IMPROVEMENTS IN TRUNK AND BOX FASTENINGS.
Year: 1878

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to Cornelius Thomas Remmett, of Wolverhampton, in the
County of Stafford, Designer, for the Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN TRUNK
AND BOX FASTENINGS.'
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Sealed the 14th May 1878, and dated the 16th March 1878.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said Cornelius Thomas Remmett
at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the 16th March 1878.
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CORNELIUS THOMAS REMMETT, of Wolverhampton, in the County of Stafford,
Designer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN TRUNK AND BOX FASTENINGS."
This Invention has for its object improvements in trunk and box fastenings.
For this purpose I secure to the lid of a trunk or box a plate of any desired length,
to the edge of which are hinged any desired number of projecting hasps. The hasps
are formed so as when turned down against the body of the box or trunk to clip a
moulding projecting from the body.
The hasps or clips are united at their lower edges by a bar, which when the
hasps are turned down comes below the moulding on the body of the box or trunk.
At the centre of the bar is a staple to pass into the lock, and the bolt of the lock
shoots upwards into the staple.
By the above means the lid will be secured throughout the greater part or the
whole of its length.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed by
the said Cornelius Thomas Remmett in the Great Seal Patent Office on the
14th September 1878.
CORNELIUS THOMAS REMMETT, of Wolverhampton, in the County of Stafford,
Designer. "IMPROVEMENTS IN TRUNK AND BOX FASTENINGS."
This Invention has for its object improvements in trunk and box fastenings.
For this purpose I secure to the lid of a trunk or box a plate of any desired length,
to the edge of which are hinged any desired number of projecting hasps. The hasps
are formed so as when turned down against the body of the box or trunk to clip a
mouiding projecting from the body.
The hasps or clips are united at their lower edges by a bar, which when the
hasps are turned down comes below the moulding on the body of the box or trunk.
At the centre of the box is a staple to pass into the lock, and the bolt of the lock
shoots upwards into the staple.
By the above means the lid will be secured throughout the greater part or the
whole of its length.
The Drawing hereunto annexed shows a trunk and box fastening formed as above
described.
Figure 1 is a front view of the fastening and part of a trunk or box to which it
is applied; and Figure 2 shows a transverse section of the same.
A is the plate secured to the lid of the box or trunk; B, B, are the hasps hinged
to the lower edge of the plate; these hasps are formed as shown to clip over a
moulding C projecting from the body of the trunk or box; D is a strong bar, by
which the lower ends of the hasps or clips are united. When the liasps are turned
down, so as to clip over the moulding C on the body of the box or trunk, this bar
coines below the moulding as shown. The bar at its centre has a staple projecting
from it to pass into the lock on the body of the trunk or box, and the bolt of the
lock shoots upwards into the staple.
By having a number of hasps hinged, as above described, to the lid to clip over a
moulding on the body of the trunk or box, and by having all these hasps united by a
strong bar which cones below the moulding when the hasps are embracing it, and
by securing the bar by a staple entering a lock on the body of the box or trunk,
and retained by the bolt of the lock being shot into, as above explained, the lid
will be securely retained throughout the greater part or the whole of its length as
desired.
Having thus described the nature of my Invention, and the manner of performing
the same, I would have it understood that I claim the construction of fastenings
for trunks and boxes, substantially in the manner above described.
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In witness whereof, I, the said Cornelius Thomas Remmett, have hereunto set
my hand and seal, this Thirteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight.