An Improved Locking Device for Trunks, Boxes, and the like.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 31st May, 1890
Complete Specification Left. 27th Feb., 1891-Accepted, 28th Mar., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
[Communicated from abroad by GEORGES VUITTON, of 26, Boulevard de Stras-
bourg, Paris, in the Republic of France.]
An Improved Locking Device for Trunks, Boxes, and the like.
I, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent Agents,
45, Southampton Buildings, in the County of Middlesex, do hereby declare the
nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to locks for trunks, boxes and the like, and comprises the
combination of a lock and a spring hasp.
The lock proper has at its upper end a tenon whose support projects from the
front surface of the main plate.
Upon the plate to be fixed on the lid of the trunk or the like is provided a hollow
piece which forms a mortise. for receiving the aforesaid tenon when the trunk is
closed.
To the hollow piece is articulated a spring hasp made in one piece with its axis.
The part of the axis which is in the interior of the hollow piece is made of
oval shape, for the purpose of enabling a spring formed of a strip of steel to
keep the hasp in place whether it be open or turned down. This hasp has its.
extremity slightly raised so that it can easily be taken hold of by the hand, and it
carries near this extremity a tenon or catch which, when the trunk is closed,
enters an elongated aperture formed in the main plate of the lock. The catch
possesses a slit through which the interior bolt of the lock passes when the key is
turned.
The operation of this lock is very simple. The hasp being raised, the lid of
the trunk is closed so that the above-mentioned tenon enters the mortise. Then
the hasp is turned down, whereupon the lower part of the same engages with the
outer periphery of the support for the tenon. A turn of the key is now sufficient
for securing the catch, and consequently the hasp on which it is provided.
This improved lock presents the advantage that, at the moment when the lid is
closed, the latter cannot at all deviate and thus strain its hinges, because the
movement is guided by the said tenon fitting exactly into the mortise. It performs
exactly the same part as a complete trunk garniture comprising a lock and two
hasps as heretofore employed, because the lid can be fixed by turning down the
hasp without any liability to accidental opening, the key being used only in case
the locking is to be completed.
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HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, Agents for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Locking Device for Trunks, Boxes, and the like.
1, HENRY HARRIS LAKE, of the firm of Haseltine, Lake & Co., Patent Agents,
45, Southampton Buildings, in the 'County of Middlesex, 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 :-
This invention relates to locks for trunks, boxes and the like and comprises the
combination of a lock and a spring hasp.

page_text: In the accompanying drawing
Figure 1 represents the lock when open, that is to say, when the hasp is raised.
Figure 2, is a view in perspective of the lock when closed.
Figure 3 is a vertical section of the hasp and the lock plate showing how they
are put together.
In carrying the said invention into practice the lock proper A is provided at its
upper end with a tenon B the support B' of which projects from the front surface
of the main plate.
Upon the plate C which is fixed on the lid of the trunk or the like is provided
a hollow piece D which forms a mortise F for receiving the aforesaid tenon B when
the trunk is closed.
To the hollow piece D is pivoted a spring hasp H made in one piece with its axis J.
The part of the axis which is arranged in the interior of the hollow piece D is made of
oval shape for the purpose of enabling a spring R Figure 3 formed of a strip of steel to
keep the hasp in place whether it be open or turned down. This hasp has its extremity
slightly raised so that it can easily be taken hold of by the hand and it carries near this
extremity a tenon or catch M which when the trunk is closed enters an elongated
aperture N formed in the main plate A of the lock. The catch M is provided
with a slit through which the interior bolt of the lock passes when the key is
turned.
The operation of this lock is very simple. The hasp H being raised the lid of
the trunk is closed so that the above-mentioned tenon B enters the mortise F. The
hasp H is then turned down, whereupon the lower part of the same engages with
the outer periphery of the support B for the tenon. A turn of the key is now
sufficient for securing the catch, M and consequently the hasp H on which it is
provided.
This improved lock presents the advantage that at the moment when the lid is
closed the latter cannot deviate in any way and thus strain its hinges, because the
movement is guided by the said tenon B fitting exactly into the mortise F. It
performs exactly the same part as a complete trunk garniture comprising a lock
and two hasps as heretofore employed because the lid can be fixed by turning down
the hasp without any liability to accidental opening, the key being used only in case
the locking is to be completed.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion, and in what manner the same is to be performed, as communicated to me by
my foreign correspondent, I declare that what I claim is :-
First. A locking device for travelling trunks, boxes and the like comprising an
ordinary lock A secured to the body of the trunk and provided with a mortise N above
which is mounted a tenon B forming one piece with the projection B' and which
when the trunk is closed enters the mortise F of the part C secured to the lid
of the trunk in order to obviate any deviation of the cover and any over straining of
the hinges.
Second. In a locking device for travelling trunks, boxes and the like, a
hasp H whose axis J located in a piece D constituting the mortise F has an oval
form so that the hasp being lowered or raised cannot change its place accidentally
by reason of the plate spring R which bends when the hasp H is turned, and
which afterwards bears upon the flat part of the oval axes J in order to keep it in
its place.
Third. In a locking device for travelling trunks boxes and the like a tenon B and
a projection B forming a single piece with an ordinary lock A. in combination
with a piece D having a mortise É secured to the plate C and an hasp H whose
round part when it is turned down will bear against the exterior circumference, of
the projection B, this hasp being provided with a tenon or catch M engaging

page_text: with the mortise N in the lock and which is ultimately fixed by ordinary means
that is to say by a turn of the key.
Dated this 27th day of February 1891.
HASELTINE, LAKE & Co.,
45, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.