Improvements in or in connection with Hasps.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 18th July, 1894
Complete Specification Left, 3rd Oct., 1894-Accepted, 3rd Nov., 1894
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in or in connection with Hasps.
EDMUND LAMPRELL Turweston Buckinghamshire Postal Town Brackley
Northamptonshire Retired Merchant do hereby declare the nature of this
invention to be as follows:-
A tongue made of wood, metal or any other material loosely but securely fitted
to a hasp which when passed over a staple or loop drops into the same and prevents
the hasp coming off the staple, loop or eye into which it has dropped.
Dated this 18th day of July 1894.
EDMUND LAMPRELL.
improvements in or in connection with Hasps.
I EDMUND LAMPRELL of Turweston, Buckinghamshire, Postal Town Brackley,
Northamptonshire, Retired 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:-
The object of this invention is to provide hasps with means for automatically
securing same to the staple, loop, or eye over which they may be placed, thereby
forming a simple automatic fastening applicable for gates, doors, boxes or for any
other article with which a hasp and staple fastening is or could be used.
In Figures 1 and 2 of the accompanying drawings the invention is shewn applied
as a fastening for a gate. Figure 1 is an elevation shewing part of the gate and
gate post, and Figure 2 is a plan. A is the gate post to which the staple loop or
eye B is secured in the ordinary way, and C is the lock stile of the gate to which
the hasp D is secured by means of the small eye, loop, or staple E. On the upper
limb of the hasp D a tongue piece F is pivotally connected preferably by looping
it over the said upper limb of the hasp. The said tongue piece is of such length
that its lower free end lies upon or across the under limb of the hasp thus bridging
over the space between the two limbs, see Figure 1, and is kept in position by two
stops or collars ee which are formed in one with or are secured to the upper limb
of the hasp. The staple B is of such size that the tongue piece F will pass there
through when brought into a horizontal position or thereabouts (see Figure 2).
As the hasp is passed over the staple the tongue piece F will turn on its pivot
into a horizontal position or thereabouts, and when the hasp is close home against
the post A, the tongue piece will be, as shewn by the dotted lines in Figure 2,
clear of the staple, loop or eye B and will fall down under the action of gravity
into the position shewn in Figure 1, thereby forming a gravity catch or fastening
for the gate.
To undo the fastening it is only necessary to raise the tongue
piece F to the dotted position shewn in Figure 2 when the hasp D may be drawn
off the staple, loop, or eye B.
In Figure 3 the invention is shewn adapted to a vertically arranged hasp and
applied as a fastening for the lid of a box or hutch for corn &c. A'.
In this
case the tongue piece F is pivotally connected to the cross bar D¹ which is secured
to or formed integrally with the hasp D. The collars or stops for the tongue piece
may be dispensed with as the sides o the hasp will serve to prevent the tongue
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page_text: piece from slipping too much to one side, otherwise the construction and mode of
operation is the same as with the form shewn in Figures 1 and 2.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. A gravity fastening for gates, doors, or other articles comprising a hasp
having a tongue piece pivotally connected between two collars or stops on its upper
limb, and bridging the space between the upper and the lower limbs, and a staple,
loop, or eye horizontally arranged and sufficiently large to allow the tongue piece
to enter thereinto as the hasp is passed thereover substantially as described and
illustrated in the accompanying drawings.
2. The modification of my invention as applied to a hasp vertically arranged
substantially as described and shewn in Figure 3 of the accompanying drawings.
3. My improvements in or in connection with hasps substantially as described
and shewn in the drawings and for the purpose stated.
Dated this 3rd day of October 1894.
F. W. GOLBY,
36, Chancery Lane, London, W.C., Patent Agent for the Applicant.