Improvements in or connected with Devices for Fastening, Carrying, Suspending, Connecting, Securing, Retaining, Engaging, and Disengaging Articles, Vehicles, or Animals.
Year: 1890

page_text: Date of Application, 17th Dec., 1890
Complete Specification Left, 17th Sept.. 1891-Accepted, 17th Dec., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Devices for Fastening, Carrying,
Suspending, Connecting, Securing, Retaining, Engaging, and
Disengaging Articles, Vehicles, or Animals.
I, HENRY JOHN SIMPSON, of Beach House, Hoylake, in the County of Chester,
Merchant, do hereby declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
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This invention relates to those kinds of devices which are used to carry, suspend,
connect, secure, or retain articles, vehicles, or animals. For example, this invention
is applicable to fasteners for windows, doors, boxes, portinanteaux, bags, and the
like, to fasteners for rug-straps, book-straps, and the like, to buckles for straps,
belts, braces, gaiters, gloves, neck-ties, umbrellas, bales of goods, and the like, to
securing traces and other parts of horse and other harness, to leashes for dogs and
other animals, to suspending and or attaching pictures and like articles, to carrying
and releasing articles from moving bodies, or from cranes and the like, to suspending
carcases and meat, to carriers for parcels, to joining leaves of extending tables, to
coupling or uncoupling railway rolling stock, to securing tipping carts or waggous.
According to this invention the device or means employed for the above purposes
consists of a bar formed into a hook at each end, said bar being mounted in bearings
and adapted to be turned therein. The backs of the hooks are inclined in such a
manner that when the rod is turned, the hooks on the end thereof release theinselves
or press the hooks, rings, or other part which they are in gear with, away, and so
free themselves therefrom. The hooks also may be so constructed that when in
their attached or fixed position they are closed and cannot become disengaged.
This may be provided for by having a projection, against which the end of the
hook comes.
The hooks may be disposed on the bar with the bearing edge of the
hooks above or below or coincident with the axis of the bar. The bar may be
arranged to be turned by hand, a certain amount of force being required, or it may
be turned by a handle, lever, cord, chain or the like.
That my invention may be better understood, I will give examples of its
application. When used as a rug-strap or like fastener the hooked bar is mounted
in bearings on a bar or plate to which the buckle parts of the straps are attached,
and the other parts of the straps have their ends provided with rings or eyes, which
engage with the hooks and the bar, so that when an article or bundle is strapped
up, to undo it quickly it is only required to turn the bar, and the hooks thereon are
released from the strap ends. A suitable lock, catch or stop being provided to
prevent the bar from turning unless released.
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In the application of my invention to purposes such as hangers for carcases or
meat, pictures and the like, or as a carrier for parcels, bale suspenders and the like,
the hooked bar may be used suspended in a bearing or bearings, and has a handle
or lever, for example as a hanger for carcases the bar may be suspended in its
centre in a bearing at the end of a hanging chain, a lever being fixed to the bar and
connected to the chain by catch hooks or by a ring which slips over and connects
the chain and lever, and thereby holds the hooked bar with its hooks in an upturned
position, said hooks supporting the carcase by the legs in the usual way. To release
the carcase from the hanger, the catch is released or the ring is moved up the chain
so as to free the lever, which is then turned down and turns the bar, so that the
hooks thereof are released from the carcase which can thus be removed without the
trouble of lifting it from off the hooks.
It will be obvious, that in all cases, by turning the hooked bar it will engage
with, or disengage from the appliance or article it is used with, and that the nature
of the part with which it engages will vary according to the circumstances of its

page_text: application. For example, as a coupling for railway rolling stock, the hooked bar
may engage with the usual chains, shackles or like parts used to connect carriages
or waggons. It may engage with the string fastening of parcels, with the slings of
bales or goods, with a secondary bar in the case of fastenings for bags, straps, belts,
and the like, or with eye bolts in the case of fastenings for doors, windows, and
the like.
Dated this 16th day of December 1800.
CHEESBROUGH & ROYSTON,
15, Water Street, Liverpool, Applicant's Patent Agents.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or connected with Devices for Fastening, Carrying,
Suspending, Connecting, Securing, Retaining, Engaging, and
Disengaging Articles, Vehicles, or Animals.
I, HENRY JOHN SIMPSON, of Beach House, Hoylake, in the County of Chester,
Merchant, 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 those kinds of devices which are used to carry, suspend,
connect, secure, or retain articles, vehicles, or animals. For example, this invention
is applicable to fasteners for windows, doors, boxes, portmanteaux, bags, and the
like, to fasteners for rug-straps, book-straps, and the like, to buckles for straps,
belts, braces, gaiters, gloves, neck-tics, umbrellas, bales of goods, and the like, to
securing traces and other parts of horse and other harness; to leashes for dogs and
other animals, to suspending and or attaching pictures and like articles, to carrying
and releasing articles from moving bodies, or from cranes and the like, to suspending
carcases and meat, to carriers-for-parcels.
According to this invention the device-or-means-employed for the above purposes
consists of a bar formed into a hook at each end, said-bar being mounted in bearings
and adapted to be turned therein. The backs of the hooks are inclined in such a
manner that when the rod is turned the hooks on the end thereof release themselves
or press the hooks, rings, or other part which they are in gear with, away, and so
free themselves therefrom. The hooks-also-may-be-so-constructed-that-when-in
their attached or fixed position they are closed and cannot become disengaged.
This may be provided for by having a projection, against which the end of the hook
comes. The hooks may be disposed on the bar with the bearing edge of the hooks
above or below or coincident with the axis of the bar. The bar may be arranged
to be turned by hand, a certain amount of force being required, or it may be turned
by a handle, lever, cord, chain or the like.
That my invention may be better understood, I will give examples of its
application. When used as a rug-strap or like fastener, the hooked bar is mounted
in bearings on a bar or plate to which the buckle parts of the straps are attached,
and the other parts of the straps have their ends provided with rings or eyes, which
will engage with the hooks and the bar, so that when an article or bundle is strapped
up, to undo it quickly it is only required to turn the bar, and the hooks thereon are
released from the strap ends. A suitable lock, catch or stop being provided to
prevent the bar from turning unless released.
In the application of my invention to purposes such as hangers for carcases or
meat, pictures and the like, or as a carrier for parcels, bale suspenders and the like,
the hooked bar may be used suspended in a bearing or bearings, and has a handle
or lever, for example as a hanger for carcases the bar may be suspended in its centre
in a bearing at the end of a hanging chain, a lever being fixed to the bar and con-
nected to the chain by a catch hook or by a ring which slips over and connects the
chain and lever, and thereby holds the hooked bar with its hooks in an upturned
position, said hooks supporting the carcase by the legs in the usual way. To

page_text: release the carcase from the hanger, the catch is released or the ring is moved up
the chain so as to free the lever, which is then turned down and turns the bar, so
that the hooks thereof are released from the carcase which can thus be removed
without the trouble of lifting it from off the hooks.
The above description of my invention sets forth generally its nature and
purposes, but to make it more clear and distinct I will now proceed to describe it.
with the aid of the accompanying drawings which make a part of this Specification.
The drawings, together with the following description of them, illustrate and set
forth examples of apparatus provided with improvements according to my inven-
tion. In the drawings the same letters and figures of reference denote the same or
corresponding parts throughout the various figures.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS.
Figure 1 is an elevation of a fastener for windows according to my invention,
part of the window sash and frame being shown in section.
Figures 2 and 3 illustrate in elevation and end view respectively, a latch, for a
sliding door, according to my invention.
Figures 4 and 5 illustrate in elevation and end view respectively a latch, for a
swinging door, according to my invention.
Figure 6 shews a fastener according to my invention for securing straps such as
rug straps, book straps, and straps of boxes, portmanteaux, bags, and the like.
Figure 7 shews a fastener according to my invention for use as a buckle for belts,
straps, and the like.
Figure 8 shews a leash for dogs and other animals provided with the improve-
ments according to my invention.
Figure 9 illustrates my invention as applied to suspending pictures.
Figure 10 illustrates my invention as applied for releasing horses from carriages.
Figure 11 illustrates my invention as applied to apparatus for suspending and
releasing articles, generally, such as suspending carcases, meat, articles from moving
bodies, cranes, and the like.
Figure 12 shews a fastener for parcels, and the like according to my invention.
With reference to the drawings, the device or means employed for the above
purposes consists of a bar a formed into a hook a' or bent part in most cases at cach
end, the bar a being mounted in bearings band adapted to be turned therein. The
hooks a' are inclined or bent in such a manner that when the bar a is turned, the
hooks a' release themselves from or press the hooks, rings or other part which they
are in gear with, away, and so free themselves therefrom. The bar a is turned by
a lever c or by hand.
With regard to the window fastener shown at Figure 1, A designates part of the
side bar of a window frame, and B part of the side bar of the window sash. The
fastener consists of the bar a mounted and free to turn in the bearings b and fitted
in the window frame side bar A. The ends a' of the bar a are bent at right angles
to the bar, and they engage with a toothed rack & fitted on the sash bar B. The
bar a is provided with a lever c by which it can be turned so as to engage with, or
disengage from the rack d. The ends a' are bent or turned over at their tips so
that as they engage with the rack d they force the sash B away from the frame
and so tighten it and prevent rattling. The rack is provided all down the sash
bar so that the window can be opened and then fastened in any position.
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b
With regard to the fastener or latch for sliding doors, shewn at Figures 2 and 3,
A is part of the door, and B part of the door frame. a designates the turning bar
mounted in the bearings on the plate 6', and c is the lever or handle by which the
bar is turned; the end a' of the bar a is turned over at right angles to the bar to
form a catch, the back edge of which is bevelled over at a to cause the catch, as
it comes against the catch plate d, to turn the bar a and come into a position in
which it will engage with the catch plate d. To more readily provide for this
engagement, I construct the catch plate to rock and its edge e³ is bevelled. This
catch piece d is provided with a spring es which keeps it normally in the path of

page_text: the catch a' and so that as the bevelled part a² comes in contact with bevelled
parte of the rocking catch piece d as the door is closed, the part d moves over as
shewn in dotted lines and the catch a¹ enters and engages with the part d. To
open the door, the handle c is raised until the catch a' is free from the catch plated,
the door can then be drawn back.
With regard to the door fastener shewn in Figures 4 and 5, the end of the
catch a is bevelled and the edge of the catch piece d is also bevelled so that as the
door A. swings to, the catch a coming in contact with the catch plate d on the door
frame B is lifted, and the bar a turned so that the catch a¹ engages with the catch
plate d. The spring et is provided to lift the catch a¹ to make it engage with the
catch plate d.
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With regard to the fastener for straps and the like (shewn in Figure 6),
A designates one part of the straps, and B the other part, the buckles being
attached to either part. The parts A are secured to the bar A¹ and the parts B
are provided with rings or eyes-d. The turning bar a with its hooked ends a¹ is
mounted in the bearings attached to the bar A and the lever c is of forked form
and mounted on the bar a so that it can be turned round on to the bar A and
sprung into a notch ' and thereby lock the bar a. i is a secondary bar, placed
between the bars A¹ and a, with telescopic ends i¹ which come over the hooks a¹ of
the bar a and so prevent the rings or eyes d from becoming disengaged. To dis-
engage the parts B the lever e is turned into the position shewn in dotted lines, and
lifted, and so turns the rod a and allows the rings d to disengage. To engage the
rings, the bar a may be turned and locked, and the rings d hooked onto the ends a¹,
the telescopic parts being pressed back for these purposes.
The belt buckle fastener (shewn in Figure 7) is of very much the same con-
struction-as the strap fastener above described, but in this case the levere is in the
form of a plate which comes between the belt and the body of the wearer; to undo
the buckle, the lever is brought round and thereby turns the hooks al; so that the
-rings-d-at-once-disengage therefrom:
With regard-to-the-slip-leash-for animals shown at Figure 8; the bar a is mounted
to turn in a tubular holder with the hooked-ends-a projecting at-cach-side, cis-a-
pulley on the bar a provided with a line or cord h, the holder being also provided
with a line. are springs which yield to admit the rings & connected to the object
of attachment. These rings d being on the hooks a', by pulling the line the pulley
_turns-the-bar-a-and-thereby-the-hooks-a', so that the rings d-slip off-and-the-animal-
is free.
With regard to the picture hanger shewn at Figure 9, the bar a is attached by
its bearings to the back of the picture and the rings d of the picture cord are
caught on the hooks a' of the bar a. By turning the bar a by the milled head c
the picture B will disengage from the rings d.
In the examples of my invention shewn at Figure 10 the bar a is mounted in the
bearings on the trace bar, or frame A' of the carriage, and the traces dare
passed over the books a¹. To release the horse the lever c is turned over into the
position shewn in. dotted lines, thereby turning the bar a and hooks a¹ and
allowing the traces d to slip off the hooks a' and thus allowing the horse to
go free.
In the application of my invention _shewn at Figure 11, the bar a is suspended
by the holder in which it is free to turn, and the lever c may be arranged to turn
up or down, namely, either as shown in full or in dotted lines. The rings d for
attachment of the object suspended are caught over the hooks a' and the object is
released by turning the bar a by the levers into a reverse position, so that the
rings d slip off the hooks a'.
In the example shewn at Figure 12, the bar a is used as a fastener for the cord
of parcels. In this case one end, of the cord is fastened to the bar a and forms the
bearing, and the other end of the cord is provided with a loop d which catches on
the hook a by turning the bar a by the bent part c, which also acts as a handle,
the cord is released.

page_text: It will be obvious, that in all cases, by turning the hooked bar it will engage
with, or disengage from the appliance or article it is used with, and that the nature
of the part with which it engages will vary according to the circumstances of its
application.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of this inven
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is:
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1. The device, being a window fastener, consisting of a bar or part such as u,
adapted to be mounted in the window frame, and having parts (a) adapted to
engage with and disengage from a toothed rack or its equivalent, on the window
sash substantially as set forth with reference to Figure 1 of the drawings.
2. The device, being a latch for a sliding door, consisting of a bar or part such
as a, adapted to be mounted on the door, and having a part (a) adapted to engage
with and disengage from a part, such as d, on the door frame; substantially as set
forth with reference to Figures 2 and 3 of the drawings.
3. The device, being a latch for a swinging door, consisting of a bar or part such
as a, adapted to be mounted in the door, and having a part (a) adapted to engage
with and disengage from a part, such as d, on the door frame; substantially as set
forth with reference to Figures 4 and 5 of the drawings.
4. The device, being a fastener for securing straps, consisting of a bar or part
such as a, mounted on a bar or plate, such as A', carrying the straps A, and
having parts (a) adapted to engage with and disengage from parts, such as d,
on the straps B; substantially as set forth with reference to Figure 6 of the
drawings.
5. The device, being a buckle for the purposes specified, consisting of a bar or
part such as a adapted to be mounted on one end of a belt or strap, and having
parts (a) adapted to engage with and disengage from the parts, such as d, on the
other end of the belt or strap; substantially as set forth with reference to Figure 7
of the drawings.
6. The device, being a slip leash for animals, consisting of a bar or part such
as a carried in a holder such as band having parts (a) adapted to engage with
and disengage from parts, such as d, connected to the object of attachment; as set
forth with reference to Figure 8 of the drawings.
7. The device, being a suspender for pictures, consisting of a bar such as u
connected by bearings 6 to the picture frame, and having parts (a) adapted to
engage with and disengage from parts, such as d, on the picture cord as set forth
with reference to Figure 9 of the drawings.
8. The device for releasing horses from carriages, consisting of a bar or part
such as a mounted on a bar connected to the carriage or harness, and having
parts such as (a) adapted to engage with and disengage from parts, such as d,
on the traces or their equivalent; as set forth with reference to Figure 10 of the
drawings.
9. The device for suspending and releasing articles generally, consisting of a
bar or part such as a suspended by a holder b, and having parts (such as a¹)
adapted to engage with and disengage from parts, such as d, connected to the
object of attachment; as set forth with reference to Figure 11 of the drawings.
10. The device being a fastener for parcels, consisting of a bar or part such as a
connected to the securing string and having parts such as a' adapted to engage
with and disengage from the ends d of the securing string; as set forth with
reference to Figure 12 of the drawings.
Dated this 16th day of September 1891.
CHEESBROUGH & ROYSTON,
15, Water Street, Liverpool, Applicant's Patent Agents..