An Improved Bag for Postal Purposes, and a Special Fastening for Securing the same.
Year: 1893

page_text: Date of Application, 8th June, 1893
Complete Specification Left, 17th Jan., 1894-Accepted, 17th Feb., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
An Improved Bag for Postal Purposes, and a Special Fastening for
Securing the same.
EDWARD HARRIS Angle Croft, Madeley Road Ealing, Middlesex Gentleman
do bereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
In carrying out my invention I make use of a bag of canvas or other suitable
material in which I provide one or more transverse series of eyelet holes, these holes
to be spaced at equal distances apart. In order to close the bag 1 employ a seal-lock
of special construction so that a spur of metal contained in the hasp, which latter
is formed in such a way as to encircle the neck of the bag, passes in the act of
closing the lock through the eyelet holes and by this means securely fastens the
bag. The seal lock itself resembling somewhat the one described in my Speci-
fication No. 21439 1892 consists of a metal box containing a spring catch, together
with a spring stop, the latter actuated by the hasp of the lock.
In closing the lock the hasp descends into an orifice in the top of the metal box
and liberates the spring stop. By this means it becomes possible to slide forward
the metal strip and to secure the hasp in position. When it is required to open the
lock the metal strip must be severed and withdrawn in the same direction as that
in which it entered the lock.
A similar lock having the metal spur sufficiently sharp to penetrate the material
of which the bag is made may be employed thereby dispensing with a special
eyeletted bag or a lock of the same construction without the metal spur may be
used to secure the bag provided with some other obstacle for preventing the
neck of the bag being withdrawn through the ring formed by the hasp of the
seal-lock.
An Improved Bag for Postal Purposes, and a Special Fastening for
Securing the same.
I EDWARD HARRIS of Angle Croft Madeley Road Ealing in the County of
Middlesex, Gentleman 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 :-
In carrying out my invention I make use of a seamless bag of canvas or other
suitable material in which I provide one or more transverse series of eyelet
holes A A A Fig. 1, the holes spaced at equal distances apart, or surface
obstructions both above and below that part of the bag which has to be encircled
by the seal-lock the one above or both formed by a thickening of the material
or other similar means. In order to close the bag I employ a seal lock of
special construction Figs. 4. 5 & 6 so made that a spur of metal B Fig. 4
contained in the hasp which latter opens on a hinge and is formed in such a way
as to encircle the neck of the bag (see Figs. 2. 3 & 4) passes in the act of closing
the lock through the eyelet holes (A A A Figs. 1. 2 & 3).
The seal lock itself resembling somewhat the one described in my Specification
No. 21439-1892 consists of a metal box, contains a bevilled spring catch C.

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which by rising into the first hole in the metal strip F (by which the basp is
fastened) prevents it from being withdrawn, and a spring stop actuated by the
hasp of the lock to prevent the metal strip from sliding forward until the hasp
is in the exact position for being locked. In Figs. 8. 9. 10 & 11 the coverplate
of the lock is removed to show the construction and mode of inserting the metal
strip F. In Fig. 10 the spring catch C is removed to show the spring stop
beneath it. In closing the lock the hasp descends into an orifice in the top of
the metal box (E Fig. 4) and through the larger end of the keyhole shaped slot
in the metal strip F and liberates the spring stop.
It is then possible to slide the metal strip F (Figs. 8 & 9) forward in the
direction towards K. the narrow part of the slot in which by engaging the grooves
made in the pointed end of the hasp locks it in position and the spring catch C-by
rising into the second hole in the metal strip F prevents that from being with-
drawn.
When it is required to open the lock the metal strip F must be severed on the
line G. H. Figs. 7 & 9 so as to leave the end of the keyhole slot open.
It cau
then be withdrawn in the same direction as that in which it entered the lock
.towards K-Figs. 4. 8 & 9 and the hasp can be opened.
A similar lock having the metal spur B sufficiently sharp to penetrate the
material of which the bag is made may be employed thereby dispensing with a
specially eyeletted bag, or a lock of the same construction but without the metal
spur B may be used to secure the bag provided with the obstructions stated
above.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed 1 declare that what I
claim is
(1.) The seamless bag provided with surface obstructions above and below the
point where the seal-lock is to encircle the bag, the top one or both being formed
in the process of weaving the bag and forming part of the texture itself ensuring
thereby the impossibility of surreptitiously removing the seal-lock when once
fastened.
(2.) The special form of seal lock adapted in construction for use with the above
bag in the manner herein described.
Dated this Sixteenth day of January 1894.