2 shows another form of seal with a connected plate.
Fig. 2 shows this seal closed.
Fig. 3 shows another form of seal with a plate or eyelet, such seal being open
in this figure but closed in Fig. 3º.
Fig. 4 is another form of seal without cord and with a long connecting strip,
Fig. 4 showing the same closed.
Fig. 4 is a section on line x, y, of Fig. 4.
Fig. 5 is another form of the seal last illustrated, in an open attitude, Fig. 5"
showing the same closed. Fig. 5° is a section on line r, y, of Fig. 5".
The seal shown in Figs. 1 to 1' consists of a dished plate a having a raised
edge b and of a second dished plate fitting within this edge, and formed inte-
grally with the plate a or connected thereto by a strip d (Fig. 1). To affix the
seal, the ends of a cord e fastened to the article to be sealed or secured are drawn
through two holes formed in the dished plate a and are subsequently knotted
together the ends of such knot passing through two similar holes in the same
plate, so that the knot is placed in the dished portion of the plate. The plate c
is now inserted with its hollow side inwardly (in case of a connecting strip the
same is bent over), whereupon the raised edge 6 of the plate a is bent inwardly
over the edge of the plate c, with the aid of any suitable pliers or pinchers. The
seal is now closed, and the cord cannot be possibly withdrawn without damaging
the device.
The form of seal shown in Figs. 2 and 2" differs from the above inasmuch as the
outermost ends of the cord k are made into a knot so as to form a loop k which
is slung in the manner shown in Fig. 2 around the plate i, while the knot k is
placed in the dished part of the plate f connected by a strip to the plate i which

page_text: strip is bent over to allow the plate i to fit into the plate f and to be secured thereto
by bending the protruding edge or rim g of the latter plate over the edges of the
former plate i in such a manner that the opening of such seal could not take place
without damaging the device.
The forms of seal shown in Figs. 3 and 3" are different from those above
described in so far that the plate has now only one bent over outer edge m and
is perforated centrally, the edges of such perforations being bent up to form an
eyelet n. The bent up edge m has two notches one facing the other, the ends of
a knotted cord o being inserted in these notches in such a manner as to surround
the central or eyelet part thereof, when the annular plate or washer is placed
over the vertical edges of the eyelet which edges are subsequently bent outwardly
by the aid of a pair of ordinary pliers over the edges of the washer > so as to lie
flatly thereon. The seal thus, constructed cannot be opened without damaging
or destroying the component parts thereof, because the cordo is clamped between
the edges of the washer p, and the plate l.
The seal shown in Figs. 4, 4, 4° is characterized by the absence of a cord
without which it can be utilized for securing articles. This seal consists likewise
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of two dished plates q and s connected together by means of a long strip r.
seal is drawn through the article required to be sealed, the two plates and s are
placed one within the other by bending over the strip in two and the edge of the
This seal
plate g is bent with the aid of a pair of pliers over that of the plate s.
can, likewise, not be opened or tampered with without injury to its component
parts. Figs. 5, 5" and 5° show a modification of this last seal wherein the plates
correspond with those of Figs. 3* and 3ª and hence the outer edge of the plate q
is not bent over that of the plates, but the vertical edges of the eyelet are bent
over the edges of the central perforation of the plate or washer s.
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. A new seal or fastening device characterized by two dished plates (a, c-f,
i-, p―g, s) made of suitable metal and connected together in some cases by
means of a strip, between which plates is secured a knotted cord (e, k, o) over
and upon which the plates are inserted one within the other, and either the outer
edge of the larger plate (a, f) Figs. 1 and 2, or the outer edge of an eyelet formed
centrally therein (n Fig. 3) are bent over the smaller plate (c, i, p) by means of
a suitable pair of pliers or pinchers.
2. A modification of the seal or fastening device above claimed, wherein the
strip is passed through the articles required to be sealed and bent over in two so
that the edges of the plate g or those of the eyelet n may be bent over the plate s,
the use of a cord being this dispensed with.
Dated this 23rd day of May 1898.
CRUIKSHANK & FAIRWEATHER,
Chartered Patent Agents,
62, Saint Vincent Street, Glasgow, Agents for the Applicant: