AN IMPROVED PAD-LOCK PROTECTOR
Year: 1885

page_text: I HERBERT PRICE LAVENDER of Cleveland Safe Works Wolverhampton in the
County of Stafford Managing Director do hereby declare the nature of my
Invention for AN IMPROVED PAD-LOCK PROTECTOR and in what manner the same
is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the
following statement:—
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The object of my invention is to manufacture an improved appliance for the
prevention of the unlawful removal of locks, not otherwise secured; and applying
principally to that class of locks called pad-locks.
My invention consists of a metallic frame, formed with angle pieces, or projecting
hooks or brackets at the sides, in such a position as to allow of a lock being passed
under them, and thereby held in its place. And on the same frame or contiguous
thereto, I form or fix a staple, or (by preference) a mushroom headed stud, in such
a position that the shackle. or loose limb of the lock may pass round the stud, or
through the staple, while in the act of applying the lock.
By this arrangement, the lock having been passed under the hooks or claws, is
retained therein, after the act of locking, until again released by the process of
unlocking, when the lock may be readily removed.
The plate or frame is drilled with suitable holes for screws or rivets, or other-
wise furnished with the usual means for attaching such appliances to doors, door-
frames, iron gates, or any other fixture where such locks may be required.
By the application of my invention to the purpose aforesaid, the lock is securely
held, and is not liable to be stolen, by cutting a chain or other means; which
sometimes happens with ordinary locks, not so secured.
And in order that my said invention may be particularly described and ascer-
tained, reference is hereby made to the accompanying drawings, in which similar
letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.
:
Fig 1 is a front view of the frame,
Fig: 2 is a side view, and Fig: 3 is a perspective view.
Fig: 4 is a front view shewing the lock d'inclosed in the frame. a is the back
plate of the frame, b b are two hooks, claws, or brackets. c is a mushroom headed
stud, round which the shackle or loose limb of the lock is placed, when locked.
The position of the lock is shewn (by dotted lines) at dd in Fig 2, and again in
Fig 4.

page_text: With the loose shackle open, the lock is slipped into the position shewn in
Figs 2 & 4; the shackle is then locked, and the lock is thereby fixed and secured.
One end of a chain may be fixed to the stud, and the other end to the lock, or
.both ends may be fastened to the stud; or the lock may be utilised in other ways.
Instead of the stud being fixed to the back plate a, the upper part of such
plate may be removed from the line ef upwards, and the stud may be fixed in the
gate post or other fixture; or instead of a stud, a staple, hook, or equivalent
device may be used, to which the lock is fastened.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
Invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
1. The method of securing loose locks, such as those known as pad-locks, by
means of a metallic protector, constructed and operating substantially as herein-
before described and shewn on the drawings.
2. The manufacture use and application of metallic plates or frames, as and for
protectors to pad-locks and other loose locks, substantially as hereinbefore described
and shewn on the drawings.