IMPROVEMENTS IN BAG FASTENERS
Year: 1875

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to George Haseltine, of the "International Patent
Office," Southampton Buildings, London, Doctor of Laws, for the
Invention of "IMPROVEMENTS IN BAG FASTENERS."-A communication
from abroad by Asher Moon Miller and Charles Grey Hill, both
of Sturgis, County of St. Joseph, State of Michigan, United States
of America.
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said George Haseltine at the
Office of the Commissioners of Patents, with his Petition, on the
24th June 1875.
I, GEORGE HASELTINE, of the "International Patent Office," South-
ampton Buildings, London, Doctor of Laws, do hereby declare the
nature of the said Invention for "IMPROVEMENTS IN BAG FASTENERS," a
communication, to be as follows :—
This Invention consists in a curved and slotted metal plate to be used
in combination with an endless cord, rove through eyelets in a bag for
© fastening said cord when wrapped around the neck of the bag.

page_text: The metal plate is curved to form a segment of a circle, but with its
extremities curved in reverse direction or turned outwardly. In one end
thereof is a slot, and near the centre two holes are made, through which
the ends of a cord are rove, which cords are rove alternately in and out
through holes or eyelets formed in the neck of the bag, the ends of said
cord being tied together on the outside of the bag.
In practising said Invention the fastener is held in one hand, and the
string being pulled by the other the mouth of the bag will be closed in
folds compactly. The string is then wound several times around the
mouth and passed around the fastener, the pressure of the thumb on 1
either of the reversely curved edges throwing the other edge outwardly,
so that the string can be readily passed under it. When the thumb is
removed the fastener jams the string, so that it cannot slip.
When it is desired to remove the string, by pressing the thumb on
either of the outwardly turned edges the opposite edge will be raised, 1
and the string can be readily freed.
SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent,
filed by the said George Haseltine in the Great Seal Patent Office
on the 21st December 1875.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, I, GEORGE
HASELTINE, of the "International Patent Office," Southampton Build-
ings, London, Doctor of Laws, send greeting.
WHEREAS Her most Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, by Her
Letters Patent, bearing date the Twenty-fourth day of June, in the year
of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, in the thirty-
ninth year of Her reign, did, for Herself, Her heirs and successors,
give and grant unto me, the said George Hasletine, Her special licence
that I, the said George Haseltine, my executors, administrators, and
assigns, or such others as I, the said George Haseltine, my executors,
administrators, and assigns, should at any time agree with, and no others, &
from time to time and at all times thereafter during the term therein
expressed, should and lawfully might make, use, exercise, and vend,
within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel

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be readily passed under it. When the thumb is removed the fastener
holds the string, so that it cannot slip.
When it is desired to remove the string, by pressing the thumb on
either of the outwardly turned edges the opposite edge will be raised,
and the string can be readily freed.
Having thus fully described the said Invention as communicated to
me by my foreign correspondents, and the manner of performing the
same, I wish it understood that I claim, the metal plate curved to form a
segment of a circle, with its ends curved in a reverse direction, or turned
outwardly and provided with the slot a in connection with the cord B, 1
as and for the purpose specified.
In witness whereof, I, the said George Haseltine, have hereunto
set my hand and seal, this Fourteenth day of December, in
the year of our Lord, One thousand eight hundred and seventy-
Witness,
HY. JA'. NoONE.
GEORGE HASELTINE. (L.S.)