Improvements in Fastenings and Locks for Metallic and other Travelling Trunks, Portmanteaus, Bags, and Boxes.
Year: 1888

page_text: Date of Application, 21st Dec., 1888
Complete Specification Left, 30th Aug., 1889-Accepted, 19th Oct., 1889
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fastenings and Locks for Metallic and other
Travelling Trunks, Portmanteaus, Bags, and Boxes.
I WILLIAM BLIZARD WILLIAMSON, of the firm of Williamson and Sons of Providence
Works in the City of Worcester Manufacturers do hereby declare the nature of this
Invention to be as follows
My invention has reference principally to the hasps or fastenings described repre-
sented and claimed in the specification of Letters Patent granted to me dated
April 1-1887-No. 4871 and ny said invention consists of the improvements herein.
after described in the said patented hasps or fastenings and in locks to be used with
the same.
The patented fastenings referred to consist of long joined hasps or clamped plates
which when turned down are made to close upon and clip or embrace the mouldings
at the tops of the bodies of the trunks. The objects of my present invention are to
protect the lock from being tampered with by which the long hasp or clamping plate
is fastened down and also to increase the security in the fastening of the said long hasp
or clamping plate.
For these purposes I make at the middle of the bottom edge of the long hasp or
hinged clamping plate an extension or prolongation of such a shape and size that
when shut down it covers the front and edges of the case of the lock. When the lock
is so covered and protected it cannot be tampered with except through the key hole.
In the lock cover described of the long hasp or clamping plate is a circular hole
which passes over an escutcheon plate at the key hole of the lock so that access can
be obtained to the key hole when the long hasp or clamping plate is shut down for
locking and unlocking the said hasp or plate. On the underside of the lock cover are
eyes or staples which pass into the lock case and in which eyes or staples the ordinary
bolt of the lock is shot. In addition to fastening down the long hasp and lock cover
by means of the ordinary bolt of the lock the nose or lowest part of the lock cover is
fastened down by a bevilled spring bolt in the lock case working at right angles to the
ordinary bolt the said bevilled spring bolt snapping into a recess in the hollow nose
part of the lock cover. The hevilled end of the spring bolt of the lock projects in its
shot position outside the edge of the lock case and when the long hasp or clamping
plate is shut down the nose part of its lock cover presses back the said bolt which on
the complete closing of the hasp snaps into the said nose part of the lock cover and
fastens it down. The long hasp and its lock cover are then further fastened by the
shooting of the ordinary bolt in the usual way. The bevilled spring bolt of the
lock is withdrawn by the action of the key on withdrawing the ordinary bolt
the mechanism of the lock being modified for that purpose. That is to say the lock
bolt and the bevilled spring bolt are carried by independent sliding plates having
motions at right angles to one another the said bolt plates being connected together
by a bell crank lever. When the key is turned in the proper direction to unlock the
hasp or clamping plate the key first withdraws the ordinary bolt and afterwards
through the action of the ordinary bolt and the bell crank connecting lever withdraws
the bevilled spring bolt. When the combined long hasp and lock cover is unfastened
by the withdrawal of the two bolts described it is raised from the lock and moulding
on the body of the trunk by a spring or springs.
In addition to the two bolts described the combined long hasp and lock cover may
be fastened by a padlock. In this modification the nose end of the lock cover is
lengthened and the upper side of the bevilled spring holt carries a staple which
when the long hasp is shut down for pressing back the said bevilled spring bolt

page_text: passes through a slot at the nose end of the lock cover and projects above the said
nose end the hook of the padlock being engaged with the projecting part of the staple
in the usual way.
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W. T. WHITEMAN,
Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE
SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Fastenings and Locks for Metallic and other
Travelling Trunks, Portmanteaus, Bags, and Boxes.
1, WILLIAM BLIZARD WILLIAMSON, of the firm of Williamson and Sons, of
Providence Works, in the City of Worcester, Manufacturers, do hereby declare the
nature of my Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed to be
particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement :-
My Invention has reference principally to the hasps or fastenings described repre-
sented and claimed in the specification of Letters Patent granted to me dated
April 1st 1887, No. 4871; and my said invention consists of the improvements
herein after described in the said patented hasps or fastenings and in locks to be used
with the same.
The patented fastenings referred to consist of long jointed hasps or clamping plates
which when turned down are made to close upon and clip or embrace the mouldings
at the tops of the bodies of the trunks.
The objects of my present invention are to protect the lock from being tampered
with by which the long hasp or clamping plate is fastened down and also to increase
the security of the fastening of the said long hasp or clamping plate.
For these purposes I make at the middle of the bottom edge of the long hasp or
hinged clamping plate an extension or prolongation of such a shape and size that when
shut down it covers the front and edges of the case of the lock. When the lock is so
covered and protected it cannot be tampered with except through the key-hole. In
the lock cover described of the long hasp or clamping plate is a circular hole which
passes over an escutcheon plate at the key hole of the lock so that access can be
obtained to the key hole when the long hasp or clamping plate is shut down, for
locking and un-locking the said hasp or plate. On the underside of the lock cover are
eyes or staples which pass into the lock case and in which eyes or staples the ordinary
bolt of the lock is shot. In addition to fastening down the long hasp and lock cover
by means of the ordinary bolt of the lock, the nose or lowest part of the lock cover is
fastened down by a bevilled spring bolt in the lock case working at right angles to
the ordinary bolt, the said bevilled spring bolt snapping into a recess in the hollow
nose part of the lock cover. The bevilled end of the spring bolt of the lock projects
in its shot position, outside the edge of the lock case and when the long hasp or
clamping plate is shut down the nose part of its lock cover presses back the said bolt
which on the complete closing of the hasp snaps into the said nose part of the lock
cover and fastens it down. The long hasp and its lock cover are then further fastened
by the shooting of the ordinary bolt in the usual way. The bevilled spring bolt of
the lock is withdrawn by the action of the key on withdrawing the ordinary bolt, the
mechanism of the lock being modified for that purpose as hereinafter described.
In addition to the two bolts described, the combined long hasp and lock cover may
be fastened by a padlock.
1 will now proceed to describe with reference to the accompanying Drawings the
manner in which my invention is to be performed.
Figure 1 represents in front elevation and Figure 2 in vertical section a fastening
and lock drawn of the full size constructed according to my invention applied to a
portion of a metallic travelling trunk.
Figure 3 represents the same views as Figures 1 and 2 and Figure 4 a horizontal
section of Figure 3, drawn to a smaller scale, the mechanism of the lock being indicated

page_text: in dotted lines in Figure 3. In Figures 1. 2. 3 and 4 the long hasp or clamping
plate is represented locked down by the ordinary bolts and by the bevilled spring bolt
of the lock.
Figure 5 represents in front elevation and vertical section, and Figure 6 in horizontal
section the ordinary lock bolts in their withdrawn positions, the lock cover of the long
hasp or clamping plate and the case of the lock being broken away; Figures 7 and
represent the same views as Figures 5 and 6 with the ordinary lock bolts further
withdrawn and the bevilles spring bolt also withdrawn.
C
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several Figures of the
Drawings. a is the lid of the metallic travelling trunk and b is the body of the said
trunk provided along its top edge with the usual moulding c; d is the long hasp or
hinged clamping plate which when shut down embraces or clips the said moulding..
as represented in the Drawing; e is the lock fixed on the body & in the ordinary way;
the said lock besides being provided with the ordinary bolts f. f is also provided with
the bevilled spring bolt g working at right angles to the said bolts f. f, the said spring
bolt g in its normal position protruding through the bottom of the lock case e; d² is
the cover like extension or prolongation of the long hasp or clamping plate d herein-
after called the lock cover. It will be seen by reference to the drawings that the said
lock cover d has such a shape and size that when shut down it covers the front and
edges of the lock case e, a hole d³ in the cover d2 passing over the escutcheon plate e²,
at the key hole of the lock (see Figures 1 and 3). When the lock e is so covered and
protected it cannot be tampered with excepting through the key hole, but access to
the key hole for locking and unlocking the lock can be obtained at the uncovered
key holeh. h are the eyes or staples on the underside of the lock cover d² with which
eyes or staples the ordinary lock bolts f. f can be engaged for fastening down the
said cover and the long hasp. The lock cover is also fastened down by the bevilled
spring bolt g taking into the hollow nose part d' of the said lock cover (see Figure 2).
The said nose part has a back plate d which when the combined hasp plate and
lock cover d. 2 is shut down presses back the bevilled spring bolt g and when the said
combined hasp plate and lock cover has been fully shut down, the said bevilled bolt
snaps in front of the said plate and fastens down the lock cover and hasp plate as
illustrated in the drawings.
After the long hasp d and its lock cover d have been thus fastened down, they are
further fastened by the shooting of the ordinary bolts f. f by the key the said bolts f.f
being shot into or engaged with the staples h. h on the underside of the lock cover d²
as illustrated in Figures 3 and 4. The bevilled spring bolt g is withdrawn to unfasten
the hasp by the action of the key on withdrawing the ordinary bolts f. f the
mechanism of the lock being modified for that purpose in the following manner.
That is to say the lock bolts ff and the bevilled spring bolt g are carried by the
independent sliding plates i and k, the said plates i and k having motion at right
angles to one another and being connected together by the bell crank lever / which is
acted upon by the spring m to give the snapping or springing action to the bevilled
bolt g.
When the key is turned in the proper direction to unlock the hasp or clamping
plate d d² the key first withdraws the ordinary bolts f. f. as illustrated in Figures
and 6 and afterwards by the further motion of the key in the same direction and
the action of the ordinary bolt plate i upon the bell crank connecting lever cauises
and withdraw the
the latter to act upon the plate k of the bevilled spring bolt
said holt as illustrated in Figures 7 and 8. When the combined long hasp d
and lock cover d² is unfastened by the withdrawal of the two ordinary bolts ff and
bevilled bolt g it is raised from the body of the trunk by hand or by a spring or
springs as indicated in dotted lines in Figure 7.
Figure 9 represents in front elevation and Figure 10 in section a fastening and lock
constructed as herein before described but the combined hasp plate and lock cover
can be locked down by a padlock in addition to the ordinary locks and bevilled spring
bolt.

page_text: In this modification, the lock cover d² is lengthened at d and has a slot in it
and beyond the bevilled spring bolt of the lock is a staple fixed on the lock plate
beyond the nose end d' of the lock cover which staple p when the combined long hasp
and lock cover d d² is shut down for pressing back the said bevilled spring bolt
passes through the said slot at the part d³ of the lock cover d³ and projects above the
said part as represented in Figures 9 and 10. The hook of the padlock is engaged
with the projecting part of the staple p in the usual way.
My improvements are applicable to portmanteaus bags and boxes as well as to
metallic and other travelling trunks.
In applying my improvements to portmanteaus and bags the fastening parts are
used in a horizontal position that is to say the combined hasp plate d and lock
cover is jointed to the inner edge of the back jointed half of the portmanteau or
bag frame and the lock is fixed in a horizontal position to the edge of the front
jointed half of the portmanteau or bag frame the plate of the lock standing vertically
above the top edge of the said front half of the frame. The jointed hasp plate d
and lock cover 2 being turned down into a horizontal position the part d'embraces
the top of the back half of the frame as well as the lock plate on the front half
of the frame and the cover 2 passes over and embraces the lock on the said front
half of the frame. In applying may improvements to boxes the fastening parts are
used in the saine manner as they are used on a travelling trunk the top of the box
having a moulding similar to the moulding c for the hasp plate d to take upon
when shut down.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my inven-
tion and the manner in which the same is to be performed I declare that I claim
as my Invention of "Improvements in fastenings and locks for metallic and other
travelling trunks portmanteaus bags and boxes": -
First. The addition to the long hasp or hinged clamping plate of the fastening
of a cover for covering the front and edges of the lock case excepting the escutcheon
plate at the key hole the said lock cover being so constructed that when shut down
it is fastened by a bevilled spring bolt of the lock engaging with the nose of the
said lock cover substantially as herein before described and illustrated in the
accompanying drawings.
Secondly. Fastening down the combined long hasp or hinged clamping plate
and lock cover by means of the ordinary bolts of the lock engaging with staples
on the underside of the lock cover in addition to the bevilled spring bolt engaging
with the nose of the lock cover substantially as herein before described and illustrated
in the accompanying Drawings.
Thirdly. The modification of the fastening and lock herein before described and
illustrated for fastening the combined hasp and lock cover by a padlock in addition
to the bolts of the lock.
Lastly. The addition to or combination with the lock of the fastening of a
bevilled spring bolt for engaging with the nose part of the lock cover, the said
bevilled spring bolt being withdrawn for unlocking the combined hasp or clamping
plate and lock cover through the operation of the ordinary bolts of the lock
substantially as herein before described and illustrated in the accompanying
Drawings.
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